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TomHChappell

WeepingElf wrote: ↑Wed Jan 10, 2024 11:08 am I just logged in to the CBB, and everything was as usual; no captcha, no problem of any kind.

Thanks! I’ll try again.

BTW @Travis: I also encountered the CAPTCHA when trying to register a new account.

TomHChappell

They added a CAPTCHA which was in fine print, so I got it wrong too many times and my account was suspended. Also, they fixed it so you can’t see users’ IDs nor profiles nor e-mail addresses unless you’re logged on, So I can’t write to the admins, which is what they say to do if you can’t logon. ….....

TomHChappell

I like this!

TomHChappell

https://benjamins.com/catalog/tsl.2 Comes to mind immediately; but all of the google-hits before that in https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199772810/obo-9780199772810-0138.xml http://www.comparativelinguistics.uzh.ch/vangijn/Publications/IntroAnonymous.pdf https://kuscholarw...

TomHChappell

I admire this idea and want to do something like it.
A language with Polynesian-like lexicon, Semitic-like morphology, and Japanese-like syntax, maybe.

TomHChappell

Xwtek wrote: ↑Thu Sep 12, 2019 10:27 am Make a language with one of these:

linguolabial trill

Word-final click

voiced lateral affricate

You don't have to include them all.

I’m thinking that world-final click could be pronounced only once.

TomHChappell

Tunnel dreams are supposed to be about birth.

Or, you know.

TomHChappell

Congratulations, btw!

TomHChappell

I will be very engaged by any congrammar which adequately handles, or valiantly attempts to handle, all or even most of the questions raised by this: https://listserv.brown.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0605C&L=CONLANG&P=R17413&X=DA5CBE49208BBF14C5&Y=eldin_raigmore%40yahoo.com Or here: http:/...

TomHChappell

I just thought of having articularily-adjacent voiceless fricatives/affricates alternate (cf. [f~θ]) in the protolanguage. I'm aware that Hawaiian does a restricted version of something like this with its /k/ being [k] initially but [t] elsewhere. Do any natlangs to something closer to my idea? Spa...

TomHChappell

Vijay wrote: ↑Sun Sep 01, 2019 11:02 pm Oh, enjoy your new car once you get a chance!

Ive got it!
It’s sitting in my condo’s parking spot right now!
I drove it home from my sister’s house in 18 hours.
In an hour or so I’m going to take it out to run some close-to-home errands! Like I couldn’t do the week before I left to get it!

TomHChappell

(Grin) And just how many times have you seen that happen, Mr. Chappell? The next time will be the first! :roll: ;) ——— Serious answer; whenever a congrammar includes some feature I still haven’t figured out, I want to see how that conlanger handles it. So my answer is probably in constant flux. I d...

TomHChappell

My understanding was that Brazil was given to Portugal out of sympathy. The original explorers didnt know where the newly discovered land would end, so they drew a line on the map and gave what they thought was a fair share of it to Spain and to Portugal. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...

TomHChappell

“I think Rudyard Kipling” wrote:There are nine and fifty ways of constructing tribal lays;
And every single one of them is right.

TomHChappell

I consider a congrammar to be “engaging” when it answers “yes” to a proposal of marriage.

(Sorry, that’s all I could think of!)

TomHChappell

I’m getting a new car this week (9/3 thru 9/7 I guess), to replace the one that got totaled 8/12.

TomHChappell

Raphael wrote: ↑Wed Aug 28, 2019 2:06 pm
Vijay wrote: ↑Wed Aug 28, 2019 1:11 pm Except that apparently, vertreten by itself means 'to represent' or 'to substitute'.
Yes, that, too.

So how do you say “misrepresent”?

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While we’re at it, how do you say “misunderestimate”?

TomHChappell

How do you call it in English when you try to take a step, and your foot somehow comes down wrong, and, as a result, something in your foot hurts for a while? "To twist one's ankle"? Colloquially, my ‘lect and every ‘lect I remember ever hearing, says “I twisted my ankle”. Formally/techni...

TomHChappell

Good ooze #1: I have a date fixed for my Ph.D. defense: I'll hand in my thesis on 13 September and then defend it on 11 October. Congratulations! And good luck! Good ooze #2: I finally got my brother to get off his lazy *&% and apply to renew his passport, so, if he gets it in time, then he'll ...

TomHChappell

Moose-tache wrote: ↑Sat Aug 17, 2019 5:57 pm I recently learned that during the Anglo-Saxon period, there was a man named Bubba who was king of Lindsey.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom ... of_Lindsey

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