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Re: Caizu
(The Romans tended to be more ruthless when it came to the north in general; between that, Caesar and their systematic persecution of druidic practice I think "murder bordering on genocide" is a fair summary.) That's not what I took away from reading BG; as much as I respect Brett Deverau...
Re: Caizu
It also supplanted the continental Celtic languages for a very different reason (murder bordering on genocide) What is your source for this? There was violent conquest, but systematic extermination*)??? All accounts of e.g. Gaulish I've read speak of a survival of the language at least partially in...
- Wed May 15, 2024 9:20 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang fluency thread
- Replies: 2465
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Re: Conlang fluency thread
You omitted the English sentence. To's ta warra toyais colunais nómunatais "seftun func", pa fú frúgita warraifis pró parfortiai cér protar. that-N.SG.NOM be-3SG.PRES.ACT.CLIT ART-N.PL.NOM word-PL.NOM ART-F.SG.GEN column-SG.GEN call-PRTC.PAST.PASS.F.SG.GEN seven kill-IMPV.2SG, REL-N.PL.NO...
- Tue May 14, 2024 6:51 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang Random Thread
- Replies: 3024
- Views: 2852899
Re: Conlang Random Thread
The only reason why Finnic languages are treated as having a large number of cases rather than a smaller number of cases and a large number of postpositions is that adjectives agree with their nouns with regard to case, incorporating such endings, presumably under IE influence. It's not the only re...
- Tue May 07, 2024 6:10 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
- Replies: 909
- Views: 1084248
Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
Might the paper in question be Fenwick (2016) ? That's an interesting paper, thank you! Indeed that's it! Regarding the Kartvelian form, it's discussed in another paper by the same author . My thanks to Ketsuban and Zju as well. It's funny that Fenwick's ideas are partially close to what Taskubilos...
- Fri May 03, 2024 5:17 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4692
- Views: 2064634
Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
Re Low German: What you have in Germany are regiolects. The South is different, but in the North they are not based on the old dialects, but on the Standard, they only take over some features from the dialects, like intonation / accent, and some regional words. People normally don't feel constrained...
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 9:13 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
- Replies: 909
- Views: 1084248
Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
hmmm...offhand, I'd guess that a word ( proto-Hal l, basically) was picked up from the substrate and, modified into Hall- by the Germanic speakers, who spread it throughout what was the Germanic-speaking world. Little nitpick, it isn't even Germanic, it's purely the German (= High & Low German,...
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 6:21 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Do you think it will ever be possible to go back in time?
- Replies: 43
- Views: 1277
Re: Do you think it will ever be possible to go back in time?
If time travel were possible without requiring causality loops, how was Hitler never assassinated by a time traveler? One potential explanation is raised here - that the world as it exists actually is the best of all possible worlds... say in every timeline without Hitler we get Uber-Nazis or somet...
- Sun Apr 28, 2024 12:56 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Kala updates etc.
- Replies: 170
- Views: 106358
- Sun Apr 28, 2024 12:39 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang fluency thread
- Replies: 2465
- Views: 1483564
Re: Conlang fluency thread
Mi finis don cata 6 a Obit Ya, "Ota Skilat ina Faya". Yu me luk im de ya . I finished chapter 6 of the Hobbit, "Out of the Frying Pan into the Fire". You can see it here . Hú! Fa yaic fex hefuluncas parfortai? To's parpulun wargun. wow! INT already six chapter-PL.ACC translate-2...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 11:47 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: British Politics Guide
- Replies: 1936
- Views: 1019820
Re: British Politics Guide
Trivial note: a few days ago, I noticed that the word "laboratory" contains the names of both of the major British parties (yes, I know about the missing "u"), and now I can't unsee that. That somehow reminded me of how, when I was a pre-teen and didn't know much English yet, I ...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 11:18 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Exploring the diversity of constructed languages
- Replies: 6
- Views: 462
Re: Exploring the diversity of constructed languages
How could cat-like spirits speak any language but Miao?linguistcat wrote: ↑Wed Apr 24, 2024 11:20 pm I'm trying to figure out how cat spirits might speak a variation of Middle Chinese.
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 4:25 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Learning Verdurian: blog
- Replies: 6
- Views: 290
Re: Learning Verdurian: blog
I like it!
And is that Zomp's old hand-drawn map of Verduria? I always found that it was a thing of beauty.
And is that Zomp's old hand-drawn map of Verduria? I always found that it was a thing of beauty.
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 11:02 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Elections in various countries
- Replies: 1099
- Views: 609453
Re: Elections in various countries
Here in France (and I suppose in most other European countries as well), they're used as kind of mid-term popularity contest among various tendancies. With the plot twist that as European elections use proportional representation, parties that do well in the European election don't always do well i...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 10:55 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
- Replies: 909
- Views: 1084248
Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
Thank you for sharing. This is a valid objection; but the author knocks at an open door when he points out that the *s > h shift did not happen in Continental Celtic - I don't think it has anything to do with Celtic. Well, it being Celtic was the original idea behind it being a substrate word for &...
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 12:25 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
- Replies: 909
- Views: 1084248
Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
though even here, there are cases where an element in some place names correlate with a salient feature of the named sites, such as *hal- in the names of some ancient Central European salt production sites which therefore probably meant 'salt' in whichever language it came from. Actually, no seriou...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 7:26 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Survival of Greco-Roman paganism
- Replies: 26
- Views: 4561
Re: Survival of Greco-Roman paganism
Well, that's already the start of the weaseling out
- Fri Apr 12, 2024 12:17 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Survival of Greco-Roman paganism
- Replies: 26
- Views: 4561
Re: Survival of Greco-Roman paganism
Well, there is the point that Christianity preached equality, and that in said kingdom of God the meek and powerless, as long as they believed, would be favoured above the rich and powerful of this world, and that those rich and powerful had to become poor and humble to be accepted. That was what ma...
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 7:33 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang fluency thread
- Replies: 2465
- Views: 1483564
Re: Conlang fluency thread
Is this supposed to be a kind of English that developed in the Danelaw area?
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 9:56 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Random Thread
- Replies: 3734
- Views: 453056