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- Thu Mar 20, 2014 11:30 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Eastern Lartau. Aspect
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1228
Re: Eastern Lartau. Intro and Verbs
Been working on Aspect over the past few days. I'm sure there are lots of holes, and I'd be happy for you to point them out for me [:)] Aspect SL distinguishes 4 aspects grammatically, 3 marked, and one unmarked. Unlike modal auxiliaries, aspect particles do not effect word order. The particle occur...
- Sat Mar 15, 2014 11:28 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Eastern Lartau. Aspect
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1228
Eastern Lartau. Aspect
[edit]Added an intro! Also some changes to the body of the text, courtesy of Micamo[/edit] Introduction Eastern Lartau (EL) is the native language group of the south eastern region of The Empire of United Sutzian Kingdoms, or sūtzì naókoō huātaù kootsoò põntsoõ . This grammar will focus on the stand...
- Mon Feb 10, 2014 9:49 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Sound Change Quickie Thread
- Replies: 2827
- Views: 613831
Re: Sound Change Quickie Thread
I feel like having uvular non-stops without other uvular consonants is pretty okay. That being said, do you mean there's no velars in your original pool except /x/? (You could also try weirder things like /xʷ/ > /ʍ/ or /w/ or /ɣ/ or /g/ or something.) Full final phoneme inventory would be something...
- Sat Feb 08, 2014 10:59 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Post your conlang's phonology
- Replies: 2278
- Views: 499743
Re: Post your conlang's phonology
Introducing Eastern Lartau. Should have it's own thread soon, but wanted to run this by you guys first. No where near done on the phonology, but since (shock horror) phonology is maybe my least favourite part of conlanging, I've come pretty far. Eastern Lartau is a tonal language with a relatively s...
- Sat Feb 08, 2014 4:51 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Sound Change Quickie Thread
- Replies: 2827
- Views: 613831
Re: Sound Change Quickie Thread
Working dialects a little at the mo. Standard Lartau distinguishes labialisation in stops and fricatives, but in Black River Lartau, labialisation has become velarisation, e.g. t w :> t ɣ . All's well till we get to <x w >. I'm pretty sure <x ɣ > isn't a thing, so what are the chances of x w :> χ, g...
- Thu Apr 11, 2013 8:01 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Linguistic Quackery Thread, take 2
- Replies: 812
- Views: 203558
Re: Linguistic Quackery Thread, take 2
Apparently they just used the character for womb.A Girl I was Speaking to Today wrote:My Cultural Studies teacher told me the Chinese didn't have a character for woman till the 18th century
- Wed Apr 10, 2013 9:21 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Proto-Søkkli scratchpad
- Replies: 72
- Views: 14915
Re: Proto-Søkkli scratchpad
By the looks of things, the voiced fricatives are lenited stops. I don't know if that makes it any more likely. Perhaps they could be on a continuum /b~β/ e.t.c?
- Wed Apr 10, 2013 9:19 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Antarctican Conscript
- Replies: 18
- Views: 6262
Re: Antarctican Conscript
On a related note, I've been experimenting with clay recently, and although you can get curves, straights a lot easier. Or maybe clay tablets as well as wax tablets. I notice that the cuneiform script developed on clay and is full of straight lines. That probably also had a lot to do with the stylu...
- Wed Apr 10, 2013 8:16 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Antarctican Conscript
- Replies: 18
- Views: 6262
Re: Antarctican Conscript
I wonder if the point is not whether the script developed on stone. If that's the case, you might keep the lines straight to save on time? Chisels tend to be straight after all.
On a related note, I've been experimenting with clay recently, and although you can get curves, straights a lot easier.
On a related note, I've been experimenting with clay recently, and although you can get curves, straights a lot easier.
- Fri Mar 29, 2013 6:16 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: 2L Monumental Style Conscript: Vines
- Replies: 145
- Views: 46318
Re: Second Language Monumental Style Conscript Sketchpad
Cool glyphs, bro.
I'm partial to the middle long necked birds. Looking forward to seeing the gradual stylization.
I'm partial to the middle long necked birds. Looking forward to seeing the gradual stylization.
- Fri Feb 22, 2013 3:27 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Genitive Marker to Subject Marker.
- Replies: 23
- Views: 5068
Re: Genitive Marker to Subject Marker.
Great paper. Where did you find it? As a general note, where do you guys find this stuff? My google-fu is terrible.clawgrip wrote:A paper by Bjarke Frellesvig
- Wed Feb 20, 2013 10:29 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: TED talk: how a language's grammar affects economic behavior
- Replies: 45
- Views: 8869
Re: TED talk: how a language's grammar affects economic beha
Oh, I applaud your honesty in admitting that you hadn't watched the video. I'm just questioning why, if you didn't have time, that you couldn't just wait, think about it, and post a more reasoned and informed post when you had more time. It's not a race. The first one who says "Whorf" doesn't win a...
