Category: Language

Some days coming up with new words is easy, some days it is a real struggle. Conveniently, today I could use the struggle itself as inspiration, since the theme from ConWorkShop is fighting verbs. However, Rireinutire already has many fighting verbs, which is I guess to be expected from a people who beat each other… Continue reading Lexember 13 →

And now for something completely different. Today's theme from ConWorkShop is change and transformation. In previous Lexembers, I have done small change and electrical transformers, so this time it might be time for something closer to the spirit of the theme. Fortunately I still had one of the six basic types of phase transition lacking… Continue reading Lexember 12 →

What were the odds? Today's theme from ConWorkShop is mathematics. This has upset my calculations almost badly enough to give me the fluxions. But instead of engaging in hyperbole, I will converge on the statement I always use in an equivalent situation: maha sunokiva hi mutiotina yakasevo: 1S-ADE tell-PST-SENS that.QUO mathematics-PTV be-PRS-NEG-INFR || I was… Continue reading Lexember 11 →

Another day of tradition today. Although yesterday the theme was tradition, today tradition dictates the theme, since it is customary at ConWorkShop to leave every tenth day of Lexember as a day with No theme!. Yes, complete with double punctuation. Obviously this leaves everyone to her own devices with regards to glossopoiesis. So, today I… Continue reading Lexember 10 →

In accordance with the traditions of Lexember, I will do my accustomed duty and reveal that for today, the theme from ConWorkShop is customs and traditions. But, as my people have a... shall we say, fraught relationship with Customs, I intend to play fast and loose with the theme and so follow a different tradition.… Continue reading Lexember 9 →

Rolling on into the eighth day of Lexember, we open our eyes wide to see that the ConWorkShop theme for today is spheres. No matter how we turn it in our mind's eye, it still casts a round shadow. Whether in our daily rounds, sophisticated circles, an ever-widening gyre, or up in orbit, spheres are… Continue reading Lexember 8 →

No need to nod to the nattering nabobs of negativity, now necessity nudges us nearer to noticeably nicer neighbourhoods. That was an unnecessarily convoluted way of introducing today's theme from ConWorkShop, namely words that contain /n/ in your native language. Not words that begin with /n/, simply words that contain it. One might argue this… Continue reading Lexember 7 →

Today's theme from ConWorkShop is much more cute and cuddly than yesterday's, as it is pets and domestic animals. So I have come up with some words relating to our furry and scaly friends. soo ivomitimu vokahuve niyi kamu nayata soukave:if pet-ACC take-PRS-SBJV-HSY then.CONJ 3S.F-ACC take.care-INF have.to-PRS-HSY ||If you take a pet, you have to… Continue reading Lexember 6 →

I don't blame you if you are a bit uncomfortable with today's theme from ConWorkShop, seeing as it is creepies, crawlies, pests, and vermin. But since these things are part of the world, it is perfectly appropriate to have words for them as well. So let's put on our bug-stomping boots and get to work.… Continue reading Lexember 5 →

I definitely can recommend ConWorkShop for the active conlanger. Their running hot and cold themes make Lexember a breeze! As it happens, hot and cold is today's theme. I've been working on Rireinutire for *mumblemumble* years now, so most of the obvious words for this theme are already made. But then I remembered that... ñeku… Continue reading Lexember 4 →