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- Fri May 17, 2024 12:40 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Reverse Rominazation Challenge Thread, v2.0
- Replies: 130
- Views: 66461
Re: Reverse Rominazation Challenge Thread, v2.0
/b x t x d x c x k x q x / b' t' d' c' k' q' By the way, what are those x 's supposed to signify? I tried looking up the extIPA for those but the page I got on the Wiki rendered much of such things as blocks. I interpret them as simply heterorganic affricates — e.g. [tx] is attested in Navajo.
- Fri May 17, 2024 12:38 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: bradrn’s scratchpad
- Replies: 120
- Views: 80166
Re: bradrn’s scratchpad
Why the term Adnominal rather than Determiner for that particular series? Just curious ‘Determiner‘ in IE grammar generally refers to a syntactic slot which can be filled by a whole range of different items: articles, demonstratives, possessives, quantifiers, etc. Eŋes doesn’t have any single slot ...
- Fri May 17, 2024 5:42 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang fluency thread
- Replies: 2454
- Views: 1482191
Re: Conlang fluency thread
Yogh nib butowa-Latin-ndo aŋ!
[joɡ.nib bu.to.wa.laˈtin.ndo.aŋ]
yogh nib bu-to-wa·Latin-ndo aŋ
yogh FOC.CONTR but-DEF.SG-AUX·Latin-more INT
But yogh is even more Latin!
- Fri May 17, 2024 4:16 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: bradrn’s scratchpad
- Replies: 120
- Views: 80166
Re: bradrn’s scratchpad
Why the term Adnominal rather than Determiner for that particular series? Just curious ‘Determiner‘ in IE grammar generally refers to a syntactic slot which can be filled by a whole range of different items: articles, demonstratives, possessives, quantifiers, etc. Eŋes doesn’t have any single slot ...
- Thu May 16, 2024 7:03 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang fluency thread
- Replies: 2454
- Views: 1482191
Re: Conlang fluency thread
I wasn't familiar yet with the "seven kill stele", surprised or not. Also it seems it's fake. Qhamaniziye sigaa mut'a. bore-APSS-AGT.3.S.INAN-PRES stele-ERG real-ERG The real stele is boring. Stili butomawoʔŋ aŋ! (…nos na mec 1934 iŋasanlismemŋun oŋo mbuliselbuʔ?) [sti.li.bu.to.maˈwoʔŋ.aŋ...
- Thu May 16, 2024 5:56 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Reverse Rominazation Challenge Thread, v2.0
- Replies: 130
- Views: 66461
Re: Reverse Rominazation Challenge Thread, v2.0
⟨a e i o u⟩ /a e i o u/ ⟨aa ee ii oo uu⟩ /aː eː iː oː uː/ ⟨m n⟩ /m n/ ⟨t c k q⟩ /t t͡ʃ k q/ ⟨th ch kh qh⟩ /tʰ t͡ʃʰ kʰ qʰ/ ⟨t' c' k' q'⟩ /tʼ t͡ʃʼ kʼ qʼ/ ⟨b d j g⟩ /b d d͡ʒ ɡ/ ⟨b' d'⟩ /ɓ ɗ/ ⟨f s z x h⟩ /f s z x h/ ⟨w l y r⟩ /w l j r/ (I did see this language a couple of days ago, so I’ve tried to avoi...
- Wed May 15, 2024 5:03 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang Random Thread
- Replies: 2993
- Views: 2850611
- Wed May 15, 2024 4:46 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang Random Thread
- Replies: 2993
- Views: 2850611
Re: Conlang Random Thread
I am personally of the view that resorting to logic and theory to justify how languages act, and questioning if something attested in a given language is possible when it does not correspond to said logic and theory, is probably not the greatest of ideas. What's that in referrence to? If you define...
- Wed May 15, 2024 12:48 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: English questions
- Replies: 1406
- Views: 448606
Re: English questions
I think it's a generalisation of 'I could have done that', which doesn't really make a lot of sense when one analyses it. This particular construction does make sense to me. You just need to notice that English modals don’t really have past tense forms — so if you want to place a modal in the past,...
