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- Sat Aug 15, 2015 6:38 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Categorizing Etihus
- Replies: 23
- Views: 6804
Re: Categorizing Etihus
Note that direct alignment means that the categories of A, O and S are not morphologically marked. That's not the definition I'm familiar with; in direct alignment, as I understand it, S/O/A have no distinguishing morphosyntactic marking at all , and agent/patient relationships are just marked prag...
- Thu Jan 31, 2013 1:21 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Help your conlang fluency (2)
- Replies: 6633
- Views: 754628
Re: Help your conlang fluency
Ué ttujukágohoqaìqu.
hark eat<LEAD-1.LEAD.sg-PRFV-INTR.IND-edible.INAN.sg-before<LOC.INAN>>
I already ate it.
hark eat<LEAD-1.LEAD.sg-PRFV-INTR.IND-edible.INAN.sg-before<LOC.INAN>>
I already ate it.
- Sun Jan 13, 2013 9:18 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Most beautiful/ugliest languages
- Replies: 119
- Views: 27244
Re: Most beautiful/ugliest languages
I learned some Montana Salish from a coworker at a language revitalization project, who was from the Flathead reservation. It's amazing.
- Sun Jan 13, 2013 9:15 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Culture test (you might be a X if...)
- Replies: 20
- Views: 6721
Re: Culture test (you might be a X if...)
I'm afraid there is only room for one Native-American-rip-off wolf-shapeshifting con-culture on this forum, thank you very much. We must therefore duel to the death. Here is your salmon.IndieAuthor wrote:You are a shapeshifter, and can turn into a wolf at will, as can all the Dɹeyò, your race.
En garde.
- Tue Jan 01, 2013 4:13 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Conlangery Podcast (Latest Ep: #94: Face and Politeness)
- Replies: 974
- Views: 180260
Re: Conlangery Podcast (Latest Ep: SHORTS #03: Expand Lexeme
I don't see how that's worse than learning separate words, just the opposite in fact, unless the dictionary isn't very good; they should be included along with the senses of words. Whether or not it's "worse" isn't the point. It just means the claim that the language "only has 800 words" is rather ...
- Fri Dec 14, 2012 8:04 am
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: I wish English had a word for this!
- Replies: 333
- Views: 149094
Re: I wish English had a word for this!
"to obligate sbdy to accomodate you"
"I don't typically eat meat, but I didn't say anything at that point because I didn't want to _______ him."
"I don't typically eat meat, but I didn't say anything at that point because I didn't want to _______ him."
- Sun Nov 25, 2012 3:32 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The Official ZBB Quote Thread
- Replies: 2878
- Views: 647637
Re: The Official ZBB Quote Thread
voilaBryan wrote:Surely what I like is... what I like because of how it is, not my preconceptions.
- Sun Nov 25, 2012 3:29 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Most beautiful/ugliest languages
- Replies: 119
- Views: 27244
Re: Most beautiful/ugliest languages
laaaawl!Bryan wrote:Surely what I like is... what I like because of how it is, not my preconceptions.
- Thu Jun 07, 2012 7:31 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: What do these languages have in common?
- Replies: 71
- Views: 11296
Re: What do these languages have in common?
i'll go by which ever moves toward simplicity. Gender and number agreement don't contribute anything (as far as i can see), so i'll likely ditch them. But first, i wanna know how they compare. i'm expecting this to be challenging. That's what makes it interesting to me. Plus, i'll learn a great dea...
- Thu May 31, 2012 2:12 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: التلفون المتعدد اللغات ١٦ (Polyglottal Telephone XVI)
- Replies: 157
- Views: 27483
Re: التلفون المتعدد اللغات ١٦ (Polyglottal Telephone XVI)
Torch passed to Treskro.
Yeeeehawwwww
Yeeeehawwwww
- Wed May 30, 2012 4:09 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: التلفون المتعدد اللغات ١٦ (Polyglottal Telephone XVI)
- Replies: 157
- Views: 27483
Re: التلفون المتعدد اللغات ١٦ (Polyglottal Telephone XVI)
Yayuuuuuuuuh
Sorry for the delay on my end. It's just about wrapped up—I'll be sending it on tomorrow for sure.
Sorry for the delay on my end. It's just about wrapped up—I'll be sending it on tomorrow for sure.
- Mon May 21, 2012 2:42 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: التلفون المتعدد اللغات ١٦ (Polyglottal Telephone XVI)
- Replies: 157
- Views: 27483
Re: التلفون المتعدد اللغات ١٦ (Polyglottal Telephone XVI)
Received.
Yowza.
Yowza.
- Mon May 07, 2012 3:12 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: ZBB member photos, part 5. (Something for the weekend, sir?)
- Replies: 5496
- Views: 782837
Re: ZBB member photos, part 5. (Something for the weekend, s
you mean a hair poin*brick'd*
- Sun May 06, 2012 7:14 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: ZBB member photos, part 5. (Something for the weekend, sir?)
