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The window broke La fenetre s'est rompu (French : middle voice marked because the breaking is done by and to the window) AUGH ! You can't use "rompre" with a window ! "rompre" is the idea of bent, distort something until it breaks. You can "rompre" bread or a branch, but not a window ! You must use...

A clarification, if you please: when you guys speak of an "animacy hierarchy," are you referring to something like that found in Algonquian languages, where a person hierarchy determines which participant is marked with a prefix and which with a suffix? Cheyenne's hierarchy goes: 2-1-3-4-I, where 3...

schwhatever wrote:Les échelles les amène dans la salle souterraine.

En anglais: The ladders lead us down into the underground room.

"Lead them".

It's not that much unlike how the average nom-acc erg-abs split lang works after all : You have three cases, but only two at a time are used, according to the situation (these language typically have a common nominative/absolutive case but distinct ergative and accusative cases). Edit : even really ...

I would add one more category to this: O: Object of a transitive sentence; used in an active language when the Agent does not fulfill the active condition(s). (In my own conlangs, when the Agent doesn't fulfill the active conditions, he's marked as a Subject.) Thus that allows you to have the activ...

My current project is both active-stative (with split triggered by some voices and aspects) and direct-inverse - as for the second thingie, it is dative.

If I count right*, that means you have triconsonantal root but only 8 consonants to throw in them. Not really: I have 24 consonants in total, which are divided in 8 (as you said) groups. Say you have g1-g-2-g3 root (indicating a group with "g"): it can appears in various forms, where the groups tak...

As I'm creating a conlang with a quasi-triconsonantal root system, I had a look at the Old Skourene lexicon and saw that the vocabulary is organized by root: I was wondering, Mark, how many roots do you have in it? I know, I'm lazy... Anyways, in my conlang I have 512 possible roots, but I think it...

Shm Jay wrote:or a bunch of libertarians.

I dubt they exist at all in Almea.

I'm curious about the murtani. What are their leaders like? Are they despotic kings (like the Pharoah) whom everybody trembles before like an evil god? Or are they more like gangsters, who have to win their power with strength and cunning, and fall when someone bigger comes along? Or does it vary f...

Well, if it can make you feel better, at young age I used to think of english as a mix of "celtic", "anglo saxon" (wich was a dictinct category from "germanic") and French (I didn't know the word "creole" at this step). On behalf of linguoboy... creole != mixed language. Tok Pisin is an example of ...

"The two parent languages of English are Greek and Latin" this just makes me laugh, inwarldy and outwardly Ditto, though strangely the thought the people actually believe this also makes me cry, inwardly and outwardly. Like me? I used to believe it, and I wouldn't be surprised if you (or any other ...

You have no more otter left ?

Gwaaaa cuuuute.

Also :



RENARD

LION... er... ANTEATER

Jar Jar Binks wrote:

BABY BADGER

Gwaaaa, kawaaaaaaaaaaaaaaai, looks like a teddy badger !


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BLAIREAU

Ruby wrote:

Jar Jar Binks wrote:
OTTER + OTTER + OTTER + OTTER + OTTER

...Five? How'dya figure?

The fith one was tooking the photography.

You might be right, the same kind of confusion exists between french and canadian french.

Frenchs call "chevreuil" the roe deer when quebecers call "chevreuil" the white-tailed deer.

Well actually my source was a bilingual french/english webpage on cervidae, where it was said than mooses and elks are actually the same animal ( Alces alces ), the same goes for White-tailed Deers and Cariacous ( Odocoileus virginianus ), Reindeers and Caribous ( Rangifer tarandus ), Common deers a...

Les cervid?s (cervidae) : http://perso.wanadoo.fr/alain.perron/faune/orignal.jpg ?LAN/ORIGNAL (moose/elk) http://www.aaff.org/images/chevreuil.jpg CHEVREUIL (Roe Deer) http://cerfs.free.fr/images/photos/virginie13.jpg CERF DE VIRGINIE/CARIACOU/CERF ? QUEUE BLANCHE (White-tailed Deer/Cariacou) http:/...

Raton laveur (or Tanuki, as would say our japanese friends).

LOUTRE (learn furry animal's french names with Legion).