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by Dewrad
Mon May 04, 2015 8:27 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
Replies: 4604
Views: 1116633

Re: Help your fluency in a nifty way

salve! mortuaene linguae permittae sunt? Latinam disceo. Hello! Are dead languages allowed? I'm learning Latin. melius esset si diceres licentne linguae mortuae? , credo. It would have been better if you'd said licentne linguae mortuae , I feel. Peut-être écrire en français serait meilleur pour ma ...
by Dewrad
Thu Apr 30, 2015 1:13 am
Forum: None of the above
Topic: Happy Things Thread
Replies: 969
Views: 370494

Re: Happy Things Thread

Roma/Romani/Romany are the appropriate terms (actually Sinti would also be likely here), not gypsy. The latter is offensive. What is considered offensive is very subjective. Very true. But I rather think that the opinions of the group concerned rather trump those of a random Dutch dude on the inter...
by Dewrad
Wed Apr 29, 2015 11:40 am
Forum: None of the above
Topic: Happy Things Thread
Replies: 969
Views: 370494

Re: Happy Things Thread

Roma/Romani/Romany are the appropriate terms (actually Sinti would also be likely here), not gypsy. The latter is offensive. What is considered offensive is very subjective. Very true. But I rather think that the opinions of the group concerned rather trump those of a random Dutch dude on the inter...
by Dewrad
Wed Apr 29, 2015 11:16 am
Forum: None of the above
Topic: Happy Things Thread
Replies: 969
Views: 370494

Re: Happy Things Thread

Roma/Romani/Romany are the appropriate terms (actually Sinti would also be likely here), not gypsy. The latter is offensive.
by Dewrad
Sun Apr 26, 2015 5:10 pm
Forum: None of the above
Topic: Happy Things Thread
Replies: 969
Views: 370494

Re: Happy Things Thread

So who decided that the counties should be so square in America? As it seems quite unlikely to me that all rivers, hills and mountain ranges are perfectly perpendicular to each other in America now does it. Fucking hell, it's because Americans didn't go through that whole "creating natural boundari...
by Dewrad
Wed Apr 22, 2015 7:42 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: SIWA update
Replies: 11
Views: 3684

Re: SIWA update

MONOBA wrote:You guys, this is just too much. You'll make me blush.
So, how do you say "get over yourself" in Siwa?
by Dewrad
Sun Apr 19, 2015 2:18 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: What word generators do you use?
Replies: 4
Views: 1501

Re: What word generators do you use?

Birdlang wrote:I use gen. What word generators do you all use?
I don't.
by Dewrad
Fri Apr 17, 2015 5:46 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
Replies: 4604
Views: 1116633

Re: Help your fluency in a nifty way

J'en ai un. En revanche, je n'ai pas d'argent non plus. I've got one. On the other hand, I don't have any money either. Satunháhele kʌ? Are you happy? Alors, laisse-moi réflechir. Je dois emménager avec mon père puisque je ne peux pas payer le loyer de mon appartement. Je ne suis pas sûr si j'aurai...
by Dewrad
Wed Apr 15, 2015 2:44 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
Replies: 4604
Views: 1116633

Re: Help your fluency in a nifty way

J'en ai un. En revanche, je n'ai pas d'argent non plus.
I've got one. On the other hand, I don't have any money either.
by Dewrad
Mon Apr 13, 2015 3:58 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Middle Welsh compounds
Replies: 18
Views: 4129

Re: Middle Welsh compounds

Thank you for your explanation ! I have broadened my topic to initial consonant mutation in general as there are too little examples of compounds in my text. Sloppy writing is a good explanation of the differences in the Middle Welsh I think. Is it also true they did not write voiceless r as /rh/ a...
by Dewrad
Mon Apr 13, 2015 2:39 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
Replies: 4604
Views: 1116633

Re: Help your fluency in a nifty way

Para explicar o teologia 'calvinista', eu botei o texto do site 'web' aqui, que explica que ser cristã não é simplemente uma coisa que se pode escolher a sua vontade. In order to explain this point of Calvinist theology, I have quoted the passage in the link (which not everyone will look at of cour...
by Dewrad
Mon Apr 13, 2015 2:15 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Middle Welsh compounds
Replies: 18
Views: 4129

Re: Middle Welsh compounds

One of the first things to remember is that mutation was not systematically written in pre-Modern Welsh: Wrnach Kawr and Wrnach Gawr could both be read /ˈurnax ˈgawr/. The rules behind mutation and non-mutation in Welsh compounds are not exactly straightforward, nor exactly are the rules of compound...
by Dewrad
Sun Apr 12, 2015 5:54 pm
Forum: None of the above
Topic: Happy Things Thread
Replies: 969
Views: 370494

Re: Happy Things Thread

This is the internet. This is not about emotions and feelings such as 'being insulted'. I personally don't give a rat's ass. It's hilarious how you keep insisting that emotions and other personal things have no place on the internet, and yet you flip out like this at the slightest things. Unhelpful...
by Dewrad
Sun Apr 12, 2015 1:46 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
Replies: 4604
Views: 1116633

