Are you fluent in your Conlang?

... become fluent in mine, which is part of the reason I'm not straying too far from the grammatical structures I'm most familiar with (those of English, Spanish, French and Hebrew). My vocabulary has a few loanwords but mostly I'm making that up on my own. Vocabulary has always been easy for me to learn, but grammar is another story. Anyway, how did you reach your degree of fluency? I assume it's ...

[Multilingual Monday] Kanji Tales, Vol, 7572

... is that the Japanese still use Chinese characters, whereas the Koreans for the most part have gotten rid of Chinese characters as part of their orthography. Both languages maintain a HUGE stock of loanwords from Chinese, but both lack phonetic elements that exist in several Chinese dialects, so even MORE characters end up sounding identical to one another; in written text this poses a particular ...

Japanese words of Portuguese Origin/Loanwords in General

... any more please share; I'm sure there are a lot more out there. -------------- And while we're on the subject of loanwords, I can see things like foods, technology, and concepts being "borrowed" from another language, but stuff like "pee"?? Discuss, .../Vauxhall loanword in a comment in here a year or so ago, which might mean that there was a similar post about loanwords. I can't find it, though.

☆ rules / ☆ guidelines

... read the rules before doing anything else. Basic Rules: Courtesy is required OOC. We want to maintain a lively and fun atmosphere here, so please be nice to one another. English, please. Foreign loanwords are nice, but don’t overdo it. Also keep in mind to write with coherence and sparse emoticons (if any). Adhere to the claims. Go for the characters that are not on the...

Is There Anybody Who Knows Creole In The House?

I'm researching my story idea and I need to know if there are any Creole words for the species of snake known as the "water moccasin" or "cottonmouth". I've found general words for "snake" in Creole but they all seem to be loanwords from Euro languages (French, Latin, English, Dutch) that had mutated from generations of adaptation. Just point me to a source, please? FP

WORD CLASSES 1. NOUNS a) common nouns, e.g. 이름 a name, 책 a book b) proper nouns, e.g. 한국 Korea, 스티브 Steve c) counters, e.g. 과 counter for lessons, 마리 counter for animals d) loanwords, e.g. 클래스 class, 빌딩 building 2. PRONOUNS e.g. 나 I (plain), 저 I (humble), 우리 we, 무엇 what, 누구 who, 이분 this person (he/she), 이것 this (thing) 3. NUMBERS a) native numbers, e.g. 하나/한 one, 둘/두 two b) Sino-...

[Multilingual Monday] Homphones and Homonyms

...'m unsure with homonyms -- vers is one of the few I can think of ("towards" or "verse"), but I'm sure there are more! JAPANESE: Because of the sheer number of loanwords from Chinese -- a language which contained tones and consonants that Japanese didn't -- many characters have the same pronunciation. Several famous sentences are made with heterographs: 貴社の記者は汽車で帰社した, KISHA no KISHA wa KISHA ...

Aboriginal loanwords. But Wolff could make out most of what his accoster said. "Stand still oaf!" t

But Mudge and I managed to make it down here by ourselves and we can make it home the same way. " He looked around wildly for support. A head appeared. "More company the better mate " declared a thoroughly sozzled Mudge. THE MQMBWT Of THB MACUCSAH 311 Weaving drunken oUers gathered around the dis- traught spellsinger cheering and waving their swords about with complete disregard for the bodily ...

I stole this from loanwords. It is awesome.

HUGBOX TIME Like many of you, its been very stressful. Need some love? A kind word? Need moar lulz in your life? Comment here with anything, and I will say something nice to you. Just make this post in your lj, so you can spread love too.

Is there an active Mandarin-Japanese creole in Taiwan, or does Taiwanese use a lot of loanwords? I was sitting in front of a couple on the bus today who were clearly speaking in Mandarin, but every fourth or five sentence I understood was in Japanese. ちがうな[何]は or a similar phrase was the most common one I picked out. Ideas?