A conlang:

http://www.oligomath.co.uk/shap/shapshiruckish.html

Featuring:

Roman numerals as consonants
Ten noun classes
Adjectives, big and little
A sillily complex algebraic system set up for an immediate, disappointing payoff
Delicate nocturnal shades and
Macaroni

okay, i read this over. and i promise i will give constructive comments (or at least worthless praise) sometime soon. noun classes!

why are the man's legs growing from his scrote

it's their *culture*, you supremacist... stop oppressing them

ye sociologiste hath ẏspeken

i'm assuming you realize that vowel system is very unrealistic, but, that vowel system is very unrealistic. maybe e > ə pushed o downwards, but that'd still be weird, since it's already got a rounding contrast in nonfront vowels. e > ə would make some sense given the presence of /je/... hm.

Doesn't Manchu have a similar vowel system?

the vowel system is back-heavy on purpose, yes, to give it lots of ways to fall over in the descendants.

Manchu seems to have something similar, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchu_language#Vowels but the back vowels are even closer together and there doesn't seem to be a rounding distinction. i like the idea of /u/ being fronted initially. maybe word-finally, though.

For Proto Martial I was moving towards a vowel length distinction with something like

ə > e
iə > e:

a > a
ai > a:

ɒ > o or o:, depending on environment (after ß, which i wrote as an eszett because it makes long vowels)

ɯ > u
u > u:

i > i
ui > i:

idk about allophonics except the ß thing i mentioned

proto-RM also ends up with vowel lengths maybe except just a a: i i: u u:

It's been four months! Let's hear about them descendants, yes?

calm down, woman

calm up, man

Rheto spamming in the DoC? Whoa.

hell hath no fury like a woman with a poking-stick

even less than a woman with a poking-stick she uses to let loose the fury of hell

It was important! We set a record for most posts in a single day; 92. (Only about a third were mine.) I'm rather proud of that.

i set the REAL record myself but fashqueen spamalot deleted it #oppression

I can proudly say I didn't contribute at all, since this is my first post in a very long time.

Something about nesting non-nestable threads by blowing up small towns ... Anyway! Let's leave this thread for Pthag to keep us updated on his riveting developments, yes?

pthagnar is currently occupied talking to the very sane, very atheistic intellectuals

please hold

something about getting a four-digit poastkkkovnt by ?????? ????? but the other thing owned too

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