And the link to view the broadcast is <http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00nx7n4> - provided you are in UK. If you aren't, you'll see "This content does not...
Claude Almansi
claude.almansi@...
Nov 10, 2009 11:40 pm
167183
On Mon, 9 Nov 2009 18:41:10 +0100, Philip Newton ... ABD Amerika Birincli Devetleri (That's not what Google Translate says the Turkish is. Also I haven't...
Eldin Raigmore
eldin_raigmore@...
Nov 10, 2009 11:53 pm
167184
On Mon, 9 Nov 2009 19:52:06 +0100, Philip Newton ... There're also $$ in countries like the U.S.A. with dollars and ₤₤ in countries like the U.K. with...
Eldin Raigmore
eldin_raigmore@...
12:00 am
167185
... Nope, that's wrong. It's Соединённы Штаты Америки. Соединённы is a participle, so that's probably a pretty close...
Amanda Babcock Furrow
langs@...
12:50 am
167186
... That is a fascinating paper! I have tried several times to set up some kind of online situation where a language could evolve by being used, but I've...
Gary Shannon
fiziwig@...
12:56 am
167187
Registration is coming along nicely; we have 19 signed up so far (minus one not participating this year). If you haven't signed up yet, go to ...
Amanda Babcock Furrow
langs@...
1:37 am
167188
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Eldin Raigmore ... I don't think I've ever seen just two dollar signs together with that meaning. It's usually three,...
Garth Wallace
gwalla@...
2:19 am
167189
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 8:37 PM, Amanda Babcock Furrow ... I just posted a message in the "Ephemera" forum about it. -- Jim Henry ...
Jim Henry
jimhenry1973@...
2:27 am
167190
... Actually no, if state is devet, the plural with proper vowel harmonization is deverler, and the i on the end (marking the possessed item in this case I...
Tony Harris
tony@...
2:29 am
167191
Not to be pdantic, and one is sure that none on this list has of pdantry been guilty, I was planning on getting permission from the Holy Regents to be...
Puey McCleary
pueymccleary@...
2:38 am
167192
I threw a bit of explanatory text on the Frath page, most significantly a statement of what I believe to be the correct turn order: ...
Alex Fink
000024@...
2:59 am
167193
Here's one for the articulatory phoneticians: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pl0d8lVm9xk Alex...
Alex Fink
000024@...
3:06 am
167194
... Thank you for the correction :) I look forward to it! Amanda...
Amanda Babcock Furrow
langs@...
3:42 am
167195
First, I want to apologize for the babbling that follows. Thank you all for your patience. ... No offense taken. I already know that I'm odd. ... I always love...
M.S. Soderquist
gloriouswaffle@...
4:44 am
167196
... Add an - to both words. ... Meh. IMO, you should de-inflect the words if you're going to put them into an English running text; it looks wrong to me to...
Philip Newton
philip.newton@...
6:09 am
167197
... No; as Tony pointed out, -i fits with the front vowels -e -i -ö -ü; dotless-i goes with back vowels -a -dotless-i -o -u. So you'd have -larI for back...
Philip Newton
philip.newton@...
6:30 am
167198
... In Swedish, normally only with abbreviations and numerals (USA:s, 11:e), and even there it's not universal. One would not write **_Stockholm:s_ "of...
Andreas Johansson
andreasj@...
7:28 am
167199
... The rejistanian term jusa is related to the pronounced abbreviation. The abbreviation would be NanReA: Nanti'ny rejis amelika (state-PL united american)....
Mechthild Czapp
0zu149@...
12:00 pm
167200
2009/11/10 Eric Christopherson <rakko@...> ... I've done the same thing in Dutch, using the -heid suffix (basically the Dutch equivalent of -ness)....
Christophe Grandsire-...
tsela.cg@...
12:23 pm
167201
2009/11/9 Claude Almansi <claude.almansi@...> ... Sorry, but I have to disagree. I have regular contacts with L1 Greek speakers, and I know for a fact...
Christophe Grandsire-...
tsela.cg@...
12:37 pm
167202
2009/11/11 Andreas Johansson <andreasj@...> ... In Dutch, the apostrophe is used in this way in two main cases: - before suffixes like the plural _s_ or...
Christophe Grandsire-...
tsela.cg@...
12:54 pm
167203
Lesbos? So what's their take on the whole "give us our name back, gay women!" brouhaha from a couple years ago? It was a politically silly but linguistically...
Mark J. Reed
markjreed@...
1:02 pm
167204
2009/11/11 Eldin Raigmore <eldin_raigmore@...> ... No, the French never use that abbreviation as far as I know (it might be different in other...
Christophe Grandsire-...
tsela.cg@...
2:01 pm
167205
2009/11/11 Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> ... I actually never asked them about that, nor did they ever mention anything about it (despite me being in...
Christophe Grandsire-...
tsela.cg@...
2:23 pm
167206
Hi! ... Sure. But I'd like an option to send cards to the dear people from this list only, not to complete strangers from other fora. **Henrik...
Henrik Theiling
theiling@...
3:02 pm
167207
Hi! ... This is funny, because I assume it's pronounced /EsEmES@/, right? At least I'd pronounce it that way intuitively. So _s'j_, despite the graphical...
Henrik Theiling
theiling@...
3:07 pm
167208
... You may now set this preference (by logging in and editing your profile under the "Card Exchange Preferences" tab). I've added a "where you heard of this...
Amanda Babcock Furrow
langs@...
3:53 pm
167209
Hi! ... Cool, thanks! :-) **Henrik...
Henrik Theiling
theiling@...
4:07 pm
167210
On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 07:22:13 +0100, Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> wrote: ... A verbal communication years ago from Inci Ozkaragoz, a Turkish-born ...
Eldin Raigmore
eldin_raigmore@...
4:18 pm
167211
What "abbreviations" for the USA in natlangs or conlangs do people know about similar to "Soweto" for "southwest townships", or "Soho" for "south of Houston...
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