Tharfish

Tharfish is a dialect of English used on Conlang Wikia.

Phonology
Same as English, with the same dialect variation, except maybe an /x/, and /ʒ/ word-initially because French is so fancy and romantic.

Nouns
Nouns are exactly the same as the most common dialects of Modern English, but pronouns are different and are the same as Early Modern English.

Adjectives
A significant disctinction from Modern English beeth that all adjectives tharf now form comparatives and superlatives by adding the -er or -est ending, e.g. 'More beautiful' is now 'Beautifuler' and 'Most beautiful' is now 'Beautifulest'

Verbs
Verbs are declined as in Early Modern English.

http://www.shakespeareswords.com/Verb-forms

'''A significant disctinction from Modern English beeth that modal verbs tharf be conjugated in the same way as the other verbs. In addition, modal verbs have infinitive forms, e.g "To tharf". This aids in forming simpler constructions of what would normally be quite long phrases, e.g. "I want to be able to do this" is now "I want to may do this."'''

Syntax
Word order is generally free, although SVO is probably the most common.

Lexicon
Tharfish lexicon consists of archaic English, butchered French, a bunch of Yiddish loanwords, and a lot of random slang.

Archaic English:


 * betwixt - between, among, during, while
 * bework - to edit
 * brook - to utilize
 * hight - transitive: to call; intransitive: to be called
 * tharf - placeholder modal verb, usually used in place of "should", "can", or "need to"

Butchered French:

word (french) [tharfishPhonetic] - definition


 * flanyr (flâner) [flænɹ] - to act in a manner which suggests one has not been in the current environment before.
 * kudeta (cout d'etat) [kudeɪdə] - a noun describing a situation where someone who is idolized by others "trips up" and people stop admiring them. This word is distinct from cout d'etat, which carries the original meaning in Tharfish. Kinda like when Romney made a reference to 'Binders full of women'
 * pamplemouse (pamplemousse) [pæmplmaus] - placeholder noun, potentially some sort of mouse; pluralized as "pamplemice", and pronounced the way an English speaker with no knowledge of French would pronounce it

Yiddish loanwords:


 * schlepp - to drag oneself (through sth.); (as a noun) lengthy, exhausting work
 * yenta - business, used in phrase "how beeth/how's thy yenta?", i.e. "how are you?"

Random pamplemice:


 * epicentre - gathering place, community, hangout spot
 * frig - euphemism for "fuck" in sense of an intensifier or in such phrases as "frig sth. up"
 * fumpy - placeholder adjective
 * raplapa [ɹɑplɑpə] - nonsensical, indescribable; exhausted
 * shart - placeholder verb
 * tackaweeky - weird, strange (also used to insult someone)
 * visual beworker - the popularest and the worst way to bework a wikia page (if one doesn't need to make tables)