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by Gaxa
Thu Aug 31, 2017 10:27 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Languages with optional person indexing on verbs
Replies: 4
Views: 2522

Re: Languages with optional person indexing on verbs

Bantu languages have optional object marking on verbs (here's a paper about this) . As far as I know you don't find optional subject agreement though. Here's the first example from that paper from Chichewa (SM is "subject marker", OM is "object marker", and FV is the "final vowel" that appears on Ba...
by Gaxa
Sun Nov 06, 2011 10:39 pm
Forum: None of the above
Topic: ZBB member photos, part 5. (Something for the weekend, sir?)
Replies: 5496
Views: 772956

Re: ZBB member photos, part 5. (camel toes.)

Go to the Wikipedia article on interrobangs and copy+paste.

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by Gaxa
Sun Oct 02, 2011 8:56 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Conlangery Podcast (Latest Ep: #94: Face and Politeness)
Replies: 974
Views: 178783

Re: Conlangery Podcast (Latest Ep: #17: Aspect)

I would recommend the ZBB's MisterBernie's Baranxeï, as he has somewhat recently made some additions to his thread here.

It's rather detailed, very interesting, and very creative.

Though someone might have already suggested it...
by Gaxa
Sat May 21, 2011 10:02 pm
Forum: C&C Archive
Topic: Chinese whispers / retrofitting game
Replies: 209
Views: 37426

Re: Chinese whispers / retrofitting game

Replace all words with nearest English equivalent using Gedit's spellcheck, then run text through Bad Translator 10n times for each chunk n of 250 characters. Actual size oak Kosiguin agreement in the air. Tina is not idle, ready to be a window, T-roof sales history of a taxi for a long time Banv co...
by Gaxa
Tue May 17, 2011 8:25 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Words that are their own opposites
Replies: 107
Views: 14213

Re: Words that are their own opposites

"Bitch" varies wildly among dialects, and even just by the tone of the speaker's voice.
by Gaxa
Wed Sep 29, 2010 6:29 pm
Forum: None of the above
Topic: The Official ZBB Quote Thread
Replies: 2878
Views: 641360

Torco wrote:If a woman sez size matter, I'm not arguing
by Gaxa
Wed Sep 29, 2010 6:26 pm
Forum: None of the above
Topic: Linguistic Quackery Thread, take 2
Replies: 812
Views: 205285

"Chinese comes from Tamil, and Japanese comes from Chinese! Stop with your stupid Proto-Sino-Tibetian nonsense and Altaic stupidity!"

Summing up a conversation I had with an Indian friend of mine.
by Gaxa
Sun Sep 26, 2010 1:15 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Velarization
Replies: 2
Views: 1234

Thank you, that is exactly what I was looking for.
by Gaxa
Sun Sep 26, 2010 12:37 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Velarization
Replies: 2
Views: 1234

Velarization

Are there any languages that contrast plain consonants and velarized ones (no velarized/palatalized contrast, but plain/velarized) on consonants other than /l/?
by Gaxa
Sun Sep 19, 2010 9:58 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Hurrian
Replies: 24
Views: 5277

In other words: everyone
by Gaxa
Sun Aug 29, 2010 8:59 pm
Forum: None of the above
Topic: ZBB member photos, part 5. (Something for the weekend, sir?)
Replies: 5496
Views: 772956

I used to have a grasshopper (a she), that was, ironically, named Николай Николаевич Николайев (nikolai nikolaievich nikolaiev). She died a few days ago, after laying some eggs.
by Gaxa
Sat Aug 28, 2010 9:17 pm
Forum: C&C Archive
Topic: [Updated 6/18] Proto-Deithas grammar pdf (you better look)
Replies: 59
Views: 13433

A nitpick (from page 33):

"Despite its Cartesian fullness, this system is hardly regularly, oftentimes triggering a sandhi process (5.6.a)."

I assume it should read hardly regular.
by Gaxa
Fri Aug 13, 2010 8:04 am
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: Most difficult aspect of your native language for foreigners
Replies: 128
Views: 56345

Palatalization, for Russian.

Either they overdo it, or underdo it.
by Gaxa
Mon Aug 09, 2010 1:06 pm
Forum: None of the above
Topic: Restrictive use of IPA...
Replies: 67
Views: 16425

*switch*

yay no more boxes
by Gaxa
Mon Aug 09, 2010 9:40 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Lexicon Building
Replies: 4308
Views: 791850

Christoph Schrader wrote:Hugnarian
Spoken by the Hugs?
by Gaxa
Fri Jul 23, 2010 12:34 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Lexicon Building
Replies: 4308
Views: 791850

fryxweng /fryxʷeŋ/ - be devoted, dote, adore, care for

next: iteration
by Gaxa
Sun Feb 14, 2010 6:10 pm
Forum: None of the above
Topic: The Official ZBB Quote Thread
Replies: 2878
Views: 641360

Strange, like everything else in the world.
by Gaxa
Sun Feb 14, 2010 6:00 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Weird natlang phonologies
Replies: 121
Views: 34769

That's not the problem; I know the difference. :oops:
by Gaxa
Sun Feb 14, 2010 9:16 am
Forum: None of the above
Topic: The Official ZBB Quote Thread
Replies: 2878
Views: 641360

Jnvlv wrote:Ok thanks guys but I don't want it to be all weird and freaky. I will post more stuff some may be close to English and some won't be at all.
Why do newbies think the English is "normal" and everything else is "weird and freaky"?
by Gaxa
Sun Feb 14, 2010 9:09 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Weird natlang phonologies
Replies: 121
Views: 34769

finlay wrote:
Gaxa wrote:Fur has [z] as an allophone of /j/
Fixed.

[] stand for allophones/phonetic transcriptions, // for phonemes.
Thanks. :oops:
by Gaxa
Sat Feb 13, 2010 9:26 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Weird natlang phonologies
Replies: 121
Views: 34769

Fur has [z] as an allophone of /j/

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