... Sorry. I had a typo in the file name. Now fixed. --gary...
Gary Shannon
fiziwig@...
Jan 2, 2005 8:24 am
I tought about having in my conlang, all the state verbs derived from the same root I could derive - to be (or maybe devided it in "ser" and "estar") - to...
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Jan 2, 2005 5:07 am
... Become isn't a stative verb. It's active, because it involves a change of state, from not being something to being something. ... It seems like a better...
Chris Bates
chris.maths_student@...
Jan 2, 2005 5:09 pm
... Japanses actually uses three distinct nonalphabetic systems*: kanji (Chinese characters), and katakana and hiragana (both syllabic). These latter two are...
Thomas R. Wier
trwier@...
Jan 2, 2005 12:28 pm
... If by "non-Japanese" you mean "people who do not live in Japan", then you may be right, but if you mean "people who do not use the Japanese language", then...
Philip Newton
philip.newton@...
Jan 2, 2005 6:37 pm
Thomas R. Wier wrote at 2005-01-02 06:24:27 (-0600) ... As others have said, the style of the script is largely influenced by uncial. It has occurred to me...
Tim May
butsuri@...
Jan 4, 2005 1:30 am
... While _I_ on the other hand find tengwar pretty, but not nearly as beautiful as the many forms of Arabic, or grass script Chinese. I also tend to prefer...
B. Garcia
madyaas@...
Jan 2, 2005 1:00 pm
... In the English calligraphy he had learnt from his mother, which imitates older insular uncialis (if that's what it's called in English). The tengwar look...
J. 'Mach' Wust
j_mach_wust@...
Jan 2, 2005 2:14 pm
Hallo! On Sat, 1 Jan 2005 04:28:57 -0500, ... I know what you are talking about. It is easy to invent a handful of letter shapes; it is less easy to come up...
Jörg Rhiemeier
joerg_rhiemeier@...
Jan 2, 2005 8:17 pm
... Its french translation ("devenir") is Is the english definition of state verb (verbe d'état) the same as the french one? In french a state verb...
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Jan 2, 2005 8:57 pm
Hey! ... Basically, yes. ... But even then, I don't arrive at anything that pleases me. ... Actually, I wanted to make a script similar to Javanese or Balinese...
Carsten Becker
naranoieati@...
Jan 2, 2005 10:18 pm
Hi! ... He. :-) When I invented the Fukhian script, with Devanagari and Arabic in mind, they direction of the resulting script was left-to-right although the...
Henrik Theiling
theiling@...
Jan 2, 2005 11:30 pm
When I created Kuraw, I descended the letter forms from proto-forms (which weren't ever to be used as the history of Kuraw is it's an inspired script, so it...
B. Garcia
madyaas@...
Jan 3, 2005 12:33 am
... [...] ... It works very well! I've been able to draw each of the signs I invented last night But for now I have only my consonants so my vowels are still...
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Jan 3, 2005 12:56 am
... Would you liek to share your results? Are you also aware of a yahoogroup that is dedicated to constructing writing systems? I suggest you post there too...
rob_nierse
rnierse@...
Jan 4, 2005 10:26 am
... There's plenty of different ways of representing vowels. Many unusual ways of representing them are found in stenography systems, see (and be warned it was...
J. 'Mach' Wust
j_mach_wust@...
Jan 3, 2005 3:23 am
... I actually don't think much of the Tengwar script. It always makes me wonder what the dyslexia rate among elves is! All the letters look far too similar...
Geoff Horswood
geoffhorswood@...
Jan 3, 2005 9:33 am
... Probably a lot lower than among Men, or the system wouldn't have worked! :) It is notable that Tolkien himself often confused the P-series and the...
Benct Philip Jonsson
bpj@...
Jan 3, 2005 12:51 pm
... If memory serves, you've shown that some time ago, didn't you? ... Heh, I've tried to self-teach it to me two years ago. My parents still have...
Carsten Becker
naranoieati@...
Jan 3, 2005 2:43 pm
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 15:41:05 +0100, Carsten Becker ... You've caught me! ... I can't. It guess it takes a very long time of practice. If you want it to be...
J. 'Mach' Wust
j_mach_wust@...
Jan 3, 2005 4:15 pm
Izribon kind of looks artificial, but the letter forms are actually vaguely based on some hieroglyphs I made up for my proto-language....
Matt Arriola
azathoth500@...
Jan 3, 2005 7:06 pm
here's what I sent with additions: space = 0000 (so a word can't contains more than 3 "0" following) siplified space for representation = - so, only to...
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Jan 3, 2005 8:25 pm
Hallo! On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 04:31:53 -0500, ... Yes, this is indeed a drawback of Tengwar. Most of the letters look all too similar. This is something not easy...
Jörg Rhiemeier
joerg_rhiemeier@...
Jan 3, 2005 9:14 pm
... I once did a featural script, but put all the 'features' as diacritics. Including vowel features. It was interesting, and not hard to read for me. ===== ...
bob thornton
arcanesock@...
Jan 3, 2005 9:26 pm
A few questions about phonetic: In the IPA phonetic charts, I've found that there were only a few ejective and implosive consonants Only the bilabial, dental,...
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Jan 3, 2005 9:38 pm
... Glottal ejective is impossible, because ejectives are formed by closing the glottis along with the normal articulation, causing the "pop" ... As far as I...
bob thornton
arcanesock@...
Jan 3, 2005 10:31 pm
... [snip] ... They certainly can. ... Yes. Why not? ... Yes - they are common in the Indic languages. ... Yes, they can. The Welsh }rh}, for example, is the...
Ray Brown
ray.brown@...
Jan 4, 2005 7:02 pm
... They are strictly speaking breathy-voiced, a peculiar kind of phonation in the larynx. Aspiration is strictly delayed voice onset, and that is of course...
Benct Philip Jonsson
bpj@...
Jan 4, 2005 9:18 pm
... Indeed not - I had assumed in the Sanskrit, Hindi/Urdu _bh_, _dh_ etc. the _h_ was voiced, i.e. [h\] (IPA [ɦ]) - after all, [h\] is not exactly an ...
Ray Brown
ray.brown@...
Jan 5, 2005 6:49 pm
... I have not read of anyone hypothesizing voiced aspirate plosives for PIE, but then my only source currently is the biannual Journal of Indo-European...
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