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Vod, that is amazing. Your dedication to Mando'a is inspiring and your contribution to the community by sharing this with us is appreciated very much. Thank you.

It will be quiet around here without you. Don't stay away for too long!

I hope you don't mind, but I edited your post to make it sticky.

First of all, glad to see you again, Adi’karta , you still alive? :) Glad to see you all as well. I am, indeed, still alive. In my work I proposed the word “ urman ” to be used for “culture”. But taking that ancient mandalorians did have a religion with no less than three gods, I think that same wo...

Each of those look pretty interesting, Vlet. I'll try my hand at practising a few of them and see how they turn out. Thanks for the links.

[...] aurebesh [...] abugidae [...] Kryptonian [...] symbols with their own names and meanings, and each of which is a two- or three-letter combination phoneme. I kinda wish Mandalorian runes had something similar -- at least for some well-known letter combinations... I've noticed a number of abugi...

I definitely agree on modifying any nouns ending in r to reduce confusion.

My account stays persistently online, even if I do not, so I'm always "around" and I usually get notifications on my phone.

While reading through your (very thorough and comprehensive) overview of the grammar, I took a few notes: Likes: tion prefixing the specific word being questioned makes a lot of sense officially designating -yc for words ending in vowels and -la for consonants makes more sense than the current wild-...

Tal'jair and I got to talking on IRC and the topic of wordplay came up. We don't have any (or many) words that we openly use as euphemisms (yet). So this is the thread to come up with some! I'm about to go to bed so I don't have anything to contribute yet, but I wanted to put this thread up so y'all...

Osik, digu. Mhi gana ori'veman (official) IRC karyai: #mandoa.org on Freenode IRC . (I forgot I registered an official channel for the site: #mandoa.org). Registering a channel means we can make it invite-only, kick/ban spammers, etc. Just in case somebody misses this site but goes looking around on...

Ni liser pare'rud bat Mando'a IRC yamikase an'tuur anay'tuur meh gar ven'copaani:

#mandoa on Freenode IRC

Olarom, vode!

N'eparavu takisit; I've been absent a lot recently and failed to welcome each of you individually. We're glad to have you aboard and hope you find our community supportive and resources useful.

Happy learning!

This sounds like a good idea. There has been light talk about something like this for a while, but we've never gotten very far.

Olarom, vod. The primary purpose of this website -- the translator and the forum -- is to provide a place where all interested parties can learn Mando'a and support the growth and survival of the language. Everyone who has an interest is welcome here. Discussions of culture have a new home here: in ...

Perfect.

And I swear "tion'jor" did not come up in the dictionary when I searched it before my post.

That said...it's definitely descended from the same stem I picked for my custom construction.

"Why" could be tion'jorbe (what reason).

"How" would begin with tion and end with whatever word we can find for "method", "way", etc.

I was mixing netspeak with Mando'a, as I do with English. Sorry for the confusion. Just expressing my simultaneous amusement and agreement.

5th hour of the 7th watch seems correct to me. I should whip up a converter or something, because that was an annoying chain of math to do (straightforward, but too many steps) to convert manually. I can't back you or oppose you on the translation -- I'm re-examining the proposed time words, as I'm ...

lol bal'ban vode!

Good catch. Changed.

About the writing system, I have long lamented its inconvenience as a handwritten system, but done nothing about it. I believe I posted a thread long ago about the MLD pdf, and while the linguist in me thrills at the prospect of a purely phonetic writing system, something about that particular impl...