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by Trailsend
Sat Aug 15, 2015 6:38 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Categorizing Etihus
Replies: 23
Views: 6693

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...
by Trailsend
Thu Jan 31, 2013 1:21 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Help your conlang fluency (2)
Replies: 6633
Views: 726076

Re: Help your conlang fluency

Ué ttujukágohoqaìqu. :evil:
hark eat<LEAD-1.LEAD.sg-PRFV-INTR.IND-edible.INAN.sg-before<LOC.INAN>>
I already ate it.
by Trailsend
Sun Jan 13, 2013 9:18 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Most beautiful/ugliest languages
Replies: 119
Views: 26744

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.
by Trailsend
Sun Jan 13, 2013 9:15 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Culture test (you might be a X if...)
Replies: 20
Views: 6533

Re: Culture test (you might be a X if...)

IndieAuthor wrote:You are a shapeshifter, and can turn into a wolf at will, as can all the Dɹeyò, your race.
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.

En garde.
by Trailsend
Tue Jan 01, 2013 4:13 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Conlangery Podcast (Latest Ep: #94: Face and Politeness)
Replies: 974
Views: 177242

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 ...
by Trailsend
Fri Dec 14, 2012 8:04 am
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: I wish English had a word for this!
Replies: 333
Views: 145525

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."
by Trailsend
Sun Nov 25, 2012 3:32 am
Forum: None of the above
Topic: The Official ZBB Quote Thread
Replies: 2878
Views: 636859

Re: The Official ZBB Quote Thread

Bryan wrote:Surely what I like is... what I like because of how it is, not my preconceptions.
voila
by Trailsend
Sun Nov 25, 2012 3:29 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Most beautiful/ugliest languages
Replies: 119
Views: 26744

Re: Most beautiful/ugliest languages

Bryan wrote:Surely what I like is... what I like because of how it is, not my preconceptions.
laaaawl!
by Trailsend
Thu Jun 07, 2012 7:31 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: What do these languages have in common?
Replies: 71
Views: 11035

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...
by Trailsend
Wed May 30, 2012 4:09 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: التلفون المتعدد اللغات ١٦ (Polyglottal Telephone XVI)
Replies: 157
Views: 26899

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.
by Trailsend
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: 764668

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...
by Trailsend
Tue Apr 24, 2012 6:27 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Evolving Language Experiment Experiment [RESULTS!]
Replies: 42
Views: 7764

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,...
by Trailsend
Thu Apr 19, 2012 9:47 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Nice sounding natlangs
Replies: 391
Views: 66106

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...
by Trailsend
Tue Mar 20, 2012 11:30 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Languages with Few Parts of Speech
Replies: 16
Views: 4788

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...
by Trailsend
Mon Mar 12, 2012 3:02 pm
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: Polysynthesis for Novices
Replies: 170
Views: 187712

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?
by Trailsend
Thu Mar 08, 2012 6:20 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Need tips ! Teaching my language to a foreigner
Replies: 12
Views: 2652

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...
by Trailsend
Sat Mar 03, 2012 3:11 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Our own nat- and conlang tongue twisters
Replies: 157
Views: 24270

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!
by Trailsend
Tue Feb 14, 2012 5:53 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: TECH: Interlinear glosses Wordpress plugin
Replies: 13
Views: 2793

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...
by Trailsend
Mon Feb 13, 2012 12:15 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Anyone learning rare/endangered languages?
Replies: 65
Views: 9784

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 (...