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- Wed May 22, 2024 5:36 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
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Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
Perhaps from an active-stative system? The trouble is that the scenario is caseless predecessor with a plain old nom-acc alignment. You're not giving yourself much to work with. :) And pure nominative markers are kinda rare. The fact that IE originally had nominative markers in the first place is r...
- Wed May 22, 2024 2:48 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang fluency thread
- Replies: 2470
- Views: 1483899
Re: Conlang fluency thread
- strange, oha
- less, fewer, gak
would COMP think-AGT.1.S-HAB-NEG COMP COP-PRES ⟨ʒ⟩ strange less exist-ABL yogh
I would not think that ⟨ʒ⟩ is less strange than the yogh.
- Wed May 22, 2024 1:42 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Language Practice (Help your fluency)
- Replies: 708
- Views: 1064092
Re: Language Practice (Help your fluency)
Meine deutschen Vorfahren sprachen wahrscheinlich Platt, da sie aus Pommern stammten.
My German ancestors probably spoke Platt, as they came from Pomerania.
My German ancestors probably spoke Platt, as they came from Pomerania.
- Tue May 21, 2024 5:08 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4703
- Views: 2065302
Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
Perhaps from an active-stative system? I recall that I may have seen such a suggestion for how IE got its -s and -m markers for nominative and accusative.
- Tue May 21, 2024 3:39 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Language Practice (Help your fluency)
- Replies: 708
- Views: 1064092
Re: Language Practice (Help your fluency)
Ik kann ok öven! Ik heff nich bemerkt, dat de Thread aktualisiert worrn harr. I can practise too! I didn't realise that the thread had been updated. Ik wünsch, ik kunn ümsüns studieren (un Medikamenten ümsüns opschreven warrn, wat dat bedraapt). I wish I could study for nothing (and get prescribed ...
- Sun May 19, 2024 8:48 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang fluency thread
- Replies: 2470
- Views: 1483899
Re: Conlang fluency thread
- problem, teelat
- speak (trans.), laxa
COP-PRES problem ⟨z⟩-GEN COMP speak-INST-AGT.3.P.ANIM-HAB-INV PROX.1.S.INAN people write-NOM.PAT
The problem with ⟨z⟩ is that people spelling-pronounce it.
- Sun May 19, 2024 8:35 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang Random Thread
- Replies: 3024
- Views: 2853224
Re: Conlang Random Thread
Can you even be precise about how many registers a language has? I would have thought whether a language has, say, three or four registers is a matter of interpretation. This is especially true of a language like English which does not really have grammaticalized registers. 'snot true. Elipsis of f...
- Sun May 19, 2024 12:46 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang Random Thread
- Replies: 3024
- Views: 2853224
Re: Conlang Random Thread
This is especially true of a language like English which does not really have grammaticalized registers.
- Sat May 18, 2024 11:25 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang Random Thread
- Replies: 3024
- Views: 2853224
Re: Conlang Random Thread
How many distinct registers do you all build into your conlangs? I've done up to three, but most often zero. Martin Joos believed there were five registers in English, but I've never worked out that many for a conlang in any detail. Honestly I haven't really done much of anything with register in m...
- Sat May 18, 2024 4:29 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: A planet that moved around its star at more than 99% the speed of light.
- Replies: 10
- Views: 274
Re: A planet that moved around its star at more than 99% the speed of light.
After all we've tested this with (say) planes and spacecraft, to say nothing of particles circling accelerators: they all go slower from our perspective. We even have tested that the speed of particles affects their decay times. For instance, this is why muons can reach the Earth's surface ─ from o...
- Sat May 18, 2024 3:55 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: A planet that moved around its star at more than 99% the speed of light.
- Replies: 10
- Views: 274
Re: A planet that moved around its star at more than 99% the speed of light.
Of course, any physical object aside from an elementary particle at a 0.99c speed in an orbit would not be able to maintain any kind of structural integrity and would rapidly disintegrate as it approached the object it was orbiting around.
