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- Sun Jun 02, 2024 9:52 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: conlang speech segmentation...
- Replies: 5
- Views: 103
Re: conlang speech segmentation...
in writing, the spaces between words are enough to produce the self-segmentation of the language flow... Greek called...couldn't stop laughing long enough to leave a message. :) unless you import natural languages, it's hard to imagine how ambiguities can be avoided, I'm sorry - what?? Are you sayi...
- Sat Jun 01, 2024 5:35 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Names, nouns and their (phonological) restrictions
- Replies: 49
- Views: 1159
- Sat Jun 01, 2024 2:38 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Random Thread
- Replies: 3752
- Views: 457951
Re: Random Thread
Does anyone else have the impression that pool has a weird kind of cross-class appeal? That is, it seems to be stereotypically associated with both a certain kind of upper class person and a certain kind of working class person. OK, upper class pool players stereotypically own their own tables some...
- Sat Jun 01, 2024 2:36 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Names, nouns and their (phonological) restrictions
- Replies: 49
- Views: 1159
Re: Names, nouns and their (phonological) restrictions
I believe in the importance of minorities to build a majority, but I think it's fundamentally wrong to use minorities to dissolve a majority... Dissolve? could you please clarify what you mean there? is it... 1) accusing minorities of dilluting and weakening society like a normal Fifth Column? 2) s...
- Fri May 31, 2024 12:10 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Names, nouns and their (phonological) restrictions
- Replies: 49
- Views: 1159
Re: Names, nouns and their (phonological) restrictions
in 3SDeduciveLanguage(1Sense=1Sign=1Sound), there's no question of importing mouth sounds to name anything... translation is de rigueur, and the contemporary practice of names that mean nothing is out of the question... Ah...so, in that case, when we're talking to you, we can call you Triple Pirate...
- Thu May 30, 2024 12:16 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
- Replies: 971
- Views: 1087101
Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
Thank you for that. This will help.
- Thu May 30, 2024 3:10 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
- Replies: 971
- Views: 1087101
Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
isn't distribution a part of how we determine which branches are which? (such as satem itself - thats not found in all the IE languages from the Canaries to Sri Lanka either) I'd suggest you read Mallory & Adams own list of "NW IE" words. o-kay...and can you provide a title and-or a l...
- Wed May 29, 2024 10:27 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
- Replies: 971
- Views: 1087101
Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
Now we’re starting to get somewhere. Next question: why do you believe that *abVl- is not a native PIE word? Mainly because: 1) it has a limited distribution, only found in a few branches. isn't distribution a part of how we determine which branches are which? (such as satem itself - thats not foun...
- Wed May 29, 2024 11:11 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Expanding Upon An Idea: Nerdy Tabletop RPGs
- Replies: 1
- Views: 149
Re: Expanding Upon An Idea: Nerdy Tabletop RPGs
1. A protolang mixing Proto-Indo-European with Proto - Taqva-miir . 2. An idea that would mix Proto-Thirean with Proto-Sino-Tibetan ( whichever reconstruction would most suffice ). 3. A mix of Basque with Ilothwii . 4. A protolang that mixes Proto-Oqolaawak with either Proto-Kra-Dai or Proto-Hmong-...
- Mon May 27, 2024 6:01 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Names, nouns and their (phonological) restrictions
- Replies: 49
- Views: 1159
Re: Names, nouns and their (phonological) restrictions
I preferred the use of translation, but with globalization it would require organizations to set prescriptive standards, I can't say I've ever seen anyone call the IPA an organization. :) The International Phonetic Association isn’t an organisation? (They being the ones who maintain the Internation...
- Mon May 27, 2024 3:20 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Names, nouns and their (phonological) restrictions
- Replies: 49
- Views: 1159
Re: Names, nouns and their (phonological) restrictions
globalization, including of information, has reduced the need for systematic translation, which was once the norm... the problem with this new usage is that these words add a layer of complexity *gasp* oh no...so now if I want to eat beef, and I ask for cow ... wait. :) (sorry) if you want to prono...
- Sun May 26, 2024 5:02 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang Random Thread
- Replies: 3051
- Views: 2869815
Re: Conlang Random Thread
Maybe emulate Yiddish, with only one conjunction word, which I think was ne. ... This is just rubbish. Wiktionary, for one thing, lists no less than 39 Yiddish conjunctions . Yiddish is not that grammatically distant from any of the various other German languages! Well, the principle of one conjunc...
- Sun May 26, 2024 2:12 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang Random Thread
- Replies: 3051
- Views: 2869815
Re: Conlang Random Thread
The goal is to avoid recreating ALL the English conjunction words and their specific distinctions (e.g. but vs yet) Maybe emulate Yiddish, with only one conjunction word, which I think was ne. ... I am smart ne Einstein was too. I am smart ne you are smarter. I am smart ne rocks are heavy. etc.
Re: Caizu
the important question is, under this definition, will there one day be no native Caizu speakers? ah, okay; I had been thinking liturgical languages had native speakers, in the sense of their own population(s) of people growing up hearing and learning and speaking it. (as opposed to modern people s...
Re: Caizu
PS: more importantly, I agree that it would be more interesting (than continuing this side discussino) to see more of Caizu and its neighbors. and comparisons to Latin just reinforced that, as I knew it was a liturgical language, but I also knew that, in most books that were written in Europe had at...
- Sat May 18, 2024 1:25 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang Random Thread
- Replies: 3051
- Views: 2869815
Re: Conlang Random Thread
Firstly, ‘split-ergative’ is a dreadfully imprecise term covering many different alignment systems. Secondly, there’s also the direct–inverse subsystem to consider. imprecise to people who spend all day splitting hairs. For me and possibly lay people, the term is enough to convey "syntactic or...
Re: Caizu
and comparisons to Latin just reinforced that, as I knew it was a liturgical language, but I also knew that, in most books that were written in Europe had at the very least their titles in Latin. But Latin still had to be learned, often together with reading. okay, but thats true of any language th...
Re: Caizu
Coptic has not had native-speaker transmission for multiple hundred years now, so while they may technically be speaking it, that statement needs qualification. what?? then how did some of the French and English people who used spoken Coptic to help them decipher the Rosetta Stone, learn a language...
Re: Caizu
the Copts would be shocked to hear that they are speaking a nonexisting language. Coptic has not had native-speaker transmission for multiple hundred years now, so while they may technically be speaking it, that statement needs qualification. what?? then how did some of the French and English peopl...
Re: Caizu
For example, Latin wiped out the other Italic and continental Celtic languages, you mean like Galatian in 1st Century AD Anatolia? but left Basque and the Afro-Asiatic languages of North Africa more or less unscathed. But those Afro-Asiatic languages in turn were partially (Berber) or wholly (Egypt...