... I giggle everytime they say "Champignon mushroom" since like I said in an earlier post, it's pretty much redundant, as the word means "mushroom" in French...
B. Garcia
madyaas@...
Feb 1, 2005 8:17 am
127972
... Well, I think it's pretty offensive and wouldn't use it myself, but yeah, in certain circles it's used more or less all the time. But then, there are...
Geoff Horswood
geoffhorswood@...
Feb 1, 2005 9:22 am
127973
On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 04:16:33 -0500, Geoff Horswood ... I was pretty surprised my friend mentioned that, because I'm pretty sure you wouldn't say cunt to the...
B. Garcia
madyaas@...
Feb 1, 2005 9:30 am
127974
... From: "Adrian Morgan (aka Flesh-eating Dragon)" <dragon@...> To: <CONLANG@...> Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2005 7:22 AM Subject:...
Rodlox
Rodlox@...
Feb 1, 2005 9:48 am
127975
From: Elliott Lash <erelion12@...> ... That's basically right. Pronominal information is usually situated at the edge of clauses, and thus when...
Thomas R. Wier
trwier@...
Feb 1, 2005 9:54 am
127976
From: Sai Emrys <saizai@...> ... I think there are both pragmatic and theoretical problems with this idea. First the theory. It's not clear exactly...
Thomas R. Wier
trwier@...
Feb 1, 2005 9:54 am
127977
From: Tristan McLeay <conlang@...> ... I definitely agree with Adrian's assessment of its use. I myself use it rarely, and I never hear...
Thomas R. Wier
trwier@...
Feb 1, 2005 9:57 am
127978
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 19:30:43 -0500 ... *I* certainly had never heard of it before. I read voluminously, and eat out at restaurants many times a week,...
Thomas R. Wier
trwier@...
Feb 1, 2005 10:23 am
127979
... Australian English for hen/chicken. It's still a chicken when you eat it, though. A common derivative is "chook bucket", meaning a food bin for meal scraps...
Adrian Morgan (aka Fl...
dragon@...
Feb 1, 2005 10:38 am
127980
... [x\] *is* on the chart among the "other symbols": a co-articulated (simultaneous) [x] and [S]. It is the version of the Swedish "sj" sound which is...
Benct Philip Jonsson
bpj@...
Feb 1, 2005 10:58 am
127981
Hi! ... I'd say it's not normal, but it occasionally happens. There've been delays up to three hours that I know of. *Usually*, the server reacts within a...
Henrik Theiling
theiling@...
Feb 1, 2005 11:06 am
127982
... In Australian unis, and it seems in British ones as well, what I call subjects, Chris seems to call modules, and what Americans appear to call courses,...
Tristan McLeay
conlang@...
Feb 1, 2005 12:05 pm
127983
... Hm, perhaps it's not. No---at the moment, they're having a campaign with the slogan 'Only a little bit over? You bloody idiot.' (with some damn good ads,...
Tristan McLeay
conlang@...
Feb 1, 2005 12:29 pm
127984
Yep. :) Here in Nottingham Uni it's similar apart from the fact that some one semester courses can be 15 or 20 credits if they involve more work or lectures...
Chris Bates
chris.maths_student@...
Feb 1, 2005 12:35 pm
127985
... I'd like to have snipped more than that, but I couldn't do so without butchering it. As I see it, any study of constructed languages would fail to be a...
Kevin Athey
kevindeanathey@...
Feb 1, 2005 2:01 pm
127986
... ... Ah, that book seems to be available online: http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~kurisuto/germanic/pgmc_torp_about.html Always nice to know free etymological...
J. 'Mach' Wust
j_mach_wust@...
Feb 1, 2005 2:03 pm
127987
... Ah, I don't think that's quite how many American universities work. I say "many", because, of course, there is no one system of education in America at any...
Thomas R. Wier
trwier@...
Feb 1, 2005 2:57 pm
127988
... Each individual class? So for instance in 1st semester, 2nd year psychology (PSY21PYA), I had four one-hour lectures (in two two-hour blocks) and a...
Tristan McLeay
conlang@...
Feb 1, 2005 4:01 pm
127989
Greetings, I am wondering how to change from getting mondo messages separately to the digest format? Could someone please help me with this? Best, Carol B....
Carol Anne Buckley
cbuckley@...
Feb 1, 2005 5:11 pm
127990
I was asking a good friend of mine recently what percentage of "conlangers" he thought were male. After being bombarded by such slew of emails on this topic,...
Martha C. Cardenas
Garymar2000@...
Feb 1, 2005 5:28 pm
127991
... <snip> ... One possible exception would be in the area of auxlang studies where it might be possible to test which features of an auxlang make it most...
Gary Shannon
fiziwig@...
Feb 1, 2005 5:53 pm
127992
... Could we lay off the sex stereotypes, please? Most of my female coworkers are more adept at sailorish cursing than the males are. -Marcos...
Mark J. Reed
markjreed@...
Feb 1, 2005 5:53 pm
127993
... This SEEMS to say that only men use naughty words. Or maybe that only men are interested in discussing scatology. I think there are other reasons why a...
caeruleancentaur
caeruleancentaur@...
Feb 1, 2005 5:54 pm
127994
Hallo! On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 03:42:27 -0600, ... Certainly. Conlangs don't reveal more about natural languages than model railroads reveal about real railroads....
Jörg Rhiemeier
joerg_rhiemeier@...
Feb 1, 2005 6:30 pm
127995
Wasn't there a poll that showed that we had lots more men, left handers, and gay people here than in the population at large? :) Those things have some...
Chris Bates
chris.maths_student@...
Feb 1, 2005 6:49 pm
127996
... I suspect there's probably even variation in different parts of North America and in the Commonwealth - almost certain to be in Britain :) ... fungus/...
Ray Brown
ray.brown@...
Feb 1, 2005 6:51 pm
127997
... [snip] ... Very interesting. In the colloquial Sussex dialect of my youth we also appended -n for 'him' and, more often, 'it'. I have always assumed that ...
Ray Brown
ray.brown@...
Feb 1, 2005 6:52 pm
127998
[GERMANIC INDEFINITE ARTICLE] On Monday, January 31, 2005, at 07:44 , Carsten Becker wrote: [snip] ... I believe the Dutch _een_ is also [n=] when used as the...
Ray Brown
ray.brown@...
Feb 1, 2005 6:53 pm
127999
... Ah yes, now I see it - didn't look there. However, I can't imagine how that would sound... "simultaneous"? ... [2] would be a simple ö, no problems there...
Pascal A. Kramm
pkramm@...
Feb 1, 2005 7:09 pm
128000
In a message dated 2/1/2005 9:44:08 AM Pacific Standard Time, markjreed@... writes: Could we lay off the sex stereotypes, please? It just seems like that...
