... Yay for Irish! ;-) I remember this basic greeting stuff from my one semester "Irish Language and Culture" class a few years ago. If i remember correctly,...
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Carsten Becker
naranoieati@...
Mar 1, 2005 8:14 pm
... Lol, no, no! You misunderstood that bit. My teacher pointed out that question to us in class. And the broad and slender bits have been nicely explained...
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R.M. Whelton
rmwhelton@...
Mar 1, 2005 9:55 pm
Hi! Long time lurker. First time poster. Thought the survey made a good jumping-in point, so here goes... ... languages? Pseudonyms ... Robin Whelton. My...
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Mark J. Reed
markjreed@...
Mar 1, 2005 10:10 pm
... It's a question of emphasis, I guess. I mean, people are unlikely to think you're female, old, Estonian, or brown-eyed if you're not any of those things,...
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Henrik Theiling
theiling@...
Mar 1, 2005 10:13 pm
Hi! I waited for quite some time to announce this and it is still not much to present, but I'll give you some info about my new project S11 (no better name...
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Henrik Theiling
theiling@...
Mar 1, 2005 10:28 pm
Hi! ... Welcome to the list, R.M.! :-) ... Hehe, so for me it's nerdy *although* it occasionally involves a good wine. :-))) **Henrik...
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Ivan Baines
kinetic_wab@...
Mar 1, 2005 10:29 pm
Henrik (and anyone else interested), Interlinears as requested. I actually messed up a couple of things in the text I posted previously: - "sekte" in line 4...
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H. S. Teoh
hsteoh@...
Mar 1, 2005 10:57 pm
On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 11:10:08PM +0100, Henrik Theiling wrote: [...] ... Interesting. This is what motivated me to devise Ebisédian's (and Tatari Faran's)...
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Joe
joe@...
Mar 1, 2005 10:58 pm
... Erm...shouldn't that be 'dia dhuit'? ... meanings. O' course, 'Goodbye' is short for 'God be with you' anyhow....
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Joe
joe@...
Mar 1, 2005 11:01 pm
... Yes. But the spellings are less evil than English. At least they're regular. You can generally tell how something is going to sound from its spelling....
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Andreas Johansson
andjo@...
Mar 1, 2005 11:07 pm
... Well, I've actually been taken for an Italian, based on my looks of all things. Apparently, there are people who think the stereotypical Italian man is...
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Ivan Baines
kinetic_wab@...
Mar 1, 2005 11:44 pm
A. PROFESSION, DEMOGRAPHICS, INCLINATION: 1. Who are you, and what is the name of your invented language or languages? Ivan Baines. "Kontaxta";. 2. Are you new...
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Sally Caves
scaves@...
Mar 1, 2005 11:46 pm
... From: "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...> ... Okay... I can see where you're coming from, Mark. Now this isn't a perfect match for your argument, but it's...
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bob thornton
arcanesock@...
Mar 1, 2005 11:55 pm
INTP Introverted Intuitive Thinking Perceiving Strength of the preferences % 33 25 75 33 Myer-Brigg ^^ -The Sock "My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings: Look...
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Roger Mills
rfmilly@...
Mar 1, 2005 11:59 pm
This has been bothering me for a while w.r.t. Kash. Is it really necessary to have such a distinction? Context... for ex. Some people (or: [number] people)...
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Mark J. Reed
markjreed@...
Mar 2, 2005 12:01 am
... Well, sure, that's only logical. Italy is where Rome is, Rome is the headquarters of the Catholic Church, and that's what Jesus looked like, so . . . ;-) ...
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Stephen Mulraney
ataltanie@...
Mar 2, 2005 12:15 am
... It can be either "Dia duit" with a [d] at the start of "duit", or "Dia dhuit", where "duit" starts with [G], depending on where you are in the country. The...
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Stephen Mulraney
ataltanie@...
Mar 2, 2005 12:23 am
... I wouldn't say they're theologically loaded. At least they've been completely bleached of meaning. I'm areligious, and prone to avoiding religious...
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Arthaey Angosii
arthaey@...
Mar 2, 2005 2:07 am
... Quite. I like random statistics and such. :) ... In that case, why not compare them in IPA (or X-SAMPA)? ... Nothing exact, since /st/ is not allowed...
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Tristan McLeay
conlang@...
Mar 2, 2005 4:24 am
... Not forgetting inflected and other modified forms: if your conlang (like mine) marks the e.g. plural with a vowel change, that might mean the singular form...
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Arthaey Angosii
arthaey@...
Mar 2, 2005 4:47 am
... The Asha'ille translation, fresh off the presses curtesy a boring day in philosophy class, is available online: ...
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Ray Brown
ray.brown@...
Mar 2, 2005 7:06 am
... [snip] ... I meant to reply earlier to Henrik's mail, but real life got on the way! a-umlaut is a feature of Welsh - for example, the adjective for "white"...
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Mike Ellis
nihilsum@...
Mar 2, 2005 7:07 am
... This is a very cool passage (but I found both versions of the movie pretty ... Do you think Herbert intended any connection with the other meaning of "the ...
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David J. Peterson
dedalvs@...
Mar 2, 2005 7:14 am
Charlie wrote: << On the Meyers-Briggs, I am an INFJ. On the enneagram, I am a 5, with a strong 6 wing. ... I'd never heard of the second one, so I tried it...
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David J. Peterson
dedalvs@...
Mar 2, 2005 7:25 am
Part 1, eh? Can't wait to see what part 2 is. << Here's my first result, Iliani-Verdurian homonyms. Actually, since I haven't completed letter-to-sound part,...
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David J. Peterson
dedalvs@...
Mar 2, 2005 7:51 am
Roger wrote: << One spoke French // One of them spoke French. Any difference? ... I'd say a difference of register. "One of them" sounds more colloquial to...
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Arthaey Angosii
arthaey@...
Mar 2, 2005 8:02 am
... I copied all the homonyms so far mentioned in this thread to Muke's wiki: http://wiki.frath.net/Homonyms_Across_Languages -- AA ...
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(no author)
(no email address)
Mar 2, 2005 8:19 am
... I'm Maxime Lévesque, or only Max, or also #1 My languages don't have names, I've never try to invent one because I don't what word using for.. I'll come...
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Philip Newton
philip.newton@...
Mar 2, 2005 10:03 am
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 12:11:59 -0000, caeruleancentaur ... I attempted to translate that to Klingon once (at http://www.livejournal.com/users/jiqon/1197.html , in...
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Sanghyeon Seo
sanxiyn@...
Mar 2, 2005 10:06 am
My plan was to answer to all replies in "part 2" to be written, but I made a too big blunder... The beautiful language of Valdyas are named "Ilaini", not...
