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Eccentric Iconoclast wrote:Egads, Serali, I sure hope you don't live in an apartment; imagine the people below you who would have to put up with you jumping up and down over and over again and yelling BOINGY PRETTY SCRIPTIES YAY at the top of your lungs.

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In the thread on the Corusi script: BOINGIES! http://s181.photobucket.com/albums/x180/Wapo_Gipo_Frogs88/Boingies/th_bpied2rainbow_15131.gif http://s181.photobucket.com/albums/x180/Wapo_Gipo_Frogs88/Boingies/th_bpied_white15785_3749.gif http://s181.photobucket.com/albums/x180/Wapo_Gipo_Frogs88/Boingi...

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In the "Mikmaq Grammar" thread:

Xephyr wrote:I found one.

Micmac

Phonology:

Paddywhack

Phonotactics:

Give a dog

Morphology:

a bone.

Morphophonology:

This old man...

Morphosyntax:

...came

Syntax & Grammar:

... ... rolling

Discourse:

... ... ... home.

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Improv Everywhere

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Sano: Thank you! You're funny sometimes you know that right? Please don't. This is a thread for quotes, not responses to quotes. You already established that you thought the post was funny. You really don't need to post another time. Please? There is plenty of evidence to the contrary here, e.g. th...

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http://www.spinnoff.com/zbb/viewtopic.php?t=27369 Any of you nominally Christian folks doing anything religious to commemorate the death and resurrection of the son of your god, or are you all just going to wallow in rampant secularism? We're going to play "hunt-the-heathen". I just got my pitchfork...

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I wish English had a word for the emotion you feel when someone is talking to you as if youve made a ridiculously infantile mistake (and you havent), or when theyve just shown you that you ARE stupid and keep talking to you like everything's normal, perhaps because they assume you're used to being ...

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On the subject of ANTIGUA: The Land of Fairies Wizards and Heroes (Part 1):

boustrophedon wrote:On the other hand, this book becomes a surreal artistic masterpiece if you read every exclamation point as a sudden high-pitched warbling cry.

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Pisceesumsprecan wrote:Note that 'no' translates the use of 'it' as a dummy pronoun. The word has been around for a while (in my conlang) and I've forgotten it's etymology. My conlang is West Germanic. If anyone has any ideas about where it might come from, do tell.

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Scroll down.

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The Second Defenestration of Prague, rather. And actually, iirc there were a number of less famous Defenestrations of Prague before the first and between the first and second, that never made it into the Canonical Numbering for Defenestrations of Prague. It makes me wonder -- have any other cities ...

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First:

Rodlox wrote:this is very odd....I typed out several ş in my translations page....but when I looked at the page outside of the Edit window, they all show up as þ

anybody know why?

Then:

¡Papapishu! wrote:Your conlang underwent a sound change.

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From my signature (I may already have posted this, but...):

weldingfish wrote:Sorry. Santa needs to screw around with mathematics sometimes in order to deliver everything on time.

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I keep wanting to use Japanese particles out of context. For example, I found myself the other day wanting to say put the object of poner in Spanish before the verb and link to it with (w)o.

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Gremlins wrote:You should see your local voodoo practitioner immediately for more shrunken heads.

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Imralu wrote:
Ink Pudding wrote:In Zulu there's an onomatopoeic word for "jabbing at the eyes", which is nhlo (xhokolizi).
How is that onomatopoeic? Hmm ... I guess I've never really listened to carefully while jabbing eyes ... I get too excited by the blood and the screaming to pay attention to much else ...

Here.

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Whimemsz wrote:I had always intended to complete the work started by others in transferring all this info to the KQ. But so far I haven't.

Someone please do so.

EDIT: I can't bear looking through all of 12 pages, the first eight or nine of which have many special symbols missing.

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http://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/lrc/eieol/

Resources on a number of early Indo-European languages, including Hittite, Sanskrit, Latin, Classical and New Testament Greek, as well as Old French, Gothic, and Old Iranian.

No Celtic languages, alas.

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Dhana groups SA as nominative in active sentences and SP as nominative in passive sentences. PT also group together in active sentences, while R is split into two cases. So, I guess that makes Dhana active-dative. I once had a little sketch for a conlang that had a "second passive" voice, distinguis...

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I swear someone had a link to this before: does anyone have the Describing Morphosyntax outline?

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Hmmm...I notice all the romance SCs are from Vulgar Latin. Does anyone have the SCs from Classical Latin to Vulgar Latin? Well, this is a hairsplitting sort of technicality, but no. To be linguistically correct, Classical and Vulgar Latin were both co-existent daughters of a previous unified Latin....

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Hmmm...I notice all the romance SCs are from Vulgar Latin. Does anyone have the SCs from Classical Latin to Vulgar Latin?

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Anyway, I've got some info on Nepālī. I don't think I can type in Devanagārī, so bear with me. Nice tidbits, but they're not exactly "from beyond IE": http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=nep Best regards, Hans-Werner I know that Nepālī as a language isn't, but the tidbits are definitel...

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I'd say that's more than a tidbit. :P Anyway, I've got some info on Nepālī. I don't think I can type in Devanagārī, so bear with me. First of all, verbs have positive and negative forms, like Japanese: hũ~hoina (I am~I am not) chas~chainas (you (intimate) are~you are not) bolchu~boldina (I speak~I d...

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Miekko wrote:
MadBrain wrote: I wonder is if there's a natlang with voiced implosives but voiceless ejectives (sounds relatively plausible).
Are you aware that human anatomy, in combination with the way ejectives are articulated, makes voicing impossible?

I now am.

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