- Wed Feb 20, 2013 8:10 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: TED talk: how a language's grammar affects economic behavior
- Replies: 45
- Views: 8869
Re: TED talk: how a language's grammar affects economic beha
[note, I didn't check the links yet] Smells dangerously of Sapir-Whorfianism to me... Let alone the questionable aspects of TED in general. Reallly? The video is 12 minutes long. You couldn't wait 12 minutes to listen to what he had to say—you couldn't even spend a few seconds to click on the links...
- Wed Feb 20, 2013 3:22 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: TED talk: how a language's grammar affects economic behavior
- Replies: 45
- Views: 8869
Re: TED talk: how a language's grammar affects economic beha
[I really should watch the video before I comment any more, but] Sounds to me like causal lines are being drawn where they don't necessarily exist. The notion that one distinguishes colours better if they're distinguished in ones language is, IIRC, fairly well attested, but it's a huge leap from tha...
- Wed Feb 20, 2013 2:05 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: TED talk: how a language's grammar affects economic behavior
- Replies: 45
- Views: 8869
Re: TED talk: how a language's grammar affects economic beha
[note, I didn't check the links yet]
Smells dangerously of Sapir-Whorfianism to me... Let alone the questionable aspects of TED in general.
Smells dangerously of Sapir-Whorfianism to me... Let alone the questionable aspects of TED in general.
- Wed Feb 20, 2013 2:03 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Genitive Marker to Subject Marker.
- Replies: 23
- Views: 5068
Re: Genitive Marker to Subject Marker.
Super interesting stuff guys. I originally thought ga was explicitly used for genitive historically, and that maybe some sort of chain shift had occurred, whereby an innocuous locative or some such drifted, and that pushed the other particles into new roles. The thought of having two particles that ...
- Tue Feb 19, 2013 10:39 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Genitive Marker to Subject Marker.
- Replies: 23
- Views: 5068
Genitive Marker to Subject Marker.
If I'm not mistaken, Japanese が ga shifted at some point from marking genitive case to marking subjects. How on earth did this happen, and why? It's still used in place names in the old way, occasionally, e.g. 幡ヶ谷 hata ga ya , 'valley of flags' (n.b. the second character is an alternative way of wri...
- Tue Feb 19, 2013 1:05 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: The Qorbenic Programme
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2416
Re: The Qorbenic Programme
Lolel imiradu wrote:It was pointed out that the transcription above was not, strictly speaking, intuitive...
- Tue Feb 12, 2013 12:36 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Common L2 English mistakes
- Replies: 56
- Views: 10329
Re: Common L2 English mistakes
I'm assuming they're conflating both into まで(made until, to etc)、no?clawgrip wrote:Japanese speakers frequently mix up 'by' and 'until' despite this exact distinction existing in Japanese.
- Sun Feb 10, 2013 10:01 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Death rituals in your conworld
- Replies: 16
- Views: 4802
Re: Death rituals in your conworld
beats conworld for 'weirdness' every time...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wari’_people#Cannibalism
EDIT: GAH! apostrophes break url's.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wari’_people#Cannibalism
EDIT: GAH! apostrophes break url's.
- Sat Feb 09, 2013 1:15 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Japanese "u" and other peculiar things
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3486
Re: Japanese "u" and other peculiar things
Okay, on the subject of weird sounds and Japanese, I am wondering about something. There is a type of phonation or something or other that is very common in Japanese speech to add stress to words, but I have no idea if there is any specific name for it or what. This video has several examples: http...
- Thu Feb 07, 2013 11:23 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Conphysics and Calling a Rabbit Smeerp
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3184
Re: Conphysics and Calling a Rabbit Smeerp
You're mostly right, though I think if electrons were snowflakes they wouldn't be electrons any more, if you see what I mean. It's clearly a spectrum.
- Thu Feb 07, 2013 4:10 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Conphysics and Calling a Rabbit Smeerp
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3184
Re: Conphysics and Calling a Rabbit Smeerp
I think this completely relies on context. If I were writing a novel, I'd try and retain as many real terms as possible, and only explain differences in behaviour when necessary. Terry Pratchet has a lovely description of light as it interacts with magic in his books, IIRC. He still calls it light t...
- Sat Feb 02, 2013 3:59 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Sound Change Quickie Thread
- Replies: 2827
- Views: 613831
Re: Sound Change Quickie Thread
Make any sense at all? My knowledge of phonetics is hoooorrrrriiiibllllllle.
Edit: hurpdurp.
- Sun Jan 27, 2013 7:28 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Regional accents for character types in different languages
- Replies: 18
- Views: 4329
Re: Regional accents for character types in different langua
Other regional [Japanese] dialects are not as marked, but using one will make a character sound old. Err... you ever heard Aomoriben? :> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3Q5ZRcl8OQ I'd say the dialect disparity in Japan is very strong, and quite often used in literature for effect. I am well aware o...