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- Thu Oct 13, 2011 3:54 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The Innovative Usage Thread
- Replies: 2452
- Views: 413761
Re: The Innovative Usage Thread
I imagine many of us Americans have heard a "word" that might , as near as we could tell, be spelled "see'f": for instance, "I'll go see'f any iced tea is left.". Occasionally -- maybe only once, actually -- I've heard it re-analyzed as a verb: viz., "You watch the barbecue while I'm seefing the ice...
- Thu Oct 13, 2011 2:57 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: ZBB member photos, part 5. (Something for the weekend, sir?)
- Replies: 5496
- Views: 765192
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You don't look blond on any of the previous pictures I've seen, must be light, I don't think any of them was taken outside. I'm a model. This was from a Victorian shoot I did back in October. I didn't take these... credit to Paul Smith. I'm also wearing a wig: my hair is blonde (emphasis added -- t...
- Wed Oct 12, 2011 7:35 pm
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: Determiner Issues, Grammar & Lexical Suffixes
- Replies: 11
- Views: 6407
Re: Determiner Issues, Grammar & Lexical Suffixes
I read your last post and want to respond to it but I'm running out of time so it will have to be tomorrow afternoon at the earliest.
I will say I like a lot of it.
I will say I like a lot of it.
- Sat Oct 08, 2011 2:03 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The Innovative Usage Thread
- Replies: 2452
- Views: 413761
Re: The Innovative Usage Thread
Thursday (two days ago) I heard
"So what are your guys's ideas?"
meaning
so what are 2ndPl-GEN ideas?
"So what are your guys's ideas?"
meaning
so what are 2ndPl-GEN ideas?
- Fri Oct 07, 2011 1:24 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Phrasal Reduplication
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2340
Re: Phrasal Reduplication
I don't think everyone got it.blank stare II wrote:There is no reduplication in English. At least, in English English.
- Fri Oct 07, 2011 1:22 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The Official ZBB Quote Thread
- Replies: 2878
- Views: 637201
Re: The Official ZBB Quote Thread
Google is your friend.Eddy wrote:What is the big mouthed frog and what makes it infamous?
But maybe YouTube is better in this case.
- Fri Oct 07, 2011 1:20 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The humour of similar-sounding words
- Replies: 104
- Views: 18779
Re: The humour of similar-sounding words
Somebody needs to mention "un petit d'un petit, s'etonnent aux Halles" here.
- Fri Oct 07, 2011 12:18 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The Official ZBB Quote Thread
- Replies: 2878
- Views: 637201
Re: The Official ZBB Quote Thread
To me it looks like the infamous "Big-Mouthed Frog".sirred wrote:It looks like a surgeon with a mask on to me.
- Fri Oct 07, 2011 12:15 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The dream thread
- Replies: 1807
- Views: 311631
Re: The dream thread
I was back at work. There were several things wrong with this. I could remember getting fired but couldn't remember getting re-hired. There weren't enough workstations because they'd given mine to some new hire. So he was in my cubicle in my chair, but he wasn't using his computer at the moment so I...
- Thu Oct 06, 2011 11:28 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Here's the Simplified Alphabet that restarted my conlang
- Replies: 21
- Views: 6458
Re: Here's the Simplified Alphabet that restarted my conlang
y cn ndrstnd nglsh wtht th vwls
youcanalsounderstandenglishwithoutspaces
bttswfllyhrdtndrstndwthnthrvwlsnrspcs
youcanalsounderstandenglishwithoutspaces
bttswfllyhrdtndrstndwthnthrvwlsnrspcs
- Thu Oct 06, 2011 11:25 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The Official ZBB Quote Thread
- Replies: 2878
- Views: 637201
- Wed Oct 05, 2011 12:36 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The Official ZBB Quote Thread
- Replies: 2878
- Views: 637201
Re: The Official ZBB Quote Thread
and don't forget the aggulating morphology-type.Astraios wrote:Another addition to our nomative and accusatory and genetive cases?desmond wrote:horrific marker
- Tue Oct 04, 2011 7:02 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: What are you reading, watching and listening to?
- Replies: 469
- Views: 135737
Re: What are you reading, watching and listening to?
"Un Lun Dun"'s for kids. Maybe that's why you didn't like it. [/size]Yes, exactly. I think "Un Lun Dun" might be unintentionally dangerously close to "Epic Pooh" for working-class Londoner kids. I loved Perdido, and enjoyed Scar and Iron. The latter (also later) two seemed less vibrant; perhaps it'...
- Tue Oct 04, 2011 5:58 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: What are you reading, watching and listening to?
- Replies: 469
- Views: 135737
Re: What are you reading, watching and listening to?
