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by Dewrad
Thu Jul 23, 2015 7:09 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Sound Change Quickie Thread
Replies: 2827
Views: 613747

Re: Sound Change Quickie Thread

احمک ارش-ھجنو wrote:Not a sound change, but could a genitive pronoun be used for reflexive constructions? If so, how?
I don't think that's at all unreasonable. It could go something like "I wash my body" > "I wash my", just dropping the head noun.
by Dewrad
Thu Jul 02, 2015 3:50 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Help your conlang fluency (2)
Replies: 6633
Views: 726119

Re: Help your conlang fluency

Ἰ Ἀλμάνῑ, ίνισἐτ ἰ μόρτι. Ἴτα ίνιὐτ λιὲ δῥύνδἑμ. Κἢτ ίνιασε ἰ σἵῠα; I Almanî, inise't i morti. Ita iniu't lie dhrundhem. Cê't iniase i-shiva? in Germany.DAT || fire=COP-3SG in air.DAT || so hot-N=COP.3SG () bake\PAS-1PL || how=COP-3SG temperature in=2PL.DAT In Germany, there's fire in the air. It's...
by Dewrad
Thu Jul 02, 2015 3:29 pm
Forum: None of the above
Topic: Venting thread that still excludes eddy (2)
Replies: 2639
Views: 301377

Re: Venting thread that excludes sirdanilot

Beyond getting blackout drunk (and I'm six pints deep already), I cannot think of any way to get to sleep. Fuck my puny British reaction to the "heatwave" we're going through.
by Dewrad
Fri Jun 26, 2015 3:16 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Changes to Aeghilian
Replies: 12
Views: 3521

Re: Changes to Aeghilian

I'm going to point out here that by declaring a lack of interest in the "technical side of language creation", you are very much in the minority here. This board is pretty much geared to those who very much are interested in linguistics and the "technical side". You might get feedback more in line w...
by Dewrad
Tue Jun 16, 2015 7:56 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Languages with Nouns/Adjectives/Verbs of ONLY Two+ Syllables
Replies: 11
Views: 3120

Re: Languages with Nouns/Adjectives/Verbs of ONLY Two+ Sylla

Anyway, Old Church Slavonic and Italian seems to be pretty close. As for OCS, only one or two nouns of the Swadesh list have one syllable (kry 'blood', and maybe shie 'neck' but this might have two syllables), and none of the adjectives or verbs does. Italian is better: ALL nouns/adjectives/verbs h...
by Dewrad
Mon Jun 15, 2015 1:34 pm
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: Teach-Learn Polarity [mostly on causatives]
Replies: 19
Views: 14347

Re: Teach-Learn Polarity

It seems (at a stretch) something like this kind of thing?
by Dewrad
Mon Jun 15, 2015 2:24 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Help your conlang fluency (2)
Replies: 6633
Views: 726119

Re: Help your conlang fluency

YourFace wrote:Kontrām pwer san Atsënî.
build.3.plur.past via def ancient.plur
Built by the "Ancients."
Jara asài zostificatei?
Were they also justified?
by Dewrad
Mon Jun 15, 2015 1:16 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
Replies: 4604
Views: 1116264

Re: Help your fluency in a nifty way

Je ne crois pas que « à laquelle en anglais » soit complètement correct. Mais je le dis seulement comme un hispanophone, puisque en espagnol a la cual en inglés semblerait très bizarre dans une phrase similaire. Pour être honnêt je ne sais pas. I think à laquelle en anglais is probably wrong. But I...
by Dewrad
Sun Jun 14, 2015 2:45 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
Replies: 4604
Views: 1116264

Re: Help your fluency in a nifty way

Je suis en milieu de apprendre le Français. L'espagnol a aidé moi me souvenir les genres des mots parce que il conserve les terminaison -a et -o qui a été élidé dans le Français. Cependant, d'une façon ou d'une autre, je peux lire textes en français plus rapide dans espagnol. Peut être c'est parce ...
by Dewrad
Fri Jun 12, 2015 3:07 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
Replies: 4604
Views: 1116264

Re: Help your fluency in a nifty way

linguoboy wrote:Que se pronuncia "dulche de leche", claro.
Which is pronounced "dulche de leche", naturally.
Incolpa gli Italiani.
Blame the Italians.
by Dewrad
Fri Jun 12, 2015 12:55 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: What was your first conlang like?
Replies: 30
Views: 7579

Re: What was your first conlang like?

lagēnam vīni quam in valisiā in manū tenueram ad symposium portavi.
by Dewrad
Fri Jun 12, 2015 12:45 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
Replies: 4604
Views: 1116264

Re: Help your fluency in a nifty way

Thry wrote:Ou doce de leite.
Or doce de leite (milk fudge[?]).
En inglés se dice dulce de leche, que yo sepa.
It's dulce de leche in English, as far as I know.
by Dewrad
Fri Jun 12, 2015 12:26 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
Replies: 4604
Views: 1116264

Re: Help your fluency in a nifty way

Thry wrote:E eu odeio a baunillha.
And I hate vanilla.
Il faut au moins des pépites de chocolat aussi.
One also needs chocolate chips at least.
by Dewrad
Fri Jun 12, 2015 12:22 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: What was your first conlang like?
Replies: 30
Views: 7579

Re: What was your first conlang like?

