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- 03 Dec 2019 22:57
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Miscellaneous fun facts about your conlang to share and know
- Replies: 22
- Views: 498
Re: Miscellaneous fun facts about your conlang to share and know
Before I continue this post, I shall remind readers that I unfortunately conflate "structural terms" and "functional terms", the latter being more acceptable amongst linguists (but idc because it's much simpler for me to describe my conlang from its perspectives and principles). When I say "passive...
- 03 Dec 2019 12:05
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Grammar milestones
- Replies: 26
- Views: 7561
Re: Grammar milestones
Why not 50,000? Kankonian has over 45,000 already, and I'm still too young to become president of the United States. My Kankonian grammar now comes out at 150 pages as a Corel WordPerfect document! I have to ask: perhaps you're a bit of a funny person, but why do you say your conlang has more than ...
- 03 Dec 2019 08:40
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Miscellaneous fun facts about your conlang to share and know
- Replies: 22
- Views: 498
Re: Miscellaneous fun facts about your conlang to share and know
Certainly, Quenya is not an exolang, but you said griuskant would get "passive nouns, possessive verbs, imperative prepositions, passive intransitives, active modals etc." Isn't this something that would never happen in a human natlang, or am I up for an ANADEW surprise here? Uh, I'm bilingual and ...
- 03 Dec 2019 08:28
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Californian Polynesian
- Replies: 40
- Views: 478
Re: Californian Polynesian
lol I think this is the first time I see "poly-lang" meaning "Polynesian conlang". I've seen "polylang" before, but meaning "polysynthetic conlang".GoshDiggityDangit wrote: ↑03 Dec 2019 08:16Don’t you get me thinking about making another Poly-Lang.
- 03 Dec 2019 07:56
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Today I learned ...
- Replies: 41
- Views: 50869
Re: Today I learned ...
Today I learned that that French "on" derives from the nominative meaning 'man' while "homme" derives from the accusative. Thus "on" has a very similar history to Germanic "man". I had thought it was related to "un" and similar to English "one". I was very surprised when I read about that years ago...
- 03 Dec 2019 07:29
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Californian Polynesian
- Replies: 40
- Views: 478
Re: Californian Polynesian
This thread reminds me, something I've always found fun is that the practice of blackening teeth with a layer of lacquer in order to protect them into old age was historically found in Japan, Micronesia, parts of the Philippines, parts of the Chinese mainland close to the Philippines (the practice i...
- 03 Dec 2019 00:57
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 4415
- Views: 921587
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Ursus > ours /uʁs/ is definitely an exception, cf. cursus 'flow' > cours /kuʁ/ 'path; flow', morsus 'bitten thing, animal' > mors /mɔʁ/ 'horse bit'. It's still an animate though. It reminds me of the similar Spanish retention of the nominative serpēns > sierpe 'snake' (as a doublet of the much more...
- 03 Dec 2019 00:35
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: YAHOO GROUP MESSAGES DOWNLOAD
- Replies: 5
- Views: 183
Re: YAHOO GROUP MESSAGES DOWNLOAD
If there is a Yahoo Group you'd like to download but are not able to with that tool, let me know. I like to download these Yahoo Groups : 1. Dene-Caucasian Languages & Linguistics (https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Dene_Caucasian/info) 2. Theudiskon (https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Theudiskon...
- 27 Nov 2019 07:58
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: False cognates
- Replies: 689
- Views: 184825
Re: False cognates
Japanese nani 'what?'
Inuktitut nani 'where?'
Inuktitut nani 'where?'
- 22 Nov 2019 00:50
- Forum: Translations
- Topic: Guess the Word in Romlangs
- Replies: 1862
- Views: 341368
Re: Guess the Word in Romlangs
So, as Zekoslav doesn't want to suggest a word, how about this from not-a-real-Romlang, just a thought experiment I had that hasn't got any actual history or anything attached (yet, at least): ogajaitar /ogadZajtar/ Judging by the -ar ending, I imagine this is either an -āre infinitive or an adject...
