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by cromulent
Sun Dec 12, 2010 1:49 pm
Forum: C&C Archive
Topic: Rahfatge phonemic inventory and orthography
Replies: 21
Views: 6288

Re: Rahfatge phonemic inventory and orthography

Awesome aesthetic.
by cromulent
Sat Dec 11, 2010 10:33 am
Forum: C&C Archive
Topic: Transplanting (Starting over, but not quite)
Replies: 45
Views: 8985

Re: Transplanting (Starting over, but not quite)

YngNghymru wrote:Hmm. How are they still male if they carry the child to term?
Gametes?

Ask the seahorse.
by cromulent
Tue Dec 07, 2010 4:08 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Use of 'where' as a general clausal conjunction
Replies: 10
Views: 2397

Re: Use of 'where' as a general clausal conjunction

No, I don't hear "where" used for people. It sounds ungrammatical to me.
by cromulent
Mon Nov 22, 2010 9:35 am
Forum: None of the above
Topic: The dream thread
Replies: 1807
Views: 311572

Re: The dream thread

In my dream, I saw a baboon riding a motor scooter. I was driving. The baboon wasn't riding very well, it was drifting. Then it drifted onto the sidewalk and creamed this little girl who was walking with her dad. She started crying. Then I was on foot with a friend, and I said we should go help the ...
by cromulent
Tue Nov 16, 2010 4:46 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Syllables
Replies: 34
Views: 6205

Re: Syllables

I must ask, Phonotactics/Syllable structures, have anyone of you guys ever heard of a language that differ how syllable structures are done depending on their location in the word? As words starts with a specific construction of syllable (or syllables) but then middle/last differ from that one? AFA...
by cromulent
Tue Nov 16, 2010 1:06 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Secondary features of ergative languages.
Replies: 8
Views: 4496

Re: Secondary features of ergative languages.

Have you checked the Universals Archive?

This should take you to a search on the term "ergative."

I think it looks promising.

EDIT: Oops, that link didn't do what I thought it would. Guess you'll have to type in "ergative" yourself.
by cromulent
Mon Nov 15, 2010 11:03 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Can you read these words?
Replies: 17
Views: 3304

Re: Can you read these numbers?

***To the previous poster: That is not an eight. Not, I say! Not! It's not consistent with the other eights in the... blueprint (?). Sure it is. It's got the exact same size and shape, minus the missing bits. The SW end clearly curves back up toward center, as it does in 8. What it's not consistent...
by cromulent
Mon Nov 15, 2010 10:53 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Can you read these words?
Replies: 17
Views: 3304

Re: Can you read these numbers?

Top row L-R looks like 108, 112, 118, 120.

Bottom row is 134*, 146**, 148, 154, 158, 166.

*Looks more like 131, but that's odd.

**the 4 looks like a 7, but that'd break the sequence. 4 seems more likely.

(This is L&L how exactly?)
by cromulent
Mon Oct 25, 2010 9:00 am
Forum: None of the above
Topic: ZBB member photos, part 5. (Something for the weekend, sir?)
Replies: 5496
Views: 765078

Re: ZBB member photos, part 5.

Hmm, that expression doesn't really say that to me...
by cromulent
Tue Oct 19, 2010 10:40 am
Forum: None of the above
Topic: The dream thread
Replies: 1807
Views: 311572

Re: The dream thread

In my dream, I was in a polyandrous marriage, the other guy being the new barrista from the coffee shop near where I work. We were sitting around the kitchen table--based on my impression of the light, it must have been breakfast, though it felt like evening--and I realized I was the third wheel in ...
by cromulent
Fri Aug 06, 2010 1:03 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Flags
Replies: 396
Views: 81874

Viktor77 wrote:So, I have a question. Since I have a flag, I of course want to fly it, however my parents are bound to ask 'what flag is that'? What do I tell them? Do I lie? What do I do?
Tell them it is a proposal for a new flag for whatever state you live in, Michigan or wherever.
by cromulent
Wed Jul 28, 2010 2:34 pm
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: Language death (split from Beli Orao's thread in Ephemera)
Replies: 46
Views: 19744

roninbodhisattva wrote:But that's basically the point Io is making
Which was the point Salmoneus was making in the first place. At least that was my read.
by cromulent
Fri Jul 23, 2010 3:36 pm
Forum: Almea
Topic: What Almean languages look like
Replies: 8
Views: 4307

How do you go from Polish to Maori in the space of two sentences? Did the second one have fewer palatalized affricates?

Conclusion, the dialect detector is a POS.