Re: Help your fluency in a nifty way

In English, one discriminates against something or somebody. It's not a simple transitive verb.
by Dewrad
Mon Mar 30, 2015 3:24 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread
Replies: 2225
Views: 448646

Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread

Any indo-europeanist would be completely lost if they had to do historical linguistics in south america. While most linguists specialise in one field or another, there are several not insignificant historical linguists who have made valuable contributions both to South American historical linguisti...
by Dewrad
Fri Feb 20, 2015 6:17 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Sound Change Quickie Thread
Replies: 2827
Views: 614048

Re: Sound Change Quickie Thread

pdusen wrote:I have these forms of a word:

nuzudu
nazada

Trying to introduce irregularity.

Is it plausible to drop the middle "u" in form 1 but keep the middle "a" in form 2? Such that we're left with:

nuzdu
nazada
Yes. /a/ often seems to be more resistant to loss than other vowels.
by Dewrad
Tue Feb 17, 2015 3:32 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Qôni- a triconsonantal language NP: poetry
Replies: 13
Views: 4647

Re: Qôni- a triconsonantal language NP: Numbers (Janko, go n

Verbs The Qôni verb distinguishes three aspects, the aorist, the imperfect and the stative; two moods, the indicative and the subjunctive; two numbers, singular and plural; and four persons, first, second, third and impersonal- in the third person we also see a gender split between the masculine an...
by Dewrad
Mon Feb 16, 2015 9:17 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread
Replies: 2225
Views: 448646

Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread

"Paul Heggarty, a linguist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, questions Garrett’s methods, arguing that, for example, linguists cannot be sure if the Latin attested to in written documents really was the direct ancestor of later Romance languages, rather ...
by Dewrad
Mon Feb 16, 2015 9:13 am
Forum: None of the above
Topic: Member Countries and Known Languages
Replies: 130
Views: 60775

Re: Member Countries and Known Languages

Eeeh, you see, I'm not really all that fussed about travel. I mean, I'd love to travel around Europe (it's a bit of an ambition to visit every country west of the Urals one day), but I can't say it's a burning ambition I'm willing to sacrifice stuff for. I'd rather spend what little is left after bi...
by Dewrad
Sun Feb 15, 2015 7:58 pm
Forum: None of the above
Topic: Member Countries and Known Languages
Replies: 130
Views: 60775

Re: Member Countries and Known Languages

As it's highly unlikely I'll ever have to opportunity to speak it to another human being in real life, Why not? If you go to many eastern european countries, you see Romani people everywhere. Of course it'll be socially very strange for a Romani if a foreigner just walks up to them and speaks to th...
by Dewrad
Sun Feb 15, 2015 6:14 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Help your conlang fluency (2)
Replies: 6633
Views: 726603

Re: Help your conlang fluency

Thry wrote:Hir tryde at syn lolly(y lae mir). Ac yae, de classer eten manae dyd.
He was trying to be funny (I laughed). But yeah, classes are time-consuming.
Igân is-sa azzâr kî ino.
i-
1SG-
gân
see.IMP
iN-
ACC-
sa
REL
a-
REL-
zzâr
do.STA
2SG
iN
ACC
-o
-3SG

I see what you did there.
by Dewrad
Sun Feb 15, 2015 1:17 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Qôni- a triconsonantal language NP: poetry
Replies: 13
Views: 4647

Re: Qôni - a triconsonantal language. NP: Adjectives, weak n

Numerals In Qôni, the cardinal numerals from 1-10 are treated as adjectives, following the noun and exhibiting concord for gender. Their formation is slightly irregular, and the masculine and feminine forms are shown in full in the table below: masculine feminine 1 sê sâ 2 isat ista 3 sarad sarda 4...
by Dewrad
Sun Feb 15, 2015 1:12 pm
Forum: None of the above
Topic: Member Countries and Known Languages
Replies: 130
Views: 60775

Re: Member Countries and Known Languages

I'm 31 and live in Dorset, which is technically in the South West (oo arr, wurzels, gerr orf moy land etc.) of England: however, I don't live in the sticks but rather a large coastal conurbation where the local accent is fairly close to Standard Southern British English, with only minor influences f...
by Dewrad
Sun Feb 15, 2015 12:36 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread
Replies: 2225
Views: 448646

Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread

Also, languages are known to spread much faster than genes. "Language shift", i.e. communities adopting a new language, is actually quite common. Thank you, thank you, there are at least some sensible people in this thread ! Actually, as sensible as it might be, it doesn't really mean anything. Wha...
by Dewrad
Wed Feb 11, 2015 12:09 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: The Next Relay 2015
Replies: 140
Views: 26315

Re: The Next Relay 2015

A suggestion from someone who's not actively involved: get the most experienced member of the team to do the proto-language. Someone with some experience will come up with a reasonable sketch that is plausible and covers the bases (and hopefully will have enough delicious possibilities for derivatio...