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There are two difference with a French r that I noticed: first it's an approximant. (My r is a fricative.), and second it's noticeably labialized. I wouldn't risk a comparison with other languages. (German r is often vocalized; I don't know what exactly is going one with the rhotic in Hebrew, but ha...

Thanks everyone for the advice! So what did I choose? I've picked option 2 - discussing usage immediately after (and sometimes before) describing the morphology. It makes for a more interesting read. Option 1 doesn't work that well with unfamiliar morphosyntax; it works well with Indo-European langu...

zompist wrote: ↑Sun Aug 05, 2018 2:56 pm That fixed the loop, but tried to go to the wrong page.

But I fixed the original problem anyway, by making an index.html that redirects to almeo.html.

I do appreciate the help— I never learned how to do .htaccess.

No problem, I'm happy to help — and I'm glad you could find a solution.

Looks like it loops now. Crap. I think we need an extra condition: RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^.*.html RewriteRule ^(.*)$ almeo.html?$1 [R=301,L,QSA] (Sorry about the back-and-forth. Apache is powerful, and also awfully counter...

Do not assume that how I speak is universal for people from Wisconsin. Also note that if you do try to speak like me, you'll have to learn a doubly articulated postalveolar and uvular approximant for where /r/ comes after a coronal, and you'll have to learn to labialize your /r/s (my initial /r/ is...

And I bothered practicing retroflex r when I could've pretended I was from Wisconsin all along!

I don't think it's velar, it sounds like something like [ˈsɔːʁʷi].

languages especially con are too long to implement (too long to build and too long to learn) and too easy to drill (too many sources accesible) ... nothing beats a code for spies ... Languages have worked out fairly well in warfare. An advantage is that you can't do much with cryptoanalysis. Restri...

Thanks, Are Lande! Sadly, though, it doesn't work. Any request just goes to the main page. Any idea what might be going wrong? Ah, yes. I think you need a redirect instead, and besides the query string was wrong. So the correct rule should be: (crossing fingers that I don't mess up this time) Rewri...

I've got that Beastie Boys song stuck in my head now. I hope you're pleased with yourselves.

OK, these should be done except for the rewrite rule. Does anyone speak .htaccess? This is what I have now: Options +FollowSymLinks RewriteEngine on # Special handling for search strings # RewriteRule ^Special:Search(.*)$ almeopedia/mediawiki/index.php$1 [L] # Everything else RewriteCond %{REQUEST_...

Interesting to see that English "the world over" has an exact parallel in Swedish världen över . Two curious sound changes, regarding final [i] in French. Lots of people, of all ages, have [i] -> [iç] word finally. I caught myself doing too, to my consternation (it is a little annoying). ...

Good idea!
The images on this page: http://www.zompist.com/almea.htm are broken too, and so are the links on this page: http://www.zompist.com/beliefs.htm

Also http://www.almeopedia.com still redirects to http://www.almeopedia.com/Main_Page instead of http://www.almeopedia.com/almeo.html.

alice wrote: ↑Wed Aug 01, 2018 4:06 am

Risla wrote: ↑Tue Jul 31, 2018 6:01 pm

alice wrote: ↑Tue Jul 31, 2018 11:01 am I will hopefully be returning to work for the second time soon, with any luck.

Good luck with this!

Doso. Returning is one thing; staying returned is another. But I know ore now than I did the first time.

In any case, good luck!

Native speakers of french are, as a rule, universally incapable of spelling their native language. I've never met a single French speaker I couldn't correct on it, and the reason why is quite readily apparent if you look at the way spoken French is rendered into writing on the internet. Learners, h...

Dē Graut Bʉr wrote: ↑Tue Jul 31, 2018 4:05 am The French are bothered by difficult spellings?

Sorry, that was poorly phrased. We're not bothered by difficult spellings, we're bothered when people get them wrong.

in a priori conlang (in philosophical sense...) any speaker is a grammar Nazi, but whose favorite replica would not be "you should not say" but "what do you want to say"... That's not a conlang, that's 5th century BC Attic greek! For Tarandim, a few ideas: - moving place and tim...

Hey, it's good to see you here! To enforce this, the Prime Minister had another cunning plan: calling all her ministers to Chequers, her house in the country (think: Camp David, but mediaeval), and demanded that they all agree to her plan. Why was this cunning? Well, she made clear that anyone who d...

mèþru wrote: ↑Fri Jul 20, 2018 2:48 pm From September 4th

Oh. So I guess an index page would be helpful

I'll follow this with interest. To a moderately informed layman such as myself, the ruthless simplification is pretty satisfying. What I mean is that, as opposed to reconstructions, it looks like something that could actually have been used as a living language. Have you given any thought to where a...

But that would mean you couldn't say something like kick-OBJ3s fall to mean "kick it over" -- it could only mean "kick it and then fall down." This is a necessary result of those rules, but it annoys me. Unless you decide the language is ergative or active/stative; both verbs ha...