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by imploder
Tue Aug 26, 2008 3:26 pm
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: The mistakes you've made
Replies: 115
Views: 100903

It is weird since danish doesn't agree with neither verbs or objects, and I don't know where the influence should come from - that makes me think that there must be a cognitive explanation. Such an explanation might be that plural numbers are somehow more salient. or that I am just stupid. Why? You...
by imploder
Sat Mar 22, 2008 4:37 pm
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: I wish English had a word for this!
Replies: 333
Views: 147529

One can call the discussion about the comb an infinite loop. Czech has a common phrase for such trappy situations: začarovaný kruh - "enchanted circle"
by imploder
Wed Feb 20, 2008 2:15 pm
Forum: Almea
Topic: Where are the Almean nutball religions?
Replies: 34
Views: 12604

Doomsday is a gun in Liero.
by imploder
Sat Jan 26, 2008 6:30 pm
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: resources
Replies: 722
Views: 310210

Here is my collection of data gathered from various places, including PDF documents about both natlangs and conlangs and some other stuff: http://torrents.thepiratebay.org/3995101/lang_resources.3995101.TPB.torrent (265 MB) All the Zeeblang threads are recorded there too. Also a description of Aymar...
by imploder
Sun Oct 14, 2007 1:29 am
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: I wish English had a word for this!
Replies: 333
Views: 147529

I miss an adjective equivalent of "of course". Czech has an adjective samozřejmý, from which the adverb samozřejmě meaning "of course" is derived. Is it possible say "of course" with nouns in English?
by imploder
Mon May 21, 2007 8:04 am
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: Semantically loaded names for cardinal points.
Replies: 34
Views: 29266

And the Polish one: North - p?lnoc (=midnight) South - poludnie (=midday, noon) East - wsch?d (=[sun]rise) West - zach?d (=[sun]set) :mrgreen: záchod means WC in Czech. It's said "slunce vychází na východě a zachází na záchodě" but that's meant as a joke. The Czech ones: North - sever South - jih E...
by imploder
Tue Feb 06, 2007 1:28 pm
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: Morphosyntactic alignment
Replies: 179
Views: 129413

I don't understand your request to "contrast" S and T; aren't a(n intransitive)subject and a direct object contrasting anyway? :? Can they both exist in the same sentence as two distinct arguments? Or do they only distinguish some feature (perhaps existence (in the case of theme) or non-existence (...
by imploder
Fri Feb 02, 2007 11:22 am
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: Morphosyntactic alignment
Replies: 179
Views: 129413

Maybe just a silly question:
What is the difference between S and T? They are not agent, not patient, just something that in some state or change expressed by the verb. Can you give some examples of them being contrastive?
by imploder
Mon Jan 15, 2007 11:47 am
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: resources
Replies: 722
Views: 310210

Some sentences to test your conlang focused on grammar:
http://talideon.com/concultures/wiki/?doc=TestSentences