Isn't that off by default?Rhetorica wrote:(Who in their right mind would ever need a selection rectangle indicating the edges of the current layer? You only need that when arranging stuff in large documents, which is a tiny minority of usage cases! Don't copy PaintShop Pro's terrible defaults! They're terrible!)
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- Fri Dec 06, 2013 4:55 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The Official ZBB Quote Thread
- Replies: 2878
- Views: 652192
Re: The Official ZBB Quote Thread
- Tue Nov 26, 2013 5:33 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread
- Replies: 2225
- Views: 462191
Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread
Which one?Nortaneous wrote:it's too bad the (AFAIK and I'm probably wrong) only wl- word to survive into even middle english underwent metathesis to break up the cluster and then died out
- Mon Nov 04, 2013 3:39 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: [p]->[k] sound change outside of Arapaho?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4191
Re: [p]->[k] sound change outside of Arapaho?
Depending on the phonology, you can just do it straight off if you don't already have lots of plosives and clusters etc. Look at Polynesian. In any case, it's not a strange sound change in the least.
- Sun Oct 06, 2013 2:55 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: What is English /p/ in the coda position?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2525
Re: What is English /p/ in the coda position?
Woody Allen occasionally has ejectives for all three unvoiced stops utterance-finally.
- Mon Sep 23, 2013 4:05 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Non-IE auxiliary verbs
- Replies: 33
- Views: 6964
Re: Non-IE auxiliary verbs
Venir de, rather?Inversion wrote:This is equivalent to the French aller de V construction
- Wed Sep 11, 2013 3:15 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: RIP Ivan Sag
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1636
Re: RIP Ivan Sag
StargatePole wrote:Ah, I thought that HPSG is some kind of a Harry Potter pairing, but just couldn't decipher that SG.merijn wrote:EDITED to use the proper abbreviation for Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar
- Thu Sep 05, 2013 5:00 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Cases/Adpositions
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3468
Re: Cases/Adpositions
Terra, go read on "dechticaetiativity" This is a curious suggestion, actually. I once tried to do just that a while back when the phenomenon sparked my interest, but apart from a Wikipedia article and a handful of mentions in forums and the like, I haven't seen this term in use anywhere. Grammars a...
- Sun Aug 18, 2013 11:41 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: But do they have their own language?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2561
Re: But do they have their own language?
What's up with just copying real city names? Tammerfors, Vimmerby, Oxelösund (albeit without the dots), Markaryd, Djursholm, Haninge, Helsingfors... probably lots that I don't recognize. It's a settlement colony, with mostly English and Swedish ancestry population. Settlers often bring their topony...
- Sun Aug 18, 2013 6:09 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: But do they have their own language?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2561
Re: But do they have their own language?
What's up with just copying real city names? Tammerfors, Vimmerby, Oxelösund (albeit without the dots), Markaryd, Djursholm, Haninge, Helsingfors... probably lots that I don't recognize.
- Wed Aug 07, 2013 1:38 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Common L2 English mistakes
- Replies: 56
- Views: 10552
Re: Common L2 English mistakes
Seems we're alone among the languages of Europe in preferring the present perfect (progressive or otherwise) in this context. Nope, not alone. Hemos vivido aquí por cinco años sounds as normal and idiomatic to me as Vivimos aquí desde hace cinco años . And Swedish works exactly like English in this...
- Mon Jul 29, 2013 12:34 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Euphony and non-phonemic orthographies
- Replies: 23
- Views: 5229
Re: Euphony and non-phonemic orthographies
Not since the late 1800s. I recall having mentioned this before, but in case you've forgotten, your much revered <hv> is no more since 1906 and <hj lj dj gj> are all /j/.Aurora Rossa wrote:The combination <qv> in Swedish also really appeals to me, though I don't know if they still do that.
- Tue Jul 16, 2013 3:42 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: "Suppletive" comparatives
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2492
Re: "Suppletive" comparatives
Stuck-up prescriptivist Swedish prohibits comparing sakta 'slowly', favouring the synonyms långsammare and långsammast, respectively. I suspect, however, that most speakers intuitively only find the forms saktare and saktast a bit less formal-sounding, at the very most.
- Mon Jun 24, 2013 4:30 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Good books on IE linguistics
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2572
Re: Good books on IE linguistics
The best book I know on this matter is Indo-European Language and Culture by Benjamin W. Fortson IV. Seconded. This covers all the wishes of the OP. Thank you both! It does indeed seem like a good introduction, and beyond what it covers I suppose you just have to look up the literature on the indiv...
