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- Sat Jan 27, 2018 9:16 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Questions about inflected prepositions
- Replies: 12
- Views: 8934
Re: Questions about inflected prepositions
But how did they form? Why did people start sticking bits onto them? How did i start becoming iddo or iddi , for example? Or did it? If Welsh i comes from Proto-Celtic *de then maybe the inflections were always there and i just got shortened again and again? Literally, they're just from sequences o...
- Sat Jan 27, 2018 10:51 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Questions about inflected prepositions
- Replies: 12
- Views: 8934
Re: Questions about inflected prepositions
Basically, my question is where do they come from? Or where can they come from? Using Welsh as the example, it has many inflected prepositions which I cannot find any etymological information for, only for the base form, i.e. the preposition i comes from Proto-Celtic *de ; o comes from Proto-Celtic...
- Sun Jan 21, 2018 4:59 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Age, Leisure Work and Motivation
- Replies: 24
- Views: 13795
Re: Age, Leisure Work and Motivation
Yep, I totally feel you there man. Nine-ish years ago, I was twenty-five, at university and employed in what can only be called a casual manner. Back then, I managed to pull Proto-Western out of my ass over the course of about 24 hours, while stoned to fuck. Now, I have a "career", I'm thirty-four* ...
- Sat Dec 16, 2017 8:43 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Internet slang dating: is IIRC a somehow aging abbreviation?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 8655
Re: Internet slang dating: is IIRC a somehow aging abbreviat
"Netizen" is another dead giveaway.Circeus wrote:I had never considered this. It's true that I became a netizen well before the advent of social media as we know it today. Thinking on it, that probably explains my aversion to emojis...
- Mon Dec 11, 2017 1:21 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Telpahke Scratchpad: Alignment - what the hell have I done?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5307
Re: Telpahke Scratchpad: Alignment - what the hell have I do
I was aiming for the Indian subcontinent! :x Is that why 'fish' is mɛs , 'fire' is sat , 'cook' is pak , and 'sleep' is tol ? (Okay, I'll admit that 'sleep' is probably a stretch at best; I'm thinking of [ˈt̪uːŋgɯ] in Tamil). The parent language forms of those words are wasi , cʰāḍa , bʰāk- and dʰō...
- Mon Dec 11, 2017 12:22 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Telpahke Scratchpad: Alignment - what the hell have I done?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5307
Re: Telpahke Scratchpad: Alignment - what the hell have I do
Thanks for commenting guys, as always the feedback here is thought-provoking and helps me to clarify my thinking. :) - Austronesian vs Philippine - what conlangers typically talk of as "Austronesian alignment" is actually more precisely known as Philippine-type alignment. Philippine alignment, as th...
- Sat Dec 09, 2017 12:40 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Telpahke Scratchpad: Alignment - what the hell have I done?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5307
Re: Telpahke Scratchpad: Alignment - what the hell have I do
I was aiming for the Indian subcontinent!
But yeah, transitive verbs- it's basically Austronesian-lite without instrumental or benefactive voices. It's the intransitive verbs that make the classification as "Austronesian" more of a difficulty.
But yeah, transitive verbs- it's basically Austronesian-lite without instrumental or benefactive voices. It's the intransitive verbs that make the classification as "Austronesian" more of a difficulty.
- Sat Dec 09, 2017 11:32 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Telpahke Scratchpad: Alignment - what the hell have I done?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5307
Telpahke Scratchpad: Alignment - what the hell have I done?
I've been working on a language called Telpahke, which has some weird stuff going on with its morphosyntactic alignment. I'm pleased with the resulting system, but I'm having difficulty in analysing what I've come up with here and giving names to the relevant cases and voices. The noun has three cas...
- Fri Nov 24, 2017 8:50 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Two questions about Welsh
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2267
Re: Two questions about Welsh
At least two other sources:alice wrote:1. Does /f/ have any sources other than loanwords and aspirate mutation of /p/?
Proto-Celtic *sφ (< PIE *sp) ffêr < *sφerā
Proto-Celtic initial *s before before *r ffroen < *srognā
Hm. Not all that badly, I think.2. How well would it work without mutations?
- Mon Nov 13, 2017 5:19 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: British Sitcoms
- Replies: 35
- Views: 15893
Re: British Sitcoms
My god, this thread is a total trip down memory lane for me. I remember most of the British sitcoms of the 80s, 90s and early 00s. Surprised there's been no mention of Rab C Nesbitt or The League of Gentlemen . The former I only watched to practice my Scottish accent comprehension and the latter is...
- Mon Nov 13, 2017 3:18 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: British Sitcoms
- Replies: 35
- Views: 15893
Re: British Sitcoms
My god, this thread is a total trip down memory lane for me. I remember most of the British sitcoms of the 80s, 90s and early 00s. Surprised there's been no mention of Rab C Nesbitt or The League of Gentlemen . On the other hand, the early-to-mid 90s had a veritable slew of minor sitcoms that only l...
