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- 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 ...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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.
- 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...
- Wed Apr 22, 2015 7:42 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: SIWA update
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3684
Re: SIWA update
So, how do you say "get over yourself" in Siwa?MONOBA wrote:You guys, this is just too much. You'll make me blush.
- 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?
I don't.Birdlang wrote:I use gen. What word generators do you all use?
- 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...
- 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.
I've got one. On the other hand, I don't have any money either.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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.
- 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...
- Fri Feb 20, 2015 6:17 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Sound Change Quickie Thread
- Replies: 2827
- Views: 614048
Re: Sound Change Quickie Thread
Yes. /a/ often seems to be more resistant to loss than other vowels.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
- 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...
- 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 ...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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
Igân is-sa azzâr kî ino.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.
i- |
1SG- |
gân |
see.IMP |
iN- |
ACC- |
sa |
REL |
a- |
REL- |
zzâr |
do.STA |
kî |
2SG |
iN |
ACC |
-o |
-3SG |
I see what you did there.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...