Hello, I was designing the phonetic inventory for a Conlang (no name yet), which I wished would correspond to my (somewhat) unarticulated natural voice (in...
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Jörg Rhiemeier
joerg_rhiemeier@...
Jun 1, 2005 1:09 pm
Hallo! On Tue, 31 May 2005 15:32:09 -0400, ... It is indeed "unrealistic" (if you mean by that un-naturalistic or un-natlangy), but so is self-segregating...
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Benct Philip Jonsson
bpj@...
Jun 1, 2005 1:45 pm
... I speak with lax oral articulation, tense throat and nasal overlay, but at least there is a known medical reason. It never occurred to me to make a...
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Jörg Rhiemeier
joerg_rhiemeier@...
Jun 1, 2005 7:16 pm
Hallo! Whoops, and another month has passed, and since the 20th, the lostlangs list has been buzzing with activity, because we are trying to put together a...
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Paul Bennett
paul-bennett@...
Jun 1, 2005 7:56 pm
... From: Jörg Rhiemeier <joerg_rhiemeier@...> ... On the Proto-Noric page, I've started to put down some things we (the Noric collaborators) might want to...
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Dirk Elzinga
dirk.elzinga@...
Jun 1, 2005 8:20 pm
Carsten: I hope my gmail message comes through for you without any difficulties. I was interested in your Fontforge question, because I have returned to...
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Ph. D.
phild@...
Jun 1, 2005 8:51 pm
Now that's a cool idea. Creating a proto-language, then having several different people work out their version of a descendant language. It will be interesting...
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(no email address)
Jun 2, 2005 1:18 am
... Only 40%? that's surprising. I mean, everyone once got a cold... That's the sound you make when you have something in the throat, isn't it? But what...
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Schuyler
conlang-l@...
Jun 2, 2005 1:18 am
... Yes, but that's where interest in human-useable languages comes in for me. Something of intermediate interest might be an infinite work that we could ...
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David J. Peterson
dedalvs@...
Jun 2, 2005 1:19 am
phild@... wrote: << Now that's a cool idea. Creating a proto-language, then having several different people work out their version of a descendant language....
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Ph. D.
phild@...
Jun 2, 2005 1:21 am
... . Not really. His point is to get them to understand *English* grammar, something generally glossed over in current secondary school education in the...
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Patrick Littell
puchitao@...
Jun 2, 2005 3:30 am
... I always sorta pictured a big board game, with a continents divided into big Risk-y pieces. Each "player" would start with a very simple language of there...
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Steg Belsky
draqonfayir@...
Jun 2, 2005 5:02 am
Heyall, check out this Qwantz Dinosaur comic: http://www.qwantz.com/index.pl?comic=551 It's relevant to a discussion we had a few months ago where if i ...
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bob thornton
arcanesock@...
Jun 2, 2005 5:41 am
That's actually a delightfully awesome idea. I wonder how one would implement it... ... -The Sock "My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings: Look upon my works, ye...
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Julia "Schnecki&...
helicula@...
Jun 2, 2005 10:27 am
Hello! ... Very cool, and definitely something to keep in mind. :-) [snip] ... [snip] ... I remember a lot of assimilation from the Sanskrit classes I took ...
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caeruleancentaur
caeruleancentaur@...
Jun 2, 2005 12:50 pm
... Heyall, ... The dinosaur has the etymology of "woman" correct, but not his etymology of "man." According to the AHD, "human" and "man are not related...
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Alex Fink
a4pq1injbok_0@...
Jun 2, 2005 3:01 pm
... A similar project is the Conlang Evolution Experiment at Conlang Wiki ( http://talideon.com/concultures/wiki/?doc=ConlangEvolutionExperiment ) where I've...
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Andreas Johansson
andjo@...
Jun 2, 2005 3:44 pm
... A comedy fantasy piece I read years ago had a "wereman" in it; a wolf that turned into a man at full moon. I've always wondered if the author was aware of ...
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Paul Roser
pkroser@...
Jun 2, 2005 4:07 pm
... [edit] ... First, there is nothing especially different in the shape of the epiglottis in the speakers of those languages which use it as part of their...
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Carsten Becker
naranoieati@...
Jun 2, 2005 4:52 pm
... It did ;D ... That is not familiar to me, but I think I know why. If you click on Element -> Font info, there are lots of file card-things to choose. There...
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Roger Mills
rfmilly@...
Jun 2, 2005 7:10 pm
Some very interesting material on these is available at: www.surrey.ac.uk/lcts/bill.palmer/NWS_site/Index.htm Including Dr. Palmer's dissertation (.pdf) on...
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David J. Peterson
dedalvs@...
Jun 2, 2005 7:10 pm
Ph.D. wrote: << Not really. His point is to get them to understand *English* grammar ... And thereby to become good writers. An interesting, if laughable, ...
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Rob Haden
magwich78@...
Jun 2, 2005 7:13 pm
On Thu, 2 Jun 2005 13:16:07 +0300, Julia "Schnecki"; Simon <helicula@...> wrote: [snip] ... India. ... Hmm, you could do an dental/aveolar ~ retroflex...
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Joseph Bridwell
zhosh@...
Jun 2, 2005 9:15 pm
... IIRC, languages in the Pama-Nyungan family (main family of Australian aboriginal languages) differentiate laminal dental~, apical alveolar, apical...
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Jun 2, 2005 10:15 pm
... Yeah that's what I mean, using such sound modifies the throat... (a genetic particularity inherited from succecive generations of epiglottis users? Anyway...
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Paul Bennett
paul-bennett@...
Jun 2, 2005 10:36 pm
... From: # 1 <salut_vous_autre@...> ... That's simply not how genetic evolution works, though it is how Lamarkian evolution works, which was a fairly...
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Joseph a.k.a Buck
darkmoonman@...
Jun 2, 2005 11:09 pm
Am trying to test changes to my e-addr from zhosh@2bears to darkmoonman@gmail. 2bears has become too prone to the owners' changes of filtering to reject emails...
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Patrick Littell
puchitao@...
Jun 2, 2005 11:19 pm
Play-by-email perhaps? A little program (or barring that, a homonculus in a jar) could keep track of (1) the regions of the world and the natural features...
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(no author)
(no email address)
Jun 3, 2005 2:26 am
... I know this, I'm a little aware of genetic. ... I don't think it's that hard, if one uses sounds that ruin his voice, it is plausible that he'll get social...
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Julia "Schnecki&...
helicula@...
Jun 3, 2005 4:15 am
Hello! ... If that's the story I'm thinking of (it was called "The Wife's Story" or "The Wife's Tale" or something like that), then yes, the author should have...