- Wed Nov 08, 2017 6:55 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Why does Lat. /ka'tena/ > N. It. /kad'æŋna/?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4965
Re: Why does Lat. /ka'tena/ > N. It. /kad'æŋna/?
Cheers! Embarrassingly, I didn't think to consult that chapter:I was just scouring chapter 16...
(Not going to lie, it is the most satisfying £100 I have ever spent in my life.)
(Not going to lie, it is the most satisfying £100 I have ever spent in my life.)
- Mon Nov 06, 2017 4:28 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Why does Lat. /ka'tena/ > N. It. /kad'æŋna/?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4965
Re: Why does Lat. /ka'tena/ > N. It. /kad'æŋna/?
/n/ > /ŋ/ in all syllable codas/preconsonantally, resulting in forms like /ʒɛŋt/ < /ʒɛnt/ - in a number of varieties in Northern Italy /n/ > /ŋ/ intervocalically via an intermediate stage of /ŋn/ - it only mentioned this as happening in Piedmontese, but it seems from this map it occurred elsewhere,...
- Sun Sep 03, 2017 8:54 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Cadhinorian Religion
- Replies: 20
- Views: 15506
Re: Cadhinorian Religion
I enjoyed this greatly. I always thought that the Cadhinorian page was the weakest of the religion pages, and this is far more internally consistent and logical. Zomp, you mention boys going through ordeals as part of the nacuis- one of them being piercing of the foreskin. I thought Almean humans di...
- Wed Jun 07, 2017 4:18 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Is Basque really weird?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 9806
Re: Is Basque really weird?
I am intrigued as to how you have managed this. Please, do explain.kuroda wrote:As someone who's never worked with Western European languages at all,
(Pretentious, ni?)
- Sat Nov 05, 2016 4:36 pm
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: New languages
- Replies: 11
- Views: 11283
Re: New languages
Seconded!So Haleza Grise wrote:Personally if there's a new Eastern language I'd like to see, it's probably Sarroc. I like the idea of it being close to Verdurian but also separate from it...
- Tue Oct 25, 2016 6:20 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Discrimination (from garden path thread and elsewhere)
- Replies: 143
- Views: 56661
Re: Discrimination (from garden path thread)
The problem with restricting freedom of speech for racists, sexists, homophobes, and like, is that if we impose laws doing so, it weakens the path of resistance for laws restricting freedom of speech for other groups the government does not like. Eeeh, I dunno. I think we've done OK with that here ...
- Sun Jul 03, 2016 5:17 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Presentation in Uni about Dravean
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4691
Re: Presentation in Uni about Dravean
You're welcome, by the way
- Wed Jun 29, 2016 11:27 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Presentation in Uni about Dravean
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4691
Re: Presentation in Uni about Dravean
Tan saloit, Florine! O jèu san el Dewrad, crajadro dela lènga draveana. I'm happy to answer your questions about Dravian: I've sent you a PM with my personal email address if you want any further information (like who I am, my linguistic and professional background etc). 1. How artificial or natural...
- Thu Jun 23, 2016 4:53 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Tagorese - request for comment
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4195
Re: Tagorese - request for comment
These people really have a rich culture judging from the example sentences. Here are some thoughts of the grammar from me. The grammatical description stops right when you start to get deeper into dependent clauses. I think this is an obvious place to continue writing. gach, thank you, these are al...
- Tue Jun 21, 2016 1:09 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Tagorese - request for comment
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4195
Tagorese - request for comment
I've been working on and off on a language called Tagorese for a while now, but I've kind of stalled. I'd appreciate any thoughts you guys might have on the (incomplete!) description of the language's grammar, which might give me a bit of a kick up the backside to get back to work on it. Some highli...
- Tue May 24, 2016 4:19 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Discrimination (from garden path thread and elsewhere)
- Replies: 143
- Views: 56661
Re: Discrimination (from garden path thread)
Dude, genital mutilation is wrong. It's not oppressive Western colonialism to say it's wrong. This is not a controversial issue. And it's not because of some nebulous determination of who the "bad guys" are. Glad to see that we agree that genital mutilation is wrong. But why on earth is that not at...
- Mon May 09, 2016 11:50 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Questions about Welsh
- Replies: 308
- Views: 63039
Re: Questions about Welsh
It's just "man".
- Mon May 09, 2016 11:49 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: What foreign language have you dedicated the most effort to
- Replies: 57
- Views: 13562
Re: What foreign language have you dedicated the most effort
Object pronouns aren't introduced until year 8 (12-13 years old), by which time they've encountered the full range of subject pronouns and (supposedly!) aren't going to be nonplussed by this.
- Sun May 08, 2016 5:21 pm
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: The Smug Cuzeians
- Replies: 7
- Views: 8252
Re: The Smug Cuzeians
(Actually, while I'm at it, this has been bugging me since I first read the Cuêzi grammar: the Cuêzi letter transliterated as x , indicating /x/, has a bar over it indicating that it's voiced. Given that the sound derives from Proto-Eastern *ɣ, was it still a voiced /ɣ/ when the alphabet was formula...