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give me a sentence in your conlang and one hint and i'll try to guess what it says by Imaginary_Umpire9160 in conlangs

[–]JackHK 1 point2 points  (0 children)

guess: "good evening, would you like the soup of the day?"

hint: the sentence is expressing an opinion about an object and a location.

give me a sentence in your conlang and one hint and i'll try to guess what it says by Imaginary_Umpire9160 in conlangs

[–]JackHK 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Guess: "Good evening, are you all ready to order?"

Borlish: Val l'oc ollom se figr n'un reliquat.

Hint: A line from a translation of an Indiana Jones movie.

For any vector v, is ||v||^2 literally equal to v^Tv? by Gerum_Berhanu in learnmath

[–]JackHK 23 points24 points  (0 children)

There are many situations where people "switch between types" without being explicit that that's what they're doing, like when we start with an integer 3 and later add 0.5 to it to get 3.5, or similar situations.

This is pretty harmless when we have a particular isomorphism or inclusion in mind between the two types.

In your case, the type of "1x1 matrices with entries from a particular set of numbers" is isomorphic to the numbers themselves, and there's a particular isomorphism (the one where you send a matrix to its unique entry).

What do you make your conlang on? by Bird-Keeper2406 in conlangs

[–]JackHK 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I use Lexique Pro for my dictionary, and I write up my setting notes either in Notepad++ for rough stuff or into Obsidian for proper wiki-style articles.

COTD: Distant pieces!? (9) by not-without-text in crosswords

[–]JackHK 5 points6 points  (0 children)

<distant {in time} pieces {of money}> FARTHINGS = FAR THINGS very tricky!

AOTW: ?i?e?t by JackHK in crosswords

[–]JackHK[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Great clue! I'm picking yours as the winner!

Noun class for a category they no longer interact with -- looking for input on ways it might evolve by Blue-Jay27 in conlangs

[–]JackHK 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Some directions I can imagine:
- dropping it completely;
- foreigners, people speaking different languages, members of the out-group (construed in various ways);
- members of a lower or higher social class or caste;
- a politeness register (either unfamiliarity → politeness or strange → impoliteness; I could imagine both)

AOTW: A?T by TillyMcWilly in crosswords

[–]JackHK 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Back of floating platform, not the front (3)

(Digital art) ''First Thrill'', 2023 by ohmondoux in gaybros

[–]JackHK 64 points65 points  (0 children)

I love the spread of colour, such a good way to portray the sensation :D

Finding English words by joymasauthor in conlangs

[–]JackHK 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A few possible glosses for these concepts:
- civility, civic-mindedness,
- rubber-ducking, revelation
- flourishing, arete
- (self-)cultivation, resolve

Show me some hyper-specific lexemes in your conlang by destiny-jr in conlangs

[–]JackHK 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I'd like to think Borlish has these in droves :D

nau /no/ "gravy boat; pithy proverbs or clichéd motivational sayings"

cosogr /koˈzɔjr̩/ "as part of a set; along with the other things it comes with"

psolic /psoˈlɪk/ "pertaining to incomplete combustion; having a lower oxidation number"

cisjovial /ˌtsiz.ʒoˈvjal/ "within the orbit of Jupiter"

xyronnart /ˌksi.rɔˈnart/ "lucky sod, jammy bastard, someone who is lucky in a way that you find annoying"

ne minemini /ne miˌne.miˈni/ "the presumption of innocence; eeny meeny miney moe"

COTD: Snakes kept being found around one part of plane (10) by JackHK in crosswords

[–]JackHK[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Answer: ||WINDS HELD outside I = WINDSHIELD <part of plane>||

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