- Mon Jun 24, 2013 4:28 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Grammatical developments propelling sound change
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2312
Re: Grammatical developments propelling sound change
The usual way to think about case loss in Romance nowadays goes the other way: a continuous increase of the use of prepositions made case endings more and more useless. [...] Even then, I don't personally know how accurate it is to say that [phonology/grammar] affected [phonology/grammar]. Surely t...
- Sun Jun 23, 2013 6:28 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Good books on IE linguistics
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2572
Good books on IE linguistics
I'm getting increasingly annoyed with my limited knowledge of Indo-European linguistics and I feel like it's time to read up a bit on it, just so I won't be lost when people talk about whoever's law and this and that development in the palatal series in Italic and whatever. So, and this has probably...
- Sun Jun 23, 2013 4:10 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Grammatical developments propelling sound change
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2312
Grammatical developments propelling sound change
It's common for sound changes to have sometimes radical effects on grammar, such as the loss of case distinctions in Romance for example, but are there any cases of grammatical changes leading to changes in the phonology? Perhaps there are textbook examples of this that I just can't recall for the m...
- Sun Jun 02, 2013 8:05 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: [r]
- Replies: 24
- Views: 5189
Re: [r]
heheheWierdmin wrote:I apologize if this is intrusive
- Tue May 14, 2013 4:55 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Re: Help me with semantic examples! (from Zomp's blog)
- Replies: 218
- Views: 40919
Re: Help me with semantic examples! (from Zomp's blog)
English distinguishes between "house" and "building", while Swedish "hus" covers more than "house", but I'm not sure about how much of "building" is covered. Eh? Building is byggnad. In Swedish it's perfectly normal to refer to the WTC North Tower as norra huset , whereas house would seem out of pl...
- Sun May 12, 2013 4:12 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Re: Help me with semantic examples! (from Zomp's blog)
- Replies: 218
- Views: 40919
Re: Help me with semantic examples! (from Zomp's blog)
Swedish uses snygg as an all-purpose adjective for beauty/prettiness (in both people and inanimate objects), and anyone can call anyone snygg regardless of the sex of both the speaker and the person spoken of. Söt is pretty much equivalent to 'cute' and is probably more commonly used with females. ...
- Fri May 10, 2013 5:52 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Re: Help me with semantic examples! (from Zomp's blog)
- Replies: 218
- Views: 40919
Re: Help me with semantic examples! (from Zomp's blog)
Swedish uses snygg as an all-purpose adjective for beauty/prettiness (in both people and inanimate objects), and anyone can call anyone snygg regardless of the sex of both the speaker and the person spoken of. Söt is pretty much equivalent to 'cute' and is probably more commonly used with females. V...
- Fri May 03, 2013 3:47 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Re: Help me with semantic examples! (from Zomp's blog)
- Replies: 218
- Views: 40919
Re: Help me with semantic examples! (from Zomp's blog)
4. Lumps city and town into a word "kota" 5. Lumps leg and feet into a word "kaki" (I think this is kinda common) Yes, the latter is common, but surely the former is even more so? In fact, I don't know of any language other than English that distinguishes town and city (and I'm not sure I fluently ...
- Thu May 02, 2013 9:04 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Re: Help me with semantic examples! (from Zomp's blog)
- Replies: 218
- Views: 40919
Re: Help me with semantic examples! (from Zomp's blog)
fjäll/tunturi - mountain in the north of the Nordic countries. berg/vuori - mountain elsewhere. That's not really true; berg can freely be used to talk about Nordic mountains without it sounding strange in the least, however referring to Mount Everest as fjäll sounds quite weird. Actually, I think ...
- Wed Mar 20, 2013 3:55 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Polyglottal Telephone 17 [done]
- Replies: 161
- Views: 30878
Re: Polyglottal Telephone 17 [done]
Oh, finally! I'm glad I didn't mess up, apparently. But I agree with Qwynegold that the original text was (too) hard; as a non-native speaker it doesn't make much sense unless I really go through the effort of looking up words and stuff. I think it's usually funnier in the end when you end up with a...
- Sun Feb 24, 2013 8:12 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Polyglottal Telephone 17 [done]
- Replies: 161
- Views: 30878
Re: Polyglottal Telephone (number 17) [UPDATED: teams!]
And I received it, and now it's in the hands of tubragg.Yiuel Raumbesranae wrote:I did.finlay wrote:Did you send it to ulrike meinhof?
- Sat Feb 09, 2013 5:34 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Close Encounters theme spells out "your spring" in Solresol
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2477
Re: Close Encounters theme spells out "your spring" in Solre
So... 'your autumn'?Gray Richardson wrote:"your spring." (or ton automne per Sudre's original Solresol-French dictionary.)