- Wed May 15, 2024 9:18 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang fluency thread
- Replies: 2454
- Views: 1482191
Re: Conlang fluency thread
Yu kip way Ingles sentms. You omitted the English sentence. At leuthes oʒsa atsʒen harthle bedruiccet, cens thasʒen aull ret? It also sounds rather depressing, are you feeling okay? :? Stili anwase we ni towraŋwgiŋ. (Nortaneous sof Hallow XIII ner rŋay ntaŋwarwoŋsesi.) [stiˈli.an.wa.se.we.ni tow.ra...
- Wed May 15, 2024 7:28 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: English questions
- Replies: 1406
- Views: 448606
Re: English questions
"If I had had that cake, it wouldn't've gone mouldy" definitely works for me. This is just standard English, surely? So does "If I had've known, I wouldn't've eaten the cake" (only informally though). Combining those to make 4 only makes it a bit weirder. Maybe the key then is t...
- Wed May 15, 2024 6:36 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: English questions
- Replies: 1406
- Views: 448606
Re: English questions
I think it's a generalisation of 'I could have done that', which doesn't really make a lot of sense when one analyses it. This particular construction does make sense to me. You just need to notice that English modals don’t really have past tense forms — so if you want to place a modal in the past,...
- Wed May 15, 2024 6:33 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: English questions
- Replies: 1406
- Views: 448606
Re: English questions
But, on the other hand, the presence of -n’t seems to be key here: 3. ?? If I had not have had that cake, it would’ve gone mouldy. 4. * If I had have had that cake, it would’ve gone mouldy. Honestly 4 kinda works for me. Interesting… for me it’s completely ungrammatical, no uncertainty about it.
- Wed May 15, 2024 4:39 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: War in the Middle East, again
- Replies: 455
- Views: 74922
Re: War in the Middle East, again
The idea is that given the situation, there's no place for anything but no holds barred condemnation of Israel and that nothing else will do in stopping Israel from doing what it's doing in Gaza, through pressure from world governments or pressure from world opinion or both. I could go on at some l...
- Wed May 15, 2024 4:18 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: War in the Middle East, again
- Replies: 455
- Views: 74922
- Tue May 14, 2024 3:51 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: A scratchpad
- Replies: 17
- Views: 188
Re: A scratchpad
Was this by any chance inspired by the conversation with Ahzoh over on the Conlang Random Thread?
- Tue May 14, 2024 3:49 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang Random Thread
- Replies: 2993
- Views: 2850611
Re: Conlang Random Thread
Yeah, so its single function is ‘object marking’. And similarly the single function of your nominative and ergative cases are ‘subject marking’. It just so happens that an intransitive argument can align as either ‘subject’ or ‘object’, depending on animacy. That is, what you have here is a split-i...
- Tue May 14, 2024 3:42 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: English questions
- Replies: 1406
- Views: 448606
Re: English questions
Here’s a really interesting English sentence I was presented with recently: 1. If I hadn’t’ve had that cake, it would’ve gone mouldy. Neat find, and your initial syntactic analysis is good work. Not actually my find — it was someone else on Discord who presented me with it. Most of the syntactic an...
- Tue May 14, 2024 12:05 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: English questions
- Replies: 1406
- Views: 448606
Re: English questions
This seems to actually be an area where my own dialect is syntactically distinct from Standard English, as when approximating Standard English I would never say anything resembling either version of mine, but rather would say: I would have never gotten my system cryptolocked if I had not downloaded...
- Tue May 14, 2024 10:58 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: English questions
- Replies: 1406
- Views: 448606
Re: English questions
Other fun in this sort of department are things like: I'd've never've gotten my box cryptolocked if I hadn't've downloaded that "antivirus" program from that site. To me, this feels almost like aspectual agreement! It doesn’t work in my dialect, though: it feels very much like a feature o...