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- Tue Jun 19, 2018 12:41 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The Contradictory Feelings Thread
- Replies: 933
- Views: 211683
Re: The Contradictory Feelings Thread
I wish you a speedy recovery!
- Tue Jun 19, 2018 6:30 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
- Replies: 4604
- Views: 1141170
Re: Help your fluency in a nifty way
Nach vier Monaten des Suchens , fange ich morgen mit meiner neuen Arbeit an. Ich bin glücklich, dass ich endlich Gel d haben werde. Aber ich muss ich noch ein en Monat zu Hause bleiben, um das Haus zu hüten, während meine Familie im Ausland ist. Ich muss auch neue Kleidung kaufen, um besser bei der...
- Mon Jun 18, 2018 4:39 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Help your conlang fluency (2)
- Replies: 6633
- Views: 763923
Re: Help your conlang fluency (2)
Mi a go tok se man won af se-ol pwaya im ebl pica a wo minu me afek, an a wo minu in me afek. I'd say that one needs wisdom before one is able to understand what one can, and can't, bring about. Nés sídin ceu ennun ceu nénun, al nór partichawor uncuntér sídi woxait. NEG-be-PRES.ACT.3SG wisdom-SG.AC...
- Tue Jun 12, 2018 7:56 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
- Replies: 4604
- Views: 1141170
Re: Help your fluency in a nifty way
Dzisiaj mamy dzień cichy.
Aujourd'hui, c'est un jour tranquille.
Oggi è un giorno tranquillo.
Hoy está un día tranquillo.
Vandaag is een rustige dag.
It's a quiet day today.
Aujourd'hui, c'est un jour tranquille.
Oggi è un giorno tranquillo.
Hoy está un día tranquillo.
Vandaag is een rustige dag.
It's a quiet day today.
- Mon Jun 11, 2018 3:25 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Creativity of the day
- Replies: 1704
- Views: 334040
Re: Creativity of the day
Thanks!
- Fri Jun 08, 2018 6:41 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Creativity of the day
- Replies: 1704
- Views: 334040
Re: Creativity of the day
What's the 25 year anniversary about? And who is the knight rider?
- Thu Jun 07, 2018 11:24 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread
- Replies: 2225
- Views: 461653
Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread
And why would a nomadic herder who does not raise crops know about such a thing as plowing? Because he has business dealings with farmers? Modern nomads eat a lot of flour. And the word does not imply knowledge about ploughing; rather it implies knowledge *of* ploughing (or hoeing). Moreover, the w...
- Wed Jun 06, 2018 5:14 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Lexicon Building
- Replies: 4308
- Views: 808734
Re: Lexicon Building
Tautisca: munnemun "thought, idea; opinion, view", from munneten "to think"masako wrote:next: subjective idea; view
Next: deceptive
- Thu May 17, 2018 1:32 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: A Very Brief Explanation of the British Election
- Replies: 323
- Views: 97360
Re: A Very Brief Explanation of the British Election
Why not just rename the EU "The Davis - Johnson - Rees-Mogg Glorious British Free Trade Zone"? Everyboy could claim victory and go home, and no actual fact in reality would need to change.
- Thu May 17, 2018 3:05 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Venting thread that still excludes eddy (2)
- Replies: 2639
- Views: 317614
Re: Venting thread that still excludes eddy
I'm having the worst allergies of my life. My left ear canal has been clogged and hurting for a week and a half. I've been on painkillers almost that entire time--and I practically never use painkillers. That's too bad. Do you have these allergies a long time already or are they a new development? ...
- Wed May 16, 2018 6:24 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Pe jos
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3678
Re: Pe jos
I don't know any other such examples. But I'd think that the usage comes from comparing walking with other means of transport (on horseback, by litter, cart, or carriage) where the transported person is elevated from the ground.
- Wed May 16, 2018 6:13 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Help your conlang fluency (2)
- Replies: 6633
- Views: 763923
Re: Help your conlang fluency
Nu wés cailai ni parhunduntai flódímis.
PART 1Pl-NOM all-M.PL.NOM NEG understand-PRTC.PRES.ACT.M.PL.NOM talk-PRES.ACT.1PL
We all talk without understanding.
PART 1Pl-NOM all-M.PL.NOM NEG understand-PRTC.PRES.ACT.M.PL.NOM talk-PRES.ACT.1PL
We all talk without understanding.
- Wed May 16, 2018 6:05 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Venting thread that still excludes eddy (2)
- Replies: 2639
- Views: 317614
Re: Venting thread that still excludes eddy
Who is this "international community"? I have heard all kinds of reactions from governments, ranging from "it's all Hamas's fault" to "why can't you all just get along pecefully" to "it's all Isreal's fault".mèþru wrote:the whole protest is claimed to be peaceful by the international community
- Mon May 14, 2018 6:59 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Incorrect pronunciations you have (or have had) to unlearn
- Replies: 669
- Views: 156571
Re: Incorrect pronunciations you have (or have had) to unlea
That seems to be an approximation of the German pronunciation, which is [ʊn'di:nə].Sumelic wrote:The "Behind the Name" comments for the name "Undine" mention another unusual pronunciation, "oon-DEE-nee".
