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- Thu Nov 13, 2014 6:58 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: engdutchdeutsch?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4718
Re: engdutchdeutsch?
North Frisian is interesting in lacking diphthongisation, and being very, very heavily influenced by Danish, Low Saxon and High German.
- Sun Jun 15, 2014 5:37 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: The Arrakum language (aspects of aspect)
- Replies: 42
- Views: 26552
- Sat Jun 07, 2014 9:51 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Languages with One Stop Series
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2704
Re: Languages with One Stop Series
most Australian languages have only one stop series. also Chukchi, Uralic, and I'd look in North America. Eskimo-Aleut obv, and the ones in my list my impression is that langs with only one plosive series tend to either be australian/dravidian or have voiced fricatives/approximants in their place, ...
- Thu Jun 05, 2014 10:01 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: The Arrakum language (aspects of aspect)
- Replies: 42
- Views: 26552
Re: The Arrakum language (pretty scripty?)
This is one language I would really like to see more of. The script's cool and the morphology is almost totally new to me, and it just looks totally alien. It'd be great to build upon it.
- Wed May 28, 2014 10:30 am
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Odd natlang features thread
- Replies: 354
- Views: 147546
Re: Odd natlang features thread
Note that there is a distinction between definite (with an article) and indefinite (without an article) equivalent to the English articles the versus a. Remember that there are two kinds of definite information: new (just being introduced in a conversation) which is marked by -a; and given (known b...
- Sun May 25, 2014 4:54 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The Innovative Usage Thread
- Replies: 2452
- Views: 420423
Re: The Innovative Usage Thread
"to gó off the board" = to stick closely to what is indicated in the storyboard I don't know when it happened but I have "to go off" as a variation on "to go by", maybe "to go on"; it probably popped up the same time "to base off" came around as a variation on "to base on" I'm guessing because of t...
- Wed May 21, 2014 5:34 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Theta
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1548
Re: Theta
Thematic and theta roles are different? They're largely conflated right? Anyways, it seems Fillmore had something to do wit both terms awhile ago but Wiki leaves it at that. As I understand his later work, thematic elements led to frame elements, but here we're talking about nouns... What I noticed ...
- Sat May 17, 2014 9:48 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Language Learning Experiment (Volunteers Needed!)
- Replies: 20
- Views: 4550
- Sat Jan 04, 2014 1:56 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: American perceptions of British accents
- Replies: 108
- Views: 24340
Re: American perceptions of British accents
I doubt most Americans would confuse Aussies for Brits, or New Zealanders if they can place the accent. (snip) Here's an example of a girl's version of my accent . Actually, my accent's probably about half way towards this guy's accent . Well yeah. It doesn't help that most of your Aussie actors ar...
- Fri Jan 03, 2014 10:18 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: American perceptions of British accents
- Replies: 108
- Views: 24340
Re: American perceptions of British accents
The Geico Gecko speaks with a faux mixed accent though. Also is lizard mascot, not one person.
- Fri Jan 03, 2014 6:05 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Ressources on Japanese/Kana handwriting
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1805
Re: Ressources on Japanese/Kana handwriting
There is a site in Japanese with a lot of good side-by-side comparisons to show how to do all those things and kanji too. http://daigotorena.moo.jp/lesson/hiragana-zenpan.htm http://daigotorena.moo.jp/lesson/hira-gyo.htm http://daigotorena.moo.jp/lesson/hira-gyo-henka.htm http://daigotorena.moo.jp/l...
- Fri Jan 03, 2014 5:53 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: American perceptions of British accents
- Replies: 108
- Views: 24340
Re: American perceptions of British accents
I doubt most Americans would confuse Aussies for Brits, or New Zealanders if they can place the accent.
- Mon Dec 30, 2013 1:16 am
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: resources
- Replies: 722
- Views: 312042
- Mon Dec 23, 2013 9:23 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: The Miniature Conlangs Thread
- Replies: 55
- Views: 15565
Re: The Miniature Conlangs Thread
One thing that popped into my mind considering my present lang Tailevu - I began thinking about describing dedicated positions in sentences for information structural purposes. For instance, having a totally different place for pronouns (PRO) which are already given information, from repeated or new...
