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- Wed Nov 24, 2021 1:16 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Short questions for the Omni-kan project
- Replies: 51
- Views: 44117
Re: Short questions for the Omni-kan project
I'm wondering what are some common ways natlangs bring back the agent to a passive sentence? From what I can tell, marking it with a genitive, an ablative or an instrumental are some common methods. Is there anything that I've missed? I'm not going to use the genitive for Omni-kan, so out of the abl...
- Sat Oct 30, 2021 2:26 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: What have you accomplished today?
- Replies: 780
- Views: 394558
Re: What have you accomplished today?
I'm still in bed, so I haven't accomplished anything yet. But the past few days I have finally decided how to express "because" and "therefore/so" in Omni-kan. I have also created a verb "lead" with 8 different senses listed; my personal record.
- Sat Oct 30, 2021 2:12 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Language Practice (Help your fluency)
- Replies: 711
- Views: 1064241
Re: Language Practice (Help your fluency)
どうやってフィンランド語を勉強する？間違いはとても少ない。Dē Graut Bʉr wrote: ↑Wed Sep 29, 2021 4:00 pm
Miksi te ette kirjoita <n>:ää, jota memyöskään emme äännä?
Dō yatte Finrando-go wo benkyō suru? Machigai wa totemo sukunai.
How are you studying Finnish? You make very few mistakes.
Miten opiskelet suomea? Teet harvoin virheitä.
- Sat Oct 30, 2021 2:00 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Language Practice (Help your fluency)
- Replies: 711
- Views: 1064241
Re: Language Practice (Help your fluency)
My neighbour just messaged me to tell me about her dream last night: The POTUS decided the winner of Eurovision and whatever language was spoken in that country became the official language of the USA for the following year. Much to her dismay, it was a German synth-pop group who won but she heard ...
- Sat Sep 25, 2021 1:45 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Language Practice (Help your fluency)
- Replies: 711
- Views: 1064241
Re: Language Practice (Help your fluency)
仕事でひまなときアンキを使っていたが、今は久しぶりだ。どうして使わないかなあ。
Shigoto de himana toki Anki wo tsukatte ita ga, ima wa hisashiburi da. Dōshite tsukawanai ka naa.
I used to use Anki at work when I had nothing to do, but now it's been a long time. Why am I not using it?
Shigoto de himana toki Anki wo tsukatte ita ga, ima wa hisashiburi da. Dōshite tsukawanai ka naa.
I used to use Anki at work when I had nothing to do, but now it's been a long time. Why am I not using it?
- Sat Sep 18, 2021 5:59 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: The New ZBB Quote Thread
- Replies: 318
- Views: 339899
- Sat Sep 11, 2021 12:15 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4725
- Views: 2068690
Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
IIRC, for Swedish people use either acute/grave accent on the stressed syllable, or they precede the word with 1/2. For Japanese people often use the downstep symbol after the accented syllable. There are many alternative ways.
- Wed Sep 01, 2021 1:38 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: [Conworld] Norse in Hokkaido - culture and linguistics
- Replies: 20
- Views: 9555
Re: [Conworld] Norse in Hokkaido - culture and linguistics
How would they end up in Hokkaidō?
- Wed Sep 01, 2021 1:18 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Short questions for the Omni-kan project
- Replies: 51
- Views: 44117
Re: Short questions for the Omni-kan project
Though this is a moot point, if I just scrap the perfective idea completely and replace it with the completive aspect. Well, that will depend on the exact difference in semantics between your perfective and completive. My perfective? If I go with the completive, there'll be no perfective. Anyway, t...
- Sat Aug 28, 2021 3:50 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Confusing headlines
- Replies: 701
- Views: 553032
Re: Confusing headlines
BBC: "Greenland island is world's northernmost island - scientists"
They're actually talking about an island off the coast of Greenland. I hate that people have stopped using the adjectival form of place names. I should revive the linguistic pet peeves thread from the previous board.
They're actually talking about an island off the coast of Greenland. I hate that people have stopped using the adjectival form of place names. I should revive the linguistic pet peeves thread from the previous board.
- Sat Aug 28, 2021 2:45 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Tiffany problems
- Replies: 165
- Views: 174437
Re: Tiffany problems
Huh, they're also kind of similar to modern road signs. Except we tend to use writing more than pictures.
- Sat Aug 28, 2021 2:35 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: TALC 2021 (Teen Academic Linguistics Conference)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6930
Re: TALC 2021 (Teen Academic Linguistics Conference)
Ah, well I was thinking how are there so many students and graduates who are still teens.
Well, he has one of the more well known conlang channels and he's handsome.
- Sat Aug 28, 2021 2:25 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: TALC 2021 (Teen Academic Linguistics Conference)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6930
Re: TALC 2021 (Teen Academic Linguistics Conference)
Are you and Biblaridion still teens??
I'll have to bookmark that link when I'm on my computer.
I'll have to bookmark that link when I'm on my computer.
- Sat Aug 28, 2021 2:15 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang Random Thread
- Replies: 3024
- Views: 2854926
Re: Number Complexity
Indeed. And "out" is classified differently in "I throuw it out" (adverb) and "I throw it out the window" (preposition), which also seems a bit suspicious to me... I'd call out an adverb in both sentences. I'd analyze "out the window" as a set phrase, with a ...
- Sat Aug 28, 2021 2:01 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang Random Thread
- Replies: 3024
- Views: 2854926
Re: Number Complexity
You don't "make" parts of speeches, you analyze the language and if a certain group of words act more or less like an established word class, you use that class. If you have words that act like modal particles do in other languages, then call them modal particles. It's a conlang; reality ...
- Wed Aug 25, 2021 12:59 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Short questions for the Omni-kan project
- Replies: 51
- Views: 44117
Re: Short questions for the Omni-kan project
I've finished reading that thread now, and someone mentioned completive aspect. Maybe I should use that term instead? Regarding the "I am lost" sentence (1SG PFV become lose), it makes a difference whether we consider the verb to be "get lost" or "be lost", right? I hav...
- Wed Aug 25, 2021 12:30 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang Random Thread
- Replies: 3024
- Views: 2854926
Re: Number Complexity
‘Zero-marked infinitive’ is basically inapplicable as a concept to most languages outside English, since it presupposes the concept of an ‘infinitive’, and one which has explicit marking at that. From what I’ve seen, finiteness doesn’t seem to be a very relevant concept for your language, especiall...
- Wed Aug 25, 2021 12:17 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang Random Thread
- Replies: 3024
- Views: 2854926
Re: Number Complexity
But… why ? The traditionally Sanctioned Word Classes are barely even adequate to cover English, let alone such ‘exotic’ languages as Mandarin and Japanese. An IAL will almost certainly need to deviate from this list if it wants to avoid Eurocentrism (which IIRC was one of your goals). For the most ...
- Sun Aug 22, 2021 2:29 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang Random Thread
- Replies: 3024
- Views: 2854926
- Sun Aug 22, 2021 2:28 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang Random Thread
- Replies: 3024
- Views: 2854926
Re: Number Complexity
You needn't have auxverbs to have a word take a VP. In English, prepositions can take VPs (even if they're then classified as "asverbs" but I think that's bogus): "I'll come after the part" vs. "I'll come after the party has ended". Aha, that's another possibility. Per...