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I was and am fairly certain I was remembering incorrectly, because it seemed unlikely. I have however won Bonvillain's Mohawk Grammar on eBay, and it should be in the mail as we speak. I'm also thinking heavily about getting The Polysynthesis Parameter by Mark C. Baker . . . unless anyone here is re...

Okay, so some of the links off of the earlier link for the Australian Languages are dead. The following still work: Aboriginal English Malyangapa Workshop -- Merely a course outline Dyirbal -- Seems like it has some good stuff, and includes German translation. Jiwarli Martuthunira -- Provides a link...

So I'm potentially scaring myself, but I may take a look at starting one of these myself. I've always had in mind one of the languages I wanted to work on would be polysynthetic. I'm only a couple pages away from completing this thread, but I'm tired, so I stopped retaining any information a couple ...

Assumptions and guessing at hidden implications are bad for your health. Do you need a dictionary to learn what * concur * means ? So then I shouldn't assume you're mocking me here, just that you're apparently having some type of problem figuring out how to post. I'll be helpful then really quickly...

Do you need a dictionary to learn what * concur * means ? I'm fully aware of the meaning of the word. I'm also fully aware--as are you--that connotation trumps definition. So either you were implying something, which I believe to be the case (based on the only other time I've interacted with you wh...

I concur with the notion that it's very silly and indefensible. You know, the post really is silly. I thought the fact that I said twice that it was silly and then the obvious silly nature of the post itself sufficed, but apparently that was too subtle, and it had to be said again, so just to be on...

<Clears> I can't prove it, but I strongly suspect that polysynthesis was the hallmark of the most ancient human languages; moreover, I think most or all human languages began as kinsesthetic, too. The typical scenario we construct when thinking about how language originated--of proto humans hanging...

American English is the variety with the largest number of speakers, so they're actually more likely to learn that. There doesn't seem to be a pattern apart from who one's been taught by. The other thing is that there's far, far more American telly in Europe than British telly.... and many pick up ...

I've had a little extra time on my hands lately (for the first time in seven years, I've not been working two jobs), and I've been thinking of doing something with conlangs. Lo and behold, a new conlanging resource! I've not added much to my personal toolkit in the last few years, a little Italian a...

My least favorite Spanish instructor was named Jos?. I sense a conspiracy. I didn't want to kill my instructor, I just wanted to be very truant.

アルバイト What does that mean?? That is the Japanese katakana for the word arubaito we mentioned above. As for killing or reveling in the accidental death of poor Jos?, " We want Jos? to die would be," " Queremos que muera Jos? ." " We want that Jos? die " (subjunctive). " We want to kill Jos? " would ...

In order, I have formally studied German, Spanish, and Japanese, and in class one day, these three languages came together and left me mumbling and scratching my head. There is a word in Japanese, a German loanword, arubaito . This is the Japanese representation of the German word Arbeit (the verb i...