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- Sat May 18, 2024 8:23 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang Random Thread
- Replies: 3019
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Re: Conlang Random Thread
How many distinct registers do you all build into your conlangs? I've done up to three, but most often zero. Martin Joos believed there were five registers in English, but I've never worked out that many for a conlang in any detail.
- Mon May 13, 2024 8:06 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang Random Thread
- Replies: 3019
- Views: 2851887
Re: Conlang Random Thread
You're both right. The noun and the adposition together form a unit of meaning. One preposition can mean different things with different cases, and one case can mean different things with different prepositions. A good example is Latin in tabernā . The preposition means location in, not motion towar...
- Mon May 13, 2024 6:08 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang Random Thread
- Replies: 3019
- Views: 2851887
Re: Conlang Random Thread
Europe does indeed have a paucity of examples to look to. Latin used few prepositions with the genitive and dative, and most modern languages in Western Europe don't have a separate dative anyway. The best example is probably German, which uses in differently for accusative and dative. We get more e...
- Fri May 10, 2024 11:54 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang fluency thread
- Replies: 2461
- Views: 1483070
Re: Conlang fluency thread
Yet una lengua Romana de Uest, deisde las vessances de los Pirineos de nord. Cre que yet levemént avoreda. /jet `un.na `lɨ̃g.gwa ɾɵ.`man.na de wɨs̺t `deis̺.de las̺ vɨ.`s̺ã.s̻e de lɵs̺ pi.ɾi.`ne.o de nɵɾd... kɾe ke jet lɨ.vɨ.`mɨ̃t a.vɵ.`ɾɨd.da/ It's a Western Romance language, from the slopes of the...
- Fri May 10, 2024 9:21 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4692
- Views: 2063906
Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
OK, I have a question for any French experts out there: when and how did mathématiques become plural? And is it related in any way to the English phenomenon? As I understand it, the original word in Latinized Greek is mathematica, in the neuter plural. This neuter plural was then reanalyzed as a fem...
- Thu May 09, 2024 11:55 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
- Replies: 909
- Views: 1084002
Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
Well, surely that's true for any version of any language? Whether PIE had uvulars or not, something came before it. PIE usually means the PIE that was spoken the moment before Annie Anatolia and Steve Steppe parted company. It could have lasted a day. If you're interested in internal reconstruction,...
- Thu May 09, 2024 7:59 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4692
- Views: 2063906
Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
If I had a precise enough laser that I could target individual neurons, I would delete the phrase "Celtic Substrate" from the minds of every linguist in the world.
EDIT: actually, "Celtic" is optional.
EDIT: actually, "Celtic" is optional.
- Thu May 09, 2024 7:39 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
- Replies: 909
- Views: 1084002
Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
"That argument pretty much can be summed up as "the less typologically plausible phonology should be favored specifically because we don't see it any daughters", TBH." I think a more fair paraphrase is that a stable situation like /k q/ would be more likely to survive, so it stra...
- Tue May 07, 2024 10:08 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Challenge: American English as a separate language
- Replies: 30
- Views: 640
Re: Challenge: American English as a separate language
Otto, you know there is no such thing as "official status" in the US, right? As for the rest of it, I'm not sure who you think was coming across the Atlantic who didn't sound like a freak. I already mentioned Ulster Scots, who were an absolute majority of settler colonists in many areas. T...
- Tue May 07, 2024 12:45 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Challenge: American English as a separate language
- Replies: 30
- Views: 640
Re: Challenge: American English as a separate language
Plenty of divergent dialects made it to North America in large numbers. Where I grew up, the largest ethnic group was "Scotch Irish," meaning there would have been a time when everyone in the Appalachians sounded like this child.
- Tue May 07, 2024 12:35 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Resources Thread
- Replies: 88
- Views: 69985
Re: Resources Thread
Try asking around computer hobby forums. He's known for being one of the first employees of Apple.
- Mon May 06, 2024 4:24 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
- Replies: 909
- Views: 1084002
Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
The only sources Wikipedia cites are Iranian dictionaries, but the Iranian reconstruction given is muHs, so I doubt the author of this page knows something we don't know. Just typical overzealousness.
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 6:08 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang fluency thread
- Replies: 2461
- Views: 1483070
Re: Conlang fluency thread
Pirenáj: Tent traducír a la Pirenáj, peróc tap mout de lo tempos.
[tə̃t tɾad.du.'s̻iɾ a la pi.ɾə.'naʒ pə.'ɾɵk tap mot de lo 'tə̃.po]
I try to translate into Pirenáj, but it takes a lot of time.
[tə̃t tɾad.du.'s̻iɾ a la pi.ɾə.'naʒ pə.'ɾɵk tap mot de lo 'tə̃.po]
I try to translate into Pirenáj, but it takes a lot of time.
- Sun Apr 28, 2024 11:11 pm
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: "Experiencer"
- Replies: 40
- Views: 4641
Re: "Experiencer"
I think you all have missed the main reason congrammars are written in plain terms. The conlanger is trying to communicate, while the linguist is trying to prove to their employer that they are on the cutting edge of their field. As for Zompist's use of "experiencer," I think this is an ac...
- Sun Apr 28, 2024 10:28 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Kala updates etc.
- Replies: 170
- Views: 106141
Re: Kala updates etc.
I second what others have said. I really like the look of this.masako wrote: ↑Fri Mar 22, 2024 7:33 pm Kenamoya abugida – A decorative script for Kala centered on a circular design.
- Sat Jan 23, 2021 2:10 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: United States Politics Thread 46
- Replies: 1424
- Views: 445692
- Wed Jan 13, 2021 10:41 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Random Thread
- Replies: 3731
- Views: 452288
Re: Random Thread
Didn't want to start a new thread for this, so here it goes: I'm looking for beta readers for a novella (~32k words). I'm not asking for free labour, but we can work out the sordid details by PM. Let me know if anyone here would be interested in helping me polish my work. I do enjoy reading; what s...
- Wed Jan 13, 2021 1:22 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Random Thread
- Replies: 3731
- Views: 452288
Re: Random Thread
Didn't want to start a new thread for this, so here it goes:
I'm looking for beta readers for a novella (~32k words). I'm not asking for free labour, but we can work out the sordid details by PM. Let me know if anyone here would be interested in helping me polish my work.
I'm looking for beta readers for a novella (~32k words). I'm not asking for free labour, but we can work out the sordid details by PM. Let me know if anyone here would be interested in helping me polish my work.
- Mon Dec 21, 2020 7:32 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang fluency thread
- Replies: 2461
- Views: 1483070
Re: Conlang fluency thread
kvunsa nahisi hkvaara hakiita hee hun?
year ending knot planned indefinite irrealis
literally: "As if everyone plans a bow that ends the year"
Does anyone have Christmas plans?
year ending knot planned indefinite irrealis
literally: "As if everyone plans a bow that ends the year"
Does anyone have Christmas plans?
- Sat Dec 19, 2020 10:14 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang fluency thread
- Replies: 2461
- Views: 1483070
Re: Conlang fluency thread
masako ee, aa torukini koo piha soo.
Not Masako. He's older than Tolkien's grandmother. (kidding!)
Not Masako. He's older than Tolkien's grandmother. (kidding!)