... I, too, "suffered" from not knowing how to improve my glyphs; every time I tried to make a script for a conlang, it somehow looked the same. It got better...
What is this for, the ExtIPA? It says for 'disorganized speech', but I have no idea what that is. ===== -The Sock "My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings: Look...
Hallo! ... Oh. I didn't see it when I had a look at my stuff there recently. So either I looked in the wrong category or they've re-added it. ... That's also...
Hi everyone! I've been a lurker of this mailing list on and off for the past two years or so, and I guess I've found a reason now to delurk (although there...
I've always taken it for granted that designing conlangs was the most useless activity I could possible engage in, but that's not true. I've discovered...
Hello Today, of course the tsunami damages around the Indian Ocean and all this was in the evening news today. However, the speaker repeatedly said [SRi...
Hallo! Because of the low traffic volume of the lostlangs mailing list with week-long (and longer) periods of silence, I decided not to post weekly updates any...
I was working on my Senyecan vocabulary today (my favorite part of conlanging) and I came upon some of the interjections. I wondered who else might have some...
Hey! Just another "con-art" related thing to fight flamewars ;) ... I just noticed that my second conlang, Daléian (www.beckerscarsten.de/conlang/daleian), is...
Memorizing euroclone vocabulary is as much fun as memorizing a phone book. Only a masochist can enjoy learning Lojban's grammar. Ygyde is different! The...
For Chatiga, McGuffey's First Reader Lessons 7-9 are now avaiable. http://www.choton.org/chatiga/reader.html _______________________________________ [page 13] ...
If you want to see how many of Greenberg's "universals" your conlang obeys (or, more fun, how many they break ;)... I found a website with the universals: ...
I read about someone (on this list?) converting their conscript into cuneiform, and then eventually turning it into a kind of shorthand. I tried this for...
... Swiss /x/ and standard German /x/ have different sounds, but I'd say the difference is rather in the manner of articulation than in the point of ...
... Jörg Rhiemeier<joerg_rhiemeier@W ... creek-marys-blood-mkkfz8l.html ... I am far from being an expert, but Lakota would have been my guess. I've been...
Hallo! On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 12:44:31 +1100, ... Yes. The Vine script on Omniglot is just a code of the Latin alphabet, with each letter corresponding to a Latin...
I'm finally getting around to posting the phonology for my conlang Wikilret (literally true speak). Hopefully the website will soon follow. CONSONANTS There...
How did we get into the alleged objective superiority of languages? I mean, it's at list a somewhat linguistic topic, unlike, say, the superiority of countries...
G'day, I was fiddling around with Føtisk's word order (I'm currently taking a very long time to reply to a very short on-topic post someone made a few weeks...
Succinctness is simply one goal of many. :) The main reason that the higher level languages are better than assembly language isn't their succintness...
A recent Yahoo/Rueters news article about how Silbo "speakers" process that language in the brain led me to poke around the net for more information on Silbo ...
... __________________ I remember those pre-internet days...lovingly dog-eared notebooks filled with fading lines of pencilled-in and scratched-out phonologies...
... I read your announcement with the same pang of grief others have felt. The grief partly the grief one feels at the passing of an era, and partly at the...
Hallo! On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 16:07:31 -0000, ... Funny that you mention that, because in the part of Germany where I am from (Lippe, in northeastern North...
... I am no Indo-Europeanist, but maybe the best place is to look at it through the perspective of the challenging theory: Joseph S. Salmons. The Glottalic...
I may have overreacted a bit. Sai: Certainly, despite the potentially inflammable topic, you seem to be a model of reasonability; I meant nothing personal by...
Hello - I put down my thoughts on the subject of the present method of writing and its problems. I would be very happy if you would take the time to read it,...
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