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- Sun Jun 02, 2024 11:41 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
- Replies: 969
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Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
The original 2nd sg. ending was - s , descended from WGmc - t , which is still reflected in, say, Dutch. No, /s/ goes back all the way to PIE; /t/ is the 2nd sg. only, historically, in the forms descending from the PIE perfect (past tense and praeteritopraesentia like the modal verbs). The Dutch /t...
- Sat Jun 01, 2024 2:44 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: 2025 Reconstruction Relay (Cursed Relay 6)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 137
Re: 2025 Reconstruction Relay (Cursed Relay 6)
Just a minor gripe, but having initial consonants marked by doubled consonants drives me absolutely nuts. (Yes, I know it's done when romanizing Korean and in the writing of some Italian languages.) Could you perchance write that Tirugu or something like that?
- Sat Jun 01, 2024 2:02 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang fluency thread
- Replies: 2509
- Views: 1487824
Re: Conlang fluency thread
Ligim ha gaya fad'am khayaguya leecadaam mottit q'awwasewat ut faabit niret. know-AGT.1.S COMP exist-PAT.3.P.INAN language-P merge-AGT.3.P.INAN-PAT-3.P.INAN see-ACTION-P time-GEN state-ADJ-CONCRETE-GEN and past-GEN unitary-GEN I know there are languages that merge the stative and the perfective. Li...
- Sat Jun 01, 2024 1:34 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
- Replies: 969
- Views: 1086921
Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
The usual explanation is that it's a fully phonological process where a final -s on one word in a clause like *wĺ̥kʷoms péḱyonti "they are looking at the wolves" bleeds over to the start of the following word ( *wĺ̥kʷoms spéḱyonti ). It may also have happened the other way round in some c...
- Sat Jun 01, 2024 5:56 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang fluency thread
- Replies: 2509
- Views: 1487824
Re: Conlang fluency thread
- important, lanni
- thing, matter, factor, ayuuca
- time, motti
COP EMPH matter important see-ACTION time
The important thing is aspect.
- Fri May 31, 2024 10:16 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang fluency thread
- Replies: 2509
- Views: 1487824
Re: Conlang fluency thread
- state, status, q'awwa
- past, faabi
- unitary, nire
- merge, combine, khay
merge-DAT-AGT.1.S state-ADJ-CONCRETE past unitary
I have merged the stative with the past perfective.
- Fri May 31, 2024 9:56 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Fad'ami Was: A scratchpad
- Replies: 19
- Views: 582
Re: Fad'ami Was: A scratchpad
I have decided to combine the past perfective with a stative aspect, which are both unmarked. Henceforth the present tense is specifically imperfective, and where in many cases in my examples I have used the present I would instead use the unmarked merged past perfective/stative.
- Fri May 31, 2024 9:25 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Pronunciation of Standard English in America (1919)
- Replies: 144
- Views: 334777
Re: Pronunciation of Standard English in America (1919)
"in the popular dialects" [θ] and [ð] are sometimes completely replaced by [t] and [d]: think [tɪŋk], that [dæt] — i've heard [dæt] before, but never [tɪŋk], at least not from a u.s. native speaker I think "popular" here might mean "AAVE". TH-stopping exists sporadical...
- Fri May 31, 2024 12:31 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: United States Politics Thread 46
- Replies: 1458
- Views: 450615
Re: United States Politics Thread 46
As mentioned above, the real choice is between fascism and non-fascism, not between American hegemony and a "multipolar" world -- seeking a "multipolar" world by installing a fascist in America will only result in a fascist-dominated world not the desired "multipolar" w...
- Fri May 31, 2024 10:23 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Pronunciation of Standard English in America (1919)
- Replies: 144
- Views: 334777
Re: Pronunciation of Standard English in America (1919)
"in the popular dialects" [θ] and [ð] are sometimes completely replaced by [t] and [d]: think [tɪŋk], that [dæt] — i've heard [dæt] before, but never [tɪŋk], at least not from a u.s. native speaker I think "popular" here might mean "AAVE". TH-stopping exists sporadical...
- Thu May 30, 2024 5:00 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Names, nouns and their (phonological) restrictions
- Replies: 49
- Views: 1129
Re: Names, nouns and their (phonological) restrictions
And anyways, anyone who writes a system that won't accept arbitrary UTF-8 ought to be ashamed of themselves.
- Thu May 30, 2024 4:55 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Names, nouns and their (phonological) restrictions
- Replies: 49
- Views: 1129
- Thu May 30, 2024 1:14 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: United States Politics Thread 46
- Replies: 1458
- Views: 450615
Re: United States Politics Thread 46
Anyone who thinks the Democrats are "elitist" is regurgitating Republican propaganda, if perhaps second-hand. Really? You don't understand how the likes of: Bill "NAFTA" Clinton Barack "Go to school!" Obama Hillary "$12 is enough" Clinton Joe "Stop strik...
- Thu May 30, 2024 9:50 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: United States Politics Thread 46
- Replies: 1458
- Views: 450615
Re: United States Politics Thread 46
I personally am a socialist, and really only vote Democrat because due to how our electoral system works, any non-vote for the Democrats equals a vote for the Republicans, who are infinitely worse as we all know. But at the same time, criticizing the Democrats without criticizing the Republicans sou...
- Wed May 29, 2024 3:34 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
- Replies: 969
- Views: 1086921
Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
The thing about true Wanderwörter is they are dead obvious -- words traveling between many unrelated and loosely related languages with gradual changes over space that do not obey typical sound changes within language groups as if they were inherited. I am sure if there were so many Wanderwörter peo...
- Wed May 29, 2024 3:15 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
- Replies: 969
- Views: 1086921
Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
My point is although these words are more or less distantly related, they can't be derived from a single PIE protoform. I'm affraid Fenwick and other scholars deceive themselves. :( And yet, you’re yet to give us any actual reasons why you think this… OK, I owe you an explanation. From my own resea...
- Wed May 29, 2024 2:59 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang fluency thread
- Replies: 2509
- Views: 1487824
- Wed May 29, 2024 2:36 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: United States Politics Thread 46
- Replies: 1458
- Views: 450615
Re: United States Politics Thread 46
The Democrats may not be ideal, but anyone who thinks that the Republicans are somehow better than them (including the people who think that the Republicans somehow favor the working class or that the Democrats should not be voted for because they are "elitist") [...] I don't have the imp...
- Wed May 29, 2024 1:16 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
- Replies: 969
- Views: 1086921
Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
But I have the impression that Talksubilos hasn't grasped that the inconvenience of the fact is an important facet of the semantics of afraid . But then I am not a native English speaker and may be wrong ;) What I get out of Talskubilos's use of the word afraid is that they are insisting that they ...
- Wed May 29, 2024 1:03 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang fluency thread
- Replies: 2509
- Views: 1487824
Re: Conlang fluency thread
- make, create, khayta
think-AGT.1.S-PRES COMP should-PRES COMP create-AGT.1.S-PRES-PAT.3.P.INAN words exist-COM-AGT.3.P.INAN-PRES-PAT.3.P.INAN /ay/ or /aw/.
I think I should make more words with /ay/ or /aw/.