- Fri May 11, 2018 5:38 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Is it better to say "for you and me" than "for me and you"?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6394
Re: Is it better to say "for you and me" than "for me and yo
Same thing in German.
- Wed May 09, 2018 11:44 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Languages without Quantifier Hopping?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 10473
Re: Languages without Quantifier Hopping?
One point about which I'm not sure concerning English - in German, the restriction by nur together with erlauben can mean "only X can do Y", but it can also mean "Y has permission to do only Y, but they are also free to do Z". Is that the same for English? In German, the positioning of nur can mean ...
- Mon May 07, 2018 10:07 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Classical Composers
- Replies: 103
- Views: 44828
Re: Classical Composers
You don't take up that note.in that regard, he surpassed his predecessor**
- Sat Apr 28, 2018 3:16 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: What do you call...
- Replies: 22
- Views: 14391
Re: What do you call...
I think Circeus is on to something concerning curtness. I' d have less problems with ten sentences or seven pages of cataphoric pronouns that would establish a basis for expecting that finally a name would be revealed, than with the short sentences A-D where no such expectation is established.
- Thu Apr 26, 2018 9:29 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: What do you call...
- Replies: 22
- Views: 14391
Re: What do you call...
Sheep biting someone is mundane to you? Where do you live, Appalachia?
For the Chomsky sentences, the point seems clearly to be not mundanity, but whether the cataphoric pronoun is in a fronted subclause (legal) or in the main clause coming before the subclause (illegal).
For the Chomsky sentences, the point seems clearly to be not mundanity, but whether the cataphoric pronoun is in a fronted subclause (legal) or in the main clause coming before the subclause (illegal).
- Thu Apr 26, 2018 9:04 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Help your conlang fluency (2)
- Replies: 6633
- Views: 763923
Re: Help your conlang fluency
Nu santis dichta pa nóscumis attu dichta pa né nóscumis.
PRTC be-PRES.ACT.3PL thing-PL.NOM REL-N.PL.ACC know-PRES.ACT.1PL and thing-PL.NOM REL-N.PL.ACC NEG know-PRES.ACT.1PL
There are things we know and things we don't know.
PRTC be-PRES.ACT.3PL thing-PL.NOM REL-N.PL.ACC know-PRES.ACT.1PL and thing-PL.NOM REL-N.PL.ACC NEG know-PRES.ACT.1PL
There are things we know and things we don't know.
- Wed Apr 25, 2018 9:50 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Nostratic, Eurasiatic, Mitian, ...
- Replies: 217
- Views: 82653
Re: Nostratic, Eurasiatic, Mitian, ...
A lot of the time this doesn't really work though. Are commonalities between groups like Germanic and Balto-Slavic shared archaisms, late areal connections, or signs of a real genetic subgroup? Or signs of a substrate language? Most of the BSL-Germanic commonalities, except for the "m" in the plura...
- Tue Apr 24, 2018 12:40 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Lexicon Building
- Replies: 4308
- Views: 808734
Re: Lexicon Building
difference; distinction; diversity; disparity Tautisca: dírdailiti "sorting, separation; distinction, difference; special treatment, favorable treatment, privilege, discrimination"; Prefix dír- "apart" plus dailiten "share, divide"; fida "gap; difference, disparity; disagreement" from PIE *bheid- "...
- Wed Apr 18, 2018 3:05 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Venting thread that still excludes eddy (2)
- Replies: 2639
- Views: 317614
Re: Venting thread that still excludes eddy
L2 Learners of English: Please read this entire atrociously-written paragraph and point out all my errors. Also L2 Learners of English: I know you just told me that no native speakers say this, but I'm going to argue that not only is it not wrong to say this but also this is superior to what you sa...
- Wed Apr 18, 2018 1:54 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Relative clauses: cross-linguistic comparison
- Replies: 23
- Views: 13965
Re: Relative clauses: cross-linguistic comparison
the girl [ that you think (that) I love ] (66) the girl [ that you think (*that) loves me ] (67) Is it sure that the sub clauses are really two consecutive relative clauses and not a complement clause ("that you think") embedded in a relative clause? Would they work using who(m) ? (It's of course p...
- Wed Apr 18, 2018 1:15 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: "hydpographica"
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5279
Re: "hydpographica"
I'm perhaps more curious how Anatolia was labeled as Natolia. Some quick Googling shows that Natolia was a pretty common designation, but I didn't find any explanation on how the a- was lost. Perhaps via a Romance language (I guess Italian) where spoken l'Anatolia [lanatolia] was wronly segmented a...