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- Mon Apr 29, 2024 2:31 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: A monochromatic consociety
- Replies: 8
- Views: 606
Re: A monochromatic consociety
Color would obviously have no importance in art. But I think striking patterns could be important. And like arabesques, geometric shapes and abstracts.
- Sat Apr 06, 2024 6:08 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4747
- Views: 2138692
Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
Is this rare? Swedish has /eː/ vs. /ɛj/ (the vowel is [eː] when long and [ɛ] when short), crf: Again, the key thing is a distinction between length not height, so i would count it. However, like the French example, i thought Swedish /j/ was harder, approaching /ʝ/. Enough for it to be not quite a c...
- Mon Apr 01, 2024 11:17 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: False cognates thread
- Replies: 45
- Views: 115859
Re: False cognates thread
I'll just leave my observations here: Swedish så [ˈsoː] (so) vs. Japanese そう [soː] (so) (The reason I'm comparing Swedish and not English to Japanese here, is because the Swedish usage is more similar to the Japanese usage) Swedish ni [ˈniː] (2PL) vs. Mandarin 你 [ni˨˩˧] (2SG) Swedish ej [ˈɛjː] (not)...
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 3:55 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4747
- Views: 2138692
Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
I'm looking over the long mid mergers in English (pane-pain/ toe-tow), and wondering if any language has a stable contrast between /e:/ and /ej/ and/or /o:/ and /ow/. I am aware English had the contrast for centuries, but it seems like something that breaks off before other stuff does. I can't thin...
- Mon Jan 08, 2024 4:12 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: 101 pronunciation.
- Replies: 17
- Views: 96063
Re: 101 pronunciation.
Not 100.5, but maybe $100.05?Moose-tache wrote: ↑Sun Jan 07, 2024 3:17 pm Where on Earth does "one hundred and five" imply 100.5?
- Sun Dec 24, 2023 3:02 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Confusing headlines
- Replies: 707
- Views: 558456
- Sun Dec 24, 2023 3:02 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Confusing headlines
- Replies: 707
- Views: 558456
- Sun Dec 24, 2023 10:34 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang Random Thread
- Replies: 3065
- Views: 2892775
Re: Conlang Random Thread
Ah, that's a clever way. I tested that too, but it didn't work so well for my purposes.
- Sun Dec 17, 2023 3:23 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang Random Thread
- Replies: 3065
- Views: 2892775
Re: Conlang Random Thread
Personally I'd go with your current formatting or Alternative 1. The current, really? I think it's bad because if you have a comment about the meaning of a gloss and some grammatical information, they both have to go in the same parentheses, eg. wear (headgear; pol. stem). And when there are severa...
- Sun Dec 17, 2023 3:06 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Confusing headlines
- Replies: 707
- Views: 558456
- Sun Dec 17, 2023 3:00 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Confusing headlines
- Replies: 707
- Views: 558456
Re: Confusing headlines
OK, in this case, seeing this headline as "confusing" might seem a bit pedantic, but I still think I have a point: From Roll Call : Florida judge: Trump documents trial will start in May What makes this a bit confusing is that I think someone who's familiar with the structure of the court...
- Sun Dec 10, 2023 10:46 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang Random Thread
- Replies: 3065
- Views: 2892775
Re: Conlang Random Thread
I've decided to restructure an old dictionary. Different glosses for the same entry are separated by semicolon, and I will not change that because it would be a lot of work. But I don't know how to separate explanations from glosses. I have three suggestions. Which do you think looks best? Current f...
- Tue Nov 28, 2023 2:42 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Romanization Challenge Thread v2.0
- Replies: 988
- Views: 488266
Re: Romanization Challenge Thread v2.0
Amarin /*p *t *tʲ *k/ <f/p t j k> *t͡s *t͡sʲ <c q> *(f) *s *sʲ *ʃ <f s c x> *ɬ *lʲ *ɾ <h l r> *m *n *nʲ <m n ñ> *i *u <y w> *e *o <i u> *ɛ *ɔ <e o> *a <a> /o oː oːː/ <o ō o͞o So /p/ occurs initially sometimes? In that case use <p> initially. Does /f/ occur non-finally? Ēmeryn “Amarin”, kwtena “pers...
- Sat Oct 28, 2023 3:37 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang Random Thread
- Replies: 3065
- Views: 2892775
Re: Conlang Random Thread
What would you do? 4 seems the most likely, but languages are weird, so everything goes :D. JAL Ah, I was thinking is option 4 really how analogy would work? Now I'm thinking maybe I'll do option 4 for class II verbs because they only use stem 2 in the polite register, and for class III verbs I'll ...
- Sat Oct 28, 2023 3:33 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang Random Thread
- Replies: 3065
- Views: 2892775
Re: Conlang Random Thread
@Imralu: Can't you just call it an applicative?
- Wed Oct 25, 2023 12:44 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang Random Thread
- Replies: 3065
- Views: 2892775
Re: Conlang Random Thread
I've started working on my old conlang Seebee again. The conjugation in this language is so complicated I can barely make sense of it myself . So I'm trying to simplify this. The idea is that this simplification is grammatical evolution that happened in the language pretty fast. So I'm writing here ...
- Sun Jul 23, 2023 12:56 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Challenge - can you understand this IAL text?
- Replies: 45
- Views: 7519
Re: Challenge - can you understand this IAL text?
I would argue that including words from Akan does not mean that Akan is "represented." This seems to miss the point of an IAL, which is to convince people to stop speaking Akan at meetings. English, too, of course. All of those languages exist for when the meeting is over and everyone goe...
- Sun Jul 23, 2023 12:46 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Challenge - can you understand this IAL text?
- Replies: 45
- Views: 7519
Re: Challenge - can you understand this IAL text?
it's a bit like the pük in Volapük is based on English "speak", That's what it means?!! :o but if you have to be told that in order to get it, that means it doesn't really help in learning the language. Ah, I see what you mean. OTOH, as the world won't use an IAL anyway, except if someone...
- Sun Jul 23, 2023 12:42 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Challenge - can you understand this IAL text?
- Replies: 45
- Views: 7519
Re: Challenge - can you understand this IAL text?
Finally I have some time to look at new posts carefully. Sorry for the long delay. Text 1: - alam: known/knowledge ✗ - poste: after ✓ - mi: me/I ✓ - wakte: time ✓ - tapat: should/in front of/loyal/confide ✓ should - wa: and ✓ - fahima: understand ✓ - omnis: all/every ✓ - iksakte: exactly ✓ exact Tex...
- Thu Jul 20, 2023 1:28 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Confusing headlines
- Replies: 707
- Views: 558456
Re: Confusing headlines
I just saw a YouTube video with the following title:
The woman being denied the NHS care
she needs to treat her ME
I was confused for a moment because I read the second line as a separate sentence and ME as 1SG.ACC.
The woman being denied the NHS care
she needs to treat her ME
I was confused for a moment because I read the second line as a separate sentence and ME as 1SG.ACC.