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- Thu Dec 01, 2011 6:18 am
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: Conlingual Telephone VI
- Replies: 77
- Views: 32184
Re: Conlingual Telephone VI, apparently
Alas, I am going to have to bow out. My situation dramatically changed over the last few days, and I will be inundated with work while the game is going on. I'm unlikely to have time for the next few months. Very sorry.
- Mon Nov 28, 2011 6:52 am
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: Conlingual Telephone VI
- Replies: 77
- Views: 32184
Re: Conlingual Telephone IV or something
I'll play, too--especially since I'm trying (afer all these years) to become a "Productive Member of ZBB Society", and Kallai (finally) is nearing a workable syntax, and here in China I have a lot of time on my hands, at the moment.
- Thu Nov 24, 2011 9:59 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: ZBB Census
- Replies: 356
- Views: 72720
Re: ZBB Census
Age bracket: 40ish Gender: Male Nationality: USAan State/Province/Other Subdivision: Seattle (usually), China (momentarily) Occupation: ESL Teachers Rule!!! Sexual Orientation: Gay Status: Singlish Native Language: English Secondary Languages: Österreichisch (a bisl verrostet, leider) Languages I Wa...
- Tue Nov 22, 2011 10:57 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Lexicon Building
- Replies: 4308
- Views: 794537
Re: Lexicon Building
next: (your favorite word from your own language here) Kallai: nuku [nuː.kuː] (adj) from nukux [nuː.kʊʂ] (noun), a half-grown cat. Used to describe the (non-sexual) beauty or grace of young beings (esp. young humans) who do not seem to be aware of their own beauty or grace. Next: mispronunciation, ...
- Wed Nov 16, 2011 8:18 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Our own nat- and conlang tongue twisters
- Replies: 157
- Views: 24520
Re: Our own nat- and conlang tongue twisters
There's a poem in Mandarin that's just the repeated syllable xi (or shi, forget which) in different tones. It was a bit like buffalo buffalo buffalo but actually makes some semblance of sense rather than just being one of those Example Sentences that linguists like to trot out. http://en.wikipedia....
- Tue Nov 15, 2011 10:55 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Our own nat- and conlang tongue twisters
- Replies: 157
- Views: 24520
Re: Our own nat- and conlang tongue twisters
This one is super. I love it.Guitarplayer wrote:Wer gegen Aluminium minimal immun ist, hat die Aluminiumminimalimmunität.
'Those who are minimally immune against aluminum have an aluminum-minimum-immunicy.'
- Tue Nov 15, 2011 8:38 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Our own nat- and conlang tongue twisters
- Replies: 157
- Views: 24520
Re: Our own nat- and conlang tongue twisters
Very wary voles beware of very wily wolves, for nary a wily wolf will wolf down a very wary vole. Excellent! And if I understand correctly, it's new with you? That is, you just created it in the last two days? Yes, that's right. Thank you. Here's a natlang tongue twister from where I am right now (...
- Tue Nov 15, 2011 8:45 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Our own nat- and conlang tongue twisters
- Replies: 157
- Views: 24520
Re: Our own nat- and conlang tongue twisters
Very wary voles beware of very wily wolves because the very wily wolf will wolf down nary wary voles. I do not think this means what you think it means. I know it's an adjective derived from "ne'er a". I looked it up to make sure before I wrote it, but I used it anyway because it's obsolete (IMD) a...
- Mon Nov 14, 2011 9:18 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Our own nat- and conlang tongue twisters
- Replies: 157
- Views: 24520
Re: Our own nat- and conlang tongue twisters
Here's an attempt--maybe someone more creative can make it better:Guitarplayer wrote: Anyvone have vone viss [v w] to confuse ziss Cherman shpeaker for goot?
Very wary voles beware of very wily wolves because the very wily wolf will wolf down nary wary voles.
- Mon Nov 14, 2011 10:09 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Our own nat- and conlang tongue twisters
- Replies: 157
- Views: 24520
Re: Our own nat- and conlang tongue twisters
Popular when my parents were kids, as messing up at the end causes you to swear: I slit a sheet; a sheet I slit. Upon the slitted sheet I sit. And just to make this a value-added post, let's invent a new one: Three free thin-finned fish think thick fresh fish guts stink. Thanks! I've added both to ...
- Mon Nov 14, 2011 3:52 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Our own nat- and conlang tongue twisters
- Replies: 157
- Views: 24520
Re: Our own nat- and conlang tongue twisters
Die, die die, die die Silben zähl e n, töricht nennen, mögen wohl recht haben. [ʦ(e|ɛ)ːln̩] (or /ʦɛːlən/, if you will), not [-lan]. Unless that was just a typo. Sorry, typo. Thanks for the correction. And in the same vein as the above: Wenn Fliegen hinter Fliegen fliegen, dann fliegen Fliegen Flieg...
- Mon Nov 14, 2011 12:37 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Tripartite alignment discussion
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1887
Re: Tripartite alignment discussion
If you had an isolating language that marks these relationships with word order, it seems like the tripartite system would quickly collapse into a standard nominative or ergative language. That's an interesting idea. The possibilities are SV/VAP, SV/VPA, VS/APV, VS/PAV. I like it. I kind of have a ...
- Mon Nov 14, 2011 12:14 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Our own nat- and conlang tongue twisters
- Replies: 157
- Views: 24520
Re: Our own nat- and conlang tongue twisters
That reminds me of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_while_John_had_had_had_had_had_had_had_had_had_had_had_a_better_effect_on_the_teacher Ha. I've actually used a slightly shorter version of that one in class. It reminds me this one in German: Die, die die, die die Silben zählan, töricht ne...
- Sun Nov 13, 2011 11:06 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Our own nat- and conlang tongue twisters
- Replies: 157
- Views: 24520
Re: Our own nat- and conlang tongue twisters
This one isn't hard to pronounce, necessarily, but I love it to teach the importance of vowel reduction in North American English:
Can you can a can as a canner can can a can?
[kənjəˈkænəˈkænəzəˈkænɚkənˈkænəˈkæn]
or, alternatively (with focus on “you”)
[kənˈjuːˈkænəˈkænəzəˈkænɚkənˈkænəˈkæn]
Can you can a can as a canner can can a can?
[kənjəˈkænəˈkænəzəˈkænɚkənˈkænəˈkæn]
or, alternatively (with focus on “you”)
[kənˈjuːˈkænəˈkænəzəˈkænɚkənˈkænəˈkæn]
- Sun Nov 13, 2011 10:30 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Tripartite alignment discussion
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1887
Re: Tripartite alignment discussion
How do they work? From what I understand: The agent of a transitive verb takes the ergative case. The object of a transitive verb takes the accusative case. And the argument of an intransative verb takes the intrasative or absolutive case ... Maybe I won't do morphological case, but a system of adp...
- Thu Jun 24, 2010 4:30 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: _das_ Weib
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3984
- Mon Jun 21, 2010 1:29 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: ZBB member photos, part 5. (Something for the weekend, sir?)
- Replies: 5496
- Views: 775482
I've always said the deterioration of our train system was one of our biggest failures as a nation. Damn you America and your stupid highway system! And exactly *when* would you support the sort of tax regime that would make a European-esque interstate rail system in the US plausible? Is it importa...