How many aspects do you have?Eddy the Great wrote: I've added a new aspect
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- Mon Sep 22, 2003 5:38 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Polysynthetic Conlang
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- Sun Sep 21, 2003 4:30 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Polysynthetic Conlang
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K'?la'ik?alamino. K'?la-'ik?-a-la-mi-ni. house-make-past-3SOI-3SSA-4SSI. He and it built the building. The multiple subject agreement markers. Well, that's what my conlang N?yanla does. Except it would be: Xela?inpharalwawe?o Xe-la?in-pharal-wa-we-?o {trans}-building-make-3SSA-3SSI-3SOI He and it a...
- Fri Sep 19, 2003 7:08 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Polysynthetic Conlang
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That word has the full forms of some verbs in it. For example, watlashpirāx is 'language' and watlarasif?to?axo is 'world' or 'earth', both of which could be shortened.Eddy the Great wrote:That is one long word. Even my conlang doesn't have them that long.xelhapwatlashpirāxiwatlarasif?to?axokatar?lwa?o
- Fri Sep 19, 2003 10:51 am
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Polysynthetic Conlang
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Neither, because it doesn't have cases. Its agreement system is active, and makes a three-way distinction: intransitive subjective, intransitive objective, and transitive. I see. Very interesting. Yeah, I adopted a similar system for N?yanla. I finally completed my Babel Text. See it here: http://w...
- Thu Sep 18, 2003 6:35 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Polysynthetic Conlang
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Not at all; there's a very good fit between grammatical and semantic animacy. A few words have moved between the categories over the millennia, but Cheyenne's classifications are even a good match for Proto Algonquian's. Although I guess there are some dialect differences. According to http://www.g...
- Thu Sep 18, 2003 6:14 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: The Correspondence Library
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- Wed Sep 17, 2003 8:29 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Polysynthetic Conlang
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How would your lang handle this type of formation? Like this: !Slan!efta k?tilatgsuqul?lam? k?ktek?mi. !Sla-n!e-fta k?-tila-tgsu-qul?-la-m? k?-kte-k?-mi. one-th-bird habitual-land/earth-through-crawl-3SOI-4SSA habitual-receive-4SOA-3SSA. The early bird get the worm. I meant how would you handle a c...
- Wed Sep 17, 2003 7:44 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Polysynthetic Conlang
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The word for worm literally means something along the lines of "it crawls through the Earth", although Earth has it's own meaning in itself... Actually, that 'worm' word shown is shortened (despite its current length). In my conlang, verbs can't be incorporated into other verbs like that. The word ...
- Wed Sep 17, 2003 4:43 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Polysynthetic Conlang
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T?runwakir?o xewenōranitl?tlaraf?toyofowwa?o. T?run-wakir?o xe-wenōranitl?tlaraf?to-yofow-wa-?o. First-bird {trans}-worm-catch-3SSA-3SOI. The early bird gets the worm I can see that you have a very long word for worm. Is it a verb? I can see that worm is inanimate, too. Also, is 54 phonemes to high...
- Tue Sep 16, 2003 4:59 am
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Polysynthetic Conlang
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I have a few examples of text in my conlang (it's name is N?yanla, btw). They are just random proverbs I use in all of my grammars for comparison. What do you think of them and am I doing this right? ?ēnrinshalitl?ya tsalh?norinsirabalwe?o. ?ēnrinkalīatl?ya tsalh?nosirabalwe?o. ?ēn-rin-shali-tl?-ya ...
- Sat Sep 13, 2003 9:26 pm
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Some questions for Mark
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Re: Some questions for Mark
What's Babblers?So Haleza Grise wrote:Babblers has a complete manuscript; Mark has been shopping around for publishers for a little while but so far has not found any that are keen.CountJordan wrote:Mark,
Just wandering is Babblers close to being published (or is it almost done?)
- Sat Sep 13, 2003 10:53 am
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Polysynthetic Conlang
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- Sat Sep 13, 2003 8:21 am
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Polysynthetic Conlang
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The problem is that you're projecting your English thinking habits onto your very different language; and even trying to mimick English syntax with it. If 'speak' is the root of the word, speakers will identify _that_ as the main idea, as the emphasis, esp. if you incorporate 'Terps' (effectively b...
