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OK, the last one I heard was just that everyone really liked their poetry (I am not making this up) Let me guess it goes something like this: "Hey, look at these Pre-IE languages we know of, Basque and Etruscan, they're so harsh sounding they must be terrible for writing poetry, because as well all...

BTW as a cellist I'm all for the solo suites, and while I'm like you Sal in usually preferring minor key Bach I've got to admit that I have a soft spot suite 1 and the prelude and gigue of suite 3 (and I can play all those too). I think you may be looking at analysis, rather than reviews. You can ge...

That raises some disappointing but at the same time intriguing questions about Dene-Yeniseian. A genetic relationship as well as linguistic one would have been more exciting, but still, a lack of genetic relationship doesn't disprove a linguistic one. I look forward to more development on that fron...

But the point is that young people are capable of using that variation in the contexts it is suitable for, like they would probably never use those sorts of colloquial forms in say a job interview, so there's no need for people to insist on them using the standard all the time. As for what happens i...

The thing is though when it comes to standard varieties nowadays you're pretty hard-pressed to find people who don't have at least some grasp on it, simply because of the amount of media and/or teaching done in standard varieties in most if not all developed countries. So people who insist on only u...

you can add instruments to the basic template but by the time you have a crumhorn section you may not be dealing with rock anymore. You've clearly never heard of Steeleye Span or Fairport Convention and the like then. (sure neither of those go in for specifically crumhorns, but you can definitely i...

I named one of my conlangs Ga. Built it a website and everything for it. Turned out that Ga is a real language . So I nixed the website and used ideas from the conlang as the basis for other things. Hey! Rik was here! Waaay! Which leads me to ask why there hasn't been an update to the website in ag...

OK, so I think I'm gonna have to give up on Muyan in its current state, so I think I want to have the pages deleted and replaced with something else. I'm thinking I might want to replace it with a language I already have worked on called Keṭ Lixuem [kɤʈ lexɯ̯əm] (examples here ). I didn't originally...

Tanakh studying is pretty common among devout Jews all over the world. Not among secular ones though. My family in Israel had mandatory Tanakh classes even through the school they go to is completely secular. But at the same time there is a long and proud history of Jewish biblical criticism and fl...

Actually the church I go to in Cambridge has several groups, but then it's full of actual theologians/theology students anyway so I'm not sure it counts so much. Also why do you think readings from the Bible are integral to the church service? Because people won't bloody read it for themselves, and ...

I got an NRSV as a baptism gift from one of my godparents, and that's the version I have on my phone. I also have a Gideon New Testament and Psalms kicking about but that's all for me (which given I'm 18 is understandable really). My house though has loads of different ones, including a Greek New Te...

I never even considered giving the Indo-Semitic bogolangs nonconcatenative morphology! They're supposed to be descendants of PIE, and thus should have IE-like morphology, not the 3C root system of actual Semitic langs. But then PIE morphology does have quite a non-concatenative component anyway, I ...

linguoboy wrote:I was trying to play off multiple meanings of "gingerbread".

Comme ci?
Like these?

Je ne crois pas que l'Urban Dictionary est sérieux mais quand même...
I don't believe the Urban Dictionary is reliable but still...

C'est dommage que nous ne célébrions pas le jour de Saint Nicholas en Bretagne.
It's a shame we don't celebrat St Nicholas' day in Britain.

Il semble qu'il est trés amusant, en particulier dans l'Allemagne du sud et Autriche.
It seems to be quite fun, particularly in southern Germany and Austria.

Just to change the subject but what is it about the PIE mediopassive that means it's lost in so many of the daughter languages? And further to that, if we didn't have access to the historical written languages would we still have grounds for reconstructing it?

tl;dr with Sal's last post: this is the giant fuck-up over Northern Ireland every Remain supporter knew was coming but people refused to take notice of. *of course, such a fear of hour-long queues doesn't lead the government to do anything about the dartmouth crossing, does it? I can get to bloody F...

I must say that in the nearly 10 years I've been here you're the first person interested in logical conlangs that I've seen coming here. This is actually more of an artistic conlang forum. I have no idea where the logical conlang people hang out though. There's a small enclave on the CBB but apart ...

Also no writing system is completely phonetic, what you're describing is a phonemic writing system which only respresents the underlying contrastive phonemes (which therefore makes your description meaningless since most conlangs have phonemic writing systems). In that case then, what are the change...

linguoboy wrote:How can I make it up to you?

Pas de besoin, c'était trés drole!
No need, it was very funny!

linguoboy wrote:url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_A58231NFk&t=3s[/url]

Sacre bleu.
Bloody hell.

Non, il n'était pas ça sans aucun doute!
No, it was definitely not that!

I marked some obvious mistakes. There are probably more. :-) Merci beaucoup. Thank you very much. "Selwyn Snowball" Looks like that bash at Hogwarts. D'accord. Indeed. À la plupart des collèges, il y a un "May Ball" chaque année en fin de les examens. In most colleges there is a May Ball every year...

Durakken wrote:What about if it's in reverse... {a} > {x,y} does that mean either "x" or "y", or does it mean output as "xy"

Either-or, though I'm not sure why you would use this notation unless you're just not bothering to specify the environment or it's a random distribution.

This thing I mean it's not really bad or anything in and of itself but man are they inconsistent with their definition of rare; their list includes everything from Welsh to Pirahã, and the have Xhosa (native speakerbase approximately 8 million) as an honourable mention! Also how they completely min...

Hier soir, le "Selwyn Snowball" s'a passé.
Last night the Selwyn Snowball happened.

J'ai devu si ivre que j'ai crié dehors de ma salle à quatre heurs de matin.
I got so drunk I was screaming outside of my room at four in the morning.

Il étais cathartique en fait.
I was quite cathartic in fact.

Comme au CBB, je dit qu'il y a beaucoup des gens qui ne l'ont jamais regardé.
As on the CBB, I'll say that there's plenty of people who haven't seen it.

Je ne pense pas que c'est rare.
I don't think it's unusual.