As such, it is incapable of significance.
by cromulent
Fri Jul 16, 2010 11:36 pm
Forum: C&C Archive
Topic: Introducing O Yis
Replies: 34
Views: 9419

Kai_DaiGoji wrote:How do you handle postpositions when something is northeast of an object?
I am guessing something along the lines of:

the something m'the object northeast/by

"the something to the northeast of the object"

but the answer of course must await a full canonization by Rik.
by cromulent
Mon Jul 12, 2010 5:12 pm
Forum: C&C Archive
Topic: Introducing O Yis
Replies: 34
Views: 9419

Say, I was wondering, going back a bit. Forgot to ask. How are multiply-embedded postpositional phrases handled? You had an example earlier for "the chair by the table," ni kjap m'niab zlek il , that seems to gloss roughly to "the chair the table by." If you wanted to say "the chair by the table in ...
by cromulent
Mon Jul 12, 2010 3:06 pm
Forum: C&C Archive
Topic: Introducing O Yis
Replies: 34
Views: 9419

Way cool.

I like the sheer nouniness of it all. That said, I think I speak for the group as a whole when I say: we are ready to see some clause-level syntax!
by cromulent
Fri Jul 09, 2010 3:30 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Pacific Northwest Accent (Cascadian)
Replies: 49
Views: 8554

Re: Pacific Northwest Accent (Cascadian)

I've lived there half my life. Accordingly, I have about half the features on the list. I have the Mary-merry-marry merger. I can't tell if I have the cot-caught merger--I think I generally don't distinguish between [A] and [O] much if at all (perhaps they are marginally contrastive), but those two ...
by cromulent
Tue Sep 15, 2009 5:55 pm
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: Are there other voices besides active and passive?
Replies: 40
Views: 31565

One's for nouns, and one's for verbs...can't wait for someone to pull out a language with 3 speakers that has dative case on verbs. You're gonna wanna read about Tlapanec . It marks case on the verb. This includes the elusive pegative case! A pegative language is somewhere on my backburner of ideas...
by cromulent
Tue Sep 15, 2009 5:45 pm
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: Are there other voices besides active and passive?
Replies: 40
Views: 31565

Re: Applicative voices and Case

I do not understand the difference between a "Dative applicative voice" and a "Dative Case". Is it that Dative case requires a transitive clause while a dative Voice does not? The one's a case, the other's a voice. Case is for nouns; voice, for predicates. Dative case marks the Recipient of ditrans...
by cromulent
Thu Jan 08, 2009 10:09 am
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: The Lesser-Used Sounds
Replies: 113
Views: 87104

dhokarena56 wrote:Am I the only one to think of using "supralabials"?
AKA the tongue is placed between the upper gum and the upper lip. When drawn downwards, plosives and nasals can be produced. Not so sure about other manners of articulation though...
That is the worst phone imaginable.
by cromulent
Tue Mar 27, 2007 12:31 pm
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: Morphosyntactic alignment
Replies: 179
Views: 127744

u. Active Split-P Nominative D, A, S Primative R, P, S Absolutive T, P, S I think "Split-P" better describes my conlang's ditransitive MSA than "dechticaetiative." Whether a P is tagged with the R case or T case depends on the verb type, not the valency. Whereas in a dechticaetiative langauge, it's...
by cromulent
Sun Feb 11, 2007 4:17 am
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: Morphosyntactic alignment
Replies: 179
Views: 127744

Spectacular! Now create a conlang that uses all 35 MSA's, each in highly specific situations, i.e. there is one right way and 34 (very) wrong ways to use each one: Begin.
by cromulent
Fri Feb 09, 2007 1:21 pm
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: Morphosyntactic alignment
Replies: 179
Views: 127744

Of course as I still know next to nothing about the one "Pegative" language that exists; The only one that is known to exist, or, the only one whose existence has been published . Of course. EDIT: Also the "split" or "fluid" possibilities; having "A=D-or-R" or "P=T-or-R" or even "R=A-or-P". Hmm...I...
by cromulent
Fri Feb 09, 2007 12:36 pm
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: Morphosyntactic alignment
Replies: 179
Views: 127744

Accusative-Dative: S / A P / \ D R T Accusative-Dechticaetiative: S / A P / / D R T Accusative-Pegative: S / A P \ \ D R T Ergative-Dative: S \ A P / \ D R T Ergative-Dechticaetiative: S \ A P / / D R T Ergative-Pegative: S \ A P \ \ D R T I just felt the need to do that for some reason. Of course ...
by cromulent
Wed Feb 07, 2007 3:30 am
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: Morphosyntactic alignment
Replies: 179
Views: 127744

It helps to think of Subject as containing category that breaks down into Agent and Patient in monotransitives, and Patient in turn breaks down into Theme and Recipient in ditransitives. But why couldn't Agent break down into Donor and Recipient? Good point. There really should be six theta roles d...