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Re: Flags
The Haitian flag is the only national flag that depicts itself .... but the inner flags are small enough that the second order flag can be safely neglected.
- Sat Jun 09, 2018 7:43 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Re: Third-person imperatives - how do they work?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5874
Re: Third-person imperatives - how do they work?
It's basically "let him sleep!", "let them eat! " etc... with the different interpretations of the verb "let" also being valid interpretations of the 3rd person imperative. My conlangs also have a 1st person imperative... "let me go!" And such. Spanish has this in the plural only. This might be comm...
- Sat Jun 02, 2018 9:03 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Confusing headlines and other trips down the garden path
- Replies: 1058
- Views: 228443
Re: Confusing headlines and other trips down the garden path
For whatever it's worth, I wasn't sure whether "sanitary product" could also mean napkins or something. I dont think you'd be widely understood if you used that. But euphemisms go in and out of style .... i once saw napkin in an old children's book as a euphemism for diaper, and Im pretty sure it w...
- Thu May 31, 2018 3:38 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Confusing headlines and other trips down the garden path
- Replies: 1058
- Views: 228443
Re: Confusing headlines and other trips down the garden path
I guess the pilot joke just flew over everybody's heads. Oh well, i shouldve known better. Tampon jokes just arent funny, period.
- Thu May 31, 2018 11:17 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Confusing headlines and other trips down the garden path
- Replies: 1058
- Views: 228443
Re: Confusing headlines and other trips down the garden path
I agree, this one's pretty obvious to me.Also not sure how this could go wrong?Aberdeen sanitary product pilot to start across Scotland
Some people here clearly have never heard of ....
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- Tue May 29, 2018 7:37 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Aʻatun Scratchpad: Inventory questions
- Replies: 116
- Views: 64312
Re: Altrunian Conlang Scratchpad: Inventory questions
This looks like a display issue....some phones can't display the Greek chi symbol so it just appears as a simple x.
No comment/opinion on the question.
No comment/opinion on the question.
- Sun May 27, 2018 6:09 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Confusing headlines and other trips down the garden path
- Replies: 1058
- Views: 228443
Re: Confusing headlines and other trips down the garden path
FIGHT ON FLIGHT: MAN SPITS BLOOD, PUNCHES FLY, DEATH THREATS OVER BEER
Yeah, he was a little over the top, but that fly really had it coming.
(headline from Drudgereport)
Yeah, he was a little over the top, but that fly really had it coming.
(headline from Drudgereport)
- Sun May 27, 2018 1:11 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Polysynthesis for Novices
- Replies: 170
- Views: 191265
Re: Polysynthesis for Novices
http://www.incatena.org/viewtopic.php?p=955528#p955528 in the first page of this thread is an answer that i think answers the question there. a language that has classifier based incorporation must also have arbitrary incorporation. that is, if you can say "hunt for animals", you can also make arbit...
- Sun May 27, 2018 1:03 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Aʻatun Scratchpad: Inventory questions
- Replies: 116
- Views: 64312
Re: Altrunian Conlang Scratchpad: Inventory questions
Four vowel systems are very common .... it's just that it's usually /a i u ə/, so it's balanced. /a i u ə/ ,might even be the most common system in the entire world.
- Fri May 18, 2018 10:16 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread
- Replies: 3108
- Views: 664287
Re: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread
Anybody have voiced "th" in {anything},{everything},etc? I seem to have it at least in "anything" but can't be sure about saying the other unconsciously .. also, i meant to post in the "thanks" subthread earlier but lost track of it. I dont have the voiced "th" there afaik, but Ive heard it. I think...
- Fri May 18, 2018 7:06 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Polysynthesis for Novices
- Replies: 170
- Views: 191265
Re: Polysynthesis for Novices
Sorry if this has been answered somewhere and I missed it (so many pages!). Let's take a transitive verb such as from dhok's question from almost a decade ago: "My mom gave me milk". If there's a verb milk-give and you can say a thing such as my-mom she-milk-me-gave, is the verb still transitive or...
- Fri May 18, 2018 1:04 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Polysynthesis for Novices
- Replies: 170
- Views: 191265
Re: Polysynthesis for Novices
Is the morpheme order on the English gloss intentional? I'm not aware of any polysynthetic lang that has verbobj incorporation but allows a person marker to split the two morphemes up again. In my conlangs, "serve milk " would behave like any other verb, being transitive when the object is specified...
- Wed May 16, 2018 12:44 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread
- Replies: 2225
- Views: 461653
Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread
Im not aware of ther being reflexes of h2 & h3 in Hittite but Id like to see how the author reconstructs words with laryngeals in between consonants. e.g. if the word for father is /pqter/ or something like /pəqter/ instead. Im not sure how we know what the values of the letters were in lycian anywa...
- Sun May 13, 2018 1:38 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Incorrect pronunciations you have (or have had) to unlearn
- Replies: 669
- Views: 156569
Re: Incorrect pronunciations you have (or have had) to unlea
Ah, thanks. So my pronunciation is okay after all. Gotta look beyond wiktionary & wikipedia sometimes. Is this talking about Undertale? Nope, much older .... Secret of Mana by Squaresoft in 1992. Very iconic RPG for me, and influenced my conworld a lot, in some ways that Im only just now realizing, ...
