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- Fri Nov 15, 2013 7:11 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Efficiency of languages and conlangs
- Replies: 25
- Views: 6281
Re: Efficiency of languages and conlangs
I'd disagree. A Greek I hang out with regularly speaks some rapid-fire Greek, as did the Greeks in Greece proper.
- Fri Nov 15, 2013 6:24 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: What are you listening to? -- Non-English Edition
- Replies: 1735
- Views: 366910
- Fri Nov 15, 2013 5:49 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The Conlanger's Ideal Software Friend
- Replies: 27
- Views: 8611
Re: The Conlanger's Ideal Software Friend
Would be fun to do one in brainfuck. Would be more fun to saw off both legs without painkillers. I am reminded that, once again, no matter the field, there is always a joke that a novice will make in order to appear witty and well-informed. >+<+[>[>[-]+<-]>[<+>>+++++++++++++++[>++++++>++>+++++>+++<...
- Fri Nov 15, 2013 6:13 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Sound Change Game
- Replies: 2673
- Views: 513778
Re: Sound Change Game
Proto-Bakarh *tithaŋa [titʰæŋæ] Proto-Southern-Bakaric [ˈscʰɛɲɛ]Linguifex wrote:Tsols Oswahe titeye [tiˈt͜ɕeje]
- Fri Nov 15, 2013 6:01 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The Conlanger's Ideal Software Friend
- Replies: 27
- Views: 8611
Re: The Conlanger's Ideal Software Friend
Would be fun to do one in brainfuck. Would be more fun to saw off both legs without painkillers.
- Thu Nov 14, 2013 7:19 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Messed Up Mythology
- Replies: 30
- Views: 7762
Re: Messed Up Mythology
People you're all looking at the wrong place; Japanese myths are the way to go. Susanoo craps in temples and throws flayed horses at other gods, Izanagi pisses and makes a handful kami and a river, Ukemochi makes a feast by shitting and vomiting in plates, then you have the Akaname that licks crap o...
- Sat Sep 28, 2013 1:41 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: SCA2 questions
- Replies: 87
- Views: 30250
Re: SCA2 question
The yers behave pretty damn strange, so even if he uses the symbols for the yers, instead of his current convention to denote them with short vowels, he probs can't think of a way to make Havlík's Law to work which is what I think he was gettin at
(damn ninjas)
(damn ninjas)
- Thu Sep 19, 2013 3:04 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Most Insane Languages
- Replies: 27
- Views: 23808
Re: Most Insane Languages
WHO DIDN'T NOMINATE SAANICH FOR ORTHOGRAPHY FUCKERY I WAS GOING TO BUT KEPT GETTING DISTRACTED, SERIOUSLY I HAD THE FUCKING WINDOW OPEN SAYING FUCKING SAANICH ON 3 LINES saanich is optimized for typewriters, so at least it is optimized for *something* surely it is better than the other salishan lan...
- Thu Sep 19, 2013 2:52 am
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: resources
- Replies: 722
- Views: 315749
Re: resources
Oh goddamn it here is sth. from Karanjia on Avestan (Avestan - Teach Yourself!)
- Wed Sep 18, 2013 2:43 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Wenetic Scratchpad- NP: Gods above.
- Replies: 82
- Views: 35337
Re: Wenetic Scratchpad- NP: Firstborn Daughter. Come say "aw
There are a septilliard languages that don't distinguish the active and subjunctive.Chagen wrote:Your weak verbs show that the Subjunctive has merged in the Present Passive. How does the language deal with this when a clause normally requires the subjunctive?
- Wed Sep 18, 2013 2:39 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: resources
- Replies: 722
- Views: 315749
Re: resources
Oh, I didn't see.
(T)he(y) put it below Young Avestan so my brain just skipped to Old Persian.
Edit:
Just so this post isn't useless, I also found an Avestan glossary
(T)he(y) put it below Young Avestan so my brain just skipped to Old Persian.
Edit:
Just so this post isn't useless, I also found an Avestan glossary
- Wed Sep 18, 2013 5:17 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Ktarh Scratchpad
- Replies: 49
- Views: 10310
Re: Ktarh Scratchpad
:> Tense, person, number In Kti, these three categories are usually conflated into one suffix, so I'll treat them together. Ktarh tense is called that out of convenience: the tenses are more often than not tense-aspect combinations. The reason some of these tenses are called tenses is that Kti alrea...
- Wed Sep 18, 2013 4:17 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: PIE Root-Extensions
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3205
Re: PIE Root-Extensions
Nostratic's just one of the assumed predecessors.
