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.احمک ارش-ھجنو wrote:Not a sound change, but could a genitive pronoun be used for reflexive constructions? If so, how?
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- Thu Jul 23, 2015 7:09 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Sound Change Quickie Thread
- Replies: 2827
- Views: 613747
Re: Sound Change Quickie Thread
- 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...
- 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.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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?
- 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
Jara asài zostificatei?YourFace wrote:Kontrām pwer san Atsënî.
build.3.plur.past via def ancient.plur
Built by the "Ancients."
Were they also justified?
- 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...
- 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 ...
- 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
Incolpa gli Italiani.linguoboy wrote:Que se pronuncia "dulche de leche", claro.
Which is pronounced "dulche de leche", naturally.
Blame the Italians.
- 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.
- 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
En inglés se dice dulce de leche, que yo sepa.Thry wrote:Ou doce de leite.
Or doce de leite (milk fudge[?]).
It's dulce de leche in English, as far as I know.
- 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
Il faut au moins des pépites de chocolat aussi.Thry wrote:E eu odeio a baunillha.
And I hate vanilla.
One also needs chocolate chips at least.
- 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?
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.Pole, the wrote:Is Latin taught at school in your countries?
- 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
Les Suédois sont des prudes qui ne veulent pas l'avouer.jal wrote:Denkst du wirklich, dass ein bischen Kink widerlich ist?Qwynegold wrote:But it is gross!
Do you really think a bit of kink is gross?
Swedes are closet prudes.
- 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...
- 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
Is this something that anyone has actually said in this thread though?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)
- 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...
- 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
Brevity?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.
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- 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 ...
- 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...
- Sun May 17, 2015 9:21 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Language revival revisited
- Replies: 68
- Views: 14576
Re: Language revival revisited
Only one of the best things to come out of British telly.marconatrix wrote:*LOL!!*Yng wrote:There already is plenty of media in Welsh. Some of it even gets consumed.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...