- Replies: 5496
- Views: 782837
Re: ZBB member photos, part 5. (Something for the weekend, s
that's *because* you haven't shaved in three years. You don't get an awesome beard without shaving. I'm pretty sure that's an urban myth, innit? I dunno, it's rumored to be one, but I get the feeling it works. I used to have long hair that was thin and balding, and then I shaved my head daily for l...
- Wed May 02, 2012 5:37 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: التلفون المتعدد اللغات ١٦ (Polyglottal Telephone XVI)
- Replies: 157
- Views: 27483
Re: التلفون المتعدد اللغات ١٦ (Polyglottal Telephone XVI)
Do we have a start date?
- Wed Apr 25, 2012 2:58 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: التلفون المتعدد اللغات ١٦ (Polyglottal Telephone XVI)
- Replies: 157
- Views: 27483
Re: التلفون المتعدد اللغات ١٦ (Polyglottal Telephone XVI)
From/to: English, Chinuk Wawa, Mandarin, Spanish
- Tue Apr 24, 2012 6:27 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Evolving Language Experiment Experiment [RESULTS!]
- Replies: 42
- Views: 7921
Re: Evolving Language Experiment Experiment
In each "round," a person will be shown a picture which has been named by another participant, and then another, unnamed picture, which they will then need to assign a name. After they name this picture, in the next round another participant will see the name they gave to that picture, and another,...
- Thu Apr 19, 2012 9:47 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Nice sounding natlangs
- Replies: 391
- Views: 67463
Re: Nice sounding natlangs
How much spoken German have you actually heard? Most Americans' exposure is hearing Nazis bark orders in war films. Imagine if your entire exposure to English consisted of the drill instructor in Full Metal Jacket . Sure, some German-speakers sound like that. And some sound like this: http://www.yo...
- Tue Mar 20, 2012 11:30 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Languages with Few Parts of Speech
- Replies: 16
- Views: 4853
Re: Languages with Few Parts of Speech
I'm almost certain that a language with one part of speech is flat-out impossible. You need verbs, at least. A language that has only nouns would have no way of expression actions (which the entire point of language), and if it has "nouns" that express actions, those are just verbs under a differen...
- Mon Mar 12, 2012 3:02 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Polysynthesis for Novices
- Replies: 170
- Views: 190621
Re: Polysynthesis for Novices
Awesome!
What are some techniques for analyzing word boundaries? How do you tell the difference between a polysynthetic language and a less-synthetic language written without spaces?
What are some techniques for analyzing word boundaries? How do you tell the difference between a polysynthetic language and a less-synthetic language written without spaces?
- Thu Mar 08, 2012 6:20 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Need tips ! Teaching my language to a foreigner
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2687
Re: Need tips ! Teaching my language to a foreigner
This sounds a lot like the WAYK system, which I like a lot. In particular, it resembles one of the "canonical" WAYK games, "The Walk." Here's what pointers I can provide: Like Astraios, I'd recommend against focusing too much on vocabulary. Vocabulary is fairly easy to pick up on the fly—teach him h...
- Sat Mar 03, 2012 3:11 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Our own nat- and conlang tongue twisters
- Replies: 157
- Views: 24774
Re: Our own nat- and conlang tongue twisters
Recent discovery in Feayran:
Síi skiskililhálsiski!
[çi˦ɪ̯˨ ʃkʰi˨.ʃkʰi˨.li˨.ɬa˦.lçi˩.ʃkʰi˩]
yikes INTENS~tricky<FOLLOW-ESSENTIAL-IND-FEM:FOLLOW.SG>
She's an awfully devious one!
Síi skiskililhálsiski!
[çi˦ɪ̯˨ ʃkʰi˨.ʃkʰi˨.li˨.ɬa˦.lçi˩.ʃkʰi˩]
yikes INTENS~tricky<FOLLOW-ESSENTIAL-IND-FEM:FOLLOW.SG>
She's an awfully devious one!
- Tue Feb 14, 2012 5:53 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: TECH: Interlinear glosses Wordpress plugin
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2824
Re: TECH: Interlinear glosses Wordpress plugin
Awesome! The specifiable dividing character is a nice feature, but an even nicer feature would be if you could specify a set of characters instead of just one, and if delimiting characters were (optionally?) not removed from the final gloss. This would allow people to separate columns by both word a...
- Mon Feb 13, 2012 12:15 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Anyone learning rare/endangered languages?
- Replies: 65
- Views: 10091
Re: Anyone learning rare/endangered languages?
I was working at a language revitalization project last summer and learned Chinuk Wawa to fluency--I've been teaching it to some friends at school so I have someone to talk to. One is conversational so far, another is close. This summer I'm going to be working with the same organization in Montana (...
- Sun Dec 11, 2011 10:42 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Any Athabaskan/Na-Dene grammars?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1636