- Wed May 09, 2018 9:56 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Incorrect pronunciations you have (or have had) to unlearn
- Replies: 669
- Views: 156569
Re: Incorrect pronunciations you have (or have had) to unlea
Undine is apparently pronounced to rhyme with "mean", not "mine". I don't think I will change my pronunciation, but I haven't said the word out loud in 20 years and probably won't within the next 20. (It was in a popular video game and an unrelated book I found once.)
- Tue May 08, 2018 5:19 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Incorrect pronunciations you have (or have had) to unlearn
- Replies: 669
- Views: 156569
Re: Incorrect pronunciations you have (or have had) to unlea
I was surprised visiting Albuquerque that people use true Spanish pronunciations for many names. I heard Jemez with monophtongs, not normal eng vowels. Perhaps it's a function of how familiar the speaker is, though .... The person speaking was familiar with both Spanish & Navajo.
- Mon Apr 30, 2018 5:27 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Japanese translation questions
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5490
Re: Japanese translation questions
パンツ is glossed as "men's underwear; underpants" and nothing else in my late 1980s paperback dictionary. If the meaning has changed, I can confirm it was correct at least in the 80s.
Thats about all I can help with
Thats about all I can help with
- Mon Apr 30, 2018 12:07 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Sound Change Quickie Thread
- Replies: 2827
- Views: 630323
Re: Sound Change Quickie Thread
Is there a separate/ s/ that survives, or is this language entirely without plain /s/? I think Hungarian has/ S z/ as the most common but also has /Z s/ in comparable quantities. /Z/>/z/ moving alone would be most likely if it shifted to a more open articulation than the voiceless . C.f. d turning d...
- Sun Apr 29, 2018 2:33 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Confusing headlines and other trips down the garden path
- Replies: 1058
- Views: 228443
Re: Confusing headlines and other trips down the garden path
In the same vein, I once saw a news headline/magazine cover linked in a feed
What ISIS really wants --- The Atlantic
What ISIS really wants --- The Atlantic
- Fri Apr 27, 2018 10:07 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Help your conlang fluency (2)
- Replies: 6633
- Views: 763918
Re: Help your conlang fluency
Gankʷ
The angel made me do it.
IPA /ɣaŋkʷ˧/
Created this word while I was at Ogunquit Beach in Maine ... not sure if that's coincidence or subconscious influence, because none of the morphemes I used are new to the language.
gà "angel"
n "caused by"
kʷ 1st person active voice past
The angel made me do it.
IPA /ɣaŋkʷ˧/
Created this word while I was at Ogunquit Beach in Maine ... not sure if that's coincidence or subconscious influence, because none of the morphemes I used are new to the language.
gà "angel"
n "caused by"
kʷ 1st person active voice past
- Fri Apr 27, 2018 1:18 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Should "aviophobia" actually refer to fear of birds, not fly
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5906
Re: Should "aviophobia" actually refer to fear of birds, not
Fear of birds is already documented on Wikipedia as ornithophobia, and that word likely will remain supreme. I would've gone with something like "pterophobia" for fear of flying, but perhaps that sounds too ambiguous with "teraphobia", a hypothetical word for fear of monsters?
- Tue Apr 24, 2018 3:42 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: A sixth pronunciation for the letter "x".
- Replies: 33
- Views: 19156
Re: A sixth pronunciation for the letter "x".
Is /reIf/ still standard in the U.K.? I knew someone with that name, but he spelled it Rafe and I didn't think of it as a variant of Ralph at the time. ÷÷÷÷÷÷ I've done /Z/ for x, too.... picked it up in my early teen years and seem to have mentally stored it as the default foreign pronunc until I m...
- Mon Apr 23, 2018 10:38 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Incorrect pronunciations you have (or have had) to unlearn
- Replies: 669
- Views: 156569
Re: Incorrect pronunciations you have (or have had) to unlea
If "disingenious" is an acceptable word, I agree it should rhyme with genius. But I want to see the context .... we don't really need a word for the opposite of "ingenious" , so unless it's clear the speaker did mean exactly that I suspect they meant to use the similar but etymologically distinct "d...
- Fri Apr 20, 2018 9:28 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Lexicon Building
- Replies: 4308
- Views: 808728
Re: Lexicon Building
Poswa:
One word is žopupi ... roughly "fist battle" but with a missing -s- due to analogy with žompa "punch"
Puppypatambi žopupeši
"The bully made me fight him"
bully-DAT-1p.past brawl-RECIP-1p.past
÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷
next: to look behind or under something
One word is žopupi ... roughly "fist battle" but with a missing -s- due to analogy with žompa "punch"
Puppypatambi žopupeši
"The bully made me fight him"
bully-DAT-1p.past brawl-RECIP-1p.past
÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷
next: to look behind or under something
- Fri Apr 20, 2018 9:09 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Paradigm-arrhea
- Replies: 36
- Views: 19337
Re: Paradigm-arrhea
Is there another word i can use instead of "possessed"? It doesnt even seem to have a Leipzig gloss abbreviation. although it does show INAL and ALIEN for inalienable & alienable possession respectively, i would think that they'd be integrated with the numbers as are the verb markers. I rarely use g...