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To my non-native self, the first sentence means "I insisted that they must be locked up (in the future)", and the second one means "I insisted that they were locked up (in the past)", and making the distinction is obligatory. Seconded (native, Canadian but have been living abroad for 20 years), alt...

Zelos wrote:and as a last question, does anyone know a program that is capable from a root word generate soundchanges onto each other ultimately ending with several different sounding words for various languages?

Like this?

Ok... I guess this project has evolved a bit since the first page. I'll have to read the whole thing at some point when it's not 2:22 AM.

This sounds cool. Can I join in?

I won't be able to have a turn between December 20th and 28th.

Would kosher meals be aruchot ksharot or aruchat ksherot ? ksherot just doesn't sound right... Neither - you're changing two factors at once. It'd be 'aruchot ksherot . The plural of 'aruchah is 'aruchot , and the feminine plural of kasher is ksherot . Right, that's what I meant with the second ver...

Would kosher meals be aruchot ksharot or aruchat ksherot? ksherot just doesn't sound right...

And I've never heard be- used to mean "with". In what sense to do mean? Do you have an example? I mean in the instrumental sense of "using". Two random examples that come to mind are be'etzba'o "with his finger" (might be archaic, since it's from Leviticus ( Vayikra )) and uv(e)qo'ach (ko'ach?) hat...

When does ve- turn into u-? And is it not so that be- can also mean "with"?

Keep up the good work. I may not be posting the exercises, but I'm following the thread nonetheless.

Nice.

Would mevalbel be related to Babel?

Whimemsz wrote:Seriously, Grath, for a post to not count as pathetic and worthless shitty spam cluttering up the board, it should at least contain some text and content.

I most humbly apologize. To compensate:

Darth Drydic wrote:Hey baby, wanna practice some quadrilabials?

Space Dracula wrote:

Hokulani wrote:

Echobeats wrote:

Cro Magnon wrote:

Harple wrote:Try explaining US foriegn policy to an insect.

You sting me, I squash you!

That is fantastic! :mrgreen::mrgreen:

Classic ZBB!

Not funny at all!

ghur wrote:

Cardinal Ximinez wrote:

Harple wrote:Geez, I didn't expect this to turn into a Spanish Inquisition!

[Jarring Chord]

No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!

Brilliant.

I think other Afro-Asiatic languages have biconsonental root systems, don't they?

Notice there was no such thing as "double negation" in Ancient Greek I beg to differ. According to my Greek grammar book, which gives the rules for classical Attic, there were two types of double negation in Ancient Greek. Whether it was used as an extra strong negation or as the negation of a nega...

One of my favourites is, of course, from Irish: aghaidh [aj] (at least according to a certain site), "face".
And here's a cute Dutch one: kerker /kErk@r/ "dungeon".

Hurray! The thread hath returned! Wouldn't sukeret come from "sugar" (sukar, if memory serves me well) rather than from "flood"? That would make more sense to me... Compare diabetes in Dutch: suikerziekte "sugar disease". Anyway... Coolness! So here are some random questions: 1. What difference in m...

Will this be coming back?

Thanks! Great first lesson. Maybe a little section on pronounciation might be handy (although I realise there is no such thing as a "little" section on Irish pronounciation...)?

Well, here's my two eurocents. I'm a bit puzzled at your verb thingy, MUBA. Wouldn't it make more sense to have the onvoltooid tegenwoordig(e tijd) be "ik sla", the onvoltooid verleden (tijd) "ik sloeg", and stuff like that, in stead of "ik ben slaande" en "ik was slaande"? They sound very unnatural...

Actually, "limitless" Or even: ındefınıte ? that's how I'd translate 'aorıstos'. The pıcture can become clearer for those who are famılıar wıth the slavıc lanuages and theır termınatıve and untermınative (?) verb forms. The greek aor&...