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by jal
Fri May 24, 2024 10:40 am
Forum: Conlangery
Topic: Conlang fluency thread
Replies: 2484
Views: 1484557

Re: Conlang fluency thread

Travis B. wrote: Fri May 24, 2024 10:13 amThose are not more typable.
Dis mata bo ki-boh yu af ina Windows :).
That depends on what keyboard you've installed in Windows :).


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by jal
Thu May 23, 2024 10:25 am
Forum: Languages
Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
Replies: 4725
Views: 2066622

Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread

(Well, really you have suppletive roots. But if you choose the sound change right, it can look like something is added to the nominative— e.g. if the sound change is that a final consonant is lost.) That's indeed a cool way to do that, though you'd probably need a limited set of word-final sounds o...
by jal
Wed May 22, 2024 2:56 pm
Forum: Conlangery
Topic: Conlang fluency thread
Replies: 2484
Views: 1484557

Re: Conlang fluency thread

Travis B. wrote: Wed May 22, 2024 2:48 pmI would not think that ⟨ʒ⟩ is less strange than the yogh.
Oba fo bakl im luk gut pas yohk de mos mos leta kayn.
But it arguably looks better in most fonts.


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by jal
Tue May 21, 2024 8:51 am
Forum: Languages
Topic: Language Practice (Help your fluency)
Replies: 710
Views: 1064208

Re: Language Practice (Help your fluency)

EDIT: Removed conlang, thought this was a different thread :D.


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by jal
Fri May 17, 2024 8:33 am
Forum: Conlangery
Topic: Conlang Random Thread
Replies: 3024
Views: 2854055

Re: Conlang Random Thread

Travis B. wrote: Fri May 17, 2024 6:24 amI normally do this.
I do this fcr a small set of verbs such as ta[/t] (the equational copula) and [i[ga (the existential copula).
Makes sense! Thanks.


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by jal
Fri May 17, 2024 2:58 am
Forum: Conlangery
Topic: Conlang fluency thread
Replies: 2484
Views: 1484557

Re: Conlang fluency thread

bradrn wrote: Thu May 16, 2024 7:03 pmBut the stele isn’t real! (…unless you mean the one found in 1934?)
Ye, di flat-ston fayn don wen 1934 (ten nayn hondwit swi ten foh) sim ray wan.
Yes, the stele found in 1934 is seemingly the real one.


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by jal
Fri May 17, 2024 2:53 am
Forum: Conlangery
Topic: Conlang Random Thread
Replies: 3024
Views: 2854055

Re: Conlang Random Thread

Of course, I use ergative and accusative in non-standard fashions to refer to marked arguments of intransitive verbs in a fluid-S arrangement along with antipassive and passive verbs, where agentive S is direct for animates and ergative for inanimates and patientive S is accusative for animates and...
by jal
Wed May 15, 2024 3:06 pm
Forum: Conlangery
Topic: Conlang fluency thread
Replies: 2484
Views: 1484557

Re: Conlang fluency thread

Travis B. wrote: Wed May 15, 2024 10:54 amI am surprised that it needed explanation that that was the Seven Kill Stele.
Mi in noredi bwes bo "sewn kil flat-ston", sapway o non. Olso im sim kantafit.
I wasn't familiar yet with the "seven kill stele", surprised or not. Also it seems it's fake.


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by jal
Wed May 15, 2024 4:14 am
Forum: Conlangery
Topic: Conlang fluency thread
Replies: 2484
Views: 1484557

Re: Conlang fluency thread

Yu kip way Ingles sentms.
You omitted the English sentence.


