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Kada sā sundaloyyon deramyam narānjang sitanglentanjas ton adanya.
So CAUT lose-NEG-3PL.N after.all language-PL-A vowel-PL-P 3PL.N.GEN that.one.T
So they don't make languages lose their vowels after all.

Ang mətahava maritay nakās 'betaydisyan' vilyanganya?
AT PST-have-2SG.T before plant-P 'berry.bunch' belong-NMLZ-LOC?
Did you have a bunchberry plant among your belongings before?

I'm not quite sure how G.Projector is supposed to help me check for distortions By choosing a fitting projection (I dabbled with it some time ago, but I forget which one) and aligning the map over the north or south pole. In particular, I think the Cahill butterfly projection works well for 2D > gl...

Ang tahayo nārya narān Inglis sitanglentanjas si tupas nay pana?
AT have-3SN though language.T English vowel-PL-P REL long and light?
Does English have vowels that are both long and unstressed, though?

If you're thinking of drawing maps and projecting them as globes, you can always use a 2D graphics program of your choice (e.g. GIMP, Paint.NET, Photoshop; Inkscape, Illustrator) and import it e.g. into http://www.giss.nasa.gov/tools/gprojector/ to check for major pinching and consistency mistakes a...

Something this very board could use is a plugin for PHPBB that produces nicely aligned interlinear glosses. Either by using tables or by using CSS float magic.

Izambri wrote:What's the highest rank now? +10,000?

Yes:

Zompist wrote:Osän 10000

Note to 2023 self: Still have 774 to go as of now.

Also, some nostalgia: viewtopic.php?p=1#p1

like what language with a central a wouldn't interpret a back a or a front a as their a? (The other one is using a "lowered" e/o when e/o would and should suffice for a languages with only one mid vowel. It would make sense if people were using those with [] (and even then it would often be more sp...

1. Which writing utensils did your confolks use historically? 2. Which writing utensils do your confolks use currently? 3. Look at http://omniglot.com/writing/types.htm and http://ancientscripts.com/ws.html for inspiration. Since your script is alphabetic, I suggest looking at some real-world eviden...

Real languages with lots of vowels have a certain tendency not to distinguish them in writing at all, e.g. Latin didn't distinguish long vowels from short, and it's not always clear in English what vowel is meant from the spelling. And while German's sound-letter-correspondence system is usually sa...

Why are you so elusive? Ang ming bihanay yās. Tavara kopo-eng minereng, yam rua sihabavāng durapu nyān menikaneng. AT can understand-1SG.T 3SG.M.P. Become-3SG.INAN difficult=COMP affairs-A.INAN, DATT must care-2SG.A additionally person.T another I can understand him. Things become more difficult if...

Hangu papasi!
stay-IMP curious
Stay curious!

Adareng tukongas si tahanya hiromayāng-hen. Sinyareng diyanley sobanena narānena si tilayong kamo? that-A illusion-P REL have-3SG.M new-AGTZ-A=every. What-A worth-P learn-NMLZ-GEN language-GEN REL change-3SG.N constantly? It's an illusion every newbie has. What is the worth of learning a language t...

Trying to make sensible simplifications to my conscript's characters and some diacritics so as to be more suitable for handwriting. Inspiration: http://www.omniglot.com/writing/ahom.htm

You don't want to even try to comprehend the point various people here have been making about established textbook knowledge and shrug said textbook knowledge off as circular argumentation because you don't know what you're talking about and absolutely aren't willing to reconsider and correct your v...

You keep referring to 60- pages of literature, not even the exact part because you don't even know where it is in those 60 pages because it's not there. Did you ever pick up a textbook to read up on things? The whole fucking chapter deals with which different semantic roles there are, how they can ...

Yep, it's pretty damn good for having been drawn only with the aid of a bookmark and a dollar bill.

Jipí wrote:Suggested reading: Van Valin, Robert D., Jr. An Introduction to Syntax. 2001. Cambridge: CUP, 2003.

^ Book

Jipí wrote:21–80.

^ Page reference

Just saying.

Suggested reading: Van Valin, Robert D., Jr. An Introduction to Syntax. 2001. Cambridge: CUP, 2003. 21–80. Print.

Burke wrote:Am I getting this right? I had never even considered this before, so it is a bit surprising to me.

Yes, but you can safely ignore Rusanov because he's a smug, consdescending know-it-all, like H13 Sir Galahad Gwalchafad said.

Trebor is sight impaired (i.e. blind , in fact) but a valued long-time member of this board. To exclude him from the discussion just because of a mixture of physical and technical factors would be mean. I mean, it's unfortunate that it's 2013 and his screen reader software still isn't able to make s...

Some photos of my trip to Paris that are not family-related.

Morphemes do not have to surface as seperable units. Compare German, e.g.: Mutter (sg.) – Mütter (pl.) Vater (sg.) – Väter (pl.) In these cases, the plural morpheme does not consist of a single seperable suffix, but just of an umlaut of the vowel in the stressed syllable. Another example of this phe...

KathAveara wrote:As far as I am concerned, there are very few actual morphemes in the language.

Please tell us your definition of a morpheme then.

KathAveara wrote:I've also managed to make morphemes be largely nonexistent in the language.

LIES