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by bradrn
Fri May 17, 2024 7:14 pm
Forum: Ephemera
Topic: Venting thread
Replies: 1929
Views: 15028373

Re: Venting thread

doctor shark wrote: Fri May 17, 2024 7:09 pm I feel a bit like a fool for not noticing these things earlier...
In fairness to you, ‘this listing is an elaborate scam’ is not necessarily a possibility you’re considering. If anything, I commend you on picking it up before anything bad happened!
by bradrn
Fri May 17, 2024 7:12 pm
Forum: Conlangery
Topic: Conlang Random Thread
Replies: 3007
Views: 2851124

Re: Conlang Random Thread

It's split-ergative. The only difference is that the accusative and absolutive share a morpheme instead of the nominative and absolutive sharing a morpheme. Firstly, ‘split-ergative’ is a dreadfully imprecise term covering many different alignment systems. Secondly, there’s also the direct–inverse ...
by bradrn
Fri May 17, 2024 5:30 pm
Forum: Conlangery
Topic: Conlang Random Thread
Replies: 3007
Views: 2851124

Re: Conlang Random Thread

I'm not sure what the name of the alignment is, but there's got to be a name somewhere. (I personally like this alignment and have a tendency to use it, alongside direct-inverse marking, in my languages.) I’m tempted to call it the ‘Conlanger Inverse System’… If I call the absolutive an accusative ...
by bradrn
Fri May 17, 2024 4:52 pm
Forum: Conlangery
Topic: Conlang fluency thread
Replies: 2460
Views: 1482581

Re: Conlang fluency thread

Emmin ceiks the ʒouk letter sam ei latin letter. At least the ezh letter looks like a Latin letter. Yogh nib butowa-Latin-ndo aŋ! [joɡ.nib bu.to.wa.laˈtin.ndo.aŋ] yogh nib bu-to-wa·Latin-ndo aŋ yogh FOC.CONTR but-DEF.SG-AUX·Latin-more INT But yogh is even more Latin! Meir latin? Tha ska kanner fork...
by bradrn
Fri May 17, 2024 4:29 pm
Forum: Conlangery
Topic: Conlang Random Thread
Replies: 3007
Views: 2851124

Re: Conlang Random Thread

(Re Ahzoh and jal’s later posts, I’m still trying to marshal my thoughts on them. I do still mean to reply to them.) So, this is what my table would have to look like in order to be consistent with your analysis while avoiding unnecessary empty cells: […] It's not very pleasant compared to the my o...
by bradrn
Fri May 17, 2024 12:40 pm
Forum: Conlangery
Topic: Reverse Rominazation Challenge Thread, v2.0
Replies: 132
Views: 66507

Re: Reverse Rominazation Challenge Thread, v2.0

/b x t x d x c x k x q x / b' t' d' c' k' q' By the way, what are those x 's supposed to signify? I tried looking up the extIPA for those but the page I got on the Wiki rendered much of such things as blocks. I interpret them as simply heterorganic affricates — e.g. [tx] is attested in Navajo.
by bradrn
Fri May 17, 2024 12:38 pm
Forum: Conlangery
Topic: bradrn’s scratchpad
Replies: 120
Views: 80209

Re: bradrn’s scratchpad

Why the term Adnominal rather than Determiner for that particular series? Just curious ‘Determiner‘ in IE grammar generally refers to a syntactic slot which can be filled by a whole range of different items: articles, demonstratives, possessives, quantifiers, etc. Eŋes doesn’t have any single slot ...
by bradrn
Fri May 17, 2024 5:42 am
Forum: Conlangery
Topic: Conlang fluency thread
Replies: 2460
Views: 1482581

Re: Conlang fluency thread

Znex wrote: Fri May 17, 2024 3:17 am Emmin ceiks the ʒouk letter sam ei latin letter.
At least the ezh letter looks like a Latin letter.
Yogh nib butowa-Latin-ndo aŋ!
[joɡ.nib bu.to.wa.laˈtin.ndo.aŋ]
yogh nib bu-to-wa·Latin-ndo aŋ
yogh FOC.CONTR but-DEF.SG-AUX·Latin-more INT

But yogh is even more Latin!
by bradrn
Fri May 17, 2024 4:16 am
Forum: Conlangery
Topic: bradrn’s scratchpad
Replies: 120
Views: 80209

Re: bradrn’s scratchpad

Why the term Adnominal rather than Determiner for that particular series? Just curious ‘Determiner‘ in IE grammar generally refers to a syntactic slot which can be filled by a whole range of different items: articles, demonstratives, possessives, quantifiers, etc. Eŋes doesn’t have any single slot ...
by bradrn
Thu May 16, 2024 7:03 pm
Forum: Conlangery
Topic: Conlang fluency thread
Replies: 2460
Views: 1482581

