... Basically, you get more than 20 words. That's about it; to avoid oversights, look at more data. If you want the results to be more useful, find some way to...
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Padraic Brown
elemtilas@...
May 25, 2012 11:31 pm
... Well, it's really quite simple. "Jesus" is simply the English name for the man in question. It would be like asking why we don't drink Hershey's xocolatl...
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Patrick Dunn
pwdunn@...
May 25, 2012 11:52 pm
... As of this moment, I now *do* drink xocolatl melukaz. -- Second Person, a chapbook of poetry by Patrick Dunn, is now available for order from Finishing...
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Wm Annis
wm.annis@...
12:15 am
Since cross-linguistic semantic maps are so vital to A Conlanger's Thesaurus, and because the work producing these isn't exactly speedy, I decided to write...
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George Corley
gacorley@...
12:40 am
On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 4:31 PM, Charles W Brickner < ... It *IS* an older spelling. The Mandarin sound change - k > tɕ / _(i,j) - is a very recently,...
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Alex Fink
000024@...
2:08 am
... What counts as rich? For instance, how good for your purposes is something like this? http://www.slaxicon.org/files/ulwa/dict/index.html Alex...
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Roger Mills
romiltz@...
4:29 am
________________________________ From: Logan Kearsley <chronosurfer@...> To: CONLANG@... Sent: Friday, May 25, 2012 6:37 PM Subject: Re:...
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R A Brown
ray@...
6:32 am
... Exactly - Mr DeSantis may not like it, but the books of the New Testament were originally written in Greek; and if Ἰησοῦς was OK for Paul and the...
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And Rosta
and.rosta@...
8:34 am
... So, BPJ et al, had we borrowed "Yeshua" back in the early days of Christianization in England, what would its orthographical and phonological forms have...
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Michael Everson
everson@...
10:10 am
Pleidob vemo, das idabükob dabükoti nulik Gramata ela de Jong! http://www.evertype.com/books/dejong-gramat.html I am very proud to have published a new...
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Larry Sulky
larrysulky@...
11:59 am
... There's a problem?...
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BPJ
bpj@...
12:34 pm
... Well, you'd still probably have borrowed it from Latin, probably, so _GÃesu_ probably, > modern _Yees_! /bpj...
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BPJ
bpj@...
12:48 pm
... That's clearly too small a sample. You'ld need at least a few hundred unique words, and preferably not just dictionary words, but words in running text....
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Puey McCleary
pueymccleary@...
1:18 pm
The name, or a name, for Yēshūa’ / Jesus is something that I may have to consider, if I do start translating any New Testament texts. So far I’ve just...
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Wm Annis
wm.annis@...
1:41 pm
In the off chance anyone else is interested in how I'm generating these graphs: http://lingweenie.org/conlang/maps/ There may be cleverer ways to do this, but...
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Jennifer Collins-Jai
jcmusicaria@...
3:17 pm
I wouldn't call this one the 'richest' per say, but it does organize the words into groups, which you might find handy. ...
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Jennifer Collins-Jai
jcmusicaria@...
3:20 pm
*"And yes, body parts are animate and inalienably possessed in Sohlob!"* That's just delightful. I mean, it does make sense, but still. If I ever add...
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Dustfinger Batailleur
dustfinger42@...
3:22 pm
Essentially, my questions are as follows: Is case a good idea for a conlang, and why (advantages/disadvantages)? What are some major conlangs with/without...
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Jennifer Collins-Jai
jcmusicaria@...
3:24 pm
That's so exciting! Congratulations! I am so happy too see more conlang related publications happening this year. :) ~Jennifer...
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Sai
sai@...
3:28 pm
WWWJDIC is pretty excellent for Japanese. - sai...
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Brian Woodward
alarjac3@...
3:31 pm
... [snip] I feel bad, I'm the one that started this thread with my question and I've made no responses so first of all I'd like to say thanks to all who have...
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Charles W Brickner
tepeyachill@...
3:40 pm
... "Hosts" seems to be quite a romantic word. King Arthur had hosts. The Knights of Rohan come in hosts. Civilized and perhaps a bit less glamorous places...
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Nikolay Ivankov
lukevilent@...
3:53 pm
Well, I'm not an expert in the field, but in fact having or not having cases is not a good or a bad idea. It's just wheter you want the speakesr to use more...
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Dustfinger Batailleur
dustfinger42@...
3:59 pm
Thanks for the warm welcome! :) Also, I would just like to point out that Esperanto has 2 cases actually - a Nominative (default) case, and an accusative case....
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Puey McCleary
pueymccleary@...
4:04 pm
Thanks, Charlie. I basically am going with something like "Lord greater than Ancestors" or "Lord greater than Stars" and the like, since a purely military...
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David McCann
david@...
4:06 pm
On Fri, 25 May 2012 16:52:58 -0400 ... If you can find a copy of the collected writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf, he had a splendid formula for English syllable...
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David McCann
david@...
4:26 pm
On Sat, 26 May 2012 10:31:07 -0500 ... Some languages transliterate, some transscribe. In English we've changed over the years: my generation write Khrushchev...
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Tony Harris
tony@...
7:20 pm
Thank you, Michael, for helping keep Volapük available! Sent from my ASUS Eee Pad...
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Jörg Rhiemeier
joerg_rhiemeier@...
7:45 pm
Hallo conlangers! ... Yes. As for my conlangs, in Roman Germanech the name is _Jesu_ [jÉ›'su], increasingly replaced by the form _Jesus_ which is borrowed...
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R A Brown
ray@...
7:52 pm
... If one was talking about auxlangs, then advantages & disadvantages would have some meaning. But let's leave that to Auxlang (far too flammable for here...
