From: Rodlox R <rodlox@...> ... I think this varies from culture to culture. There's a well-known anthropological distinction between positive face...
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J. 'Mach' Wust
j_mach_wust@...
Jan 2, 2005 2:14 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...
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Chris Bates
chris.maths_student@...
Jan 2, 2005 4:23 pm
... THis applies to external languages. The history of France (ongoing), Spain (during the Franco years especially), and countless other european countries...
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Paul Roser
pkroser@...
Jan 2, 2005 4:23 pm
On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 10:28:04 -0800, bob thornton <arcanesock@...> ... As far as I know, the lateral flap is made by flapping the tongue tip forward from...
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Chris Bates
chris.maths_student@...
Jan 2, 2005 5:09 pm
... 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...
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Elliott Lash
erelion12@...
Jan 2, 2005 5:47 pm
Further clearing up Silindion's existential and essive verbs for everyone and especially Jörg Rhiemeier ... Notice that the noun with the essive "-i" is...
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Philip Newton
philip.newton@...
Jan 2, 2005 6:37 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...
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Philip Newton
philip.newton@...
Jan 2, 2005 6:52 pm
On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 17:24:46 +0100, taliesin the storyteller ... Fair enough. You also cannot assume that all files are the same content-type; while the two are...
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Benct Philip Jonsson
bpj@...
Jan 2, 2005 7:40 pm
... Ha! In proper romanization it is _qaγan_ and pronounced [XA:n]! The Marco Polo manuscripts spell it _can_, BTW. -- /BP 8^)> -- Benct Philip Jonsson --...
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Jörg Rhiemeier
joerg_rhiemeier@...
Jan 2, 2005 7:46 pm
Hallo! On Sat, 1 Jan 2005 19:53:33 -0800, ... I see. BTW: I notice that your verb is homophonous to Quenya _ëa!_ `it may be!' ... The present tense marker is...
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Benct Philip Jonsson
bpj@...
Jan 2, 2005 7:49 pm
... It is probably pre-split, since it is found in the Scandinavian languages as well: Icelandic: biti Swedish: bit Norwegian: bitt (IIRC, Taliesin?) Danish:...
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Steg Belsky
draqonfayir@...
Jan 2, 2005 7:52 pm
... Arabic has six: /a/ /i/ /u/ /a:/ /i:/ /u:/ Each vowel has a wide variety of realizations, depending on the surrounding consonants. I've been working on an...
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Jörg Rhiemeier
joerg_rhiemeier@...
Jan 2, 2005 8:17 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...
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Jan 2, 2005 8:57 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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J. 'Mach' Wust
j_mach_wust@...
Jan 2, 2005 9:27 pm
... The distinction of long and short consonants may be considered a suprasegmental feature of the syllable, so that the number of vowels would remain three....
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Elliott Lash
erelion12@...
Jan 2, 2005 9:30 pm
... Well, at least it's homophonous in the present tense. The actual root is <*ay->, which became <*ay-a-> in the present (with a present thematic vowel -a-)....
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Pascal A. Kramm
pkramm@...
Jan 2, 2005 10:05 pm
... So you simply assumed that my variety would also share the other features found in Swiss German, just based on this one occurence? Jumping to such ...
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Herman Miller
hmiller@...
Jan 2, 2005 10:18 pm
Here's an interesting site I ran across: http://www.archINFORM.net/ort/3070.htm From here you can find names for various places around the world in a number of...
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Carsten Becker
naranoieati@...
Jan 2, 2005 10:18 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...
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Carsten Becker
naranoieati@...
Jan 2, 2005 10:19 pm
Hello! Just one question: How else can I use the causative after the following definition? ... Currently, the causative ending _-isa_ only appears in pronouns...
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Gary Shannon
fiziwig@...
Jan 2, 2005 10:46 pm
... <snip> ... In Tazhu, and it's recent isolating offshoot Mutande Palu, I found three words were necessary for "catch". 1) to overtake, or catch up to. "I...
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Elliott Lash
erelion12@...
Jan 2, 2005 10:58 pm
There is a distinct difference in Low Silindion relative clauses and High Silindion relative clauses. Low Silindion Relative structures are made up of two ...
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Elliott Lash
erelion12@...
Jan 2, 2005 11:15 pm
... please note, this ought to be a past tense "who danced" ~ Elliott __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! - Get yours free!...
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Henrik Theiling
theiling@...
Jan 2, 2005 11:26 pm
Hi! I followed this thread with interest, because Qthen|gai has some case and aspect constructions that use the same nomenclature as the copulas in Silindion....
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Henrik Theiling
theiling@...
Jan 2, 2005 11:30 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...
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Henrik Theiling
theiling@...
Jan 2, 2005 11:47 pm
Hi! ... The usual translation would probably be 'because of ...'. 'The tree broke because of the wind'. This could have 'wind' in causative case. This is the...
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Andreas Johansson
andjo@...
Jan 3, 2005 12:30 am
... Why the "ha!"? My [xa:n] is still closer to the original than the alternative [ka:n] is. Andreas...
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B. Garcia
madyaas@...
Jan 3, 2005 12:33 am
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...
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Jan 3, 2005 12:56 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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J. 'Mach' Wust
j_mach_wust@...
Jan 3, 2005 2:58 am
... As I've pointed out many times, this feature is a peculiarity of your local pronunciation (and of some varieties of old-fashioned Swiss standard German)....
