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- Mon Nov 14, 2011 2:34 pm
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: Post Your Conlang's Inspiration
- Replies: 112
- Views: 55507
Re: Post your conlang's inspiration
I've recently jumped on the Finno-Ugric/Uralic boat too. My latest conlang is based largely on an attempt at hybridizing the phonologies and grammars of Hungarian and Gaelic (keeping some sort of vowel harmony while having a broad/slender consonant distinction). It's ergative and sort of non-configu...
- Sun Oct 09, 2011 6:35 pm
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: The Semantic Drift Thread
- Replies: 127
- Views: 49383
Re: The Semantic Drift Thread
greeting > bow > prostrate oneself > bring tribute > give > give up, go without > forsake > treason
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- Fri Sep 16, 2011 2:35 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: How to design a non-European phonology
- Replies: 622
- Views: 171032
Re: How to design a non-European phonology
I wonder what a phonology that violated as many of these as possible would look like... Stops: t tʰ tʼ tʷ q qʰ qʼ qʷ ʔ Coarticulated t͡q t͡qʰ (eurgh, that feels weird to pronounce) Nasals: ɴ Laterals: ɬ ɬʼ ɴ and ɬ can be syllabic. Otherwise, syllable structure is strictly CV. Vowels: a i ɯ a̰ ḭ ɯ̰ 5...
- Wed Sep 14, 2011 9:20 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Prevalence of spelling reforms
- Replies: 30
- Views: 5489
Re: Prevalence of spelling reforms
This is pure speculation, but it could be that speakers of a language with almost phonemic spelling are more accepting of spelling reforms than those of more heinously-spelt languages, because the changes are less drastic. Someone familiar with reformed German orthography would no doubt still be abl...
- Wed Sep 14, 2011 1:01 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Linguistic resources you wish actually existed
- Replies: 100
- Views: 14346
Re: Linguistic resources you wish actually existed
Oh, and I want a grammar of Pirahã. I actually have that somewhere. Do you recall who it's by? Or what the title is? I've searched for "Pirahã Grammar" but all I've found is Everett's "Cultural Constraints on Grammar and Cognition in Pirahã" and Don't Sleep, There are Snakes . But what I really wan...
- Wed Sep 14, 2011 12:41 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The Innovative Usage Thread
- Replies: 2452
- Views: 425990
Re: The Innovative Usage Thread
Re: the "sir" thing, I think Torco may be using it already!
http://zbb.spinnwebe.com/viewtopic.php?p=908520#p908520
Maybe not quite "affectionate and gender-neutral", but not the traditional formal sense either.
http://zbb.spinnwebe.com/viewtopic.php?p=908520#p908520
Maybe not quite "affectionate and gender-neutral", but not the traditional formal sense either.
- Wed Sep 14, 2011 12:06 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The Innovative Usage Thread
- Replies: 2452
- Views: 425990
Re: The Innovative Usage Thread
I often use "sir" as an affectionate (and gender-neutral) term of address for my close friends and sister. All of the people I use it with have picked it up too. I often wonder what would happen if it became commonly used, and what would replace "sir" as a formal term of address.
- Fri Sep 09, 2011 6:16 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Linguistic resources you wish actually existed
- Replies: 100
- Views: 14346
Re: Linguistic resources you wish actually existed
Oh, and I want a grammar of Pirahã.
- Wed Sep 07, 2011 4:35 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Head-first compound words
- Replies: 29
- Views: 6226
Re: Head-first compound words
Couldn't "El Hombre araña" be analysed as having 'hombre' as an adjective. I'm sure I've read that adjectives before the noun in Spanish tend to have a slightly different nuance (such as unexpectedness - man-spiders are quite unexpected...). That's how I processed it in my brain, but I'm not a nati...
- Wed Sep 07, 2011 12:55 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Head-first compound words
- Replies: 29
- Views: 6226
Re: Head-first compound words
El Hombre araña (the man spider) 'Spiderman' (appositive noun-noun compound: a man that is also a spider) (el) sacapuntas (takes.out-tips) '(pencil) sharpener' (verb-noun compound, more literally, 'a tip takeouter') (la) nochebuena (night-good) 'Christmas Eve' (noun-adj compound) (la) medianoche (m...
