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Wait, there are *natlangs* on CALS? Whose idea was that??

Hmm, that sets things back a bit. I'll go through and retcon the earlier graphs to the conlang-only numbers once I have time.

PART 2: MORPHOLOGY, NOMINAL CATEGORIES, NOMINAL SYNTAX Morphology was quite a short section, so I've included all the noun stuff as well. And to fit things on the graph, I've increased the y axis from ±30% to ±40%. Head Or Dependent Marking http://sasha.sector-alpha.net/~ptsnoop/calsgraphs/101HeadOr...

PART 1: PHONOLOGY PART 2: MORPHOLOGY, NOMINAL CATEGORIES, NOMINAL SYNTAX --- I'd posted this over at the CBB , but I had a feeling I should probably crosspost it here as well. So here you go. --- So I recently found out about CALS , the conlang world's answer to WALS . And as I noticed that all the...

Makerowner wrote:

psygnisfive wrote:You're all weird.

We're on a website about making up languages. What did you expect?

Too true.

Xhin wrote:

prickly pear wrote:

psygnisfive wrote: And it's not like most major wars were the result of mistranslations or something silly like that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_war_2

jmcd wrote:I don't understand it. I think it's supposed to be funny in some way but I'm not sure how.

I don't get it either.

This is a good point at which to recycle my anecdote about how, about twenty years ago, I heard that 75% of 13-year-olds in the USA believed that Europe was a small island somewhere off Massachusetts. EDIT ...some written agreement accepting you as the creator of the world. In any other context, th...

On the Knowledge of Almea's shape thread...

Mornche Geddick wrote:Wilbur Glenn Voliva travelled around the world several times trying to preach his flat-earth theory.

(My apologies if this has already been quoted. I can't be bothered to trawl through 30 pages to check.)

Where do you people get all of these otter photos from?

Otters rule