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- Mon Aug 20, 2018 10:23 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: DJP criticisms
- Replies: 81
- Views: 41788
Re: DJP criticisms
One example is certain dialects of Polish, where unmarried girls are neuter. This apparently was generalized from a diminutive ending which happened to be neuter. This affects not only adjective and pronoun agreement, but verbs, since the past tense in Polish inflects by (number and) gender.
- Mon Aug 20, 2018 7:00 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: DJP criticisms
- Replies: 81
- Views: 41788
Re: DJP criticisms
As a reminder, even traditional cultures do not all have the male = default convention. There are languages where default/mixed gender assignment is female, ones where it's neuter, and ones where there are separate genders for younger and older women. (To say nothing of languages which do not gramma...
- Sat Aug 18, 2018 12:58 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Retransliterate Klingon!
- Replies: 22
- Views: 19622
Re: Retransliterate Klingon!
The best part of this is that they become the singan.Nortaneous wrote: ↑Fri Aug 17, 2018 5:40 pmUnusually, there's no voiced equivalent of the lateral affricate - given that the only sibilant is retroflex, the affricate might be from earlier *s > *tθ.
- Fri Aug 17, 2018 5:17 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Retransliterate Klingon!
- Replies: 22
- Views: 19622
Retransliterate Klingon!
As I mentioned, I think Klingon's transliteration is kind of wack. The idea of re-using capitals is a clever way of avoiding special characters, but it makes Klingon look like ToRgO sPeeCh and mostly isn't necessary. So why not redo it? Here's the phonology. stops p b t ɖ q ʔ affric tɬ tʃ dʒ fric v ...
- Wed Aug 15, 2018 4:35 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: DJP criticisms
- Replies: 81
- Views: 41788
Re: DJP criticisms
That said, David's conlangs are far better than Klingon - which is actually a good demonstration how not to create a conlang. It's one of the worst conlangs I have ever seen, worse even than Volapük. Wow, I disagree on both counts. Too bad Jay Shorten isn't here anymore to defend Volapük. It's kind...
- Wed Aug 15, 2018 4:10 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: DJP criticisms
- Replies: 81
- Views: 41788
Re: DJP criticisms
Really? I'd like to know more about how DJP actually got the job, do you have any articles on this? The LCS was asked to create Dothraki, and had a contest to create it. I'm pretty sure it was advertised on the ZBB, because I submitted an entry. Well Mongol is pretty much out of the window, because...
- Wed Aug 15, 2018 3:58 pm
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: The Ad'ivro and Ovid's Fasti
- Replies: 5
- Views: 9635
Re: The Ad'ivro and Ovid's Fasti
Not a conscious borrowing— in fact, I don't think I'd heard of the Fasti before. I may well have heard about chronological arrangements elsewhere, though.
- Tue Aug 14, 2018 10:32 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: DJP criticisms
- Replies: 81
- Views: 41788
Re: DJP criticisms
Yeah, to be clear, there are plenty of Dothraki names from GRRM and quite a few sentences that had to be accommodated.
(E.g., khaleesi is from the books, so right away you're faced with either challenging his orthography, or giving it a really weird pronunciation.)
(E.g., khaleesi is from the books, so right away you're faced with either challenging his orthography, or giving it a really weird pronunciation.)
- Tue Aug 14, 2018 4:57 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: DJP criticisms
- Replies: 81
- Views: 41788
Re: DJP criticisms
I haven't read the book. My impression is that he's a competent conlanger, but hardly of stellar talent. I guess it's easy to feel it rather unfair that he's profited so much from language creation when many others of equal or greater ability have not been able to. I haven't read David's book or lo...
- Sat Aug 11, 2018 1:36 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: How was the age of the Rigveda (and by extension, the oldest attested form of Sanskrit) determined?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 13763
Re: How was the age of the Rigveda (and by extension, the oldest attested form of Sanskrit) determined?
In terms of language, note that the Buddha (c. -500) didn't speak in Sanskrit, but in Magadhi. So classical Sanskrit was already old then... and Vedic Sanskrit is quite a bit more archaic than classical Sanskrit. Isn't the point that he chose to teach in Magadhi (or some pre-Prakrit), rather than i...
