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Vuvuzela wrote:I love how, on the top bar thing, Google says "+Tú", rather than "+Usted", like it knows you.

Gulliver wrote:A seemingly quite in-depth, no frills course in Cornish, that you can even get some kind of accreditation for, I think. It looks like it's basically a grammar with readings, audio and translation questions.

Edit: I believe it's written in the KK orthography. As most discussions in Cornish on the internet appear to be on the matter of how every orthography apart from [insert preferred system here] is a blasphemous horror, this may be relevant to know. Honestly, go on some Cornish forums. For every sensible post in Cornish, there are two posts discussing how the writer is destined for Hell and clearly is a kiddy-fiddler who eats poo for breakfast for writing arghans instead of arhans.

Vuvuzela wrote:I love how, on the top bar thing, Google says "+Tú", rather than "+Usted", like it knows you. Seems sort of similar to the way websites are all like "Welcome, Stephanie" and I'm like "How do you know my name? Oh, right, I told you, buy why are we on a first-name basis? YOU'RE A SOULLESS MACHINE! I DON'T WANT TO BE YOUR FRIEND!"

Vuvuzela wrote:Oh, yeah, and the book seems interesting, too.

A preliminary look at restricted counting in Proto-Salish

Ryan Denzer-King
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
This paper examines the hypothesis that Proto-Salish had a
restricted counting system ending at four, as suggested by the
disparity of Salishan numerals above four, as well as the
general analyzability of higher numerals. Besides these
overall trends in numerals, evidence for count ending at four
include a reconstructed Proto-Salish root with the meaning
‘ready/completed’, and a subtractive Bella Coola form for
‘three’ incorporating the root for ‘four’. The limitation of the
system to the numeral four may have its root in preverbal
cognitive processes, which seem to be limited to discrete
quantities of four or less. If Proto-Salish had a restricted
numeral system ending at four, the disparity and analyzability
of higher numerals is expected.

Ean wrote:

Vuvuzela wrote:I love how, on the top bar thing, Google says "+Tú", rather than "+Usted", like it knows you. Seems sort of similar to the way websites are all like "Welcome, Stephanie" and I'm like "How do you know my name? Oh, right, I told you, buy why are we on a first-name basis? YOU'RE A SOULLESS MACHINE! I DON'T WANT TO BE YOUR FRIEND!"

What Serafín said; like it wants you to feel familiar; a government or bank webpage often says "usted"; but then an add will always say "tú", and so will Google, games, etc.

Vuvuzela wrote:Oh, yeah, and the book seems interesting, too.

Distrutadlo monseñor, e fazed de él buen uso.
Note: I don't know shit about my language in its Middle or Old stages, so idc if that is wrong.

Ean wrote:it + vos = eutes! "go away!"

Ean wrote:Really, was it that way?

• E p̃ſtalde de auer lo q̃ sea guiſado (line 118)
  (Y prestadle bienes, lo que sea razonable)
  Siuos la aduxier dalla ſi nõ cõtalda ſobre las arcas (line 181)
  (Si se la traigo (a usted) de allá, si no, cóbrela con las arcas (llenas de oro))

Serafín wrote:

Ean wrote:Really, was it that way?

Didn't I tell you to go read the poem of the Çid? >__>

• E p̃ſtalde de auer lo q̃ sea guiſado (line 118)
  (Y prestadle bienes, lo que sea razonable)
  Siuos la aduxier dalla ſi nõ cõtalda ſobre las arcas (line 181)
  (Si se la traigo (a usted) de allá, si no, cóbrela con las arcas (llenas de oro))

Izambri wrote:Hmm, I really like eutes for "go away". It has euphonic strength, IMO.

Noriega wrote:Just read this on Linguist List, I think some people here would be interested:

University of British Columbia Working Papers in Linguistics (UBCWPL) would
like to announce that the complete set of ICSNL precedings (1967-2012) is now
available online free of charge at

http://www.linguistics.ubc.ca/icsnl/index

This is an indispensible resource on Salish, Wakashan, and other language
families of the Pacific Northwest.

• • DE EL ORIGEN DE LAS
    letras,arte de eʃcribir,y utilidad
    de la Orthographia.
    
    PRopriedad inſeparable
        de las criaturas racio-
        nales, que las diſtingue
    de los brutos , es el poder co-
    municar ſus penſamientos , ſus
                 diſ-
    
    diſcurſos, ſus afectos , y en una
    palabra los ſecretos de ſus cora-
    zones : eſte comercio es una de
    las diſtintivas propriedades de
    la racionalidad, de que utilíſsi-
    mamente ſe aprovecha en el uſo
    de la converſacion , en la enſe-
    ñanza de las facultades , en el
    magiſterio de las ciencias, en las
    operaciones de artes liberales,
    en la manifieſta publicacion de
    ſus ideas , y en deſahogo de ſus
    internos afectos.
     Pero eſte, que es natural don
    de Dios , dado liberalmente á
    la naturaleza , quedaba de al-
    gun modo incompleto , y no
    con toda aquella perfeccion , á
    que ha llegado , ſi el arte iluſ-
                tra-
    
    trado de Dios , no hubiera in-
    ventado , ó deſcubierto el mo-
    do de eſcribir , y de aſſegurar
    las eſpecies de los conceptos,
    que expreſa la lengua , la voz,
    y la locucion. Sin el arte de eſ-
    cribir , todo el theſoro de noti-
    cias , que nos comunicamos en
    mutua correſpondencia por el
    medio de las voces,quedaba de-
    poſitado en ſolo la memoria...

meltman wrote:Several audio files for various South American, Central American languages.