- Sat Sep 13, 2003 7:27 am
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Polysynthetic Conlang
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How long can the words for a single noun get in polysynthetic languages? I'm just translating a few sentences, and I found the word for "worm" is weno-ranitléwatlarasivíto?axo, meaning "it crawls through the earth" when English-ized (The dash should be a macron over the vowel before it). The length ...
- Mon Sep 08, 2003 6:50 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Polysynthetic Conlang
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- Mon Sep 08, 2003 6:41 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Polysynthetic Conlang
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This is just a basic question, but what is a "prenominal prefix"? A pronominal prefix is required on every Mohawk verb; it gives subject and object information, and provides for agreement. Mohawk has three classes: subjective, objective and transitive prefixes. Now, pretty much everyone agrees that...
- Sun Sep 07, 2003 5:59 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Polysynthetic Conlang
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Hope you don't mind, Jburke, but since I will be trying my hand at a polysynthetic language, I will probably be asking some questions (although most of them were answered in the first part of this thread). modal(s) + pronominal_prefix + incorporated_noun_root + verb_root + suffix(es) You said this w...
- Sun Sep 07, 2003 11:51 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Ortoi: zhoc iy dec?
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Re: .
PLEASURE DOME: a place of pleasurable entertainment or recreation : RESORT Well, why would that be in the slangy sexual terms :? Does it only refer to the kind of thing Frankie Goes to Hollywood (for those who were teenagers in the 80s like me) would sing about? Or, in other words, you would not ta...
- Sun Sep 07, 2003 11:23 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Ortoi: zhoc iy dec?
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Re: .
http://www.zompist.com/thematic.htm#41 :D 8) :D I see the Boardlord has thought of everything already. By the way, what?s a pleron?e ? (I?ve never heard of the English term.) Perhaps the definition should be in Verdurian so as not to scandalize people. PLEASURE DOME: a place of pleasurable entertai...
- Sun Sep 07, 2003 8:39 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Verdurian speaking people check this out!
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Re: Verdurian speaking people check this out!
Is there anyone out there willing to give me a hand in learning Verdurian. I have been looking over Marks work for a few days now and have been absolutely fasinated. If you can help me please just post here. If you do this for me i might be able to help you with something in return. See the Does an...
- Sun Sep 07, 2003 8:18 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Verdurian speaking people check this out!
- Replies: 29
- Views: 11603
Re: Verdurian speaking people check this out!
Is there anyone out there willing to give me a hand in learning Verdurian. I have been looking over Marks work for a few days now and have been absolutely fasinated. If you can help me please just post here. If you do this for me i might be able to help you with something in return. See the Does an...
- Sat Sep 06, 2003 5:44 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Polysynthetic Conlang
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Eddy-- Don't worry about people confusing you with all these "moods." You can use whatever terminology you like (and what best fits) to describe your language. E.g., I only descibe Noyatukah as having two moods, the manifest and unmanifest, though the language can morphologically indicate commands,...
- Sat Sep 06, 2003 3:13 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Polysynthetic Conlang
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K'?la'ik?lamek-Build the building. (strong) K'?la'ik?lamet-Please build the building. (weak) K'?la'ik?lame'-You have to build the building. (necessitive) I've gotten rid of readyness and made it a preverb, like want. The necessive isn't all that necessary as there is a preverb that does something s...
- Sat Sep 06, 2003 2:58 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Polysynthetic Conlang
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T?l@uilğo/ only has 34 phonemes and 3 aspects, although it does have a lot of things, about 6(strong command, weak command, question, requirement, what should be, readyness), that I think are moods. I'm not sure. What's the difference between 'strong command' and 'weak command'? And how do you use ...
- Fri Sep 05, 2003 4:45 pm
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Ortoi: zhoc iy dec?
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Re: Ortoi: zhoc iy dec?
Right, they're not interfertile with Almeans. Interplanetary breeding only works on Star Trek ... Many of them did marry, and adopt children; for some time these adoptive families were important in the new Directorate and in the Avelan Church. What about their status as a Thinking Kind? Were they j...