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TomHChappell wrote:
finlay wrote:I've always thought that Scots ... also C) makes you look illiterate.
I HATE that attitude.

No dialect "makes you look illiterate". (Or retarded, or uneducated, or any other pejorative.)

Also, that comment doesn't belong in the "resources" thread. It's not about a resource.
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Any good online resources on Proto-Germanic? I've been trying to make a germlang for a few months now, and I haven't found anything.
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Aiďos wrote:Any good online resources on Proto-Germanic? I've been trying to make a germlang for a few months now, and I haven't found anything.
http://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/lrc/ ... gmc00.html

3rd google hit.

Somewhere on that site is a PDF of Lehmann's draft Proto-Germanic Grammar, which he was unable to finish and publish before his death. You don't get better than that.
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Thank you! It has everything I need, and a few things more.
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Drydic Guy wrote:
Aiďos wrote:Any good online resources on Proto-Germanic? I've been trying to make a germlang for a few months now, and I haven't found anything.
http://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/lrc/ ... gmc00.html

3rd google hit.

Somewhere on that site is a PDF of Lehmann's draft Proto-Germanic Grammar, which he was unable to finish and publish before his death. You don't get better than that.
I'm also looking for PG resources, but what I'm specifically looking for is a word list that can fairly easily be converted for processing by a sound change applier. Something like CSV with English glosses or a plain text file without glosses would be excellent.

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http://visual.merriam-webster.com/

Excellent visual/thematic lexical resource.

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linguofreak wrote:
Drydic Guy wrote:
Aiďos wrote:Any good online resources on Proto-Germanic? I've been trying to make a germlang for a few months now, and I haven't found anything.
http://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/lrc/ ... gmc00.html

3rd google hit.

Somewhere on that site is a PDF of Lehmann's draft Proto-Germanic Grammar, which he was unable to finish and publish before his death. You don't get better than that.
I'm also looking for PG resources, but what I'm specifically looking for is a word list that can fairly easily be converted for processing by a sound change applier. Something like CSV with English glosses or a plain text file without glosses would be excellent.
Why not just suck it up and transcribe the headwords from something like Orel's Handbook of Germanic Etymology? It's basically the same process by which I arrived at my dictionary of Gaulish. Takes a while, but worth doing as you end up with exactly what you want.
Some useful Dravian links: Grammar - Lexicon - Ask a Dravian
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PDF of Koranic & Classical Arabic by W.M. Thackston.

Nice reference if you aren't interested in learning Arabic script since it makes liberal use of transliteration. I have a hard copy & love it.
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http://www.handedict.de/chinesisch_deutsch.php

Chinese for German speakers.

Nice site.

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He got mad when Salmoneus reprimanded him for saying offensive things about religious people.

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Qwynegold, Civil War Bugle, move along please. Resource thread.

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Can anyone recommend a good book for learning Dutch that is not TY? I'd love a book in Dutch.
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This is pretty thorough, but pretty much for learning Dutch grammar.

This might be of use also.
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Herra Ratatoskr wrote:This is pretty thorough, but pretty much for learning Dutch grammar.

This might be of use also.
Thanks but I know them both. I'd love books.
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Since the Wikipedia link on the Ticuna page is incorrect, I have posted it here; I haven't really looked at the pdf, but I figured this link might be of use: http://www.sil.org/americas/peru/show_work.asp?id=10093

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Does anybody know of a good resource for learning Classical Chinese without presupposing competence in modern Mandarin?

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Cross post from C&C Quickies

Don't know if anyone will find this useful, but I figured I'd share it anyway.

For those of you who use TeX or LaTeX to write your conlang grammars or linguistic papers, I've written a basic index of linguistic abbreviations (based on the Leipzig set IIRC) that's formatted to display in a table-like form that wraps in columns including over page breaks.

You'll probably have to edit it to suit your own needs, I just pulled the code from the appendices in my own grammar, and I think the only extra package it requires is multicol.

The subfiles package is a really neat way of separating a large document into individual files, with the added advantage that you can compile each individual file so that it inherits the preamble of the main file. Note that subfiles is not included in TeXLive (so you'll have to manually install it if you use that environment) but it is included in MiKTeX AFAIK.

https://gist.github.com/1216912

And here's the output: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/875911/conlangs ... ations.pdf

For reference, here's grammar.tex: https://gist.github.com/1218650

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dhokarena56 wrote:Does anybody know of a good resource for learning Classical Chinese without presupposing competence in modern Mandarin?
Paul Rozer's A New Practical Primer of Literary Chinese is as close as you can get to that. It includes readings in Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean and Japanese. Names and places are still referred to in their Mando version though. You should definitely get around reading Pulleyblank's Outline of Classical Chinese Grammar as well (Mando readings only). Michael Fuller's An Introduction to Literary Chinese is ok to an extent too... (though using Mando readings only too).

If you want to be a serious learner of Classical Chinese you should eventually gain some competence in Mandarin or Japanese though, mainly because of the dictionaries...
Vardelm wrote:Nice reference if you aren't interested in learning Arabic script since it makes liberal use of transliteration. I have a hard copy & love it.
It blows my mind why you wouldn't want to, if you want to learn about Qur'anic and Classical Arabic. :? (EDIT: I just realized you're the one doing the Khudzul-expansion thing...)

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http://chinesenotes.com/classical_chinese.php

Some sort of abridged version of Michael Fuller's book, using the same texts and the same structure (actually, the texts are in some other textual variant than the one Fuller used, but same thing, really) — the one who wrote the website just avoids any copyright violation by using his own explanations (much shorter than those of Fuller). I like that he provides translations though (which Fuller doesn't), although on the other hand, he doesn't mention any alternative interpretations of the texts.

(E.g., in 3.b, 其邻人父亦云 could also be "an old man (fǔ) among his neighbours also agreed (literally, 'also said it')". Perhaps even more likely. Why would you talk about "his neighbor's father", when you have talked of no neighbour before? — info provided by users chrix and Jose from chinese-forums.com.)

http://gkarin.com/cikoski/

Cikoski's notes of Classical Chinese vocabulary, a sort of Classical Chinese - English dictionary in the making. Last updated on April 2nd, 2011 as of this post.
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!!! *jaw drops* THANK YOU!

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