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- Mon Jun 20, 2016 6:38 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: ROILA ... this is silly.
- Replies: 0
- Views: 8684
ROILA ... this is silly.
So... this thing's been around a while. It's supposed to be a language to make it easier for humans to talk to computers. So, i bought their book. So far? It's silly. So far as i can tell, it mostly makes it easier on whoever's writing the computer's vocabulary database. Maybe. Ok, first off: vowels...
- Mon Sep 09, 2013 6:58 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Racist words for White People
- Replies: 61
- Views: 12811
Re: Racist words for White People
A famous one that has at least been used derogatively in the past is 'pakeha', 'non-maori', specifically 'white'. I don't know to what extent it's used in a racist way today, though - you'd have to ask a new zealander. Pākehā has never really been used pejoratively; some people don't like the term ...
- Mon Sep 09, 2013 6:22 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: An Attempt to Fix English Spelling (AKA Mission: Impossible)
- Replies: 72
- Views: 14659
Re: An Attempt to Fix English Spelling (AKA Mission: Impossi
Simply marking stress makes English spelling a lot more consistent. After that, the biggest thing is getting the vowels to line up. Very tricky, as it's the main difference in pronounciation between dialects, though less so if stress is marked. Tossing the 'words can't end in v' rule to get ov and o...
- Mon Aug 20, 2012 4:54 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: LCK Two
- Replies: 121
- Views: 23085
Re: LCK Two
yay! ordered! now i just have to wait a month or more for it to show up. seriously, Amazon's shipping rates are insane. order three books for about 60 NZD total, pay about 30NZD in shipping for 'standard' shipping if i wait for them all to be sent at once. (i could have them show up in 2-4 days and ...
- Fri Apr 27, 2012 9:23 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: will have had gone
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3627
Re: will have had gone
So... basically, the 'had' is redundant and doesn't actually contribute anything?
Because so far that's what i'm getting.
Because so far that's what i'm getting.
- Fri Apr 27, 2012 2:35 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: will have had gone
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3627
Re: will have had gone
dunno what's up the double posts, but on the necroing all i can say is 'oops?'Bob Johnson wrote:am I required to doublepost to point out the thread necromancy
thread wasn't far down the list of pages and i didn't notice the date on it.
- Thu Apr 26, 2012 7:51 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: will have had gone
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3627
Re: will have had gone
will_of and would_of are non-things. it's 'will_have' and 'would_have', which are reduced when prounced to "will'v" and "would'v" ... and most people pronounce 'of' as 'v' most of the time. hence the confusion. grammatically that's a 'have' right there. and the 'had' there is usually either 'had to'...
- Thu Apr 26, 2012 7:30 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The word "register"
- Replies: 78
- Views: 9964
Re: The word "register"
My dad's house's heating system Used to be (there have been a bunch of changes since, i believe) something like this: there was a wood burning stove with what was called a 'wetback', which was a chamber behind the firebox which was filled with water (we had this spring a leak INTO the firebox so the...
- Tue Apr 10, 2012 7:11 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Sievers' Law-like phenomenon in English
- Replies: 32
- Views: 5712
Re: Sievers' Law-like phenomenon in English
How would I know that didn't obey English phonotactics => How could/should I have known that I wasn't obeying English phonotactics ... ? "That" here is demonstrative pronoun, with some significant stress, it's not a conjunction. :P In other words, "How would I know [that] that didn't obey English p...
- Tue Apr 10, 2012 7:01 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: A Chinese rant about the French language
- Replies: 32
- Views: 6809
Re: A Chinese rant about the French language
in New Zealand the phone numbers are written as (0X) xxx-xxxx, unless it's a mobile number in which case it's (02X) xxx-xxxx. or a number where you're going to get billed extra per minute for the service, or the business at the other end will pay for it, which is 0X00 XXX XXX or 0X00 XX XX XX. (that...
- Thu Mar 15, 2012 5:52 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Maori
- Replies: 102
- Views: 18475
Re: Maori
If you haven't realised already that talking to Turtlehead is effectively a waste of time, now might be a good time. I realised long ago. People are too nice to him - designing him a 12-case conlang for instance, when it was obvious he didn't know cases from jackshit. There is always time to learn,...
- Wed Mar 14, 2012 8:10 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Maori
- Replies: 102
- Views: 18475
Re: Maori
If you haven't realised already that talking to Turtlehead is effectively a waste of time, now might be a good time. I realised long ago. People are too nice to him - designing him a 12-case conlang for instance, when it was obvious he didn't know cases from jackshit. There is always time to learn,...
