... I knew one, but it had already encountered the wheel before I was born amongst it in the valleys and hills of Papua Niugini. And the Australian...
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Thomas Wier
trwier@...
Apr 1, 2005 9:19 am
From: Mark Jones <markjjones@...> ... I think it's fair to say that conlanging as a fictional enterprise is something new in the 20th century....
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Tim May
butsuri@...
Apr 1, 2005 10:45 am
B. Garcia wrote at 2005-03-31 17:11:40 (-0800) ... Uh, Barry, unless I'm missing something, that doesn't work. You're defining the motion according in terms...
130325
Steg Belsky
draqonfayir@...
Apr 1, 2005 3:53 pm
... And in the Semitic languages! ;D the root is YMN (as in Yemen) Many languages have everyday words that aren't the same, though, for instance the regular...
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Jeffrey Henning
jeffrey@...
Apr 1, 2005 4:38 pm
Here's a list I maintain of conlangs by year: http://www.langmaker.com/db/mdl_index_year.htm#1100 To report errors, go to that language's page and click the...
130327
H. S. Teoh
hsteoh@...
Apr 1, 2005 5:17 pm
... Yes, but the person who sees it rolling anticlockwise will always see it moving to *his* left, and the person who sees it rolling clockwise will always see...
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Sally Caves
scaves@...
Apr 1, 2005 5:17 pm
... From: "Jeffrey Henning" <jeffrey@...> ... Rather, I think Thomas More, who published with his Utopia a sample of "Utopian." Early sixteenth...
130329
Tim May
butsuri@...
Apr 1, 2005 5:30 pm
H. S. Teoh wrote at 2005-04-01 09:10:58 (-0800) ... I know that, Teoh. I wasn't disagreeing with what _you_ said. Barry's discription doesn't mention left...
130330
Pascal A. Kramm
pkramm@...
Apr 1, 2005 10:02 pm
I did another revision of my Advanced English, as I got a message today from Buckingham Palace that this will soon replace the current problematic English...
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Pascal A. Kramm
pkramm@...
Apr 1, 2005 10:09 pm
Here's the new Babel text of my Advanced English: http://www.choton.org/ae/babel.html On the AE homepage, you can also find: Declaration of Human Rights:...
130332
Sanghyeon Seo
sanxiyn@...
Apr 2, 2005 1:27 am
... I think _sis_ should be _dis_ instead. ... I think _de_ should be _di_ instead. ... Same here. I think _the_ should be _di_ instead. Seo Sanghyeon...
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David J. Peterson
dedalvs@...
Apr 2, 2005 1:47 am
I was just looking over your page. A couple questions: -How would AE differentiate between the [dZ] in a word like "language" and the "dg" in a made-up word...
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Joe
joe@...
Apr 2, 2005 9:04 am
... Problem is, Pascal's German, so it's bound to be imperfect. I think there should be a few modifications. ... Well, of course there's the possibility that...
130335
David J. Peterson
dedalvs@...
Apr 2, 2005 9:32 am
Having just seen Sin City, and being too disturbed to fall asleep, I decided to send an e-mail about something truly amazing our class discovered about Moro...
130336
Carsten Becker
naranoieati@...
Apr 2, 2005 10:16 am
... According to the DUDEN, "Widersinn" survived. It means basically the same as "Unsinn", and more specifically "against the logic" -> in the wrong way. ... ...
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Carsten Becker
naranoieati@...
Apr 2, 2005 10:29 am
On Sat, 2 Apr 2005 12:13:26 +0200, Carsten Becker ... Of course I'd be wrong! That should have been "half past nine"! German is so stupid by parsing "half ten"...
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Joe
joe@...
Apr 2, 2005 10:39 am
... Well, I'd rather say English is stupid for doing it the other way round, since every other Germanic language has 'half ten' meaning 'half past nine'. Also,...
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J. 'Mach' Wust
j_mach_wust@...
Apr 2, 2005 11:18 am
... So it is in German: _Viertel Zehn_ 'a quarter past nine' (literally: quarter ten), _halb Zehn_, _dreiviertel Zehn_ 'a quarter to ten' (literally: ...
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Henrik Theiling
theiling@...
Apr 2, 2005 11:35 am
Hi! ... It's not stupid! **Henrik...
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Henrik Theiling
theiling@...
Apr 2, 2005 11:39 am
Hi! ... Ah, funny. :-) That's the same in most southern German dialects: viertel zehn = 9:15 halb zehn = 9:30 dreiviertel zehn = 9:45 Of these,...
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Henrik Theiling
theiling@...
Apr 2, 2005 11:42 am
Hi! ... Oops, you already answered this. Next time I'll get *and read* the new postings before replying... **Henrik...
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Joe
joe@...
Apr 2, 2005 12:01 pm
... Ah, hadn't heard of that, except for 'halb zehn', obviously....
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Joseph a.k.a Buck
zhosh@...
Apr 2, 2005 1:44 pm
... The Amerindians of North America didn't, but I believe that some of those of South America did as evidenced precolombian toys....
130345
Muke Tever
hotblack@...
Apr 2, 2005 2:23 pm
... If you live in an area with landmarks it is easy. For example, people who live in Denver, CO, you [generally] learn quickly that the Rocky Mountains,...
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Fan de Condorcet
condorcetfan@...
Apr 2, 2005 3:24 pm
David, Hehe, you woke up late, and I woke up early. Finding your message about gender was quite the treat for me this morning. You wrote: [ . . . ] ... To say...
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Tim May
butsuri@...
Apr 2, 2005 3:34 pm
Carsten Becker wrote at 2005-04-02 12:13:26 (+0200) ... Eh? The Coriolis force is a real phenomenon. (There's a sense in which it "doesn't exist", in that...
130348
Tim May
butsuri@...
Apr 2, 2005 4:16 pm
Tim May wrote at 2005-04-02 16:29:33 (+0100) ... That should read something like "In the Australian language Guugu Yimithirr..."...
130349
Joseph a.k.a Buck
zhosh@...
Apr 2, 2005 6:36 pm
Have any of the conlangers here ever developed a language wherein a sentient species' physiological or social dimorphism was reflected in the language in other...
130350
Roger Mills
rfmilly@...
Apr 2, 2005 6:42 pm
... Aside from the town I grew up in (grid) and NYC (Manhattan mostly grid, Brooklyn...well...) and E.Coast Florida, in other places I've lived I've never...
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Pascal A. Kramm
pkramm@...
Apr 2, 2005 6:44 pm
... You could use a hyphen (mid-guard) or an apostrophe (mid'guard). ... Why would you want to write vowels which are not pronounced in the first place?...