- Mon Dec 23, 2013 8:52 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Conlang Reconstruction Game 2014: we have a forum
- Replies: 97
- Views: 38823
Re: Conlang Reconstruction Game 2014
- Sun Dec 22, 2013 8:30 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The Innovative Usage Thread
- Replies: 2452
- Views: 420423
Re: The Innovative Usage Thread
When I was a kid I used to use an weird form for the reflexive, "your-own-self", as in, "Go get your own self!"
- Sun Dec 22, 2013 1:13 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: What are you reading, watching and listening to?
- Replies: 469
- Views: 138211
Re: What are you reading, watching and listening to?
Reading Deirdre of the Sorrows, piece by piece.
Listening to Kyla La Grange and Zola Jesus.
Listening to Kyla La Grange and Zola Jesus.
- Sat Dec 21, 2013 12:50 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Post your conlang's phonology
- Replies: 2278
- Views: 505627
Re: Post your conlang's phonology
/_V k>p where V is rounded /u/ and the velar nasal occurs intervocalically in a handful of words, and only before /k/ due to assimilation. So it's rare.Nortaneous wrote:What's the environment for the [p] allophone of /k/? How is the velar nasal marginal?
- Fri Dec 20, 2013 11:33 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: How to design a non-European grammar
- Replies: 70
- Views: 25465
Re: How to design a non-European grammar
I came across something that might shed some more light on the intensifiers-reflexive a issue. Apparently there's a database - and "half the world's languages" display this pattern.
- Thu Dec 19, 2013 1:06 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Post your conlang's phonology
- Replies: 2278
- Views: 505627
Re: Post your conlang's phonology
Copied from my thread. Sort of. Added diphthongs and triphthongs. The language keeps getting more spartan. I'm nailing the cardinal vowels pretty well so I know the allophony should happen but it's not really. Pitch description is different too now. Tailevu has several modes of communication, includ...
- Tue Dec 17, 2013 11:16 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: How to design a non-European grammar
- Replies: 70
- Views: 25465
Re: How to design a non-European grammar
Tailevu Five points apiece: postnominal relative clauses with inflected, resumptive relative pronouns (e.g. English "who" vs. "whose") I'll count this half, but this would use an action nominal construction and the pronoun would be a possessive and inflect for the animacy of the noun. a periphrasti...
- Tue Dec 17, 2013 7:54 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: How to design a non-European grammar
- Replies: 70
- Views: 25465
Re: How to design a non-European grammar
- differentiation between intensifiers and reflexive pronouns Could someone explain this question please??? As far as I understand it, that means something like this. Reflexive pronoun: Er hat sich (selbst) umgebracht. he has REFL (INTENSIFIER) killed He killed himself . Intensifier: Er hat die Hüh...
- Tue Dec 17, 2013 4:35 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: American perceptions of British accents
- Replies: 108
- Views: 24340
Re: American perceptions of British accents
I think, as an American, I associate rising accents like a lot of Northern England, with Northern Ireland and Scotland as well, and falling accents with Southern England and Ireland. NI is spoken so fast! I think I mistook Geordie for NI for awhile but I cleared that up. Southern Irish sounds vaguel...
- Tue Dec 03, 2013 11:22 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Help Create the Telanesian Language
- Replies: 56
- Views: 17533
Re: Help Create the Telanesian Language
Consonants reflect their IPA valuesVytautas wrote: p, b, t, d, k, g, m, n, s, l, r (rolled), v, a, e, i (also works as j), o, u, ə, ʊ, ɪ
<p b t d k g m n s l r v>
Vowels treat lax /ʊ ɪ/ as short <u i> and tense /u i/ as long <uu ii>
/a e i~j o u ʊ ɪ ə/
<a e ii o uu u i y>
- Wed Nov 06, 2013 2:07 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: My Avrelang
- Replies: 109
- Views: 27110
Re: My Avrelang
What would "him destroying the city" be then?