I was browsing around on L'Atelier (a French-language forum about conlanging) and just found this, which I thought I should share with the group: ...
197018
Billy J.B.
admin@...
May 24, 2013 4:00 pm
Très cool. Great find!...
197019
Anthony Miles
mamercus88@...
May 24, 2013 5:36 pm
Send transmission Amtoni Mayales nesakam me esupusumsuna. Sorry for the top posting - it would be even more confusing if I put it below, even farther away from...
197020
Anthony Miles
mamercus88@...
May 24, 2013 6:04 pm
Are any of your conlangs dieing or making a come back? Silknish was a dead language, that's making a come back. There's a family who is the last line of...
197021
Nicole Valicia Thomps...
goldyemoran@...
May 24, 2013 6:55 pm
Let me work out the answers, and get back to you, since as of now I have some answedrs, not all. Mellissa Green @GreenNovelist ... From: Constructed Languages...
197022
Roger Mills
romiltz@...
May 24, 2013 8:14 pm
My first reaction to your sentence was that it was rather similar to Basque usage, where most "verbs" consist of a base form (called IIRC a participle), plus...
197023
John Q
jquijada21@...
May 24, 2013 9:32 pm
I was thinking about the English periphrastic construction “to manage to + INFINITIVE”, in that it conveys quite a lot of semantic nuance that goes way...
197024
William Mota
cambises@...
May 24, 2013 11:23 pm
I'm working on a new conlang - LAFUNI - totally designed to be easy to talk to and learn. Work during leisure time for pleasure. As I am planning to slowly, I...
197025
Dustfinger Batailleur
dustfinger42@...
May 25, 2013 12:20 am
How is this language better for its stated purpose than Esperanto, Ido, Occidental, or any other auxlangs out there? Also, the Auxlang board may be more...
197026
Leonardo Castro
leolucas1980@...
May 25, 2013 12:41 am
Do you have any suggestions of good linguistically realistic movies, that is, movies that portray the languages or dialects as close as possible to the ones...
197027
Dustfinger Batailleur
dustfinger42@...
May 25, 2013 12:42 am
The Passion had ecclesiastical Latin instead of Vulgar Latin spoken by the Romans, so it's not exactly accurate....
197028
David Peterson
dedalvs@...
May 25, 2013 12:53 am
The first email was fine (general announcement). This email, though, is asking for the author to explain why his auxlang project is better than other auxlang...
197029
James Kane
kanejam@...
May 25, 2013 1:15 am
I think I read somewhere that Greek was more likely to be used as a Lingua Franca in that region and Latin would be more used only among the Romans. Other than...
197030
Roger Mills
romiltz@...
May 25, 2013 2:52 am
Didn't Mel Gibson (or someone) also make a movie about the Spanish conquest of Central America that featured the Mayan language???? ... From: Leonardo Castro...
197031
Adam Walker
carraxan@...
May 25, 2013 2:57 am
Yes. That was Mel. The movie is Apocalypto. Adam...
197032
George Corley
gacorley@...
May 25, 2013 3:00 am
I have heard that that was an anachronistic variant of Mayan as well....
197033
Zach Wellstood
zwellstood@...
May 25, 2013 3:01 am
I'm not sure of its accuracy, but there was an Amerindian language spoken in that film. It's called Apocalypto (and I'd quite good, linguistics aside). There's...
197034
H. S. Teoh
hsteoh@...
May 25, 2013 3:06 am
Today, while grappling with what proto-Tatari Faran may have looked like, I had an epiphany about a plausible historical origin of its case system, and its...
197035
James W
emindahken@...
May 25, 2013 3:18 am
There's some Lakota (I think) in Hidalgo. Not a lot, and I don't know how time-accurate it is. James W...
197036
MorphemeAddict
lytlesw@...
May 25, 2013 4:46 am
Dances with Wolves has Lakota in it. stevo...
197037
Jim Henry
jimhenry1973@...
May 25, 2013 12:45 pm
... There's "Apocalypto", which used Yucatec Maya. -- Jim Henry http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry/ http://www.jimhenrymedicaltrust.org...
197038
Adam Walker
carraxan@...
May 25, 2013 1:41 pm
Maybe this Macedonian movie I watched last week fits. The title is Before the Rain. The firs part of the movie is set in Macedonia and the characters speak...
197039
Alex Fink
000024@...
May 25, 2013 4:34 pm
... [...] ... No, I don't think it's any of the usual nat-systems. All of those have the property that the normal core case(s) in intransitives is / are among...
197040
Anthony Miles
mamercus88@...
May 25, 2013 4:58 pm
In the Siye causative construction with an imperfective verb, Siye puts the subject of the internal clause in the instrumental case if inanimate and in the...
197041
Randy Frueh
cthefox.rf@...
May 25, 2013 4:59 pm
The sentence reminds me of the statements given in a logic puzzle. Convoluted, with loads of information content presented....
197042
Alex Fink
000024@...
May 25, 2013 7:23 pm
... What's the difference between them? What was the etymological sense of this noun _e_ that supplies the instrumental: would it have gone with the genitive...
197043
Adam Walker
carraxan@...
May 25, 2013 10:17 pm
Sorry about that. I wanted to what this sort of morphology could do, and I think I got a bit carried away. Not really the best way to introduce a language I...
197044
H. S. Teoh
hsteoh@...
May 25, 2013 11:02 pm
... Hmm. I'm not sure whether TF even distinguishes cases on the basis of transitivity. Here's more data: 8a) huu na tsuni san pikas sa...
197045
Roger Mills
romiltz@...
12:49 am
Are any of you familiar with the ins and outs of putting together a grant proposal? A recent acquaintance wants to apply to NIH for grant of some sort and...
197046
Anthony Miles
mamercus88@...
5:31 am
... What's the difference between them? What was the etymological sense of this noun _e_ that supplies the instrumental: would it have gone with the genitive...