- Mon Feb 27, 2012 8:41 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Maori
- Replies: 102
- Views: 18475
Re: Maori
which parts of Australia was that about anyway? the south east of Australia, where for a Long time the accent had more in common with NZ than with the rest of Australia, or other parts with a more stereotypical 'Australian' accent? because even if the difference is small, in the latter case Kiwi's w...
- Mon Feb 20, 2012 4:42 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Your Native Language
- Replies: 228
- Views: 35194
Re: Your Native Language
English. specifically New Zealand English. more specifically that variety spoken in and around Christchurch, usually by people with more formal education than i and usually not by those less well off economically. with added bonus random South African influences by way of my mum and her stepdad, des...
- Tue Feb 14, 2012 8:53 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: LCK Two
- Replies: 121
- Views: 23085
Re: LCK Two
also, copulas. not sure how much about them was in the first LCK, but those things are an absolute pain to figure out. they confuse me so. worse than subordinate clauses actually. (subordinate clauses are a pain to sort out, but once wrestled into submission aren't a big deal. copulas continue to b...
- Tue Feb 14, 2012 10:52 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: LCK Two
- Replies: 121
- Views: 23085
Re: LCK Two
I suppose also the few English words (most or all borrowings) which vary by gender (blond/blonde, widower/widow, fiancé/fiancée, actor/actress, hunter/huntress). There are also the archaic -tor/-trix pairs (administrator/administratrix, aviator/aviatrix, executor/executrix). then there's all the an...
- Mon Feb 06, 2012 6:21 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: LCK Two
- Replies: 121
- Views: 23085
Re: LCK Two
also, copulas. not sure how much about them was in the first LCK, but those things are an absolute pain to figure out. they confuse me so. worse than subordinate clauses actually. (subordinate clauses are a pain to sort out, but once wrestled into submission aren't a big deal. copulas continue to ba...
- Tue Jan 31, 2012 4:13 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Maori
- Replies: 102
- Views: 18475
Re: Maori
Think you mean 'kea'. Well that is one possible effect - tho it's more common in politically correct written sources than in speech - using zero plural on Mãori-derived words. It's reinforced by the zero plurals in standard English for some animals, eg sheep, deer which seems to be spreading in NZE...
- Mon Jan 30, 2012 12:22 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Maori
- Replies: 102
- Views: 18475
Re: Maori
ehh, i get the distinct impression that interaction with the Maori language may be part of why NZ's vowels are quite how they are... plus a whole lot of names for various flora and fauna... don't have any data to say much else. Actually, no. NZ English vowels are only marginally different from Aust...
- Sun Jan 29, 2012 4:38 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: LCK Two
- Replies: 121
- Views: 23085
Re: LCK Two
Something I thought of might be where to go to get cheap/accessible natlang resources: e.g. not all conlangers are going to have the financial resources to shell out for good-quality dictionaries or grammars of dozens of languages. heck, even trying to FIND grammars is a bit of a mission in and of ...
- Sun Jan 29, 2012 12:14 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Overall and Sobretodo vs. Over all and Sobre todo
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3957
Re: Overall and Sobretodo vs. Over all and Sobre todo
... because the odds of it being called that in both languages because in both cases you wear it Over Everything Else are so low? (so far as i'm aware, mind you, here abouts 'overalls' refer primarily to a single item of clothing that covers one from ankles to wrists to neck (though more 'stylish' (...
- Sat Jan 28, 2012 11:56 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: LCK Two
- Replies: 121
- Views: 23085
Re: LCK Two
one of several things I've always had trouble with is figuring out how the heck to lay out the grammar of my con lang logically so i can actually find things again. how things should be grouped and organised and such. the example in the back of the LCK was of limited utility for this, as, obviously,...
- Sat Jan 28, 2012 11:33 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Maori
- Replies: 102
- Views: 18475
Re: Maori
ehh, i get the distinct impression that interaction with the Maori language may be part of why NZ's vowels are quite how they are... plus a whole lot of names for various flora and fauna... don't have any data to say much else.
- Fri Nov 25, 2011 2:07 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The Innovative Usage Thread
- Replies: 2452
- Views: 420314
Re: The Innovative Usage Thread
"Do you want that I should...?" "Please make the dining room walk-through-able." Neither of these are really innovative. The latter just looks a bit strange written down, the former is an age-old non-standardism. ayup. weird hyphenated verb structure with 'able' tacked on the end is pretty common. ...
- Wed Nov 23, 2011 11:38 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The Innovative Usage Thread
- Replies: 2452
- Views: 420314
Re: The Innovative Usage Thread
and then some.Theta wrote:Man colloquial English is wacky.
(... ... fear my content free sentence! fear it i say!)