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- Wed Apr 01, 2015 8:03 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Compte rendu d'une représentation donnée par le Nô japonais
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3996
Re: Compte rendu d'une représentation donnée par le Nô japon
I suspect that's giving the author too much credit - the whole thing has lots of pointless additional strokes sprinked over it for seemingly no reason. The repeated symbol looks like 來, 火 and 太 all conceived a child together.
- Sat Jul 05, 2014 8:32 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Maximum number of habitable planets per system – article
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3022
Re: Maximum number of habitable planets per system – article
I'm somewhat dubious about the stability of these, particularly the trojan relationships. Even L-4 and L-5 orbits are only stable in the sense that LEO is stable. It still requires some impulse to maintain those orbits over time, just less than would be required for L-2 and L-3 orbits. I suspect th...
- Mon Jun 30, 2014 6:56 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Kanji index numbers
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2220
Re: Kanji index numbers
The ordering of jōyō kanji on Wikipedia is taken from the listing on the website of the Ministry for Cultural Affairs , so you can take it as about as official as you're likely to get. The official listing of the kyōiku kanji is similarly given on the website of the Ministry of Education , but unlik...
- Sun Jun 22, 2014 11:48 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread
- Replies: 2225
- Views: 468398
Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread
The argument is "'it's unlikely, therefore it didn't happen' is invalid", not "it's unlikely, therefore it happened". No one is making argument #1 here. Lots of people are making the argument "hypothesis A is typologically way less plausible than hypothesis B, therefore hypothesis B is preferrable"...
- Fri Jun 20, 2014 7:23 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: How are the Xurnese dialect names written?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3788
Re: How are the Xurnese dialect names written?
I'm not sure where Čimagri came from! It's possible it's just an error, but I'll have to retcon it. I'd assume the first syllable is the same as in Čiqay (the river and state). The reason I assumed it's from Čimaq is because it's listed in the lexicon under the entry for the word čikeri . Seems lik...
- Thu Jun 19, 2014 8:25 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: How are the Xurnese dialect names written?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3788
How are the Xurnese dialect names written?
Inegri is given as Wei-nex-ri so I wondered what the other dialects were written as. I've managed tentative guesses for all but two. Easy ones first: Xazengri - * Xa-zen-ri Bolongri - * Bo-lon-ri Corauši - * Tu-ral-šin ; the only one to use -šin rather than -ri - is there a variant * Coralauri or s...
- Tue Jun 17, 2014 9:10 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread
- Replies: 2225
- Views: 468398
Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread
The argument is "'it's unlikely, therefore it didn't happen' is invalid", not "it's unlikely, therefore it happened".
- Sun Jun 15, 2014 8:51 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Poll: Favourite Almean languages
- Replies: 27
- Views: 23608
Re: Poll: Favourite Almean languages
I like Xurnese most. It meets a balance of friendliness and unfamiliarity for me.
- Sat Jun 07, 2014 9:29 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: My first Conlang: Proto-Nevoran
- Replies: 22
- Views: 5129
Re: My first Conlang: Proto-Nevoran
I'm a little curious to know what your language background is - you're clearly an English L1, but what other languages are you familiar with/are you learning? When I got into conlanging I was familiar with Latin, Ancient Greek and Russian - all big elaborate Indo-European ones with sprawling verb ta...
Re: Dheknami
The prefixes wi- shê- me- voice the following consonant(s). Note that this merges the D and E forms, and changes the A form You mean the B form, since Dhekhnami doesn't have A forms. Can the -in imperative be used with an E form? If so, what connotation would that have? I'm guessing panṫudêth fifty...
Re: Dheknami
Also, all the Almeopedia links are old-style with index.php, so they redirect to the front page.
- Wed Aug 14, 2013 7:29 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Click consonants, everything about them
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2099
Click consonants, everything about them
What resources are there on the origins and behaviours of click consonants which would be useful to conlangers? In particular, anything which can provide clarity to any part of this vague and unhelpful paragraph from Wikipedia would be delicious. How [clicks] arose is not known, but it is generally ...
- Thu Dec 27, 2012 7:39 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Proto-Ginösic
- Replies: 30
- Views: 7868
Re: Proto-Ginösic
This fills me with horror. I suggest instead <k g q qq ġ ʔ>.Ambrisio wrote:/k g q qʼ ɢ ʔ/ <k g ḳ ḳḳ ġ q>
- Mon Dec 24, 2012 5:31 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: English swearwords in other languages
- Replies: 75
- Views: 15146
Re: English swearwords in other languages
Which is pronounced [sɛks] when you're an English monoglot schoolboy looking for excuses to say rude words to your German teacher.Serafín wrote:But it's not "sex", it's sechs.