- Sat May 18, 2024 3:52 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang Random Thread
- Replies: 3024
- Views: 2853224
Re: Conlang Random Thread
The idea therefore being that nouns are unmarked when they appear in their expected position, and marked when they appear in a position which contradicts their animacy. The basic idea is really ‘marked vs unmarked’, not ‘ergative vs absolutive’. (You can even merge the accusative and ergative cases...
- Sat May 18, 2024 1:51 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang Random Thread
- Replies: 3024
- Views: 2853224
Re: Conlang Random Thread
I’d go a bit further here, and say that the ‘typical’ animacy-based split looks like this: mouse-∅ runs mouse-∅ bites man-ACC mouse-∅ bites cheese-∅ pillar-∅ falls piller-ERG crushes man-ACC pillar-ERG crushes cheese-∅ The idea therefore being that nouns are unmarked when they appear in their expec...
- Sat May 18, 2024 1:24 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang Random Thread
- Replies: 3024
- Views: 2853224
Re: Conlang Random Thread
I have a number of verbs such as icha 'please' which have the experiencer as a patient, this results in an awkward situation where (typically) animate experiencers are marked when they would actually be unmarked given that, well, experiencers tend to be animate. Yet at the same time, I do not want t...
- Fri May 17, 2024 11:52 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang Random Thread
- Replies: 3024
- Views: 2853224
Re: Conlang Random Thread
On second thought, this system seems different from mine in that my direct case is unmarked, being the bare stem without any ending, and both my ergative and accusative cases are explicitly marked by their very nature (hence why I named them such), whereas in Vrkhazhian there are really are no unmar...
- Fri May 17, 2024 11:11 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4703
- Views: 2065302
Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
This is probably inspired by Hanyu Pinyin, in which /ə/ by itself is written ⟨e⟩ but is actually pronounced [ɤ] while ⟨ei⟩ is pronounced [ei].Man in Space wrote: ↑Fri May 17, 2024 11:02 pm On Wikipedia just now, I have found a natlang (Bai) that spells /ɯ/ as e (/e/ is ei). I am quite astounded.
- Fri May 17, 2024 10:55 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Word evolution game
- Replies: 2694
- Views: 276917
Re: Word evolution game
[kj] > [c] [còːd.dʑé] 偽 | へうりぇう | ひょーっぎぇ | 허러 | hyōggye Kanji | Traditional Hiragana | Reformed Hiragana | Hangeul | Romanization "perjury; alibi, especially if dubious; (military slang) cover story, pretext, what’s released to the public (especially if fabricated)" [tʰ] > [tsʰ] [ka'tsʰeə̯...
- Fri May 17, 2024 10:23 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang fluency thread
- Replies: 2470
- Views: 1483899
Re: Conlang fluency thread
- special, fooka
please-AGT.3.S.INAN-PRES-PAT.1.S COMP able COMP write-INST-AGT.1.M-PRES-NEG PROX.S.INAN write-PAT-P special-P
I like that I can write this without using special characters.
- Fri May 17, 2024 10:08 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang fluency thread
- Replies: 2470
- Views: 1483899
Re: Conlang fluency thread
people (coll.), nuuxa all, aana bear a child (trans.), d'awaa free (as in liberty), agim equal, qaala dignity, ayet right, denti endow (with an ability) (trans.), loobe think (trans.), ximaa conscience, yuuri act (intr.), thinna each other, aq'at spirit, eekan brother, jalli D'awaataxayewi nuuxa aa...
- Fri May 17, 2024 9:17 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang fluency thread
- Replies: 2470
- Views: 1483899
Re: Conlang fluency thread
Yorkish, yorkis emph. (adv.), t'a German, jerman north, haakha mutate (lit. change) (intr.), wiib'a Ichazinumam t'a yorkisa. please-AGT.3.S.INAN-HAB-PAT.1.S EMPH Yorkish-ERG I do like Yorkish. Nawizinu zona fad'a jermanse haakhat wiib'aja. appear-AGT.3.S.INAN-HAB DIST.S.INAN-ERG language German-ADJ...