- Wed Aug 08, 2018 8:11 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Centaurs
- Replies: 8
- Views: 7761
Re: Centaurs
As others have said, centaurs are more likely if six legs is the norm for your dominant animals. Six legs also offers the option of having dragons-- i.e. four-legged winged creatures. (The usual dragons shape makes no sense, except perhaps on a planet with minimal gravity. But birds with extra arms ...
- Mon Aug 06, 2018 4:07 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Globalisation and language change
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6970
Re: Globalisation and language change
Globalisation has sped up the replacement of non-standard varieties. It also has helped minority languages find new methods of preservation and communities who spoke now extinct languages find linguists willing to help revive them. This. Everyone gets so worked up over "global English" or...
- Sun Aug 05, 2018 9:59 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: How was the age of the Rigveda (and by extension, the oldest attested form of Sanskrit) determined?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 13763
Re: How was the age of the Rigveda (and by extension, the oldest attested form of Sanskrit) determined?
The dates I found (researching the ICK) were a little later: -1300 to -1000. Wendy Doniger's The Hindus probably has info on this. Indian historians prefer a date as early as possible. A lot of it is attempting to fit it into what we know of Indian prehistory. The Harappans lasted until the -1700s, ...
- Sun Aug 05, 2018 3:02 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: General American and actors
- Replies: 27
- Views: 20581
Re: General American and actors
I think you missed the joke... the thing with focus is that if your vowel is too high (or even too open) you get "fuck us", and with beach that if you lax the vowel you get "bitch". And Ars Lande is quite right that wrong vowels are liable to produce misunderstandings. As just on...
- Sun Aug 05, 2018 2:56 pm
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: The Virtual Verduria Feedback Thread
- Replies: 11
- Views: 18799
Re: The Virtual Verduria Feedback Thread
That fixed the loop, but tried to go to the wrong page.
But I fixed the original problem anyway, by making an index.html that redirects to almeo.html.
I do appreciate the help— I never learned how to do .htaccess.
But I fixed the original problem anyway, by making an index.html that redirects to almeo.html.
I do appreciate the help— I never learned how to do .htaccess.
- Sun Aug 05, 2018 2:54 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: On Socionomics and Directors
- Replies: 3
- Views: 7816
Re: On Socionomics and Directors
The best analogy I can think of it with modern vs. premodern medicine. Could a society choose to use modern medicine, only throw out the practice of antisepsis? Of course. It could still make use of modern knowledge of anatomy, surgery, genetics, drugs, etc. Only, lots of people would either die fro...
- Sat Aug 04, 2018 7:39 pm
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Some Verdurian typos
- Replies: 98
- Views: 118772
Re: Some Verdurian typos
OK, typos should be corrected.
("Dolorai" goes back to before the Great Relexification... that was an error in the old grammar too!)
("Dolorai" goes back to before the Great Relexification... that was an error in the old grammar too!)
- Sat Aug 04, 2018 4:06 pm
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: The Virtual Verduria Feedback Thread
- Replies: 11
- Views: 18799
Re: The Virtual Verduria Feedback Thread
Thanks, Are Lande! Sadly, though, it doesn't work. Any request just goes to the main page. Any idea what might be going wrong?
- Fri Aug 03, 2018 6:25 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Quechua resources
- Replies: 7
- Views: 7401
Re: Quechua resources
Can they wait a year and a half? That will probably be my next project. Your Mexican friend is out of luck, but your Peruvian friend is living in the only place where Quechua resources are easy to find. If they don't live in Lima, surely they know people who do, or who go there. (And if they live wa...
- Thu Aug 02, 2018 9:45 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: The Virtual Verduria Feedback Thread
- Replies: 11
- Views: 18799
Re: The Virtual Verduria Feedback Thread
OK, these should be done except for the rewrite rule. Does anyone speak .htaccess? This is what I have now: Options +FollowSymLinks RewriteEngine on # Special handling for search strings # RewriteRule ^Special:Search(.*)$ almeopedia/mediawiki/index.php$1 [L] # Everything else RewriteCond %{REQUEST_F...