- 21 Nov 2019 17:27
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: YAHOO GROUP MESSAGES DOWNLOAD
- Replies: 5
- Views: 183
Re: YAHOO GROUP MESSAGES DOWNLOAD
Which Yahoo Groups are you trying to download? When you say you can't download "Auxlang and Conlang group messages", what are you talking about? Are these the CONLANG and AUXLANG mailing lists, served by Brown University? These are mailing services served by computers at that university, and have no...
- 18 Nov 2019 01:26
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 5829
- Views: 1385998
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Are rhotacized long monophthongs better transcribed as [Vːʴ] or [Vʴː]? I'd choose [Vʴː]. Quality modifiers before quantity modifiers. It's always pretty awkward though. This works well for vowels, but for affricate consonants it gets trickier, e.g. Italian razzo 'rocket' and ragazzo 'boy' [ˈradzːo ...
- 16 Nov 2019 02:50
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: Origin of some English orthography inconsistencies
- Replies: 4
- Views: 142
Re: Origin of some English orthography inconsistencies
Did this happen at some point for English? 800 > 1300 > 1700 > 2000 <ow> /ou/ > /u:/ > /au/ > /au/ (as in <now>) <ow> /ɔu/ > /o:/ > /ou/ > /əʉ/, or /ɞu/ in North America (as in <low>) <aw> /au/ > /ɒo/ > /ɔ:/ > /o:/, or /ɒ:~a:/ in North America No. More like: 800 > 1300 > 1700 > 2000 ** ow [aʊ] ** [...
- 12 Nov 2019 20:55
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
- Replies: 2794
- Views: 706952
- 12 Nov 2019 20:26
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: RE: Making a Computer that runs on Magic
- Replies: 15
- Views: 346
Re: RE: Making a Computer that runs on Magic
Tanni, I... don't know what to say. It's amusing how Sal's posts are going completely over your head, although amusing in a rather bad way. Let's see if I can do any better. If I fail to convey the meanings as well, then I'd advise just giving up... 1. He wrote a thought experiment about a non-linea...
- 08 Nov 2019 21:48
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: what brought you to conlanging?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 492
Re: what brought you to conlanging?
As Pabappa said, this forum is mostly for people who make their own conlangs, who typically don't learn them even then, not people who learn others' conlangs such as Esperanto or Klingon. By the way, although Pabappa mentioned his interest in Láadan to give you an answer more relevant to you, he has...
- 03 Nov 2019 17:59
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 5829
- Views: 1385998
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Is Old/Middle Chinese not occasionally reconstructed with post-initial /j/ that was basically lost everywhere. It's often still there in Mandarin. In fact, this is one of the only two things where Mandarin is more conservative than most other Chinese varieties (the other being the presence of retro...
- 01 Nov 2019 22:55
- Forum: Teach & Share
- Topic: Ogden's "Basic English" for other languages?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1180
Re: Ogden's "Basic English" for other languages?
The Royal Spanish Academy has published the word frequencies of its CREA corpus of modern Spanish (the RAE also has the CORDE, a corpus of historical Spanish, but there's no frequencies for that). The frequencies can be accessed as text files here: http://corpus.rae.es/lfrecuencias.html Since some w...
- 30 Oct 2019 20:38
- Forum: Teach & Share
- Topic: Ogden's "Basic English" for other languages?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1180
Re: Ogden's "Basic English" for other languages?
Thanks! But I don't know how to open LaTex codes [:(] The LaTeX code is a source text. You need to download and install a LaTeX distribution such as MiKTeX . Send me a personel message. I don't think expecting users to install and compile LaTeX sources is reasonable though. [xD] Man, just provide a...
- 25 Oct 2019 23:01
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 4415
- Views: 921587
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
I've often noticed that in English (and other IE languages), the oblique form isn't so much an "object" form as much as it's a "not-subject" form and is the default used in syntactically unclear situations like exclamations or topic-marking. Concerning English I vs. me , and similarly in French je ...