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by jal
Wed May 15, 2024 4:11 am
Forum: Conlangery
Topic: Conlang Random Thread
Replies: 3024
Views: 2854055

Re: Conlang Random Thread

If you define it as ‘verb + object’, you’re forced to conclude that VSO languages don’t have predicates — and therefore their clauses don’t have any head at all! ‘Head’ may be an ill-defined term, but to me, that’s going a bit too far. Not at all, that's a strawman. What you'd conclude is that you ...
by jal
Tue May 14, 2024 8:02 am
Forum: Conlangery
Topic: Conlang Random Thread
Replies: 3024
Views: 2854055

Re: Conlang Random Thread

What? VSO is equally as head-initial as VOS, just that the object in VSO is decoupled from the verb. You are correct here. VSO and VOS are equally ‘head-initial’. I disagree, though I may well be in disagreement with current linguistic theory. In my opinion, verb + object = predicate, and a predica...
by jal
Mon May 13, 2024 3:08 am
Forum: Conlangery
Topic: Conlang Random Thread
Replies: 3024
Views: 2854055

Re: Conlang Random Thread

The verb is the head of the phrase, not the subject. So, VSO or VOS word order. Yes, but the object is closer to the verb than the subject, so VOS makes it more head-initial than VSO. "Eating a peach" vs. "(Eating a peach) by me" (where "by" is the ergative). It's not ...
by jal
Sun May 12, 2024 9:46 am
Forum: Conlangery
Topic: Conlang fluency thread
Replies: 2484
Views: 1484557

Re: Conlang fluency thread

Glass Half Baked wrote: Fri May 10, 2024 11:54 pmI think it's a little boring.
Fo taym dol me fayn.
Boring can sometimes be fine.


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by jal
Sun May 12, 2024 9:44 am
Forum: Conlangery
Topic: Conlang Random Thread
Replies: 3024
Views: 2854055

Re: Conlang Random Thread

almost rigidly head-initial ... animate nouns are placed before inanimate nouns, even if the animate noun is the syntactic object. That kinda contradict each other :D. eat\REAL-3sg Sam-NOM orange-ABS (VSO) fall_on\REAL-3sg mouse-ACC pillar-ERG (VOS) I have some difficulty with an animate-inanimate ...
by jal
Tue May 07, 2024 2:19 pm
Forum: Conlangery
Topic: Conlang Random Thread
Replies: 3024
Views: 2854055

Re: Conlang Random Thread

I must emphasize that if there is to be any temporal references, it is between future and non-future, not past and non-past. Sure, but your counterfactual seems decidedly +past. The realis can be marked in the apodosis, for matters involving implication (there are hoofprints here, so there must be ...
by jal
Tue May 07, 2024 12:10 pm
Forum: Conlangery
Topic: Conlang Random Thread
Replies: 3024
Views: 2854055

Re: Conlang Random Thread

The irrealis is typically future-orientated while the counterfactual is nonfuture -orientated. So the distinction in the protasis makes sense. Yet, they (at least the irrealis) don't have to refer to time at all. Or, rather, the irrealis is far less tied to temporality than the counterfactual. So i...
by jal
Tue May 07, 2024 10:59 am
Forum: Conlangery
Topic: Conlang Random Thread
Replies: 3024
Views: 2854055

Re: Conlang Random Thread

Well yes, but I could just as much mark it in the irrealis mood since the irrealis deals with unrealized or nonactual events. So what for you is the difference between "counterfactual" and "unrealized/nonactual"? Seems to me that semantically these are very close, if not the sam...
by jal
Tue May 07, 2024 5:42 am
Forum: Conlangery
Topic: Conlang Random Thread
Replies: 3024
Views: 2854055

Re: Conlang Random Thread

So that is why I don't know whether the condition clause is supposed to be marked counterfactual or if it's the consequence clause, or both. I don't know the psycholinguostics or formal logic or semantic theories or whatever is involved. "Condition clause" and "consequence clause&quo...
by jal
Fri May 03, 2024 8:28 am
Forum: Languages
Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
Replies: 4725
Views: 2066622

Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread

hwhatting wrote: Fri May 03, 2024 5:17 amRe Low German
Thanks for the addition/correction!


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by jal
Fri May 03, 2024 3:12 am
Forum: Conlangery
Topic: Conlang Random Thread
Replies: 3024
Views: 2854055

Re: Conlang Random Thread

bradrn wrote: Thu May 02, 2024 10:08 amI did mention Kupwar already, but that’s in Asia. (Apparently the name for this is ‘metatypy’.)
Ah, yes, I think it is Kupwar that I was thinking about, thanks!


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