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- Sun Oct 23, 2011 11:32 am
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: TC: Relative and complementizer clauses
- Replies: 97
- Views: 37558
Re: TC: Relative and complementizer clauses
Wait, is the ellipsis typed as one character on English keyboards? I always just write 3 dots, both in handwriting and on the computer. There is a Unicode character for the ellipsis, U+2026. It looks like this (brackets added for clarity) […]. On a Mac keyboard it can be entered with the Option-Sem...
- Tue Oct 11, 2011 11:06 pm
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: On creating a timeline
- Replies: 90
- Views: 39709
Re: On creating a timeline
*important question:* Do any of you know a reason I couldn't make freshwater the rule rather than the exception? Like, freshwater seas/oceans and saltwater only occurring in Dead Sea-like circumstances? I suspect this would change the climate, which I'm trying to keep pretty close to our own climat...
- Sun Oct 02, 2011 8:48 pm
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: Kćeća Ora: A Conworld from the Beginning
- Replies: 34
- Views: 44879
Re: Kćeća Ora: A Conworld from the Beginning
If it's a conworld "from the beginning," it would presumably start from fundamentals, i.e. physical laws.Astraios wrote:This looks more like physics theories than conworlding to me...
- Sun Sep 25, 2011 2:20 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: On Matters of Many Octop... what...?
- Replies: 75
- Views: 12337
Re: On Matters of Many Octop... what...?
Why bother with a special form anyway? Why not just "more than one octopus"? If that is still too problematic (it uses the word octopus!), you could just say "more than one animal of order Octopoda".
- Fri Sep 16, 2011 12:31 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: How to design a non-European phonology
- Replies: 622
- Views: 171237
Re: How to design a non-European phonology
It might be fun to try and design an inventory that did not match any of these rules. Are there any natlangs that don't?
- Mon Aug 29, 2011 4:42 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: In search of isolating conlangs
- Replies: 158
- Views: 41630
Re: In search of isolating conlangs
You can tell if a modifier is actually an affix by trying to insert other modifiers between the root and the affix. If you can't stick arbitrary modifiers between two morphemes, they're probably part of the same word. Or it could be that they're isolated particles in a language with strict ordering...
- Sun Aug 28, 2011 7:49 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: In search of isolating conlangs
- Replies: 158
- Views: 41630
Re: In search of isolating conlangs
I will mention here my conlang Tulsimaj that I'm just starting on, and which appears so far to be fully isolating. 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.