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- Fri Aug 14, 2015 12:38 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: @anyone who went to conworlds.com
- Replies: 21
- Views: 6306
Re: @anyone who went to conworlds.com
I participated on some sites where someone who could edit it apparently enforced a rule that if you didn't update your stuff for a certain number of days or weeks or months then they would delete it without telling you so. Obviously I don't want to put anything permanent on any such site. One way to...
- Thu Aug 13, 2015 10:08 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: @anyone who went to conworlds.com
- Replies: 21
- Views: 6306
Re: @anyone who went to conworlds.com
Problems started up again this year. NameCheap.com sold conworlds.com to Shane Cagle. It's a crap-shoot every time you try to send anything to conworlds.com, or try to log on to it, whether you'll get his domain or the CWBB. Even if you're already logged on to it, if you reply to a post on it your ...
- Wed Aug 12, 2015 10:01 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: @anyone who went to conworlds.com
- Replies: 21
- Views: 6306
Re: @anyone who went to conworlds.com
Problems started up again this year. NameCheap.com sold conworlds.com to Shane Cagle. It's a crap-shoot every time you try to send anything to conworlds.com, or try to log on to it, whether you'll get his domain or the CWBB. Even if you're already logged on to it, if you reply to a post on it your r...
- Sat Jul 28, 2012 2:14 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Langs w dental, alveolar, & palato-alveolar stop phonemes
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2677
Re: Langs w dental, alveolar, & palato-alveolar stop phoneme
Similarly, you might also check out Malayalam and several other Dravidian languages: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malayalam_language. . Malayalam has stops and nasals at dental, aleovelar, retroflex (Subapical Palatal) and palatal. Thanks for the information, the suggestions, and the links. Toda de...
- Sat Jul 28, 2012 2:07 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Post your conlang's phonology
- Replies: 2278
- Views: 512341
Re: Post your conlang's phonology
Adpihi Phoneme inventory Vowels by backness front unrounded: / i e ɛ / central unrounded: / ɨ ə ä / back rounded / u o ɔ / by closeness close: / i ɨ u / close-mid: / e o / mid: / ə / open-mid: / ɛ ɔ / open: / ä / Consonants by manner of articulation voiced nasals: / m n ɳ ɲ ŋ / voiceless stops: / p ...
- Sat Jul 28, 2012 12:42 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Langs w dental, alveolar, & palato-alveolar stop phonemes
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2677
Langs w dental, alveolar, & palato-alveolar stop phonemes
Long ago, somebody, either on the ZBB or on CONLANG-L, told me that there was no natural language that had phonemes at all three of the following points-of-articulation -- dental, alveolar, and palato-alveolar -- in any manner-of-articulation other than fricatives and affricates. That turns out not ...
- Sat Jun 02, 2012 1:48 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The humour of similar-sounding words
- Replies: 104
- Views: 19250
Re: The humour of similar-sounding words
Sure, it's a transparent compound.hwhatting wrote:That is supposed to be an English word?Tropylium wrote:pimentotie.
It's one of these.
- Tue Apr 24, 2012 6:41 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The dream thread
- Replies: 1807
- Views: 322042
- Mon Apr 23, 2012 6:42 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Quick case terminology question
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2748
Re: Quick case terminology question
What about "evitative", that which is or was or will be avoided, or that which must be avoided, or that which the agent tried or intended (or tries or intends, or will try or will intend) to avoid? Could that be a meaning of your abessive case? Though "evitative" is also the name of a modality or mo...
- Wed Apr 18, 2012 10:33 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Quick case terminology question
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2748
Re: Quick case terminology question
I nominate "longessive". Proculative? I doubt it. Most "-lative" cases have to do with movement to or toward or away from something. "-late" comes from a suppletively irregular Latin verb "Fero, Ferre, Tuli, Latus" meaning to bear or to carry; translate and relate and collate, transfer and refer and...
- Wed Apr 18, 2012 10:19 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Quick case terminology question
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2748
Re: Quick case terminology question
I never heard of "dessive" before.Bob Johnson wrote:abessive, dessive
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I thought "abessive" had more to do with "doing without", "absence", etc.; more the opposite of comitative.
But you might be right FAIK.
Do you have a reference (preferably a URL)?
- Mon Apr 09, 2012 6:06 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Do Any Languages Lack Transitive Stative Verbs?
- Replies: 30
- Views: 5606
Re: Do Any Languages Lack Transitive Stative Verbs?
I've been thinking about stative verbs, and I figured it would be possible to replace all transitive stative verbs with intransitive ones, or else transitive dynamic verbs. In many cases, the subject of a stative verbs has its agency somewhat diminished anyway (e.g. watch vs see), so it's not that ...
