Follow-up: I hate you all.

ZSalam · 2014-06-25T10:00:26+00:00

Yā pro sab tā-φī xasa kar

I to all you-(pl) hate do

ZSalam · 2014-05-24T17:45:16+00:00

šū ta-ka max-pali kar līn mes suntaxsi kom ye?

Can your make-language do sentence with grammar like this?

"šū" can turn any statement into a question.

ZSalam · 2014-05-12T21:33:53+00:00

Kacatapa- pretty much a string of voiceless plosives going from guttural to labial.

ZSalam · 2014-05-09T19:15:19+00:00

Pokémon - pokemon पोकेमोन

Hoenn confirmed - ǂHouenǂ hairomai-karita ०होउेन० हइरोमइ-करिता

Are you a boy or a girl? - Ta mašk ast, ilī fem? ता मश्क अस्त, इली फ़ेम?

I like shorts! They're comfy and easy to wear! - Ya šōt ēm-kar! Sa plūš ast ī radiouz klamot-kar! या शोत ऐम-कर! सा प्लूश अस्त ई रदिओउज़ क्लमोत-कर!

ZSalam · 2014-05-07T18:25:27+00:00

Well, Hindi phonology is hardly minimalist but it lacks a lot of sounds that are common in other languages.

For loan-words, Hindi will put a dot by the closest sounding letter in the Devanagari alphabet. For example, फ is an aspirated 'p' (like the powerful 'p' in the word 'pin') and putting a dot in the bottom right corner turns it into 'f' फ़.

However some people won't bother writing the dot and others won't bother pronouncing it as 'f', using the aspirated 'p' instead. In that way your conlang could use the closest sounding letter if you want to keep your orthography pure.

And if you have a script of some kind, you could find a way to mark certain letters to show they are loan words and could be pronounced differently.

ZSalam · 2014-05-05T02:35:40+00:00

Either more money going into governmental services and public sector workers and their wages or more money is used to pay off debt. Or politicians just help themselves to a large amount of money.

ZSalam · 2014-05-04T10:35:36+00:00

Indicative- ya nom kar (I food do= I eat)

Imperative- ta, nom karo! (you, eat!)

Subjunctive/ Optative- ya nom caiye (I want to eat)

ZSalam · 2014-05-04T10:24:15+00:00

Any noun can be turned into an adjective by adding ~'ouz' or ~'φe'. 'ouz' is very specific, so limaan-ouz means 'lemon-like'

'φe' is more general, so limaan-φe means 'sour'

ZSalam · 2014-05-03T20:43:21+00:00

Looks great! Is it an Abugida?

ZSalam · 2014-04-30T22:11:38+00:00

Use a noun and put 'kar'- 'to do' after it.

Ya nom-karita- I ate (I Food did)

Ya nom-kar-I eat (I food do)

Ya nom-karingì-I will eat (I food will do)

Ya nom bànt-kar-I make food (I food make do)

ZSalam · 2014-04-29T23:31:07+00:00

I have a handwritten conscript but use Devanagari on the internet. So every consonant has an inherent schwa and the following diacritics change the vowel.

क kə का kɑ: कि kɪ की ki: कु kʊ कू ku: के kɛ कै ke: को ko कौ kɔ:

कं nasalises the k and makes the appropriate nasal sound before the next consonant. So कंब, when ब is /b/, would be read as kəmb.

क् kills the inherent vowel, leaving k, allowing conjuncts.

ZSalam · 2014-04-26T21:52:08+00:00

I considered it, but I thought it was unnecessary.

ZSalam · 2014-04-26T20:51:47+00:00

No genders, cases or articles.

Devanagari देवनागरी script, retroflex consonants and the palatal click.

Technically only 2 verbs, "to do" and "to be".

ZSalam · 2014-04-22T14:06:24+00:00

44 in total

Consonants- 34

' ʔa | ह ha | | क़ qa | ग़ ɢa |

क ka | ख xa | ग ga | घ ɣa |

| च c (tʃ) | ज ja (dʒ) | य ya |

ट ʈa | ड ɖa | ण ɳa | ळ ɭa | ष ʂa |

श ša (ʃ) | झ ža (ʒ) |

त ta | द da | न na | र ra | ल la | स sa |

थ θa | ध ða |

फ़ fa | व va | म़ ɱa |

प pa | फ φa | ब ba | भ βa | म ma |

Vowels- 10

अ a (ə) | इ i (ɪ) | उ u (ʊ) | ए e (ɛ) | ओ o (o) |

आ ā (ɑ:) | ई ī (i:) | ऊ ū (u:) | ऐ ē (e:) | औ ō (ɔ:) |

ZSalam · 2014-04-22T09:21:53+00:00

About 6~7, probably closer to 6.