Pole, the wrote:Is Latin taught at school in your countries?
Lots of private schools, and a few state schools (mine being one, or I'd be out of a job) Latin was very much a formative influence on me: doing Latin and French (later Italian) simultaneously is what sparked my interest in historical linguistics.
by Dewrad
Fri Jun 12, 2015 11:51 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
Replies: 4604
Views: 1116264

Re: Help your fluency in a nifty way

jal wrote:
Qwynegold wrote:But it is gross!
Denkst du wirklich, dass ein bischen Kink widerlich ist?
Do you really think a bit of kink is gross?
Les Suédois sont des prudes qui ne veulent pas l'avouer.
Swedes are closet prudes.
by Dewrad
Sat Jun 06, 2015 10:09 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
Replies: 4604
Views: 1116264

Re: Help your fluency in a nifty way

Merci bien! J'essaye à écrire aussi bon bien que je le peut. Some mistakes I spotted as a non-native speaker. There are some other things I'm not sure about, but I'll leave those to others to comment on. "J'essaie d'écrire aussi bien que je peux. Mais j'aurais préféré quelque chose de plus idiomati...
by Dewrad
Fri May 29, 2015 6:31 pm
Forum: None of the above
Topic: Venting thread that still excludes eddy (2)
Replies: 2639
Views: 301377

Re: Venting thread that excludes sirdanilot

KathAveara wrote:Try to tell me with a straight face that legallising same-sex marriage is more important than ending racism and/or sexism (or even writing full and total equality into law)
Is this something that anyone has actually said in this thread though?
by Dewrad
Fri May 29, 2015 4:03 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: What's the best way to learn a noun declension system?
Replies: 12
Views: 3329

Re: What's the best way to learn a noun declension system?

Given that I actually teach a highly inflected language for a living, I'm going to go out on a limb and say that somewhere between the two is the way forward. It's all very well plugging all the case-forms of, e.g. dominus and femina into memrise and then having at it, but without being able to reco...
by Dewrad
Fri May 29, 2015 11:40 am
Forum: None of the above
Topic: Confusing headlines and other trips down the garden path
Replies: 1058
Views: 221525

Re: Cheese that smells

Viktor77 wrote:This one just sounds bizarre in and out of context.

«Les arbres dangereux tueront, si rien ne change»

Why use "arbres dangereux" actively? It makes them sound like some sort of evil villain.
Brevity?

KILLER TREES:
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by Dewrad
Sun May 17, 2015 2:55 pm
Forum: None of the above
Topic: Venting thread that still excludes eddy (2)
Replies: 2639
Views: 301377

Re: Venting thread that excludes sirdanilot

So, in the parlance of British politeness, exactly how damning is, "Really not a good idea"? If someone has responded to a suggestion with this, then what you have suggested is so far beyond the pale that your interlocutor is seriously considering cutting off all contact with you and reporting you ...
by Dewrad
Sun May 17, 2015 11:16 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Language revival revisited
Replies: 68
Views: 14576

Re: Language revival revisited

There already is plenty of media in Welsh. Some of it even gets consumed. *LOL!!* Only one of the best things to come out of British telly. Rwy mor grac oherwydd na alla i gael y fersiwn Cymraeg fan hyn. Creda neu beidio, well gen i'r fersiwn dwyieithog na'r fersiwn Cymraeg. Dwi'n meddwl bod Mathia...
by Dewrad
Sun May 17, 2015 9:21 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Language revival revisited
Replies: 68
Views: 14576

Re: Language revival revisited

marconatrix wrote:
Yng wrote:There already is plenty of media in Welsh. Some of it even gets consumed.
*LOL!!*
Only one of the best things to come out of British telly.
by Dewrad
Wed May 13, 2015 11:26 am
Forum: None of the above
Topic: Venting thread that still excludes eddy (2)
Replies: 2639
Views: 301377

Re: Venting thread that excludes sirdanilot

I assumed from context that he was getting married - but then he keeps talking about his spouse, which would mean he's married already. Unless he's confusing "spouse" and "fiance"? With same-sex couples, you do always have the possibility that there was already a commitment ceremony of some sort wi...
by Dewrad
Thu May 07, 2015 12:47 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Personal names between languages
Replies: 206
Views: 32698

Re: Personal names between languages

Danny-boy's SOP is "state a naive, insensitive, or bigoted opinion as Holy Writ, wait to be questioned, repeat a few times, then start personally attacking anyone who hasn't given up in disgust yet." The funny thing is, he's been a member of this board for ages. Why is he all of a sudden all over u...
by Dewrad
Tue May 05, 2015 4:49 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Personal names between languages
Replies: 206
Views: 32698

Re: Personal names between languages

Names in the Western World are not directly connected anymore to their etymological origins, and they are also not directly connected to their original intended meaning. If your name is Nathaniel you name originally means 'Given of God' (as it's a Hebrew name; source first hit on Google), but you a...