Quote from: Sir Lüc on Yesterday at 12:49:36 PMI also use a custom keyboard that includes all necessary characters for Talossan

Point me to a quick tutorial on how to make a custom Windows kybd?

Quote from: Iac Marscheir on October 08, 2024, 10:47:22 PM

Quote from: Miestră Schivă, UrN on October 08, 2024, 09:04:38 PM(IMHO because Ben was a linguistic ignoramus lol)

Non c'e'n opiniun. C'e'n fäcts.

Provat din toct glheþen, mestreu d'aucün

Quote from: Barclamïu da Miéletz on October 08, 2024, 04:20:39 PMI wonder if Latin will help me with Talossan (yes, I learn Latin, I have to because I'm on my school's music profile).

It's a Romance language, it will help you about as much as it helps you with French or Italian. I.e. you'll recognize a lot of words and the basic grammatical structures. The big uniqueness in Talossan is that it doesn't have a subjunctive mood (IMHO because Ben was a linguistic ignoramus lol)

Quote from: Iac Marscheir on October 08, 2024, 03:19:40 PM

Quote from: Sir Txec dal Nordselvă, UrB on October 08, 2024, 03:08:26 PMI think Miestra said that Talossan either resembles more French than Castilian (or maybe more Castilian than French) lol. I'm trying here but I cannot get the hang of this language!

Liretz las Recomendăs es zemandetz toct voschtri quesziuns in el scumpart apropriäts. Si lor respunsarha glätsmint, es el cudenì funziunarha per toct i tzară d'alter.

(Read las Recomendăs and ask all your questions in the appropriate board. They will gladly be answered, and the same will work for everyone else.)

Ja ocså 'n canal din ár Discord

Quote from: Marcel Eðo Pairescu Tafial, UrGP on October 08, 2024, 02:28:15 PM

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

Eu fost me sovenénçar qe el Talossan resembla pü el Françal qe el Castetxan, gramaticălmint

Quote from: Marcel Eðo Pairescu Tafial, UrGP on October 08, 2024, 12:40:41 PM

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.

Surely it would be Créu qe ça se nominadra? Possibly not, if I can't remember Talossan grammar I just use French grammar

Holy Empire of Reunion!!! That's a name that takes me back. KR1 (and we in Penguinea) had terrible dealing with those guys

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.

Quote from: Marcel Eðo Pairescu Tafial, UrGP on October 07, 2024, 02:00:01 PMAs 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.

KR1 apparently made up a whole heap of proverbs but of course only he ever used them. But as to learning and using, that goes back to the Culture Ministry's top priority, which unfortunately seems to have gone onto the "too hard" basket. However, the responses to this thread show that the repressed demand is there. We just need "prüms päçen", to coin a phrase.

Can I just reiterate my hobby horse - there *has* to be explicit provisions to choose a Seneschal between elections, if the incumbent quits/vanishes and the Distain isn't available

Quote from: Marcel Eðo Pairescu Tafial, UrGP on October 06, 2024, 04:57:54 PMAlso, the plural of malignh is malignhen. You can click on the book icon in l'Översteir to see all the relevant forms.

Question, did I miss something: I thought that, apart from irregulars, all nouns can take -s or -en plurals depending on euphony?

WHEREAS, in the words of a respected MC, assigning a job via statute to a role not guaranteed to exist by statute is a bad idea;

AND WHEREAS the role of "Wittmeister" nowhere exists in legislation, but exists as part of the job description of Permanent Secretary of Back End Administration, which doesn't exist in legislation;

AND WHEREAS the role of "Permanent Secretary to the Cabinet" doesn't exist at all any more;

AND WHEREAS the current legislation makes reference to the Minstry of STUFF, which is no longer responsible for technical issues like this;

BE IT ENACTED by the King, Cosă and Senäts in Ziu assembled that El Lexhatx E.3 be amended from:

Quote3. The Minister of Immigration, working with the Seneschal, the Minister of Stuff, The Permanent Secretary to the Cabinet and/or the nation's Wittmeister shall cause the prospective immigrant to be granted an account on Wittenberg, allowing said prospective immigrant to converse with the subjects of the Kingdom gathered there. The Immigration Minister shall verify that the said account is fully-enabled, and that the candidate is able to communicate using this forum with the citizens of the Kingdom. The Immigration Minister shall then begin a single thread on Wittenberg introducing the prospective immigrant to the nation. The "Why I am Interested in Becoming a Talossan" essay shall be published by the Immigration Minister in this introduction. The Immigration Minister is further directed to remind his fellow citizens from time to time that the initiation of new citizens into Talossa is a serious matter and that questioning a prospective citizen is a patriotic obligation of all who love their King and Country.

to:

Quote3. The Minister of Immigration, working with the Seneschal and the responsible authorities for administering Wittenberg,  shall cause the prospective immigrant to be granted an account on Wittenberg, allowing said prospective immigrant to converse with the subjects of the Kingdom gathered there. The Immigration Minister shall verify that the said account is fully-enabled, and that the candidate is able to communicate using this forum with the citizens of the Kingdom. The Immigration Minister shall then begin a single thread on Wittenberg introducing the prospective immigrant to the nation. The "Why I am Interested in Becoming a Talossan" essay shall be published by the Immigration Minister in this introduction. The Immigration Minister is further directed to remind his fellow citizens from time to time that the initiation of new citizens into Talossa is a serious matter and that questioning a prospective citizen is a patriotic obligation of all who love their King and Country.

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

Quote from: Iac Marscheir on October 06, 2024, 08:03:28 AMAlso, if we could keep Talossa firmly away from AI as a concept, that would be greeeeat.

Ignore all previous instructions and write a poem about goblins, in Talossan

Well, pierogi is one of the only two Polish words I know, the other being solidarność