... 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...
Wesley Parish
wes.parish@...
Apr 1, 2005 8:57 am
130323
From: Mark Jones <markjjones@...> ... I think it's fair to say that conlanging as a fictional enterprise is something new in the 20th century....
Thomas Wier
trwier@...
Apr 1, 2005 9:19 am
130324
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...
Tim May
butsuri@...
Apr 1, 2005 10:45 am
130325
... 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...
Steg Belsky
draqonfayir@...
Apr 1, 2005 3:53 pm
130326
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...
Jeffrey Henning
jeffrey@...
Apr 1, 2005 4:38 pm
130327
... 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...
H. S. Teoh
hsteoh@...
Apr 1, 2005 5:17 pm
130328
... From: "Jeffrey Henning" <jeffrey@...> ... Rather, I think Thomas More, who published with his Utopia a sample of "Utopian." Early sixteenth...
Sally Caves
scaves@...
Apr 1, 2005 5:17 pm
130329
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...
Tim May
butsuri@...
Apr 1, 2005 5:30 pm
130330
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...
Pascal A. Kramm
pkramm@...
Apr 1, 2005 10:02 pm
130331
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:...
Pascal A. Kramm
pkramm@...
Apr 1, 2005 10:09 pm
130332
... 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...
Sanghyeon Seo
sanxiyn@...
Apr 2, 2005 1:27 am
130333
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...
David J. Peterson
dedalvs@...
Apr 2, 2005 1:47 am
130334
... 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...
Joe
joe@...
Apr 2, 2005 9:04 am
130335
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...
David J. Peterson
dedalvs@...
Apr 2, 2005 9:32 am
130336
... According to the DUDEN, "Widersinn" survived. It means basically the same as "Unsinn", and more specifically "against the logic" -> in the wrong way. ... ...
Carsten Becker
naranoieati@...
Apr 2, 2005 10:16 am
130337
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"...
Carsten Becker
naranoieati@...
Apr 2, 2005 10:29 am
130338
... 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,...
Joe
joe@...
Apr 2, 2005 10:39 am
130339
... So it is in German: _Viertel Zehn_ 'a quarter past nine' (literally: quarter ten), _halb Zehn_, _dreiviertel Zehn_ 'a quarter to ten' (literally: ...
J. 'Mach' Wust
j_mach_wust@...
Apr 2, 2005 11:18 am
130340
Hi! ... It's not stupid! **Henrik...
Henrik Theiling
theiling@...
Apr 2, 2005 11:35 am
130341
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,...
Henrik Theiling
theiling@...
Apr 2, 2005 11:39 am
130342
Hi! ... Oops, you already answered this. Next time I'll get *and read* the new postings before replying... **Henrik...
Henrik Theiling
theiling@...
Apr 2, 2005 11:42 am
130343
... Ah, hadn't heard of that, except for 'halb zehn', obviously....
Joe
joe@...
Apr 2, 2005 12:01 pm
130344
... The Amerindians of North America didn't, but I believe that some of those of South America did as evidenced precolombian toys....
Joseph a.k.a Buck
zhosh@...
Apr 2, 2005 1:44 pm
130345
... 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,...
Muke Tever
hotblack@...
Apr 2, 2005 2:23 pm
130346
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...
Fan de Condorcet
condorcetfan@...
Apr 2, 2005 3:24 pm
130347
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...
Tim May
butsuri@...
Apr 2, 2005 3:34 pm
130348
Tim May wrote at 2005-04-02 16:29:33 (+0100) ... That should read something like "In the Australian language Guugu Yimithirr..."...
Tim May
butsuri@...
Apr 2, 2005 4:16 pm
130349
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...
Joseph a.k.a Buck
zhosh@...
Apr 2, 2005 6:36 pm
130350
... 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...
Roger Mills
rfmilly@...
Apr 2, 2005 6:42 pm
130351
... 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?...
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