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@bulbaquil, I adjusted my current copy of the text to the wording provided. Thank you! @Whimemsz, instead of doing a bullet list of saying what was fixed and wasn't: The typos have been corrected; thank you for catching those. In reference to "father language", has changed to "ancestral speech." Sho...

Kelsey tells me that a contributing factor as to why she is with me is my eyelashes. I flutter 'em, she melts. 'Nuff said.

(Also, I don't wear mascara, they're just naturally like that.)

And here I enter this thread, to show you all a wonderful picture of me and my ever beautiful girlfriend, Kelsey. http://lh3.ggpht.com/_khH3z3BC2O4/TKKsgsOGqRI/AAAAAAAAAZ8/SXuPz3qSoss/s400/36665_10150208666155096_900450095_13813084_2359415_n.jpg And, to toy with some people on this forum, a repost o...

It's been done in Dwarf Fortress to better effect (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=49641.0)

Updated 9/25:
Fixed the typos. Expanded the phonology, started working on syntax. Link in my sig.

As I work on this, I'd also like to start on derivational morphology. Any suggestions?

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Very nice! I'm always impressed when someone shows relationships between genealogically related languages like this ("word A comes from Proto-language * a ", and so on). :) I know it's a draft copy, though, so I hope you don't mind my little nitpick: On page 20 (similar to Rik's picking-up of your ...

As to this whole LaTeX/OpenOffice/MS Office thing, I wonder if I should post a tutorial on how to do it. Wouldn't hurt, would it?

I'm liking the way you do oblique case for monosyllables. Very quirky but well justified. Only complaint so far is that the table of primary personal prefixes is crazy hard to read. I'll probably go through and rework the tables. I dislike white cells on black lines, but I might try to use white li...

Alright. Since the first thread was a complete flop with me posting more than receiving replies, I decided to upload the reference grammar .pdf for you to look at, find errors, questions, or confusing parts of the grammar so I can fix it. The pdf can be found here . (Current size: 2.26 MB, 53 pages)...

Again, Goats, you amaze me.

I am rather happy that you are not only designing spaceships, but designing them to look realistic.

Mornche Geddick wrote:Verdurian takes a lot of words from natlangs.For a real challenge why not look for false cognates in Uyse? or Kebreni?

Or Skourene.

The Verdurian lexicon references ecunî, from which from Cuêzi ecūni narrûi-to, heroes and kings, which is a chess-like board game.

Whatever the rules may be, I cannot say.

I haven't actually closed that pdf, Dampantigaya. Instead, though, you've motivated me to write up my own reference grammar.

Again with the double posting! I have completed the redraft of the basic verbal morphology, including new details. Specifically, I took out the verb paradigm charts because they were false. I justified the existing endings with a bit of history. But a much larger note is a piece of criticism left by...

I'm pretty sure the motto is grammatical (since you use ad with the Accusative), which is meant to be roughly "to the death", or "until death" cf. hasta la muerte! ad isn't always used with the accusative, but it can be. The usage you're going for, definitely with the accusative. Excellent work!

The best: The lack of a single useful device developed based on any insights provided by the theory; no lives have been saved or helped, and the theory has not led to other useful theories and may have interfered with scientific progress.[11] This stands in stark contrast with every verified theory...

My plans? Well, I have a few things to work on: 1). Larger starting vocabulary. Currently, I have 261 independent lexemes, plus one reconstructed proper noun of a city. I'd be more comfortable once I have 600-700 words, then I can reduce that number in the daughter languages. 2). Culture and archeol...

There are some good things about X-SAMPA that IPA cannot replicate: 1). Ease of typing; X-SAMPA utilizes ASCII (as does Z-SAMPA). No charmap hunting, copy-pasting, or Alt + Codes. 2). The board does not support certain combining diactrics. I ran into this problem with the rendering of Proto-Deithas;...

You say that roots are either verbal, nominal or both. Does this mean that a verb cannot be derived from a noun based on a nominal root? Not directly. A nominal-verbal root can be used as a noun without any derivation, a verbal root cannot be used as a noun without derivation, and a nominal root ca...

On the verbs: - 'person' is a type of 'agreement' - it's a little odd that even with so little nominal case, there's still no verbal agreement. It's possible - it's not too dissimilar from English - but still a bit surprising.[/quote] The former is a typo. To the latter, syntax governs syntactical ...

First, I want to thank you, Sal, for the very good, in-depth criticism. I'll do my best to be as thorough in the reply. Some remarks on the first post: - I'm curious about the near-total regularity of POAs being spoiled in the unvoiced stops and fricatives. Have the additional POAs been gained, or h...

Seriously, ZBB? No comments? Quality 'lang here!

Also, the Lexicon is now available, Lexicon of Proto-Deithas @ Dick.

Bump. Syntax still on its way. Updated the orthography, handled a few issues in the noun section, created section on adjectives, correlatives and other stuff, and added in a few pronouns.

Questions/Comments? Feedback or questions would be appreciated.

Valency and Voice Marking As we've already seen Proto-Deithas inflectional forms and have an understanding of how verbs are formed, we can procede forward on a new distinction, that of valency. Proto-Deithas has a morphosyntactic alignment of Nominative-Accusative. This means that the nominative ca...