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Vlet Hansen wrote: ↑

13 Aug 2022 04:32

It's technically correct, but I'll admit I hate it. While there's value in the semantic difference between ad and adat, I basically always use ad.

Ad in the dictionary seems to be specifically about children.

Kind of want to jump into the whole name of stars conversation. Here are my two cents. The translation for stars seems to be Ka'ra, which means the ruling council of ancient kings as stated in the dictionary. Why don't we go off that? Instead of making it about space, we'll make it about the myth, w...

Adding -ness to a word in English transforms the adjective into a noun describing a condition or a measure of quantity. In the Mando'a dictionary, we have sad, aware, darkness, and new. Aware is a compound and darkness is a separate word. That just leaves sad and new, which both remove their "-la" a...

Unless we cheat and simply say that stems ending with "t" act the same as the ones with "r".

How unfortunate for me to have discovered Naastar-Naast for Destroy-Destroyer just now then. We will have to look at this further. Your idea of using 'ad' and 'kebi' is interesting.

Wikipedia: "In linguistics, an agent noun (in Latin, nomen agentis) is a word that is derived from another word denoting an action, and that identifies an entity that does that action. For example, driver is an agent noun formed from the verb drive." So what are some examples of this in Mando'a? Wel...

Oya, su cuy’gar. I’m here first and foremost because Mandalorians are awesome. And, as this is a language forum, I’m here to read up on language discussions, help, and custom words to further my own Mando’a skills. Fortune willing that I may be able to give my own wisdom. Seems like a fun place. Tha...