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- Tue Sep 12, 2006 3:22 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Weird phrases from real languages
- Replies: 323
- Views: 197813
- Mon Sep 11, 2006 12:26 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: The Lesser-Used Sounds
- Replies: 113
- Views: 94267
- Fri Jun 30, 2006 9:34 am
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Serial Verbs and Clause Chains
- Replies: 23
- Views: 19453
I don't think "Panting, the man ran down the beach" is an example of anything much like clause chaining, whether marginal or otherwise. The "panting" is a subordinate adverbial clause (save for the elision of a preposition like "while" or other standard adverbial clause trappings) - whereas clause ...
I don't think plate armour WAS a reaction to firearms - I think it was earlier. What I've heard is that the increasing armouredness was a (futile) attempt to deal with longbows and crossbows and the like. Full articulate plate developed between the mid thirteenth and mid fifteenth century. Firearms ...
- Mon Mar 06, 2006 8:21 am
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Triconsonantal Root Systems
- Replies: 201
- Views: 170199
Mercator: confusingly, "Ba'al" is/was both a title and a name. Its as though Christians called Jehovah 'the Lord', but called each angel "Lord of such-and-such" - and then the people connected with a particular angel called just called him '"the lord" when it was clear Jehovah wasn't meant. This, I'...
- Fri Feb 17, 2006 6:46 pm
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Verdurian Alphabets
- Replies: 25
- Views: 10643
Del, how the HELL can you put a diaresis into 'theatre'? It's a diphthong! the point of the diaresis is to show vowels that AREN'T diphthongs. But that IS a diphthong. Some dialects, it's just a long vowel! I mean, goo god. It's like saying "E?r" for 'ear'!!! Your spelling makes it look like /T@.{t@...
- Sun Feb 12, 2006 2:22 pm
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Verdurian Alphabets
- Replies: 25
- Views: 10643
The conditions when I would 'borrow' something (from a friend or p2p or whatever): 1) If it's too expensive for me to ever think about buying. Eg, I am NOT going to pay hundreds of pounds (or even tens of pounds) for software that I think I might happen to use at some point. Eg, I've got a copy of A...
- Fri Feb 10, 2006 3:48 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Irish Lessons - Ranganna Gaeilge
- Replies: 115
- Views: 100726
Her dialect is a "father from dublin (grandfather from Belfast), mother from Kerry, but learnt Irish in school in Waterford, can't really "speak" irish any more but remembers words, phrases and pronunciation, and probably would remember how to speak it if she were listening to other speakers" dialec...
- Fri Feb 10, 2006 1:42 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Irish Lessons - Ranganna Gaeilge
- Replies: 115
- Views: 100726
I have a question!
The acute mark. It appears to be called a 'fada'. However, I've fairly certain my mother pronounces it /fQD@/ (or something that to my english ears sounds like that - Q, not a, and D, not d. Now, a-->Q doesn't seem impossible but why on earth a D? HAve you heard anything like that?
The acute mark. It appears to be called a 'fada'. However, I've fairly certain my mother pronounces it /fQD@/ (or something that to my english ears sounds like that - Q, not a, and D, not d. Now, a-->Q doesn't seem impossible but why on earth a D? HAve you heard anything like that?
- Thu Jan 19, 2006 11:26 am
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Syntax - a multi-perspective introduction
- Replies: 62
- Views: 42071
But what about when they DO cross? Surely you can't claim that they actually used a different sentence just to avoid having evidence that conflicts with the arbitrary 'straight lines are good' theory of linguistics? Lines aren't present in people's speech. They're drawn by syntacticians. "You can't...
- Mon Jan 16, 2006 6:51 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Syntax - a multi-perspective introduction
- Replies: 62
- Views: 42071
- Mon Jan 16, 2006 4:41 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Syntax - a multi-perspective introduction
- Replies: 62
- Views: 42071
- Thu Jan 05, 2006 8:57 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Metaphors We Live By
- Replies: 35
- Views: 30015
Hmm. Maybe I ought briefly to state my own opinion on the matter: I don't think that metaphors have indicative denotation. However, nor do I believe that they are expressions of emotion. I think that a 'view of the world', a 'model' or whatever actually has two types of data in it, which are not red...
- Thu Jan 05, 2006 8:43 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Metaphors We Live By
- Replies: 35
- Views: 30015
Well Spack, I'm aware by now that everyone reads a different Wittgenstein, but your's is totally new to me! The one I read spends most of his time directly attacking the position that meaning is something beyond language, that we have a meaning in our minds when we say something that our interlocuto...
- Thu Jan 05, 2006 8:13 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Intro to Basic Concepts of COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS
- Replies: 87
- Views: 89413
Kirk: but the first 'disagreement' there isn't linguistic, but a matter of biological trivia. Well, I'm sure it's significant to biologists and neurologists and brain surgeons and what have you, but I don't see what it has to do with linguistics. My lexicon could be processed by the same part of my ...
- Thu Jan 05, 2006 2:48 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Intro to Basic Concepts of COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS
- Replies: 87
- Views: 89413
- Wed Jan 04, 2006 8:26 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Metaphors We Live By
- Replies: 35
- Views: 30015
Not entirely on topic, but you know what's recently been fascinating me about metaphor? Truth. Most claims - "all dogs are blue" - can be argued with. I can show a person certain evidence (eg a non-blue dog) he can accept that evidence as being true, and, if he is rational, he can then admit that hi...
- Wed Nov 09, 2005 1:14 pm
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Those who deny elcarin solidarity and are ugly too.
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4661
Re: Those who deny elcarin solidarity and are ugly too.
What are their leaders like? Are they despotic kings (like the Pharoah) whom everybody trembles before like an evil god? Incidentally, I find this a rather odd description of Pharaonic rule. If the murtani leaders are at all parallel to Pharaohs, that would make them hereditary royalty ruling with ...
- Sat Oct 29, 2005 8:59 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Ktuvok language
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2845
Little contact would probaly help preserve the language rather than destroy it. As far as I know, linguistic, like most othe social, change is a function of communication density. For one thing, low density makes it difficult to transfer innovations. For another, it increases the chance of an innova...
- Thu Oct 20, 2005 6:35 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The Official ZBB Quote Thread
- Replies: 2878
- Views: 719965
- Tue Oct 04, 2005 3:25 pm
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Your Favorite Almea Language
- Replies: 65
- Views: 28303
- Mon Jul 25, 2005 6:34 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Castle of the 17th Evil Wizard. A question for Zompist.
- Replies: 16
- Views: 6555
- Fri Jul 08, 2005 10:28 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Negative feedback on Almea?
- Replies: 35
- Views: 13851
- Fri Jun 10, 2005 4:48 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: No latin names of month...
- Replies: 62
- Views: 65553
Re: No latin names of month...
Wow! Dazi gets her very own month?linguoboy wrote:the like, but I've never seen them used in modern texts.
You should add the ancient Germanic month names as well. There's a very complete treatment of them here.
- Fri May 13, 2005 6:47 am
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Weird phrases from real languages
- Replies: 323
- Views: 197813