... The Sassanian kings of Iran officially styled themselves _Shah i Iran u Aniran_ "King of Iran and Not-Iran". Another nice quote in the sam vein: at the...
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caeruleancentaur
caeruleancentaur@...
Mar 1, 2005 12:14 pm
Many years ago I enjoyed Frank Herbert's "Dune." I saw a movie version of it yesterday afternoon for the umpteenth time on AMC. I was always impressed by the...
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Sanghyeon Seo
sanxiyn@...
Mar 1, 2005 1:45 pm
(Watch Reply-To!) Now I am working on compiling wordlists for various conlangs (one word per line, UTF-8 encoded), and formalizing their letter-to-sound rules ...
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James W.
emindahken@...
Mar 1, 2005 2:08 pm
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 12:02:31 +0200, "Shaul Vardi" <vardi@...> ... Straight, married. On Mark's scale of handedness (0-Right, 3-Ambi, 6-Left) I would...
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caeruleancentaur
caeruleancentaur@...
Mar 1, 2005 2:29 pm
... (Watch Reply-To!) ... If the homonyms are from a posteriori languages, I would be interested in knowing how the words were derived. I was browsing the...
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caeruleancentaur
caeruleancentaur@...
Mar 1, 2005 2:32 pm
I would find it interesting to know the psychological types of conlangers. I'm talking about the Meyers-Briggs personality type and the enneagram personality....
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Patrick Jarrett
pjarrett@...
Mar 1, 2005 2:37 pm
My MB is rather chaotic, with 3 of the 4 characteristics being borderline. My dominant of them is ENFJ, but the only one which wasn't borderline was F. I'm...
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Patrick Jarrett
pjarrett@...
Mar 1, 2005 2:42 pm
... Well I'm a straight, fairly ambidextrous (on the scale, am probably 2.7). I write right (though left is quite legible) and I eat left, I brush teeth right...
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Carsten Becker
naranoieati@...
Mar 1, 2005 2:51 pm
... So it's indeed an anadewism. Ayeri has "mangasaha" and "mangasara" to reduce ambiguity in "come" and "go" constructions. My lang *has* seperate words for...
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Carsten Becker
naranoieati@...
Mar 1, 2005 3:01 pm
Haven't we had that just a year ago? Straight, non-bearded, right-handed, non-Lithuanian (i.e. German) ... Carsten...
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Andreas Johansson
andjo@...
Mar 1, 2005 3:08 pm
... When I took the M-B test a couple of years ago, I was INTJ (strengths 11% 33% 33% 33%). I don't know of the enneagram. Andreas...
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Thomas Wier
trwier@...
Mar 1, 2005 3:31 pm
From: Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> ... Indeed. ... And still is. Actually, it is possible to reach my site by googling for it -- I only closed...
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Thomas Wier
trwier@...
Mar 1, 2005 3:32 pm
... Yeah, but in testing for superiority effects we want to avoid echo questions like this. ... I'll second Roger on this. I'm much younger than him, and I...
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Philip Newton
philip.newton@...
Mar 1, 2005 3:55 pm
... It's nothing personal; archive.org is the Internet Archive and they archive anything they can get their hands on (i.e. where they're not turned away by...
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Sally Caves
scaves@...
Mar 1, 2005 4:03 pm
... From: "Sanghyeon Seo" <sanxiyn@...> ... Totally, Sanghyeon! While I don't believe that phonology reveals meaning, one might see if there are...
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JC
jcolrich-dreams@...
Mar 1, 2005 4:26 pm
... This is not true for me... I've never been exposed to that kind of mindset. Well, yes, I want to be "taken seriously as a professional" etc, but it has ...
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caeruleancentaur
caeruleancentaur@...
Mar 1, 2005 4:49 pm
In Senyecan the names of virtually all the animals are epicene. To specify the male of the species, "øs-" is prefixed; for the female, "ii-," e.g.,...
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Roger Mills
rfmilly@...
Mar 1, 2005 5:01 pm
Hi Carsten-- (re HL FCP) ... I'm very bad at converting currencies-- have to ponder long whether to multiply or divide...... But when FCP cost US$40/50, the...
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Roger Mills
rfmilly@...
Mar 1, 2005 5:24 pm
... Yes indeed! Although in your short list, only Kash _aran_ 'name' matches ... I'm rather surprised, given Kash predominant CVCV(C) structure. ... Indeed. ...
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Joe
joe@...
Mar 1, 2005 5:29 pm
... I'm an INTP, I think....
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Benct Philip Jonsson
bpj@...
Mar 1, 2005 5:49 pm
... In Kejeb, the protolanguage of the Sohlob dialects there are by design no homonyms, though there probably must arise some in the daughters due to the sound...
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Jörg Rhiemeier
joerg_rhiemeier@...
Mar 1, 2005 5:58 pm
Hallo! On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 02:20:42 +0100, ... Thank you! ... That's what I thought, too. Originally, I had only i- and u-umlaut, but then I decided to add...
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Ivan Baines
kinetic_wab@...
Mar 1, 2005 5:59 pm
... Kontaxta "time". ... Kontaxta "curve". Of the others, only aldea, mura and pula are possible native words. I like "aldea", I'm noting it down as "nice...
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Roger Mills
rfmilly@...
Mar 1, 2005 6:01 pm
Damn. My face is red. Apologies, Carsten....
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Patrick Jarrett
pjarrett@...
Mar 1, 2005 6:06 pm
I too have found great enjoyment in Frank Herbert's Dune, and so I decided to use this passage as a translation exercise for my newest language. I apologize...
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Carsten Becker
naranoieati@...
Mar 1, 2005 6:33 pm
Hey! Yesterday, we talked about the "Gaeltacht" and the Irish language, which is according to our teacher "very difficult to learn as for pronounciation....
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Roger Mills
rfmilly@...
Mar 1, 2005 6:37 pm
... Ooh, had to do a difficult archive search to find this (from June 02, in the thread "Re: CHAT: The Fabulous Personalities of Conlang", which probably ...
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Joe
joe@...
Mar 1, 2005 6:40 pm
... Well, because it's dying. Dying languages desperately need learners. The pronunciation isn't hard as long as you unlearn things. Unlearning is the most...
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Joe
joe@...
Mar 1, 2005 6:46 pm
... But introversion was normal. And there are a significant number more Ns than in most....
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Andreas Johansson
andjo@...
Mar 1, 2005 7:09 pm
... Tairezazh has, AFAIK, no homonymous stems, but there is considerable amounts in derived or inflected forms, either of the same stem - eg, from _dák_...