I'm a subscriber to Indo-Uralic, so that's another alternative
I'm a subscriber to Indo-Uralic, so that's another alternative
- Wed Sep 18, 2013 3:36 am
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: resources
- Replies: 722
- Views: 315749
Re: resources
Oh lol that link includes every stage excepting Old Avestan
- Wed Sep 18, 2013 3:27 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Hengese
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1514
Re: Hengese
No, the practice is to make threads on a non-pruning subforum when you plan on doing some more serious work.
- Sun Sep 15, 2013 11:46 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Romanization challenge thread
- Replies: 3842
- Views: 871973
Re: Romanization challenge thread
Tosk as Rusanov's: /m n ɲ ŋ/ <q m ü e> /p b t d c ɟ k g/ <u w p b c č l r> /ts dz tʃ dʒ/ <pv bf po ba> /f v θ ð s z ʃ ʒ h/ <i j k g v f o a t> /ɾ r ɫ l j/ <x ö d y ŋ> /a e ə o i y u/ <s š ï h z ž ħ> /mbuʃni ɲə enə tə maðe me ujə mbi zjar ðe kuɾ tə fiɫojə tə vlojə/ <qwħomz üï šmï pï qsgš qš ħŋï qwz f...
- Sun Sep 15, 2013 7:53 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Romanization challenge thread
- Replies: 3842
- Views: 871973
Re: Romanization challenge thread
A challenge for experienced conlangers: Romanize the following OK Consonants : m n ŋ~w <q m e> p t k c <u p l c> b d g ɟ <w b r č> pʰ tʰ kʰ cʰ <ku kp kl kc> bʱ dʱ gʱ ɟʱ <gw gb gr gč> f s h x ʃ <i v k t o> v z ɦ ɣ ʒ <j f g d a> l r ʁ <y x ö> j ɥ <ŋ ü> Stressed vowels : a: e: i: o: y: o̯a <s š z h ž ...
- Sun Sep 15, 2013 6:50 am
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: resources
- Replies: 722
- Views: 315749
Re: resources
I found a rather good grammar of Old Avestan by Skjærvø
- Sun Sep 15, 2013 6:29 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: An Attempt to Fix English Spelling (AKA Mission: Impossible)
- Replies: 72
- Views: 14930
Re: An Attempt to Fix English Spelling (AKA Mission: Impossi
Also /liːd /riːd/ vs. /lɛd rɛd/, compare /spiːd/ vs. /spɛd/
- Sat Sep 14, 2013 3:53 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: From X-SAMPA phonology to screenreader-friendly script
- Replies: 93
- Views: 20262
Re: From X-SAMPA phonology to screenreader-friendly script
Oh my... I... I never knew. Rusanov can go suck a quintuple hydra dick that ableist bastard. Wow. Kti: Consonants /t d k ?/ <t d k ' > /s z S Z x/ <s z sh zh h> /m n r/ <m n r> Vowels /i i: u u:/ <i ī u ū> /E E: 3/ 3/: O O:/ <e ē æ ǣ o ō> /a a:/ <a ā> (The vowels are written as letters with a macron...
- Fri Aug 02, 2013 11:20 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Conlanging Software Wish List
- Replies: 31
- Views: 8142
Re: Conlanging Software Wish List
An inflection engine, which takes into account all rules of inflection and displays various inflected forms. This engine should be capable of handling inflection with affixes, clitics, independent particles, or discontinuous morphology (infixes, stress shifts, apophony, etc.). With the same technol...
- Tue Jul 16, 2013 3:08 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Kool map game
- Replies: 369
- Views: 100195
Re: Kool map game
Boingopolis, popularly known as Boingia, is a huge city-state on the Mellow Swamplands. Its politics involve jumping around all day while spewing bullshit.
- Tue Jun 25, 2013 7:34 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Sound Change Quickie Thread
- Replies: 2827
- Views: 633559
Re: Sound Change Quickie Thread
Assuming /ɶ/ is your rounded /æ/, I would say this looks OK.
- Sun Jun 23, 2013 3:12 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Sound Change Quickie Thread
- Replies: 2827
- Views: 633559
Re: Sound Change Quickie Thread
/ŋeri/ or /geri/ from me then. /fari/ or /feri/ just seems a bit too-entusiastic.
Russian all the way on it
Russian all the way on it
- Sat Jun 22, 2013 5:59 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Standard Average Altaic
- Replies: 45
- Views: 9753
Re: Standard Average Altaic
Mongolian, Turkish, Japanese, by your powers combined I am Standard Average Altaic