- Wed Sep 07, 2011 12:31 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Linguistic resources you wish actually existed
- Replies: 100
- Views: 14346
Re: Linguistic resources you wish actually existed
[magical device] Hey Lyhoko, you know how they say Superman is a boring superhero because he has too many powers, can do anything, and is pretty much invincible? No, of course you don't. Yeah, I agree that a comic book with that device as the protagonist would be pretty shitty :roll: I wish there w...
- Wed Sep 07, 2011 10:35 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Sociolinguistics wtf?
- Replies: 43
- Views: 6855
Re: Sociolinguistics wtf?
Post a recording? I have no idea what that would even sound like. Also, the IPA chart says it's impossible.Okuno wrote: I can do a velar trill.
- Mon Sep 05, 2011 12:55 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Post your conlang's phonology
- Replies: 2278
- Views: 511896
Re: Post your conlang's phonology
Welcome to the board! Have some pickles and tea! I like your vowel system. Why no rounded vowels? Your <lh> sounds like it might be a linguolabial flap /ɾ̼/ or something. Someone more skilled in phonetics might have a better name for it, though. No clue about <lr>. I'm not sure if the coarticulated ...
- Sat Sep 03, 2011 4:24 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Sounds That You Can/Can't Pronounce Easily
- Replies: 322
- Views: 56923
Re: Sounds That You Can/Can't Pronounce Easily
I hear that as /b/.
- Wed Aug 31, 2011 10:59 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: In search of isolating conlangs
- Replies: 158
- Views: 41589
Re: In search of isolating conlangs
IMO a morpheme is an affix if: 1. It is bound to the word it modifies, another independent word cannot come in between the morpheme and the word root. 2. It has no independent stress. #2 is problematic because... what if the language doesn't have phonemic stress? Also, it's not much help for langua...
- Wed Aug 31, 2011 11:12 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Conlangery Podcast (Latest Ep: #94: Face and Politeness)
- Replies: 974
- Views: 181573
Re: Conlangery Podcast (Latest Ep: #13: Profanity)
I have been trying to even out the volume since we started the show. So far all I have managed is horrible clipping for Will and Bianca while I'm still much quieter. I have no idea how to fix this problem with my current setup. Maybe if I get a mixer and a real mike and set up two computers I can f...
- Mon Aug 29, 2011 12:08 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: In search of isolating conlangs
- Replies: 158
- Views: 41589
Re: In search of isolating conlangs
Incidentally, the isolating-synthetic distinction seems to me rather fake, because it is just, as far as I have seen, a matter of whether there is a space between the root and modifier. Well, it's not really arbitrary, although natlangs tend to blur the lines between morphemes being isolating or sy...
- Mon Aug 15, 2011 9:53 pm
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: Conlang "Miwonša"
- Replies: 20
- Views: 10499
Re: Conlang "Miwonša"
čafjan - doctor > čafjanie - doctors Shouldn't that be čafjanje ? The language looks really cool in general. The symmetry in the case system (with the adverbial and locative cases modifying the others) especially. What sort of implements/media do you envision being used for the writing system? Seem...
- Sun Aug 14, 2011 1:01 pm
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: Hispanic Gothic
- Replies: 20
- Views: 14697
Re: Hispanic Gothic
I think the name "Iberian Gothic" sounds cooler. But that could also be Portuguese, no? Or Catalan, or Basque. What are you thinking of for a writing system? Roman/Gothic hybrid? Not sure how that would work with the diachronics... Basically, this looks like an awesome project and I want to see more.
- Sat May 14, 2011 12:54 am
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: The Problem with Conlanging
- Replies: 74
- Views: 36346
Re: The Problem with Conlanging
Conworlding always ends up with a product of some sort. In my experience, it too often doesn't. I can never seem to complete a language or conculture to the point where I feel I can show it to people. For me, the problem with conlanging is that, when languages are treated as an end in themselves, w...