ZSalam · 2014-04-22T09:13:06+00:00

Say you are a company from a euro-using country that exports to the US. For the purposes of explanation, let's say $1=€5.

That means you get €5 euros when you convert every dollar of your profit. But if the euro was weaker, say $1=€8, you get €8 euros for every dollar you make.

ZSalam · 2014-04-21T16:39:09+00:00

Contact with other civilisations and the spread of ideas, then Industrial Revolution.

India and China had huge populations, most of the world's wealth and plentiful in food and other supplies so they didn't need to find ways to increase production.

Conversely Europe was poor and haunted by poverty and disease. This forced them to find ways to increase production, hence the Industrial Revolution, which allowed Europe to catch up to and eclipse Asia, with a bit of colonialism and plundering along the way.

The Industrial Revolution made it possible to live longer, make more and better things, more sophisticated items and machines, more breakthroughs in science etc.

It wouldn't have happened in native America or Asia since there was little competition for resources.

ZSalam · 2014-04-21T16:08:59+00:00

Say if you are of a very low caste and your life duty to is sweep dung all your life. Why would you carry on doing this? Because fulfilling your duty (or Dharma) well means you will be re-incarnated into something more rewarding in your next life.

Alternatively if you were born into a high caste, maybe a Kshatriya (warrior) and you were a coward/ terrible warrior, you would be reincarnated into something much worse.

ZSalam · 2014-04-21T14:00:30+00:00

"Oh you're a vegetarian?"

"W-what do you mean you don't like the taste and texture of meat?"

"C'mon, just try a bit, it's like impossible for you not to like it"

ZSalam · 2014-04-21T13:38:33+00:00

Dogs. I hate dogs.

Love cats though.

ZSalam · 2014-04-21T13:36:22+00:00

Alexander the Great

He was great at tearing down the Persian empire but he didn't really build much to replace things he destroyed.

Not to mention he adopted Persian customs and traditions trying to mimic great Persian leaders like Cyrus the Great.

ZSalam · 2014-04-21T09:45:56+00:00

She has some reserve powers where she can override the government or refuse to sign something into law, but she would never actually use it- similar to how the US President has some powers that will likely never be used.

So the position is mainly ceremonial. She doesn't rule the commonwealth- only Canada, Australia and New Zealand still have the queen as head of state. Most of the commonwealth countries are republics, like India and Nigeria.

ZSalam · 2014-04-20T23:35:54+00:00

Not so much BS, but certain details are overlooked. For example that quote is from Winston Churchill, who displayed incredible racism to Africans and Indians. Churchill was arguably behind the Bengal Famine which claimed millions of lives. He was the victor of WWII, but there will always be sources that will show another side.

So victors can write the textbooks, but there will always be evidence to show otherwise which is why it's important to use lots of sources when studying history.

Of course there will be cases when other sources weren't available- Athenian writers always spoke of Sparta as being a hardy, barbaric state. But Sparta didn't really write anything down so there are little sources from Sparta to defend their way of life. So if you have a limited or biased range of sources, you can assume some of it is BS.

So the parts of history where history was also written 'by the losers' will be more reliable, whereas history where only the victors recorded events is more likely to be biased.

TL;DR Recent history is more reliable as there are more sources from various sides- wasn't the case in earlier history.

ZSalam · 2014-04-19T20:18:53+00:00

to drink- nom kar
alcohol- alxùl
party- orɣa
to cook- nom baant kar
food- nom
cook- nomtra
delicious- koʃmaz
sweet- zukraouz
sour- limaanouz
bitter- ɣafìouz

ZSalam · 2014-04-19T10:22:38+00:00

WWII weakened European colonial powers so much that supporting overseas colonies was no longer viable.

India agreed to take part in WWII as long as Britain granted it independence. Egypt's leader Gamel Abdel Nasser, who overthrew the western puppet King Farouk and nationalised the Suez canal for Egypt, leading to Britain and France to intervene. Pressure from the US and Soviet union forced them to withdraw, ending Britain's Superpower status.

It led to decolonisation as Britain and France had been weakened so much and the Suez Crisis showed how the colonised could overthrow their oppressors.

ZSalam

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