Oh wow. I can barely think of what to say. ¡C'e'n þonör inmenseu!

Dear Members of SIGN,

Lüc da Schir wants to join. As per Rule 3, we'll have a vote on it.

I vote PER. Please submit your vote in this thread.

@C.d.I. Nouacastra-Läxhirescu, MSC -
@Françal I. Lux -
@Iac Marscheir - PER
@Marcel Eðo Pairescu Tafial - PER
@Miestră Schivă, UrN - PER
@xpb - PER

Quote from: Miestră Schivă, UrN on October 06, 2022, 02:25:19 PMThe first two. "Updated topics" never seems to have anything in it for me and I'm not sure what its algorithm is.

It's threads you have previously participated in and have gotten new posts since.

I believe the most relevant source of new words shortly before Ben's departure was Sardinian. A Sardinian dictionary is available on TalossaWiki.

Quote from: Bråneu Excelsio on August 31, 2022, 06:39:06 PM
I added a few!

Fair enough, here's a list of newly suggested words. I've decided to reject all three of them and here's why.

• esprëso, "espresso" (masculine noun): Incorrect spelling aside (whats the Ë doing there?), "espresso" is an Italian loanword for a very Italian beverage. As such I see no point in coining a specifically Talossan word for it, just use espresso (or espreßo if you insist, ẞ and SS are mostly interchangeable).
• espomar, "to froth" (verb): The Talossan word for froth is sploimă. So the verb "to froth" can be regularly derived to be sploimiçar (sploimă "froth" + -içar "-ize, to make into"), no new dictionary entry necessary.
• gräno, "bean (green bean, coffee bean)" (masculine noun): No etymology was given, and I don't recognise the word myself. But aside from that, Talossan already has a word for "bean" that you can use: þáriqeu.

There was also a word request for "portafilter". As far as I can tell, the English word is either a blend of "portable filter", in which case the Talossan word is strecureir porteble, or it comes from Italian "portafiltro", literally "carries-filter", in which case the Talossan word is apoartastrecureir. Comparisons with other Romance languages lead me to believe the latter origin is more likely, so my suggestion for "portafilter" would be apoartastrecureir.

Comments and corrections are appreciated.

Quote from: Breneir Tzaracomprada on August 28, 2022, 07:48:39 AM
@Marcel Eðo Pairescu Tafial I know you are probably super busy. I wanted to see if you had an opportunity to throw something together for Fora Talossa?

I have uni work to attend to, I'm sorry. I will let you know when I have the time.

Quote from: Tric'hard Lenxheir on August 08, 2022, 12:34:18 PM
That's funny, I typed in L'Översteir just to try it and it said my query didn't yield any results LOL

That's because L' is merely an article and not part of the word itself. If you search for just "översteir", you should be getting a result.

Attention all present and future Ladintschen: Översteir 1.2 is now live!

The two new features are:

• Automatic pronunciation guides and syllabification: Clicking on any Talossan word, be it as a search result or as part of the Conjugation or Declension tools, will now show you how a word is pronounced and split into syllables. Pronunciation is given in both the International Phonetic Alphabet and in "Fauxnetics" for English speakers.
  
• Filtered search: When looking up a word, you can now specify the part(s) of speech you're interested in. Very convenient.

With this update, the Översteir is now feature-complete, and aside from some cool ideas with no set deadline (Speech synthesis?), no new features are planned.
I would like to again thank Lüc da Schir wholeheartedly for his hard work. This wonderful website is all thanks to him.

If you find any bugs or errors, feel free to contact us (by which I mean me and Lüc)! You can do that either directly via Witt or Discord, or anonymously through the suggestion box that's linked at the bottom of the Översteir page.

That's it from me.
¡Enxhoietz-voi el noveu Översteir!

Quote from: Breneir Tzaracomprada on August 01, 2022, 01:17:07 PM
Thanks again @Marcel Eðo Pairescu Tafial
Without getting ahead of any other commitments you have I wanted to go ahead and ask if you could do another vocabularly video like the first two?
As Fora Talossa has grown its library your videos appear to be the most liked.

I was hoping that viewers would suggest to me which words they wanted me to say, but that didnt happen unfortunately. If you have a list of words you want to me to make a video for, feel free to tell me!

Quote from: Breneir Tzaracomprada on August 01, 2022, 11:35:30 AM
You are correct, Marcel. Are you interested in helping with future videos?

Well of course! (I had hoped that giving you permission to rehost my two videos was enough of a hint) I'd be glad to help with Talossan language stuff!

Just keep in mind that talossan.com is outdated and, in my opinion, not serviceable.

I take it this was adapted from talossan.com?

I ask because the info seems outdated (e.g. there is actually 9 vowels: you forgot Å).

Quote from: Tric'hard Lenxheir on May 02, 2022, 08:46:41 AM
With more candidates the vote could be divided enough to block the majority.

The whole point of Ranked Choice is that no vote splitting or spoiler effect can happen.

The main issue seems to be that you have to specify two choices. Who came up with that? In proper Ranked Choice Voting you dont have to do that either.

Also, as a warning: Talossan.com is at least 8 years out of date and riddled with errors. I've been trying to get access to it to fix these mistakes, but no luck so far. I'd actively advise against using it.

Quote from: Carlüs Éovart Vilaçafat on April 25, 2022, 12:42:52 PM
The way I got to vianiaeasca  was the feminine plural of "dirt" (to align with the feminine plural of caramidăs) from L'översteir: las vianiaes / vianians, and the feminine form of -esc according to Talossan.com: -easca.  Is -esc used for masculine and feminine now, or is there a specific reason that you used it instead of -easca?

Ah, you got the derivation backwards: you add the ending first, and then make it agree in gender and number. The reason why I used the masculine singular form vianianesc instead of the feminine plural form vianianeascăs is that in my translation, the adjective refers to colour, which is masculine singular. "Surrounded by dirt-like bricks" would've been claudats par dals caramidăs vianianeascăs, feminine plural.