Last seen: Sep 8, 2021
I've been absent for what seems a long time; been working on the new lessons. The lessons, in their new order and with improved examples and exerci...
On the laadanlanguage.org/2021 folder, there's a PDF of an Excel spreadsheet with the old and new orders of the lessons. The order changes after Lesso...
Indeed, we can use the weather idiom involving "ham" for any and all of those--and for "it's sunny," "it's windy," "it's snowy/snowing," and so on. ...
Or perhaps "raden" for the "on purpose to be a nuisance" meaning.
@nara Oh, yeah, or walking over the keyboard when I put it down for a second to get a cup of tea.... However, that arises, imo, not from spitefulnes...
Regarding Ruleden - to cat-help - When someone wants to help or claims to be helping, but really they are getting in the way. If this is being done ...
Regarding Rawidadi - lit. non-carry speech or setting-down speech - might be translated as to confess, not in a criminal sense, but an un-burdening ...
Regarding "ran," whose meaning is to be extended to a verb meaning to enter text as though on a typewriter. It must be observed that languages are r...
Small Piece or Fragment - híthi - I began it with hí for híya, followed by th- referencing then (break), with i as a diminutive ending. For fragment, ...
Regarding "óoyahowa" (inner power/energy) [óoya (heart) + owa (fire)]: This is a lovely formation. I wholeheartedly support! Wil sha,Amberwind
Regarding minadadem (movie/video) [mina (to move) + dadem (picture)]: This is a straightforward formation reminiscent of the phrase womina woda...
Regarding "dáanin" (grammar) [dáan (word) + yáanin (tree)]. My only quibble--and this is a general quibble, not one directed at you or this word in ...
Regarding lalena/lalona/laluna/lalíina/lalehena (generosity): Please note the second generation developing Láadan has modified the "no reason" aspec...
Regarding "éhud" (to be foolish) [loanword: Welsh]: Loanwords are very useful where no native Láadan roots exist to form the meaning at hand. That i...