- Sat Mar 24, 2012 4:22 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The Innovative Usage Thread
- Replies: 2452
- Views: 426621
Re: The Innovative Usage Thread
About the "there're/there's" discussion: am I the ONLY person here who uses rhotacized vowels? Who the hell pronounces "there" with a final retroflex trill, alveolar tap, or the rhotc approximant? I for one can neither hear nor pronounce the difference between vowel + retroflex-approximant and rhot...
- Tue Mar 06, 2012 7:00 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The dream thread
- Replies: 1807
- Views: 322042
Re: The dream thread
I dreamt a female friend of fine gave a kiss on the lips out of the blue, then a mutual friend was sullying over it. Could you mean "sulking"? English Etymology From Old French souillier (> French souiller). Compare soil. Pronunciation Rhymes: -ʌli Verb sully (third-person singular simple present s...
- Tue Feb 14, 2012 3:05 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Creativity of the day
- Replies: 1704
- Views: 334495
Re: Creativity of the day
OK, here's my documentation after some bugfixing while writing it ... http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8026017/README.pdf http://benung.nfshost.com/archives/1721 Nice, and clear. :) 8) I just made an ID card for my con-country. .... http://cpanel03.blueyellow.nl/~neuteboo/starmiott_id_card.png .... Also nice!
- Tue Feb 07, 2012 6:39 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Seahorses, I Love 'Em (& other Links of Interest)
- Replies: 2235
- Views: 443788
Re: Seahorses, I Love 'Em (& other Links of Interest)
Oh my.dhokarena56 wrote:Truthism.com- Your #1 Source for the Truth
- Tue Feb 07, 2012 6:36 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: ZBB Census
- Replies: 356
- Views: 74052
Re: ZBB Census
Irregardless, you need to reorientate your head if you think criticization of a native speaker will be receptivized well. a small criticism here: Irregardless is not a word. Regardless is already a negative. But there's obviously nothing wrong with "reorientate" nor "criticization" nor "receptivize...
- Sat Feb 04, 2012 2:31 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: In search of isolating conlangs
- Replies: 158
- Views: 41630
Re: In search of isolating conlangs
Which is why I said "Please!" instead of just showing the correction without any exclamation.Wattmann wrote:Thanks!
...now that you colourlight it, it bears an uncanny resemblance to "anal"
- Sat Feb 04, 2012 1:33 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: In search of isolating conlangs
- Replies: 158
- Views: 41630
Re: In search of isolating conlangs
Please!Wattmann wrote:Strange...
I've always had an image of them as seperate: analicity refers to a lack of inflection paradigms, and isolationality to a near 1/1 M/W ratio
analyticity
- Tue Jan 10, 2012 5:58 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Creativity of the day
- Replies: 1704
- Views: 334495
Re: Creativity of the day
http://img820.imageshack.us/img820/9080/michiganp.png Michigan should be in purple. I know a couple of women who have one biological child, one adopted child, one foster child whom they are nearly finished adopting, and one more foster child whom they are trying to adopt but there are difficulties....
- Mon Jan 09, 2012 8:13 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The dream thread
- Replies: 1807
- Views: 322042
Re: The dream thread
I dreamed I was for some reason meeting with a college conlanging club on some campus or other. I was trying to explain Zeno's paradox. For some reason it came up naturally as part of discussing conlanging. Anyway I kept getting interrupted. Then the alarm went off. That blew the fuse (or circuit br...
- Thu Dec 29, 2011 8:38 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Word lists
- Replies: 64
- Views: 20669
Re: Word lists
That's a good one.Corundum wrote:Buck list
- Wed Dec 28, 2011 7:42 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Odd natlang features thread
- Replies: 354
- Views: 148658
Re: Odd natlang features thread
This is only partly true. The awesomeness came from taking Tariana as it was then adding an additional load of features not originally present that are typically Tucano, rather than from just replacing old features with new Tucano ones. The kind of linguistic contact common in the Vaupes, with a lo...
- Wed Dec 28, 2011 7:03 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Diastema
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1022
Re: Diastema
I have a large diastema (gap between top front two teeth) and realised that it must affect my dental and labiodental pronounciations. So for dental and labiodental fricatives the sound actually comes through the gap between my teeth. It also almost makes dental nasals impossible (which isn't an iss...
- Tue Dec 27, 2011 5:46 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: ZBB member photos, part 5. (Something for the weekend, sir?)
- Replies: 5496
- Views: 790036
Re: ZBB member photos, part 5. (camel toes.)
I don't think you're using that word right.faiuwle wrote:stigmatized
I don't think it means what you think it means.
"stigmatized" connotes socially unaccepted.