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- Fri Apr 14, 2006 1:11 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: The mistakes you've made
- Replies: 115
- Views: 108776
The language of dreams and scalp damage
Wow, I hadn't even noticed that this had been marked for preservation. Truth be told, I'm actually a little embarassed by the sheer silly amateurishness of my German in all of my posts. But I do now recall something from my collegiate study of German (which went only a little better than my high sch...
- Tue Apr 11, 2006 6:55 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Welsh lessons.
- Replies: 158
- Views: 119534
Yn sur ef a wothfye y bos my peghadures
Isn't Cornish the bastard child of Brythoneg and Germanic languages? Did Cornish used to be spoken in Devon? I have a Cornish for beginners book and tape. Well, it certainly wasn't born out of wedlock and though there may have been speakers of Cornish or some other Southwestern British language in ...
- Tue Apr 11, 2006 6:42 pm
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Proto-Eastern question
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3856
Warning: I... I'm not really very good at this sort of thing
so? Well, as Mr. Burke explained, /j/ (or /y/ in some transcription systems) can behave like a vowel or a consonant, it and /w/ are sort of in between the two categories. I suppose in words like <yet> /jEt/ one could contrue it as a consonant, but the examples you listed from Verdurian have /j/ in ...
- Mon Apr 10, 2006 7:59 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Welsh lessons.
- Replies: 158
- Views: 119534
I once spotted the Gaelic that robbed me in a line up
Keith? Omma yw te, sos? Dynargh dhe'n ZBB! Yth esen vy owth ankevy bos les dhys adro an yethow gwrys. Dyowl! Hwythyz yw ow gorher yn tevri! :? Dre happ my re gavas an bord-ma. Rez yw dhymm gorre ow folennow a-dro dhe Saprutum arte y'n kezroezweyth, dell hevel ... Mez pyw y'n byz-ma a'm azwonn omma?...
- Tue Mar 14, 2006 12:28 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The Official ZBB Quote Thread
- Replies: 2878
- Views: 719962
Diaresise stupidity is the least of my failings
For a time, on another forum, I quoted myself in my signature, but it was using my real name. That was mostly for a lark, I had been wondering how long it'd be before I gave the game up, or before someone figured it out. It actaully took rather a long time, I think I switched to Thucydides or someth...
- Wed Feb 15, 2006 7:09 pm
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Verdurian Alphabets
- Replies: 25
- Views: 10643
Limited audiences, ONLY!
My solution is to rent, which is cheaper, less onerous, and only lacks the big-screen experience, which is itself usually negated by the truly awful audiences that swarm into modern the?ters. Sometimes small theaters (like the 19th Street The?ter back home) are exceptions on both price and noxiousne...
- Sun Feb 12, 2006 12:45 pm
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Verdurian Alphabets
- Replies: 25
- Views: 10643
Goddamn whipper-snappers and their gratification
Sheesh, I think I'm the only person under the age of twenty five left in the world whose first instinct when he wants a piece of software is to save up and actually pay for it.
- Thu Feb 09, 2006 3:11 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Irish Lessons - Ranganna Gaeilge
- Replies: 115
- Views: 100726
Terribly fortunate nonetheless
That's got to be the part that gets me most lost when looking at Irish. All of those 'little' particles bouncing around just confuse me. I can handle as many affixes jammed on to things as you like, but having so many tiny words flitting about in a sentence disorients me horribly. Sorry - I realise ...
- Tue Sep 27, 2005 8:52 pm
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Your Favorite Almea Language
- Replies: 65
- Views: 28303
I really wish I had them in book form
I prefer Flaidish the most. It's somewhere between familiar and alien in wonderful way. However I do really like Old Skourene, which satisfied my anticipation handily.
- Sat Sep 24, 2005 10:40 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Flaidish and Elkar
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3385
7-7-7
I've seen <7> for the glottal stop in a number of academic publications, so I suppose Mr. Rosenfelder just happens to be at the bleeding edge of orthographic representation.
- Mon Jul 25, 2005 8:18 pm
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Xurnash, when will it be uploaded
- Replies: 38
- Views: 14434
d-r-k
I'd pretty much been in eager waiting for Skourene, now that Mr. Rosenfelder's graced us with that, I feel contented.
