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by darkworldsawake
Wed Aug 11, 2010 11:47 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Arabic lessons: Lesson 3
Replies: 52
Views: 32041

I'd definitely be interested, especially as regards the morphological system.
by darkworldsawake
Thu Aug 05, 2010 8:15 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Flags
Replies: 396
Views: 101875

Well, my flag is a raised fist (representing total submission to the God King) on a red circle (representing the fertile fields and valleys in which crops are grown) on an orange background (representing the general uselessness of color symbolism).
by darkworldsawake
Wed Aug 04, 2010 2:51 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Reverse Polish Notation vs. Strictly Left-Branching Language
Replies: 3
Views: 2541

Ah, thank you, that's quite helpful.

Also: given that the arguments must precede the predicate in RPN, it seems that it would be impossible to do what lojban does and skip unimportant arguments without using placeholders. Can anyone think of an elegant syntactical solution to this?
by darkworldsawake
Wed Aug 04, 2010 12:55 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Reverse Polish Notation vs. Strictly Left-Branching Language
Replies: 3
Views: 2541

Reverse Polish Notation vs. Strictly Left-Branching Language

Hello, this is my first post--I would have introduced myself somewhere else, and sans wall o' text below, but there didn't seem to be a thread for that. Reverse Polish Notation is a self-parsing syntax where operators (which would include things like verbs, adpositions--any modifier, basically) succ...