Re: Conlang fluency thread

I wasn't familiar yet with the "seven kill stele", surprised or not. Also it seems it's fake. Qhamaniziye sigaa mut'a. bore-APSS-AGT.3.S.INAN-PRES stele-ERG real-ERG The real stele is boring. Stili butomawoʔŋ aŋ! (…nos na mec 1934 iŋasanlismemŋun oŋo mbuliselbuʔ?) [sti.li.bu.to.maˈwoʔŋ.aŋ...
by bradrn
Thu May 16, 2024 5:56 pm
Forum: Conlangery
Topic: Reverse Rominazation Challenge Thread, v2.0
Replies: 132
Views: 66507

Re: Reverse Rominazation Challenge Thread, v2.0

⟨a e i o u⟩ /a e i o u/ ⟨aa ee ii oo uu⟩ /aː eː iː oː uː/ ⟨m n⟩ /m n/ ⟨t c k q⟩ /t t͡ʃ k q/ ⟨th ch kh qh⟩ /tʰ t͡ʃʰ kʰ qʰ/ ⟨t' c' k' q'⟩ /tʼ t͡ʃʼ kʼ qʼ/ ⟨b d j g⟩ /b d d͡ʒ ɡ/ ⟨b' d'⟩ /ɓ ɗ/ ⟨f s z x h⟩ /f s z x h/ ⟨w l y r⟩ /w l j r/ (I did see this language a couple of days ago, so I’ve tried to avoi...
by bradrn
Wed May 15, 2024 5:03 pm
Forum: Conlangery
Topic: Conlang Random Thread
Replies: 3007
Views: 2851124

Re: Conlang Random Thread

Travis B. wrote: Wed May 15, 2024 4:55 pm I wasn't accusing you of anything! I was agreeing with you!
Ah, thanks for clarifying!
by bradrn
Wed May 15, 2024 4:46 pm
Forum: Conlangery
Topic: Conlang Random Thread
Replies: 3007
Views: 2851124

Re: Conlang Random Thread

I am personally of the view that resorting to logic and theory to justify how languages act, and questioning if something attested in a given language is possible when it does not correspond to said logic and theory, is probably not the greatest of ideas. What's that in referrence to? If you define...
by bradrn
Wed May 15, 2024 12:48 pm
Forum: Languages
Topic: English questions
Replies: 1406
Views: 448836

Re: English questions

I think it's a generalisation of 'I could have done that', which doesn't really make a lot of sense when one analyses it. This particular construction does make sense to me. You just need to notice that English modals don’t really have past tense forms — so if you want to place a modal in the past,...
by bradrn
Wed May 15, 2024 9:18 am
Forum: Conlangery
Topic: Conlang fluency thread
Replies: 2460
Views: 1482581

Re: Conlang fluency thread

Yu kip way Ingles sentms. You omitted the English sentence. At leuthes oʒsa atsʒen harthle bedruiccet, cens thasʒen aull ret? It also sounds rather depressing, are you feeling okay? :? Stili anwase we ni towraŋwgiŋ. (Nortaneous sof Hallow XIII ner rŋay ntaŋwarwoŋsesi.) [stiˈli.an.wa.se.we.ni tow.ra...
by bradrn
Wed May 15, 2024 7:28 am
Forum: Languages
Topic: English questions
Replies: 1406
Views: 448836

Re: English questions

"If I had had that cake, it wouldn't've gone mouldy" definitely works for me. This is just standard English, surely? So does "If I had've known, I wouldn't've eaten the cake" (only informally though). Combining those to make 4 only makes it a bit weirder. Maybe the key then is t...
by bradrn
Wed May 15, 2024 6:36 am
Forum: Languages
Topic: English questions
Replies: 1406
Views: 448836

Re: English questions

I think it's a generalisation of 'I could have done that', which doesn't really make a lot of sense when one analyses it. This particular construction does make sense to me. You just need to notice that English modals don’t really have past tense forms — so if you want to place a modal in the past,...
by bradrn
Wed May 15, 2024 6:33 am
Forum: Languages
Topic: English questions
Replies: 1406
Views: 448836

Re: English questions

But, on the other hand, the presence of -n’t seems to be key here: 3. ?? If I had not have had that cake, it would’ve gone mouldy. 4. * If I had have had that cake, it would’ve gone mouldy. Honestly 4 kinda works for me. Interesting… for me it’s completely ungrammatical, no uncertainty about it.
by bradrn
Wed May 15, 2024 4:39 am
Forum: Ephemera
Topic: War in the Middle East, again
Replies: 455
Views: 74985

Re: War in the Middle East, again

The idea is that given the situation, there's no place for anything but no holds barred condemnation of Israel and that nothing else will do in stopping Israel from doing what it's doing in Gaza, through pressure from world governments or pressure from world opinion or both. I could go on at some l...
by bradrn
Wed May 15, 2024 4:18 am
Forum: Ephemera
Topic: War in the Middle East, again
Replies: 455
Views: 74985

Re: War in the Middle East, again

Ares Land wrote: Wed May 15, 2024 3:47 am I didn't really see your point or Torco's and it's now much clearer.
Could you perhaps explain it to me, then? I still don’t really see how any of what they’re saying makes much sense.