- Thu Jul 21, 2005 10:02 pm
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Lenani is up
- Replies: 52
- Views: 21288
Re: Capital! Just capital!
the lower-case styled but upper-case sized retroflex voiceless dental stop will take a little getting used too. What? Your mother. I guess Firefox must be having display issues, because all of the retroflexes are showing up as somewhat oversized. They're shaped like lower case letters, but with upp...
- Thu Jul 21, 2005 9:30 pm
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Lenani is up
- Replies: 52
- Views: 21288
Capital! Just capital!
I've been waiting for this for some time. I'm quite fond of the Skourenes and I've been curious about their language for a while. I've only read a little, but it seems to promise some intriguing substance. I like the natural gender with a four-way distinction. The retroflexes are displaying for me (...
- Wed Jun 01, 2005 11:21 am
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Welsh lessons.
- Replies: 158
- Views: 119534
Re: Welsh lessons.
When he has time.alieneye wrote:I considered the promise still unfulfilled.Dewrad wrote:Also known as "Dewrad comes through on his campaign promises".
Seriously, will the thread go on?
- Fri Apr 29, 2005 12:18 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Public Restrooms in Me?aic Realms...
- Replies: 20
- Views: 7162
Tests of things that no one cares about anymore
I've often imagined that a considerable number of people on this board would have been counted as Ewemi. I would certainly not be suited to the traditional role of an Ezičimi man. The rough comparison of Ewemi to nerds (dorks, geeks, et cetera) certainly seems to fit. Modern society certainly seems ...
- Wed Mar 30, 2005 1:02 pm
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Europe - Erel?e correspondences
- Replies: 64
- Views: 22971
For what it's worth ($0.04)
They Skourenes usually suggest the Greeks to me.
- Mon Feb 07, 2005 4:55 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: An introduction to Catalan
- Replies: 149
- Views: 160429
I love them funny-talkin' sorts
This is very interesting stuff Izopiru. I especially appreciate the attention paid to dialects.
- Thu Dec 16, 2004 5:34 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: OTTER
- Replies: 1013
- Views: 443814
*YES MASTERRRRRRRR*
His visage is, in its own way, hypnotic.
- Sun Dec 12, 2004 9:48 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: OTTER
- Replies: 1013
- Views: 443814
About as harmless as an otter
LLOYD BENTSEN
- Sun Nov 14, 2004 12:44 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: OTTER
- Replies: 1013
- Views: 443814
Meep
Attractive. Now that is truly weird. :? Yes. I mean I thought the bald women fetish was weird, but voluptuous semi-animals?? You've been on the Internet for more than a few days and you've never heard of furries? *sigh* Kids these days, so sheltered... http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/1671/sailor.jpg...
- Tue Nov 02, 2004 3:58 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Obenzayet and Sarroc
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3047
It was mildly amusing in my head
Oh dear, it looks like we'll need those flu vaccines after all.blackhand wrote::feverishly awaits the Sarroc grammar:
Toby Radloff wants to talk to you...
I suppose I'm late in the compliment game, Zompist, but Meshaism is a fascinating creation.
Asexual nerds as a distinct gender! I love it.
Asexual nerds as a distinct gender! I love it.
- Tue Sep 21, 2004 12:03 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: What's next
- Replies: 139
- Views: 44872
I don't like to agitate...
I tend to prefer, "Zompist," or, "Mister Rosenfelder," but it takes extended direct contact for me to break down and be casual, even on a deucing message board.
Now, I wait humbly and quietly patient for the grammar of Old Skourene.
Now, I wait humbly and quietly patient for the grammar of Old Skourene.
Wriggle through the context
Why did this discussion come to be about Binghampton? Maknas and me are contrasting our dialects. Mine assimilates nasals before /t/ by adding a /p/, whereas his does not. Binghamton came up as a point of comparison. The town's name and the apparent preferred pronounciation of the natives, and Maka...
Re: Where I get off of the Bus
It's a pain to say, "Binghamton," correctly too. Um, how is it supposed to be pronounced? If I just say it, I'd say [bIN{mtn=] (no [p] or [h] there for me)... It's supposed to be pronounced about as you say it, but I try to put a /p/ in there that shouldn't be (some locals are jestingly vehement ab...