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- Mon May 27, 2024 6:01 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Names, nouns and their (phonological) restrictions
- Replies: 17
- Views: 286
Re: Names, nouns and their (phonological) restrictions
I preferred the use of translation, but with globalization it would require organizations to set prescriptive standards, I can't say I've ever seen anyone call the IPA an organization. :) The International Phonetic Association isn’t an organisation? (They being the ones who maintain the Internation...
- Mon May 27, 2024 3:20 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Names, nouns and their (phonological) restrictions
- Replies: 17
- Views: 286
Re: Names, nouns and their (phonological) restrictions
globalization, including of information, has reduced the need for systematic translation, which was once the norm... the problem with this new usage is that these words add a layer of complexity *gasp* oh no...so now if I want to eat beef, and I ask for cow ... wait. :) (sorry) if you want to prono...
- Sun May 26, 2024 5:02 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang Random Thread
- Replies: 3045
- Views: 2859685
Re: Conlang Random Thread
Maybe emulate Yiddish, with only one conjunction word, which I think was ne. ... This is just rubbish. Wiktionary, for one thing, lists no less than 39 Yiddish conjunctions . Yiddish is not that grammatically distant from any of the various other German languages! Well, the principle of one conjunc...
- Sun May 26, 2024 2:12 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang Random Thread
- Replies: 3045
- Views: 2859685
Re: Conlang Random Thread
The goal is to avoid recreating ALL the English conjunction words and their specific distinctions (e.g. but vs yet) Maybe emulate Yiddish, with only one conjunction word, which I think was ne. ... I am smart ne Einstein was too. I am smart ne you are smarter. I am smart ne rocks are heavy. etc.
Re: Caizu
the important question is, under this definition, will there one day be no native Caizu speakers? ah, okay; I had been thinking liturgical languages had native speakers, in the sense of their own population(s) of people growing up hearing and learning and speaking it. (as opposed to modern people s...
Re: Caizu
PS: more importantly, I agree that it would be more interesting (than continuing this side discussino) to see more of Caizu and its neighbors. and comparisons to Latin just reinforced that, as I knew it was a liturgical language, but I also knew that, in most books that were written in Europe had at...
- Sat May 18, 2024 1:25 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang Random Thread
- Replies: 3045
- Views: 2859685
Re: Conlang Random Thread
Firstly, ‘split-ergative’ is a dreadfully imprecise term covering many different alignment systems. Secondly, there’s also the direct–inverse subsystem to consider. imprecise to people who spend all day splitting hairs. For me and possibly lay people, the term is enough to convey "syntactic or...
Re: Caizu
and comparisons to Latin just reinforced that, as I knew it was a liturgical language, but I also knew that, in most books that were written in Europe had at the very least their titles in Latin. But Latin still had to be learned, often together with reading. okay, but thats true of any language th...
Re: Caizu
Coptic has not had native-speaker transmission for multiple hundred years now, so while they may technically be speaking it, that statement needs qualification. what?? then how did some of the French and English people who used spoken Coptic to help them decipher the Rosetta Stone, learn a language...
Re: Caizu
the Copts would be shocked to hear that they are speaking a nonexisting language. Coptic has not had native-speaker transmission for multiple hundred years now, so while they may technically be speaking it, that statement needs qualification. what?? then how did some of the French and English peopl...
Re: Caizu
For example, Latin wiped out the other Italic and continental Celtic languages, you mean like Galatian in 1st Century AD Anatolia? but left Basque and the Afro-Asiatic languages of North Africa more or less unscathed. But those Afro-Asiatic languages in turn were partially (Berber) or wholly (Egypt...
- Tue May 14, 2024 3:42 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Random Thread
- Replies: 3735
- Views: 454892
Re: Random Thread
Judging by that the decline in popularity must have occured much later then similar declines in anglo countries Why is that? Aren't things such as (ox) heart and jellied eels still eaten in countries like the UK? I've never heard of ox heart in the uk only peru but from what i understand jellied ee...
- Tue May 14, 2024 5:14 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: War in the Middle East, again
- Replies: 455
- Views: 76945
Re: War in the Middle East, again
Wha??
Not sure what religious autism is - (do you mean autonomy?) - but I don't see why you think the Jewish people would have been awarded part of Germany at any point.
- Tue May 14, 2024 5:13 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Random Thread
- Replies: 3735
- Views: 454892
Re: Random Thread
Am i right in saying organ meat phobia is less prominent amongst non anglo europeans? See french foie gras and italian tripe sandwiches. I'm not sure. I think it's true but increasingly less so. You still find a lot of people loving tripe here, but less so than one or two generations ago. Judging b...
- Tue May 14, 2024 3:55 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: War in the Middle East, again
- Replies: 455
- Views: 76945
Re: War in the Middle East, again
I don't think that means people should stop protesting, or debate on <insert social network of your choice> But actual solutions or peace plans will be found by people who are directly involved and knowledgeable about the issue. We're not going to come up with a peace settlement and constitution he...
- Mon May 13, 2024 4:15 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang Random Thread
- Replies: 3045
- Views: 2859685
Re: Conlang Random Thread
In a conlang with cases, what consideration should be given to adpositions and which cases they're used with? I've seen European languages which will tend to always use prepositions with, say, the genitive or the dative. Now, my plan is to have adpositions give context to case, e.g. where the locat...
- Sat May 11, 2024 11:55 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: AI in conlanging - present and future
- Replies: 24
- Views: 765
Re: AI in conlanging - present and future
I got ChatGPT to estimate the total number of words it has been exposed to in all of its training. [...] It’s ultimate estimate, IIRC, was 5 quintillion. There are some estimates of the total size of the Internet, but I don't think they're comparable... consider how much of the Internet is pictures...
- Fri May 10, 2024 12:24 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
- Replies: 909
- Views: 1085004
Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
The thing is that raise the question of where the palatovelar versus velar versus labiovelar contrast came from in the first place, since the instability of such an arrangement implies that it should not have existed for long, and hence positing it merely pushes the actual original state back in ti...
- Thu May 09, 2024 4:42 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Random Thread
- Replies: 3735
- Views: 454892
Re: Random Thread
therapist: objectively evil sound changes do not exist they can't hurt you cot-caught merger and yeismo: allow us to introduce ourselves I think the most evil sound change is turning sibilants into laterals myself. You deny the darkness in your soul, you deny your power. just let the pressure build...
- Thu May 09, 2024 3:06 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4730
- Views: 2093622