Ooh, I stopped caring after seeing Un Lun Dun, thanks for reminding me he's still writing. "Un Lun Dun"'s for kids. Maybe that's why you didn't like it. "Perdido Street Station", "The Scar", and "The Iron Council" are all about New Crobuzon. I liked all of them but maybe three New Crobuzon novels (...
- Tue Oct 04, 2011 1:01 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The dream thread
- Replies: 1807
- Views: 311631
Re: The dream thread
I dreamed that Michigan had a county shaped just like Texas.
- Tue Oct 04, 2011 12:46 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: What are you reading, watching and listening to?
- Replies: 469
- Views: 135737
Re: What are you reading, watching and listening to?
I just finished "Embassytown" by China Miéville . Very interesting from a conworlding and conculturing PoV (as are all of China Miéville's books). Also, very interesting to conlangers, IMO; though he doesn't actually develop the Language that's so crucial to the story, what he says about it is very ...
- Tue Oct 04, 2011 12:33 pm
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: Determiner Issues, Grammar & Lexical Suffixes
- Replies: 11
- Views: 6407
Re: Determiner Issues, Grammar & Lexical Suffixes
And I almost forgot to say thanks for giving me these examples. You're welcome! ... I don't think I can conceive a reason to incorporate an instrumental/comitative or an essive into that sort of a construction. Comitative, maybe not; but I can see putting an instrument in just as easily as an agent...
- Mon Oct 03, 2011 4:53 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Creativity of the day
- Replies: 1704
- Views: 323584
Re: Creativity of the day
I find it weird that your speed limits are all in multiples of 5. AFMCW Adpihi with its dozenal numeral-system, speed-limits are all multiples of 6; furthermore they're all 20 (dozenal; 24 decimal) apart. 16 (decimal 18) 36 (decimal 42) 56 (decimal 66) 76 (decimal 90) 96 (decimal 114) B6 (decimal 1...
- Fri Sep 30, 2011 11:50 am
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: Determiner Issues, Grammar & Lexical Suffixes
- Replies: 11
- Views: 6407
Re: Determiner Issues, Grammar & Lexical Suffixes
The above examples as far as I know only occur as passive participles. [/size] Yes. If you said "a snakebiting contest" it would a competition of people biting snakes, but "a snake biting contest" (where "snake" is not incorporated to the verb) it'd be a competition of snakes biting things. Good il...
- Fri Sep 30, 2011 11:44 am
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: Possession in Rawàng Ata
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5154
Re: Possession in Rawàng Ata
Now dealing with indirect possession. I really like it! I'd known about possessive classifiers for a while, but I'd not known details of either the Oceanic or the American systems. I imagine the variety and complexity would make it hard to memorize. The interaction with something like evidentiality...
- Thu Sep 29, 2011 5:45 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: (Ejective consonants) Onsets and syllable weight
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3005
Re: (Ejective consonants) Onsets and syllable weight
My phonology 2 lecturer claimed that it is a language universal that the onset of a syllable never influence the prosodic weight of a syllable. If we take Dutch for example, taakstraf /'ta:kstrAf/ ('working punishment') gets stress on the first, long syllable, ignoring the prohibitively large onset...
- Thu Sep 29, 2011 11:02 am
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: Determiner Issues, Grammar & Lexical Suffixes
- Replies: 11
- Views: 6407
Re: Determiner Issues, Grammar & Lexical Suffixes
In most languages that very-productively incorporate specific/referential nouns into verbs, the incorporated noun is almost always a patient (an object) [/size] ... my thinking on noun incorporation was muddied mostly by my inability to consistently place the grammatical role of the noun in the inc...
- Tue Sep 27, 2011 5:28 pm
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: Determiner Issues, Grammar & Lexical Suffixes
- Replies: 11
- Views: 6407
Re: Determiner Issues, Grammar & Lexical Suffixes
Interesting! 8) And impressive! 8) Why thank you, those were my favorite parts too. You're very welcome! Yeah, the point about the "agreement markers", the point I mentioned earlier will be changed. As far as the deixis and determiner thing, they are agreement markers, for instance if I'm talking a...
- Tue Sep 27, 2011 2:02 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Question on probability
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1422
Re: Question on probability
I'd just assume it's not too improbable to use in a conlang.
- Tue Sep 27, 2011 12:14 pm
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: Determiner Issues, Grammar & Lexical Suffixes
- Replies: 11
- Views: 6407
Re: Determiner Issues, Grammar & Lexical Suffixes
Leþwin is a polysynthetic language with a proclivity to have heavily inflected verbs and a more austere nominal system. So it's probably verb-initial. The structure is something like: [II][III]{IIa}{IIIa}[R0][R1] [VI] [V] [VI] .... IV: Lexical Suffixes You left out IV and put VI in twice. I'm betti...