Thank you! Fortunaterly I have backups of everything because it did not die out of a blue sky but had been acting up for some time, so I could prepare for it.Raphael wrote: ↑Thu Mar 21, 2024 8:20 amGood luck getting that sorted out!WeepingElf wrote: ↑Thu Mar 21, 2024 8:18 am I can't give you references since my PC has died and I am on my phone now,
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- Thu Mar 21, 2024 8:24 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
- Replies: 909
- Views: 1084243
Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 8:18 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
- Replies: 909
- Views: 1084243
Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
I can't give you references since my PC has died and I am on my phone now, but the Nostraticist literature is full of such comparisons between IE and Afroasiatic.
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 8:14 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: "Experiencer"
- Replies: 40
- Views: 4745
Re: "Experiencer"
Grammars written by conlangers are usually easier to understand than grammars written by academic linguists because of just that: the conlangers have no background in theoretical linguistics and therefore use simpler terminology (though they sometimes misuse terminology).
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 1:54 pm
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: "Experiencer"
- Replies: 40
- Views: 4745
Re: "Experiencer"
I think it is the theoretical linguists to blame, and the curricula which make theoretical linguistics mandatory for linguistics students. The theoretical linguists constantly invent new concepts and terms to make people believe they had found out something new about language, but it is all old wine...
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 8:21 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: "Experiencer"
- Replies: 40
- Views: 4745
Re: "Experiencer"
R. M. W. Dixon once quipped about incomprehensible grammars that in many of them, the theoretical framework needed to understand them will probably be extinct long before the language described is.
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 1:35 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Russia invades Ukraine
- Replies: 444
- Views: 113056
Re: Russia invades Ukraine
And Putin has talked about how we're shortly before World War 3 again. Is it it this time? My father would have said "Yes, it is. Will you stop fretting about that now?" He could be mean like that. ;-) As this is one of the ways I've decided not to be like my father, here's what I think. ...
- Sun Mar 17, 2024 4:46 pm
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: "Experiencer"
- Replies: 40
- Views: 4745
Re: "Experiencer"
1. Almea began as a Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting when zompist was in high school, which explains some things. For instance, the player character races of 1970s D&D are still recognizable though they are altered in many points: Elcari are essentially Dwarves, Flaids are essentially Ha...
- Sun Mar 17, 2024 10:16 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: "Experiencer"
- Replies: 40
- Views: 4745
Re: "Experiencer"
I have spotted a terminological mistake in the grammars of Old Skourene and Tžuro, which has misled other conlangers. In these grammars, the word experiencer is used to mean 'intransitive subject'. This, however, is not how it is used in linguistics. Rather, it refers to a semantic role that denote...
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 9:39 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: "Experiencer"
- Replies: 40
- Views: 4745
"Experiencer"
I have spotted a terminological mistake in the grammars of Old Skourene and Tžuro, which has misled other conlangers. In these grammars, the word experiencer is used to mean 'intransitive subject'. This, however, is not how it is used in linguistics. Rather, it refers to a semantic role that denotes...
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 9:33 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Cultural minorities in Eretald
- Replies: 4
- Views: 418
Re: Cultural minorities in Eretald
This discussion reminds me of my own conworld, Atla , where my current diachronic conlangs are set. Atla (Old Albic 'World') is a version of the consensus reality with some extra languages. The idea is that some of the "secret languages" of traditional subcultures (such as travelling showm...
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 11:50 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4692
- Views: 2064612
Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
I think "areal kingdoms" in the vein of floristic kingdoms would include: Australia Mainland SEA, including South China Insular SEA Eastern Siberia and Nearctic Western Siberia, Europe, South and Southwest Asia, North Africa Subsaharan Africa Eastern South America Western South America Ea...
- Wed Mar 13, 2024 1:42 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Random Thread
- Replies: 3734
- Views: 453037
Re: Random Thread
It is. AFAIK, it is used to improve the capacity of the soil to absorb moisture.
- Tue Mar 12, 2024 11:02 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4692
- Views: 2064612
Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
But then, linguistic relationship doesn't go d'accord with genetic relationship often enough. Consider the case of the genetics of English in North America... Yes. Genetics allows to trace ancient migrations and population mixings, but tells us nothing about the languages. Language shifts are commo...
- Tue Mar 12, 2024 8:21 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4692
- Views: 2064612
Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
My idea is that the population from south of the Caucasus that contributed to the PIE-speaking population (as the geneticists have found out) spoke a language related to Semitic, while the other population with Siberian roots spoke a language related to Uralic, and more distantly to the other Mitian...
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 8:25 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4692
- Views: 2064612
Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
Apparently, a scholar named Rasmus Bjørn has proposed that the Neolithic farmers of Southeastern Europe spoke a language related to Semitic, but I can't say anything about that because the paper is behind a paywall. Myself, I have recently developed the idea that there was a Semitic-related substrat...
- Thu Mar 07, 2024 7:33 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4692
- Views: 2064612
Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
Being a linguist on the Internet is a Sisyphean task. When I was active on Reddit I got into it once with some guys on r/Conservative because they rejected the concept of AAVE. There was one guy (from Texas per his flair) who kept insisting that languages from the Amazon were inferior because you c...
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 1:28 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Maybe pruning?
- Replies: 128
- Views: 12081
Re: Maybe pruning?
Yes, I had it about five hours ago.
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 11:01 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Happy things thread!
- Replies: 1211
- Views: 716910
Re: Happy things thread!
My congratulations to both of you, @Man in Space and @Raphael!
- Sun Feb 25, 2024 6:54 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: A note on the Voynich Manuscript
- Replies: 3
- Views: 354
A note on the Voynich Manuscript
I have spent some thoughts on the Voynich Manuscript (VMS) which I wish to share with you. I think I need not tell you what the VMS is, should you have not heard of it yet, see Wikipedia . Nobody has managed to decipher it yet. The many illustrations in the VMS give a hint at the content matter, whi...
- Sun Feb 25, 2024 6:29 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4692
- Views: 2064612
Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
That looks pretty reasonable to me.