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- Sun May 26, 2024 5:43 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Names, nouns and their (phonological) restrictions
- Replies: 2
- Views: 29
Re: Names, nouns and their (phonological) restrictions
Names are just nouns, except when they're not. That is, they are not a syntactic or morphological category, and in general they won't have any distinctive phonology. They start off transparent and understandable. Aside from what you’ve mentioned here, they also tend to have some syntactic restricti...
- Sun May 26, 2024 5:03 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: The New ZBB Quote Thread
- Replies: 319
- Views: 340205
- Sun May 26, 2024 2:53 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Happy things thread!
- Replies: 1215
- Views: 717606
Re: Happy things thread!
Very fascinating and important work!
- Sun May 26, 2024 4:30 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang Random Thread
- Replies: 3041
- Views: 2857419
Re: Conlang Random Thread
They don't have to be a formal word class, just express the concepts that conjunctions typically do. Cuz I'm quite aware some use adpostions or special verb forms to serve conjunctive functions . Like "with" also being used to mean "and" or the Ethiopian Semitic "gerundives...
- Sun May 26, 2024 4:25 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang Random Thread
- Replies: 3041
- Views: 2857419
Re: Conlang Random Thread
All languages have some way of expressing basical logical operations like "and" and "or". But the concepts are not usually expressed in Middle Egyptian. Could this not be an accident of attestation? I find it rather difficult to believe that people wouldn't have needed to talk a...
- Sun May 26, 2024 4:11 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Darren's Mitsiefa Thread
- Replies: 42
- Views: 6191
Re: Darren's Mitsiefa Thread
While it's a bizarre analysis, it's the biggest discrepancy between consonant phones and phonemes I've ever seen – on average more than 6 distinct realisations of each phoneme. And yes, obviously it's complete bunk. Moloko (Chadic) has a single vowel phoneme with 5 realisations, plus another 5 real...
- Sat May 25, 2024 7:48 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: British Politics Guide
- Replies: 1948
- Views: 1020835
Re: British Politics Guide
Is Sunak insane? It does seem quite likely, doesn’t it? At some point you do have to admit it as a serious possibility. (Not that I’m complaining, mind you. I like Starmer quite a lot, from what I’ve seen of him.) The explanation I have read is that he has given up on winning the general election a...
- Sat May 25, 2024 7:21 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: British Politics Guide
- Replies: 1948
- Views: 1020835
Re: British Politics Guide
This man seems quite mad… I just saw the following headline: Sunak vows to bring back national service for school leavers Is he trying to sabotage the miniscule chance he has of re-election? I struggle to explain his actions in any other coherent way… Is Sunak insane? It does seem quite likely, doe...
- Sat May 25, 2024 6:49 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: British Politics Guide
- Replies: 1948
- Views: 1020835
Re: British Politics Guide
This man seems quite mad… I just saw the following headline:
Sunak vows to bring back national service for school leavers
Is he trying to sabotage the miniscule chance he has of re-election? I struggle to explain his actions in any other coherent way…
Sunak vows to bring back national service for school leavers
Is he trying to sabotage the miniscule chance he has of re-election? I struggle to explain his actions in any other coherent way…
- Sat May 25, 2024 6:34 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang Random Thread
- Replies: 3041
- Views: 2857419
Re: Conlang Random Thread
What do you think are some crosslinguistically common or even "essential" conjunctions. None: I don’t see why a language should necessarily need any conjunctions at all. I haven’t really investigated the subject at all, but I would be unsurprised to discover a language which has no dedica...
- Sat May 25, 2024 6:34 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Brassica SCA [v0.2.0]
- Replies: 134
- Views: 81640
Re: Brassica SCA [v0.2.0]
The bug should be fixed now. (At least in the code; I won’t update the website until the next release.) The problem was that the target @1 [ɛ ɔ] is referring to category 1, but that category doesn’t exist in the target (which just matches a single grapheme). The code shouldn’t crash in that case any...
- Sat May 25, 2024 5:27 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Brassica SCA [v0.2.0]
- Replies: 134
- Views: 81640
Re: Brassica SCA [v0.2.0]
I tried a backreference and I think I managed to crash the parser, since I got "exit with exit code 1" Now this shouldn’t happen at all: I’ve never managed to crash Brassica. What sound change did you enter that triggered this? a / @1 [ɛ ɔ] / _ C @1 Open OK, I can replicate this. This is ...
- Sat May 25, 2024 4:24 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Language Practice (Help your fluency)
- Replies: 711
- Views: 1064388
Re: Language Practice (Help your fluency)
Although to be fair I mostly ignore the difference between /e ø o/ and /ɛ œ ɔ/, and between /ɑ̃/ and /ɔ̃/, so maybe I'm not so good after all La liaison aussi c’est difficile pour moi. /la ljɛzɔ̃n‿osi sɛ difisil puʁ mwa/ Also, liaison is difficult for me. (Si je pouvais corriger ton français, il fa...
- Sat May 25, 2024 4:18 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Brassica SCA [v0.2.0]
- Replies: 134
- Views: 81640
Re: Brassica SCA [v0.2.0]
I don't have a → key on my keyboard, but I do have programming fonts installed which include a -> ligature. Would it be possible to recognise the -> digraph to separate the input and output as well? I see no reason why not. I’ll add this to the list. I was trying to implement a toy version of a Nor...
- Fri May 24, 2024 5:52 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Language Practice (Help your fluency)
- Replies: 711
- Views: 1064388
Re: Language Practice (Help your fluency)
Je vois que cet fil a été revécu ! /ʒə vwa‿k sɛ fil a ete ʁɛveky/ I see that this thread has been revived! J’apprends le français. /ʒ‿apʁɑ̃‿l fʁɑ̃sɛ/ I am learning French. J’inclus la prononciation car je lutte encore avec l’orthographie. /ʒ‿œ̃kly la pʁonɔ̃siasjɔ̃ caʁ ʒə lyt ɑ̃kɔʁ avɛk l‿ɔʁtɔɡʁafi/...
- Fri May 24, 2024 8:17 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Innovative Usage Thread
- Replies: 572
- Views: 662464
Re: Innovative Usage Thread
Reviving this thread, here’s a rather interesting example of analogy:
ColinWright wrote: JH Conway used a different technique which I have swutch to when computing days in the current year.
- Fri May 24, 2024 6:12 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4725
- Views: 2076200
Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
Because in Latin, the ‘default’ pronouns were instead the subject ones! Which is precisely the usual situation for a nominative-accusative alignment, where the nominative case is ‘unmarked’ (to use the usual terminology). Now that strikes me as circular. :( I'm no expert on Latin syntax, but what's...
- Thu May 23, 2024 7:43 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4725
- Views: 2076200
Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
[…] my point is that both English and French are generalizing the default pronoun— making it more default, as it were. Well, my definition of ‘default pronoun’ was precisely that it is generalised. So wouldn’t this just be a circular argument? Not if the language has changed. I don't know enough ab...
- Thu May 23, 2024 5:24 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4725
- Views: 2076200
Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
[…] my point is that both English and French are generalizing the default pronoun— making it more default, as it were. Well, my definition of ‘default pronoun’ was precisely that it is generalised. So wouldn’t this just be a circular argument? You could probably argue that the default pronoun in Sp...
- Thu May 23, 2024 11:27 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4725
- Views: 2076200
Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
Got some inspiration: reflexive markers. They only refer to the subject. So if the word order in a reflexive clause is fixed to S REFL V (and reflexion is doubly marked), that could over time be interpreted as S=NOM V, after other case suffixes have appeared. Finally, the nominative enclitic would ...