Sorry to intrude, but the feminine form of "soveran" is itself "soveran", not "soverană".

Quote from: Breneir Tzaracomprada on November 30, 2024, 09:40:11 PMNot just Luc...the late Sir Ian, Carlus and Marcel have great voices.

Please leave me out of this.

Quote from: Mic'haglh Autófil, SMC EiP on November 03, 2024, 03:57:22 PMGiven that, as per Oversteir, most "-ology" words end in -loxhà (it's a 4:1 ratio over -loxhïă), it would seem drapëuloxhà makes the most sense.

It's possible that the -loxhïă words are more recent additions to the dictionary than the -loxhà words from the late 80's, which could potentially make them higher priority for new coinages. I mentioned both options just to be safe.

QuoteThus, l'Academieu Rexhital dal Drapëuloxhà or l'Academieu Rexhital Drapëuloxhal?

The regularly derived adjective form of drapëuloxhà would be drapëuloxhanal, but that aside both would work.

Quote from: Mic'haglh Autófil, SMC EiP on November 02, 2024, 03:43:53 PMl'Academieu Rexhital per l'Estudiă dels Drapéux (The Royal Academy for the Study of Flags)

Yeah, that works. We could also look into having a proper word for vexillology -- which could potentially be any of the following: drapëuloxhà, drapëuloxhïă, vexiloloxhà, vexiloloxhïă -- and use that in the name. (drapëuloxhanal? vexiloloxhic?)

I've supported unicameralism and MMP for years, and the fixed election schedule is pretty appealing.

I'm not super sure about the exact methodology laid out in theo original post here -- specifically, I don't know if using instant runoff for constituency seats is at all worth the added complexity when Parliament at large will be proportional anyway -- but that's nitpicking.

Quote from: Miestră Schivă, UrN on October 22, 2024, 03:05:13 PM

Quote from: Baron Alexandreu Davinescu on October 22, 2024, 01:53:07 PMGenerally speaking, I think that people only have ever used Ian I when they were not actually aware of the conventions that are typical. I think we should probably stick with the traditional use, where you would just be King Txec.

I don't know about that. Certainly that's traditional in larger countries; but KR1 always called himself that before there was a KR2 (Allà rest his soul).

Was Florence also called King Florence I?

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Quote from: Miestră Schivă, UrN on October 08, 2024, 02:12:14 PMSurely it would be Créu qe ça se nominadra? Possibly not, if I can't remember Talossan grammar I just use French grammar

Personally I would say Créu qe si en nominadra, since it seems like the passive reflexive of Romance languages doesn't exist in Talossan in the same way:

Quote from: Scúrzniâ Gramáticâ, p. 7230.5 In other Romance languages, the reflexive is used to substitute for an impersonal construction, as in Spanish Se prohibe aparcar -- "Parking prohibited," literally, "Parking prohibits itself"; or Se habla español -- "Spanish Spoken Here" ("Spanish speaks itself"). In Talossan, it is more common to use a true impersonal construction with si ("one") or, as in English, a simple passive:

Si tradica la parcaziun -- Parking Prohibited (lit. "One prohibits parking")
Parcaziun Tradicadâ -- Parking Prohibited
Aici si parla Talossán -- Talossan Spoken Here (lit. "Here one speaks Talossan")
Talossán Parlat Aici -- Talossan Spoken Here

Quote from: Sir Txec dal Nordselvă, UrB on October 08, 2024, 12:15:20 PMI have struggled to translate this phrase from Sir Luc: Créu ça nominadra 'n cervixhă, propi qe reformaziun.

I can recognize a few words like creed, name?, surgery? reform?

It's supposed to mean "I believe it's called surgery, rather than reform", but it's not quite right.

In general Översteir is not a translator, it's a dictionary, and just like with any dictionary looking up words as-is and attempting a 1-to-1 translation won't always give you sensible results.

Quote from: Sir Txec dal Nordselvă, UrB on October 08, 2024, 10:13:34 AMAmadréu à partiçipar. (I hope that is correctly written!)

Just Amadréu partiçipar is fine.

Usually you'd be right to have the à there, but amar is one of nine verbs after which it is left out.

Quote from: Miestră Schivă, UrN on October 07, 2024, 08:07:11 PM

Quote from: Tric'hard Lenxheir on October 07, 2024, 06:44:36 PMHow about lessons on how to type out some of these characters in Talossan?

Almost all of them can be easily typed with the Windows International Keyboard. The annoying exception is "ă", but that's more-or-less optional.

It seems like all the characters, including ă, are typable with the Canadian Multilingual Standard layout, though I haven't tried that myself yet.

Quote from: Breneir Tzaracomprada on October 07, 2024, 10:44:19 AMI think they work together then. More words provide more opportunities for sayings, colloquialisms, and proverbs to be developed naturally.

As you pointed out earlier Talossan already has tens of thousands of words, more than enough to have saying, colloquialisms and proverbs. Though their development depends on the language being used extensively, which so far has not been the case (the only person right now to do that is Iac), so ideally we would want a campaign to encourage citizens to learn and use the language instead.

Quote from: Miestră Schivă, UrN on October 06, 2024, 05:41:11 PMQuestion, did I miss something: I thought that, apart from irregulars, all nouns can take -s or -en plurals depending on euphony?

First declension nouns, i.e. those without any characteristic endings, take -s as their plural. The rule in '96 was that this ending changes to -en for euphonic reasons if the result would be hard to pronounce otherwise, which Ben called "technically optional, but universal". The rule since 2007 is that if a word ends in some specific sounds (s, sch, tsch, scht, xh, tx, z, glh, gnh, þ) then the plural must end in -en. Both rules yield the same results, more or less.

Quote from: Miestră Schivă, UrN on October 06, 2024, 04:24:28 PM

Quote from: Iason Taiwos on October 06, 2024, 03:55:15 PM"Els malignhs, els malignhs,
Toct i pläts os existarent.
Lor Eú hassaréu.
Toct i pläts existarent."

(Probably completely wrong)

Pretty good except for declining the verbs!

Maybe we should have a poetry contest instead, lol

Also, the plural of malignh is malignhen. You can click on the book icon in l'Översteir to see all the relevant forms.