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on a tangent, one of morphologists' favourite examples is something like "sensationalisationalisationalise", which is technically permissible under the rules of english morphology, but people lose track of what the meaning's meant to be very quickly. Now see, this I don't get. If no one uses it bec...

finlay wrote:(why use a complex term when you have a working simpler term?)

BECAUSE WE ARE LINGUISTS DAGNABBIT

Shrdlu wrote:

ekobor wrote:

Vardelm wrote:

Ashroot wrote:Have you ever looked around you and noticed how hopelessly mediocre people can be?

All the time.

Yep.

Every day.

Nope.

I guess we could start in about a week. There are 10 participants at the moment, so if no one else joins, the game should last until the end of June (since each person gets 4 days for the translation). If more people join, it could continue into July, but I don't think it is going to last longer th...

I would! It'd be cool to work with someone else's polysynthetic project, and Tmaśareʔ has directional marking too which looks fun.

I still need to know what the approximate dates for the relay are, though, before I can commit.

Oh, I'm sure that lots of different translations have been done for the more major languages I mentioned--that's one reason I wanted to see which ones you guys recommended. Of the three you linked, which is your favorite? Divergences from the original are definitely not a problem--they're actually e...

Next month, I'm going to be teaching a seminar on world languages to some gifted high schoolers in Mongolia. (The students are all advanced English speakers.) For one of our later discussions, I'd like to do a cross-linguistic comparison of translations of a single text. Since one of the other semin...

The Count wrote:That kind of people will never understand. And they don't have to. It's no use to even waste breath in trying to explain.

I usually just respond, "Why do painters paint?" Sometimes I have to clarify that I mean amateur painters, but it usually works well enough.

I might be interested in participating, but I'd need to know the projected dates first. My school is weird and runs later than most, so if the relay runs during or close to my finals season I won't be able to join.

Hey, just because people have been doing them somewhere else doesn't mean you can't spearhead one here!

You are describing a conlang relay--they're quite feasible, and they happen all the time on the CONLANG list. In fact there's two going on right now. The first person composes a text, then sends it to the next player with a lexicon and sufficient grammar notes to decipher it. Next player translates ...

A friend has voiced some curiosity about the development of Spanish "noche" and "día" and how they fell into their respective genders. Could anybody point me in the right direction to find him an answer?

roninbodhisattva wrote:What font(s) did you use for this?

Aw man, are they not working? I tried to embed them in the pdf, but I wasn't quite sure I was doing it right...

- The main text is Didot
- Major headings are Primitive
- Minor headings are in Optima Regular
- IPA transcriptions are in Times New Roman

To be clear, the áaknaihda is still on your side of the table? Uh... no. I thought you took it. Maybe I should go back to sleep? :oops: Brilliant! Okay. That makes much more sense! Let us see what diabolical things I can do with...what I'm pretty sure are verbs. :P ----- I take the áaknairuk from m...

Fascinating! Okay, this needs more riddling.

To be clear, the áaknaihda is still on your side of the table?

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Zariáaknaihda?

Whooa! Can it be? Perhaps, áa<ni>k-at? Delicious indeed! Note: Something appears to be backwards, so it's possible I misunderstood. I placed the áaknairuk in front of you , and the áaknaihda in front of me . Should I switch them? Also, I have a list of :D words going: Átx, nunúnapaxiin, fínapaxiin.....

Delicious! Is that a circumfix? Or maybe two separate morphemes? So many questions! (Don't actually answer those, it would spoil my fun )

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Txír iáaknairukat, fír iáaknaihdaat. Zarpáxiin?

Well yes, but that's not really a problem. Once I internalize the grammar, I can acquire new vocab as it's needed. For concrete nouns it just takes a quick zarní , concrete adjectives are similarly simple, and for more abstract things, with enough concrete vocab I can set up conversations such that ...

Hmm...I wonder...

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Zarnínairuknaáak?

Actually, I have purposefully not looked at the pdf doc or lessons at all. At the start I knew nothing of Inyauk (except bits and pieces from Ossicone's various threads, but I'm trying not to rely on those at all) except what I asked in my first post. I'm just riddling this out through the conversat...

No way! Seriously? XD I was just guessing! Score!

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Zarninahansarnairuk?

O_o Waaaait wait wait wait. Slowly!

Hmmm...

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Zarnínaihda?

Yeehaw! And deixis to boot! Hmm...there's something going on with "Nínahansar", "Zarníhansar?", and "Nahaánsar" I haven't pegged yet--probably some morphophonemic tweaking. It'll come. And now for more mad experimentation! --- http://www.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/3590766/2/istockphoto_3...

:o :o :o Ooooh cool! ------- http://www.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/3590766/2/istockphoto_3590766-perfect-green-maple-leaf-with-red-stem-isolated-clipping-path.jpg Nínayaufin. http://www.dietsinreview.com/diet_column/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/red-apple.jpg Nínayaufin. http://farm3.static...

Intriguing! Okay, let's try this:

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Zarnínaufin?