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So, does that mean there are ejective phonemes, or are they all considered allophones? Well, I admit I don't completely understand phoneme versus allophone myself... :oops: Allophones are phones that share a phoneme. Phonemes are what we hear and think we're making, phones are what we are making, a...

(because Turtlehead doesn't seem to be making a clear distinction between the English language and languages spoken on the British Isles at various times). Which contributes to the problem. Could someone elaborate then? Just try to think a bit about it? Let's see if you manage by yourself to figure...

Whimemsz wrote:(because Turtlehead doesn't seem to be making a clear distinction between the English language and languages spoken on the British Isles at various times).

Which contributes to the problem.

Thanks for the welcomes! Turtlehead that was a silly question about EP. Like asking whether English descends from Dutch or German. English is a dialect of Dutch :roll: I'd say it's more likely to be a dialect of Frisian, or vice versa. This, though, isn't commonly considered truth. They're both dau...

Thanks for the welcomes! Turtlehead that was a silly question about EP. Like asking whether English descends from Dutch or German. English is a dialect of Dutch :roll: France and Germany rarely agree with one another as much as they do about their reaction to your claim. Well at one point in the pa...

Swedish has dua and nia from the nominative of you (sg) and you (pl), with a relatively semantically bleached verbal suffix -a added. Finnish has sinutella ja teititellä. These also come from the pronouns - but in this case, not from the nominative but from the oblique stem sinu-/teit-. The sg. coul...

Turtlehead wrote:

Reo wrote:Thanks for the welcomes! Turtlehead that was a silly question about EP. Like asking whether English descends from Dutch or German.

English is a dialect of Dutch

You seriously think so?

Turtlehead wrote: So did EP descend from Tongan or Samoan?

Do you even know how linguistic taxonomy works, what it tries to classify and what it means?

Please learn to write better glosses, dude. That's about as helpful as


nahahapoarg shfaoshwl hoslh.w

would've been.

also, learn to write coherent English. And learn to make informative posts.

I do wonder to what extent the Vikings caused the simplification of English - a lot of what's attributed to them really happened after they were gone, just as a lot of the things attributed to the French ruling class really entered English after the French were gone.

Would be quite cool for that to also work as 'when', as in I saw it happen ~= I saw when happen. Why Darkgamma even uses the word 'case' in his post is quite beyond me, as it seems he's not even trying to read what you asked. (I mean, at the point you have a pronoun with this use, conflating it with...

Early 1900s English isn't that much different from todays, it's just a bit more formal. I couldn't disagree with you more... It has a totally different feel to it, and it uses mostly completely different phrases and figures of speech that we use today. Grammatically Nannalu is very correct - the di...

In nearly all actual dialects, and in standard swedish until people got petit bourgeoise neuroses about speaking improperly, final t was not pronounced nearly anywhere in Swedish.

@Astraios: Because, whatever language is spoken in Heaven, it will mark tense. but I thought there is no passage of time in Heaven...so why would they bother with tense? If you want to get too metaphysically picky, Heaven needs time as well. If heaven is a place where people go after they die, then...

In Alastair Reynolds' Terminal World, I ran into a relatively fun formation (multiple times): "railinged". Kinda cute. Interesting enough, it seems German doesn't form similar adjectives using participle morphology, whereas at least some North Germanic varieties do. Is this done in Dutch? Or is it s...

__________________________________________________________________________________________ Exclamative was a kind of temporary name for a case encoding, basically "oh, look a _______!" or "look out, a _____!" To me, that looks more mirative than exclamative. (Of course I'm used to both as being moo...

an optional secondary case Interesting. I'm not sure I understand all your forms. Maybe you could give some more examples? It doesn't seem to be very similar to what I've done. It doesn't, no. Ok, I'll provide some kind of explanations of these secondary cases then: 1) possessed my dog -> me.dat do...

bicase? is this something like what I did in Bryatesle back in 2005? I really cannot say. Please tell us more. Every noun is marked for at least one out of these cases: nominative | accusative | dative | ablative | vocative | exclamative Nom & acc merge for neuters, but an analytical ergative exist...

when you say something like "OBL-INTG" or "ACT-ACT", is one of them "case" and the other "bicase" or something like that? Nope, the bicase idea is for my primary conlang Rammy. This is my other conlang, the Choir Conlang. Those forms in CC can be seen as agreement forms, or they can be seen as voic...

What do you call it?: en (fylld) batong (Swedish) (possibly en fylld baguette, but that would be somewhat atypical), (täyte)patonki (Finnish) Where are you from?: Björkö (Korsholm), Finland Where do you live now? Turku, Finland What else might have influenced your choice?: education, contrary reacti...

I really don't know, but to me it looks the same as the American habit of turning -ing to in'. Which is not just an American habit, and maintains a distinction present in older varieties of English - in fact, dialects that use -ing for the participle are innovative, dialects that don't are conserva...

awesome

The answer is "no, there's no requirement that languages with definite articles mandatorily use them to refer to classes"

How would quantum mechanics play into technology? Today we are at the door front of this technology. In a few years we feasibly can send faster than light messages with 100% encryption. Imagine 2000 years from now. No we can't and if you think QM is saying we can, you've misunderstood it. Write a t...

Bringing up a child in a language that is not your native language generally leads to a less well-developed bond between child and parent, and this is not beneficial in any way to the child. Have any links to studies? none in English Dang. Any in French? I could probably manage then. They're probab...