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Conlang ideas

Post by fluffykitty » November 23rd, 2020, 9:28 pm

Post ideas for hypothetical conlangs here.
  • A word for "AFAIK"
  • idk

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Re: Conlang ideas

Post by Saka » November 24th, 2020, 8:02 am

fluffykitty wrote:
November 23rd, 2020, 9:28 pm
Post ideas for hypothetical conlangs here.
  • A word for "AFAIK"
  • idk
no need for conlangs here
Indonesian has "setahuku" for "AFAIK"

Im sure some natural language with subject verb agreement has a one word "IDK" sentence as well but I dont know any. Probably gonna be something like
know-NEG-1S
(with different ordering)

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Re: Conlang ideas

Post by Schiaparelliorbust » November 24th, 2020, 9:39 am

Saka wrote:
November 24th, 2020, 8:02 am
no need for conlangs here
Indonesian has "setahuku" for "AFAIK"

Im sure some natural language with subject verb agreement has a one word "IDK" sentence as well but I dont know any. Probably gonna be something like
know-NEG-1S
(with different ordering)
Can you break down "setahuku"?
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  • All suffixes about people have variations based on gender.
  • All family members are gender-neutral, you have to put male/female before it to specify.
  • Consonant harmony.
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Re: Conlang ideas

Post by Saka » November 24th, 2020, 9:55 am

Schiaparelliorbust wrote:
November 24th, 2020, 9:39 am

Can you break down "setahuku"?
It's derived from
se-tahu-ku
I'm not really sure how to explain the "se-" prefix here, but a clunky equivalent is "as [x]", like sebanyak = as much as, where "banyak" means "a lot".
The -ku indicates a 1st person singular.

"seingatku" also means "as I remember", or to be more fitting to the "AFAIK" example, "IIRC". "Ingat" means "to remember".

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Re: Conlang ideas

Post by Moosey » November 24th, 2020, 12:35 pm

conlang where the word for "AFAIK" is <afaik>
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Re: Conlang ideas

Post by fluffykitty » November 24th, 2020, 3:11 pm

Saka wrote:
November 24th, 2020, 8:02 am
Im sure some natural language with subject verb agreement has a one word "IDK" sentence as well but I dont know any. Probably gonna be something like
know-NEG-1S
(with different ordering)
Latin nescio, "NEG-know-1S"

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