I'm surprised so few of them go on to notice that sechs is followed by siemen - sorry, sieben...
- Sat Dec 22, 2012 7:06 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Back translation of Xurnese dzusuisi
- Replies: 69
- Views: 26765
Re: Back translation of Xurnese dzusuisi
I had a go at one which stood out to me because I felt like it. Yes cu duoyo dzauliše na mridéčes xunc? Toš rešú li cu dmuna tirse tom edem na rilú-- nauziš li xale šači? --Rúmeš "I see him still a slave..." felt odd to me in English, and it felt like it worked best in Xurnese as a subordinate claus...
- Mon Dec 10, 2012 9:09 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Esperanto as naturalistic conlang?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 5769
Re: Esperanto as naturalistic conlang?
You could look at what's happened to the language under the auspices of the thousand or so native speakers in Eastern Europe for some ideas. Large amounts of vocabulary have been supplanted by borrowings from other languages because Esperanto's click-together morphology proved too unwieldy: trista "...
- Mon Dec 03, 2012 3:20 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: A short study on semantics
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2776
Re: A short study on semantics
As a study into how far implication in the manner Zomp mentioned can take you, I encourage you to play The Gostak.
- Fri Nov 23, 2012 4:14 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: About furbish
- Replies: 19
- Views: 5075
Re: About furbish
Doo hmm? and doo-dah yes look like they might be related somehow. Perhaps boo was originally a negative question marker, with doo/boo forming a pair akin to Latin num/nonne, and then supplanted *boo-dah because yes and no sounded too similar.
- Sat Nov 17, 2012 6:34 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Most beautiful/ugliest languages
- Replies: 119
- Views: 27561
Re: Most beautiful/ugliest languages
words I hypothesise that in general few people have any aesthetic considerations about particular languages or groups of languages at all; when they do, the magnitude of said considerations is vanishingly small compared to any opinions they hold relating to politics or culture. (Tolkien was a conla...
- Tue Aug 23, 2011 11:45 pm
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: China's Delayed Civilization
- Replies: 20
- Views: 11029
Re: China's Delayed Civilization
I have often heard that China did have a central authority regulating the water supply and also that this accounts for its tight centralization and strict government compared to Europe. Jared Diamond, in Guns, Germs and Steel , opines that China was TOO centralised - the lack of competition from ri...
- Mon Aug 22, 2011 10:06 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Writing English in Hanzi
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4024
Re: Writing English in Hanzi
If you know of a good dictionary for Classical Chinese, please share.Zhen Lin wrote:General comment: the choices seem biased towards Mandarin.
- Mon Aug 22, 2011 5:27 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Writing English in Hanzi
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4024
Re: Writing English in Hanzi
That should surely be handu and yingdu, not on'yomi and kun'yomi. I decided to have a go at the Gettysburg Address, since DeFrancis is so fond of using it as his example in The Chinese Language: Fact and Fantasy . 四 廿 和 七 年們 前 我們的 先父們 產了 在 這 陆 個 新 国,妊了 內 自由,和 贡献了 以 之 建议 那 全 人們 是 创了 等。 Four score and...
- Wed Aug 17, 2011 3:18 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Quick terminology question: "cognates"
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1674
Re: Quick terminology question: "cognates"
So, I propose we start a movement for a distinction of cognate types: multilingual cognates (cognates in different languages from the same parent) monoglossal doublets (cognates within one language, no loanwords) polyglossal doublets (cognates within one language, including loanwords) I propose "co...
- Sat Aug 06, 2011 9:18 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: "tsk tsk"
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3717
Re: "tsk tsk"
Clicks are lingual ingressive because the rear articulation isn't significant, and varies depending on the shape of the front of the tongue.Jetboy wrote:It actually originally represented a velaric ingressive click
- Fri Aug 05, 2011 10:12 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: How stable are palatalised rhotics?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3320
Re: How stable are palatalised rhotics?
Japanese /r/ is a flap, and it's underspecified for centrality. It's usually indicated as [ɺ].King of My Own Niche wrote:But the Japanese /r/ is more of an alveolar tap [ɾ].
That is however irrelevant since the OP asks about rhotics, and a flap/tap is still a rhotic.