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Hi All! I just wanted to write something to you-all. I'm very pleased with my involvement in Ethiopian studies and linguistics here at my new university. Ethiopia (Abyssinia to 1800s scholars)'s ancient empires and kingdoms are like a real-life Atlantis, hidden in a side-nook of Africa. They have an...

Where are you, Kida85? Will I get to find out about your language?

That's why I have the job I do. I get as close to the strange as possible. It's yugeb in Atlantean, I think. "Strange." As an adjective, it's yugebuses. So "That is strange." is "Dot yugebuses esetot." Dot- yugeb -uses es-e -tot. That-Nominative strange-Adjective is-Sim...

Yeah, study for those.

Mysterious old man, not much more to say. He works for the University at Michigan Tech. In fact, there's a lot of mysterious old men I had the aquaintance of (or just the company of) during my tenure at Tech's Humanities department. They tend to be professors with little closets for offices that som...

Good. While it's still fresh in your mind, pull a few words out of the dictionary

http://noble-scarlet.net/kfu/viewtopic.php?t=93

and make up a sentence or two. (Hint: it's a really, really easy language once you get a handle on a few things.)

Now I'm done with this semester, too.

Those lessons aren't too good. Here's a sentence in Atlantean to help you along: English: Mikhail shot a rifle at a target. Atlantean: Mihayl [neshing-esh wokan-uses] [tak-ag keran-tem] net Mikhail-NOMINATIVE rifle-INSTRUMENTAL target-OBJECTIVE at neshing-i-mot. shoot-PAST-he. neshing wokan-uses - r...

Those lessons aren't too good. Here's a sentence in Atlantean to help you along: English: Mikhail shot a rifle at a target. Atlantean: Mihayl [neshing-esh wokan-uses] [tak-ag keran-tem] net Mikhail-NOMINATIVE rifle-INSTRUMENTAL target-OBJECTIVE at neshing-i-mot. shoot-PAST-he. neshing wokan-uses - r...

Oh, and there really aren't any plurals (as in Chinese). It's just implied through context. Na2 ma3 bi1 mjo2-! Now I have to go and study for my stupid exams some more and more and more. Somehow I had more fun studying for Calculus. Bo1 bo1 Calculus PAST COMPLETED ni2 when PAST COMPLETED enjoy gi1.

Oh, yeah, very much so. We could flesh it out more, exactly. I've done the same thing before with other lesser-developed conlangs, namely a "Shadow-say-saw" that a Math major at my last school developed on his own. Just don't be embarassed: Not everone's a linguistics major but everyone ca...

Check it out. Today was the last day of instruction for my linguistics class. When I'm bored out of my mind in that class I construct a new language. Here's the English text: Help! I'm trapped in the last Linguistics class! It's boring and I can study on my own. I want this class over so I can move ...

:oops: Aw, dang. My bad. I kinda missed the boat on this one. I'm sorry your class went so badly. I imagine Intro Linguistics classes usually do. See, here's maybe what went wrong: When a person gets a professor position in any of the 3,000+ subfields related to linguistics, they have to teach Intro...

I've got 2 exams in Intro Ling and Phonology on Tuesday. Don't worry about it. By the way, my Ge'ez class went well. Now I know Ge'ez. I think I'll use it to sound the depths of arcane African lore. First, study I must.