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- Tue Feb 28, 2023 10:08 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: What have you accomplished today?
- Replies: 780
- Views: 395243
Re: What have you accomplished today?
But it turned out on the way that the book is also the most important source for that magnificent spreadsheet that Samuel McCabe (formerly known on the ZBB as TheGoatMan, later Goatface and yet later Morrígan) has put together, so when I have a question about a PIE antecedent of a Hesperic word, I ...
- Sat Feb 18, 2023 10:00 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Avoiding a name conflict
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1230
Re: Avoiding a name conflict
If you wanna talk about a real name conflict in the Romance languages, there's Romania (the country where Romanian is spoken) vs. Romania (the Romance-speaking domain) which are at best distinguished by a single letter. I notice English-speaking scholars tend to, well, not use the latter in the fir...
- Thu Feb 16, 2023 9:51 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Random Thread
- Replies: 3735
- Views: 455595
Re: Random Thread
How... long ago did you stop coming by? I've been around here since 2008 and I don't remember any Glenn!
- Tue Feb 07, 2023 10:21 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
- Replies: 954
- Views: 1085902
Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
Coincidental tweet by Marijn van Putten:
https://twitter.com/PhDniX/status/1622662636948054017
Plot twist: Marijn is actually reading us?
https://twitter.com/PhDniX/status/1622662636948054017
Plot twist: Marijn is actually reading us?
- Sun Feb 05, 2023 4:54 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
- Replies: 954
- Views: 1085902
Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
No speculation allowed, no fun allowed, we're Serious Scientists here.
- Sun Feb 05, 2023 1:34 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4731
- Views: 2098332
Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
I was trying to envisage James Spader saying "And YOU gotta help us!" à la the Hotel Mario intro earlier this evening and I came upon an interesting quirk of mine idiolect. For example: "My friend's wife got him a guitar." This seems like it should become, if not referring to a ...
- Sat Jan 28, 2023 9:33 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: False friends thread
- Replies: 69
- Views: 212887
Re: False friends thread
One that's a bit funny is "preservative" (mineral or chemical that preserves food) vs. Spanish preservativo / French préservatif 'condom'.
- Fri Jan 27, 2023 10:32 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: False friends thread
- Replies: 69
- Views: 212887
Re: False friends thread
I feel I definitely wouldn't understand the ventilator/ventilateur pair either...
- Thu Jan 26, 2023 12:34 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: False friends thread
- Replies: 69
- Views: 212887
Re: False friends thread
A pretty well-known group of false friends is English "actually" vs. Spanish actualmente / French actuellement (both meaning 'currently, at the present time'). I once read an article about the difficulties of translating "world English", when politicians insist in using English w...
- Thu Jan 26, 2023 6:05 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Random Thread
- Replies: 3735
- Views: 455595
Re: Random Thread
I also know a Freemason and he's very open about it. I have no idea what they could possibly do in their meetings nowadays, but he really enjoys the symbols and symbolism it seems.
- Tue Jan 24, 2023 9:22 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Random ideas: morphosyntax
- Replies: 10
- Views: 937
Re: Random ideas: morphosyntax
I could have sworn we had a thread like this a while ago, and it got abandoned? But anyway: - a single subject argument is typically marked with case #1 - by default, if there's both a subject and object, the subject is marked with case #1, and the object with case #2 - if pragmatic focus falls on ...
- Tue Jan 24, 2023 7:24 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Random ideas: morphosyntax
- Replies: 10
- Views: 937
Random ideas: morphosyntax
This is pretty much my favourite thread over on the CBB forum, and I wonder if we could get it going here too. It's just a thread to post random ideas about grammar, whether involving morphology or syntax or both. Here's an example: I came up with an alignment where - a single subject argument is ty...
- Fri Jan 20, 2023 1:59 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Resources Thread
- Replies: 99
- Views: 70702
Re: Resources Thread
And I have to ask, how is anything accessed? I don't see any online UI, or download links, or Github links or anything for Grambank and Phonobank...MacAnDàil wrote: ↑Fri Jan 20, 2023 7:51 am I discovered the Glottobank via Martin Haspelmath's Researchgate page and thought it may interest others: https://glottobank.org/
- Mon Jan 16, 2023 5:53 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Dream sharing thread
- Replies: 218
- Views: 291905
Re: Dream sharing thread
I have a recurrent dream where I walk into a mall, and it's flooded. The water is almost at my knees' level, but it keeps flowing so it's not difficult to walk in one direction. I go along with it, and at some point I find some stairs going down, and I walk down the stairs in spite of all the water ...
- Sun Jan 15, 2023 5:06 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Sound Change Quickie Thread
- Replies: 1333
- Views: 824093
Re: Sound Change Quickie Thread
How common is phonemic /d͡z/ without phonemic /z/? Proto-Semitic is usually reconstructed like that these days, with a /ts dz tsʼ/ series (parallel to /k g kʼ/ and /θ ð θʼ/) and a single /s/ sibilant. The more traditional reconstruction had /s z sʼ/ and /ʃ/ instead. I'm not familiar with the litera...
- Fri Jan 13, 2023 9:47 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: English questions
- Replies: 1406
- Views: 452745
- Thu Jan 12, 2023 5:54 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Obscure question about French syntax
- Replies: 9
- Views: 708
Re: Obscure question about French syntax
Please note that when Old French or Old Spanish are said to have "V2 word order", this isn't the same as the V2 you find in modern German. Verb-initial (V1) declarative sentences are perfectly common Old French and Old Spanish (say, verb + object + place adverbial, with a subject expressed...
- Sun Jan 08, 2023 9:19 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang Random Thread
- Replies: 3051
- Views: 2863577
Re: Conlang Random Thread
/t ʔ m n w l/, with /i a o/ as vowels (/i/ is sometimes [j])
- Sun Jan 08, 2023 4:25 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Scottish Gaelic and Berber???
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1880
- Sun Jan 08, 2023 11:41 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: A use for that AI text-generating thing
- Replies: 5
- Views: 554
Re: A use for that AI text-generating thing
I saw someone ask ChatGPT to make an IAL, and it simply started describing Esperanto in Esperanto...