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Oh, I see what you mean now. Thanks for clarifying.

I have a question. The coriolis effect will cause winds to spiral out of high pressure zones (clockwise in the northern hemisphere, anticlockwise in the southern) and into low pressure zones (anticlockwise in the northern hemisphere, clockwise in the southern). [...] Then, to simulate deflection fro...

Awesome. I look forward to reading about what you find.

I'm still reading this too. Very useful stuff and well explained. Thanks for taking the trouble, Anguipes!

Snaka wrote:but then again, she insisted upon species as /ˈspisiz/ rather than /ˈspiʃiz/. No one does that, except on TV...

I say [ˈspisiz]. I always thought both were valid.

Years ago I had decent written fluency in Klingon, but I've forgotten a lot from lack of practice. Despite being pretty boring and aesthetically not great, Klingon is very tempting because it has an active online community of speakers (well, writers primarily). I had a good time with the mailing lis...

One strange thing that a lot Americans say which I never say are markers such as quarter to, ten after, etc. I've began to become a fair bit more acquainted with terms like quarter to, quarter after, but I still find myself saying five fifty-five or four forty-five since it's easier to comprehend m...

Interestingly, for a time like 12:30am, I tend to say "midnight thirty," which I don't think is standard in English. Uh...not that I have the need to say stuff like that often? I wouldn't call it standard, but you're not the only one who says it jocularly. I've also heard "noon-thirty" from time to...

thedukeofnuke wrote:restrained gay men

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Nicely done, as usual. I like how the tonic/atonic vowels differ, which of course is reminiscent of English, especially with the addition of the reduced inflectional-syllable vowels.

One typo that I saw:

The phoneme /n̩/ is a rather unstable in its realization

justin wrote:bIQ wIghajnISbe'
Dochmey SIch qul 'e' yIchaw'

I think bIQ wIlo'nISbe' would make more sense. What we're declaring unnecessary is putting out the fire, not just having the water.

For the last line, I'd do something like Hoch Qaw' qul 'e' yIchaw' jay'.

Other than that, looks good.

Berek wrote:why do you have two right arms

And why is the label of your soap written backwards!!

Well said, Tengado. Occam's razor does not mean "the simplest explanation is always true". The misuse of it is one of my pet peeves too.

Fresh English from me, speaking of it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwZ9yYGu1og is that swedish english accent or just your special englishlect ? I don't know what it is, but it's the best I can do. I'm not native, after all. Does it sound that bad? No, your English is good. There are some pronun...

Legion looks much younger than I imagined, for some reason.

brandrinn wrote:Seriously, where are you finding this information? There's no link on the Almeopedia page on Uyse7, nor is there a link on zompist.com.

The link to the pdf has been on the Uyseʔ grammar page since it was posted, AFAIK. In the table of contents, it's under "Writing".

To be fair, since it's been a few weeks since Uyseʔ was released, I also thought for a second that there might actually be "new" material that he just posted today, and went to check. D'oh!

The only thing I can think of to add to Sal's answer is that you can look at examples of how far speakers back up when they make a mistake. "It was next to the dog-- I mean, the cat" suggests again that "next to" is not bound (and that "the" might be). Speakers don't usually start a repair from the ...

Oops, I didn't index that page— see page 250. That's actually not the page I was thinking of. I think there's a part where you mention it in the context of pronoun glossing (3sm, etc.). My bad for not noticing it on p.250. I'm glad you did explain it after all, but I think it could stand to be give...

I think I've read all of it now (I skipped around a lot). It's very cool that you've added more stuff for beginners *and* info on more advanced topics that may be new even to experienced conlangers. Thumbs-up for that. The one big gap I can see is that you didn't really explain glossing. (I thought ...

Very well done. Now I'm inspired to go work on the syntax of my current project.

It's been on the internet for free for years. I assume it's been taken down now, though (checks) Holy crap! Zomp, I think I may have found a teensy flaw in your "exchange book for money" scheme. The book is mostly new material, only parts of it are taken from the original web version. If that's all...

Got mine today. I haven't had a chance to read it cover to cover, but I did happen to notice one misprint near the top of page 258 ("Lnaguages").

And omigosh, an example sentence in Eteodaole! Exciting. :D

Lucky you, I just got my tax refund so I've gone ahead and bought it. :D

Looking forward to all this, whenever it's done of course. Honestly I think zomp works pretty quickly, considering the level of detail and completeness!