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[Iason Taiwos]

"Els malignhs, els malignhs,
Toct i pläts os existar.
Lor Eú hassar.
Toct i pläts existar."

(Probably completely wrong)

[Miestră Schivă, UrN-GC]

"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

[Marcel Eðo Pairescu Tafial, UrGP]

"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.

[Miestră Schivă, UrN-GC]

Also, 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?

[Marcel Eðo Pairescu Tafial, UrGP]

Question, 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.

[Iac Marscheir]

Still really need to add <ð> to that list.

[Iac Marscheir]

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

El malignh, o supreße va
Per furtar tu or toctziua
L'atrapa viens fäts
Es riischà pü bäts
Vrätsmint isch o 'n cognha
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/525012358637027348/1292670650070335529/New_Recording_2.mp3?ex=670494db&is=6703435b&hm=ed9cd3b96b6de208b4c409ec2245ce1ab4ced0629ab9e29ca5e5a4308d6debf6&;

[Carlüs Éovart Vilaçafat]

I am skeptical this will get a high participation rate but it sounds like a good idea. Has there ever been a coordinated effort to expand Talossan vocabulary? We have tens of thousands of words which is good for a conlang but it might be a fun exercise to have a word translation drive to expand the number of Talossan words even higher and improve the translator. AI might have some implications here.

Personally I think, more than words, we need: sayings, colloquialisms, and proverbs.

L.L. Zamenhof felt that these were absolutely necessary to breathe life into a language. Say what you want about Esperanto, it is one of the most successful, well known, and most used conlangs.

[Breneir Tzaracomprada]

I am skeptical this will get a high participation rate but it sounds like a good idea. Has there ever been a coordinated effort to expand Talossan vocabulary? We have tens of thousands of words which is good for a conlang but it might be a fun exercise to have a word translation drive to expand the number of Talossan words even higher and improve the translator. AI might have some implications here.

Personally I think, more than words, we need: sayings, colloquialisms, and proverbs.

L.L. Zamenhof felt that these were absolutely necessary to breathe life into a language. Say what you want about Esperanto, it is one of the most successful, well known, and most used conlangs.

I think they work together then. More words provide more opportunities for sayings, colloquialisms, and proverbs to be developed naturally. If you see my motto then you will note it is a line from the Russell-Einstein Manifesto in Esperanto so definitely like the Zamenhof reference though.

[Marcel Eðo Pairescu Tafial, UrGP]

I 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.

[GV]

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

Decades ago, I had in my voting precinct a man who knew Lech Wałęsa in Gdańsk.  I should have picked his brain, but I was working the election that day, and said voter probably would have been annoyed at that.

[Breneir Tzaracomprada]

I 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.

That is a good point but I am saying I do not see them as mutually exclusive, Marcel. The campaign you speak of is likely to be years-long and to be carried forth by governments of varying perspectives.

We have people of varied interests so asking people if they are interested in both or either does not seem like a bad idea. If a group of people want to help expand the language vocabulary (in the short to medium term), why would that take away from the long-term campaign you prefer?

[Tric’hard Lenxheir]

I 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.

How about lessons on how to type out some of these characters in Talossan?

[Miestră Schivă, UrN-GC]

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.

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.

[Miestră Schivă, UrN-GC]

How 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.

[Marcel Eðo Pairescu Tafial, UrGP]

How 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.

[Tric’hard Lenxheir]

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.

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.

None of them are on my keyboard I have to use alt characters

[Iac Marscheir]

Per reviénar àl topic urixhinal, schi 'n däts se setadra pr'iensă tal cumpetaziun, ¿qi aicì estadra verschain à partiçipar?

(Hutsch, la cunxhuntivă cunxhuntïu neceßa reformaziun.)

[Returning to the original topic, if a date were set for such a competition, who here would be likely to participate?]

[King Txec]

Amadréu à partiçipar. (I hope that is correctly written!)

[Marcel Eðo Pairescu Tafial, UrGP]

Amadréu 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.