... There's plenty of different ways of representing vowels. Many unusual ways of representing them are found in stenography systems, see (and be warned it was...
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Rodlox R
rodlox@...
Jan 3, 2005 3:35 am
which would be more plausible? (as a conlang or a natlang) ?... * a language with pronouns (he/she/it/they/you), but no personal names (Paul, Bill, Pedro,...
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Remi Villatel
maxilys@...
Jan 3, 2005 3:35 am
... I used the Babel text and I made a mistake. For some reason, I mistake the particle /pa/ for "by". I didn't know how to differenciate "Let us begin" from...
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Rodlox R
rodlox@...
Jan 3, 2005 3:35 am
is there a website or book (that costs less than $100.00 dollars) that has at least part of the language used by the Huns of Attila's day? thanks....
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Gary Shannon
fiziwig@...
Jan 3, 2005 3:38 am
... I can see using pronouns with other information in the place of names like "He who is my brother," or "he who dances with wolves." But then in doing so we...
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(no author)
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Jan 3, 2005 3:49 am
... A language without pronouns would be redundant if we have to name the person every time But I dont know witch way a language could not have any way to name...
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(no author)
(no email address)
Jan 3, 2005 6:12 am
Probably you usually invent a speakable language But did someone here already invented a binar language? I would like to do this space = 0000 (so a word can't...
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Martha C. Cardenas
Garymar2000@...
Jan 3, 2005 6:15 am
____ / \ ____/ x \____ / \ / \ / v \____/ y \ \ / \ / \____/ verb \____/ / \ / \ / u \____/ z \ \ /...
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Chris Bates
chris.maths_student@...
Jan 3, 2005 8:24 am
A language without 3rd person pronouns is easy. Latin didn't really have any... it used demonstratives like "this one", "that one" etc or others to fill in for...
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Geoff Horswood
geoffhorswood@...
Jan 3, 2005 9:11 am
Shanthanu Bhardwaj <shanth@...> wrote: Creative word/character structure! The only problem I can see with this kind of thing is that if you project it...
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Geoff Horswood
geoffhorswood@...
Jan 3, 2005 9:23 am
... I have to agree. Pronouns are very difficult to do without completely- what if you don't know someone's name? How do you even ask "what's your name?" if...
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Geoff Horswood
geoffhorswood@...
Jan 3, 2005 9:33 am
... I actually don't think much of the Tengwar script. It always makes me wonder what the dyslexia rate among elves is! All the letters look far too similar...
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Henrik Theiling
theiling@...
Jan 3, 2005 10:43 am
Hi! ... Thanks for still having the energy to correct Pascal. He is indeed constantly spreading weird ideas about Standard German, especially about his most...
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Tristan McLeay
conlang@...
Jan 3, 2005 11:08 am
... Could someone do me a favor and explain in one nice post what Pascal's position is and why it is wrong? -- Tristan....
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Benct Philip Jonsson
bpj@...
Jan 3, 2005 12:43 pm
... Because the proper romanization is so utterly weird that even the more "phonemic"; romanizations _khan_ and _Chan_ are "wrong". It should at least be...
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Philip Newton
philip.newton@...
Jan 3, 2005 12:45 pm
... Indeed! I believe a similar scheme was used in Ottomon Turkish script to indicate vowel harmony (i.e. certain consonants were written before/after front...
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Philip Newton
philip.newton@...
Jan 3, 2005 12:50 pm
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 04:21:35 -0500, Geoff Horswood ... Context. I imagine the equivalent would be something like "What is the name?", with "your" being...
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Benct Philip Jonsson
bpj@...
Jan 3, 2005 12:51 pm
... Probably a lot lower than among Men, or the system wouldn't have worked! :) It is notable that Tolkien himself often confused the P-series and the...
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Carsten Becker
naranoieati@...
Jan 3, 2005 2:43 pm
... If memory serves, you've shown that some time ago, didn't you? ... Heh, I've tried to self-teach it to me two years ago. My parents still have...
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Muke Tever
hotblack@...
Jan 3, 2005 3:40 pm
... You do it with inflections: "what name have.2sg". Indeed, a pro-drop language with personal inflections for subject and objects could go a long way...
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J. 'Mach' Wust
j_mach_wust@...
Jan 3, 2005 3:57 pm
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 22:06:29 +1100, Tristan McLeay ... 1. He repeatedly and very emphatically claimed that standard German distinguishes distinguishes short /e/...
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J. 'Mach' Wust
j_mach_wust@...
Jan 3, 2005 4:15 pm
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 15:41:05 +0100, Carsten Becker ... You've caught me! ... I can't. It guess it takes a very long time of practice. If you want it to be...
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And Rosta
a.rosta@...
Jan 3, 2005 5:06 pm
... the ... I'm skeptical about attributing most of these to Shakespeare, since once the inkhorn principle (viz. Latin & Greek count as English) was establish,...
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Philip Newton
philip.newton@...
Jan 3, 2005 5:11 pm
... That post also claims a stressed schwa for German. (The example is ... Cheers, -- Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> Watch the Reply-To!...
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Steg Belsky
draqonfayir@...
Jan 3, 2005 5:26 pm
heyall, First of all, there's this: http://members.fortunecity.com/mikecolley/atlas/ which i stumbled on. And now there's also my finished(?) scheme for...
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caeruleancentaur
caeruleancentaur@...
Jan 3, 2005 5:58 pm
I came across the following in the February, 2000 (I'm a bit behind!), issue of "Parabola." The article, by Cynthia S. Larsen, is entitled "Comes True, Being...
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Matt Arriola
azathoth500@...
Jan 3, 2005 7:06 pm
Izribon kind of looks artificial, but the letter forms are actually vaguely based on some hieroglyphs I made up for my proto-language....
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(no author)
(no email address)
Jan 3, 2005 8:25 pm
here's what I sent with additions: space = 0000 (so a word can't contains more than 3 "0" following) siplified space for representation = - so, only to...
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Ray Brown
ray.brown@...
Jan 3, 2005 8:27 pm
Happy New Year. I'm back now & I thought I'd start 2005 by a last naming my long unnamed conlangs :) You may remember that in June of last year there was some...
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Jörg Rhiemeier
joerg_rhiemeier@...
Jan 3, 2005 8:37 pm
Hallo! On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 13:29:56 -0800, ... Thank you! ... Now I see clearer; thank you. I am not sure yet how it is expressed in Old Albic. Greetings, ...
