Hallo! The lostlangs list was silent in the first half of the last month, but in the second half it was bustling with discussion. Topics were the relocation...
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轡虫 (kutsuwamu...
snapping.dragon@...
Sep 1, 2005 7:29 pm
... I think that Nahuatl marks person on nouns similarly: third person is zero, and second and third person are marked. The noun and verb have to agree in...
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Andreas Johansson
andjo@...
Sep 1, 2005 9:14 pm
... Maybe something to do with the use of |w|<|uu| for /v/? ... Hm. I appear to've misread my Duden; it says "Moos ... [pl] -e u. Möser". Andreas...
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Paul Bennett
paul-bennett@...
Sep 1, 2005 9:42 pm
I'm thinking about bringing optional evidentials into Br'ga, which is also going to go through a massive vowel-simplification[*]. I want a lot of them,...
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Shreyas Sampat
ssampat@...
Sep 1, 2005 10:00 pm
... Well, uh, that depends. You seem to have a situation opposite that of Coatlalopeuh, which doesn't care much about the provenance of observations, but has a...
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Nik Taylor
yonjuuni@...
Sep 2, 2005 3:26 am
... I know from process of elimination I'm assuming from my knowledge of the relevant parties This is my best guess...
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Thomas Wier
trwier@...
Sep 2, 2005 7:14 am
... I've argued that these subject markers in Nahuatl -- at least in modern spoken Nahuatl -- are actually clitics, and therefore it's inappropriate to say...
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Julia "Schnecki&...
helicula@...
Sep 2, 2005 7:38 am
Hello! ... That's quite similar to the way this kind of thing is expressed in Finnish. Finnish has a number of roots with meanings like "above/upper part" ...
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Andrew Gerber
rodkaromanovich@...
Sep 2, 2005 8:12 am
You could distinguish the sensory source of the evidence, e.g. between sight and hearing. For example, you might have a form for "It rained yesterday (I saw...
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Chris Bates
chris.maths_student@...
Sep 2, 2005 8:19 am
... Cool. I've skimmed through that book, but unfortunately I don't own it. ... What basically happened in my conlang is that 3rd person pronouns started being...
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Henrik Theiling
theiling@...
Sep 2, 2005 11:29 am
Hi! ... I'm very keen on seeing more about Br'ga, since the structure is similar to my most current project S11. ... Did you have a look at Lojban evidentials?...
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轡虫 (kutsuwamu...
snapping.dragon@...
Sep 2, 2005 11:50 am
... I think that it was a grammar of classical Nahuatl, but I can't remember the author. I just picked it up when I was at the library one day, but I hadn't...
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Rodlox R
rodlox@...
Sep 2, 2005 4:49 pm
... not a problem. and, just in case I forgot in my last post: thank you. your assistance is much appreciated....
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Muke Tever
hotblack@...
Sep 2, 2005 8:27 pm
... What do you mean? The forms in all persons and numbers are: -'m 1SG -'rt 2SG -'re PL (all persons) -'s 3SG [The 2SG -'rt is archaic, with the 2SG...
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Tom Chappell
tomhchappell@...
Sep 2, 2005 9:53 pm
THEORY: Omnipredicativity (was: Re: Marking nouns with person?) ... Tom, what's "omnipredicativity"? (Sounds like "preaching everything". I bet that's not...
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tomhchappell
tomhchappell@...
Sep 2, 2005 10:03 pm
... it. I don't either. I had to give it back. ... (there ... was ... case ... don't ... of a ... person ... more ... accidental ... Sounds plausible to me. ...
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Ingmar Roerdinkholder
ingmar.roerdinkholder...
Sep 2, 2005 11:02 pm
I thought that in the new, much hated German Rechtschreibung Ringeles "ß" also had to be written "ss". If that's true, Germany itself has become a "German...
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Tim May
butsuri@...
Sep 2, 2005 11:52 pm
Muke Tever wrote at 2005-09-02 14:23:12 (-0600) ... Not rare, _unknown_. Totally ungrammatical in any dialect I'm familiar with, or can even imagine, really. ...
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Henrik Theiling
theiling@...
Sep 3, 2005 12:59 am
Hi! ... Ringeles? Is that the Dutch term for it? I seem to vaguely remember so. Anyway, no, it's only consistently <ß> after long vowel (and diphthong) and...
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John Quijada
jq_ithkuil@...
Sep 3, 2005 5:09 am
... You might distinguish whether a hearsay source is considered 1) trustworthy, 2) unknown if trustworthy or not, 3) untrustworthy based on innocent error...
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Paul Bennett
paul-bennett@...
Sep 3, 2005 5:44 am
On Sat, 03 Sep 2005 01:05:10 -0400, John Quijada <jq_ithkuil@...> ... Reasons for trust, as well as extent of trust? I can picture at least a tree...
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Ingmar Roerdinkholder
ingmar.roerdinkholder...
Sep 3, 2005 7:10 am
Hi too! "Ringeles"; (Ringel-S) is Dutch? It's the term we learned at German class at secondary school, and pronounced as if it were German... But Henrik, what...
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Stephen Mulraney
ataltane.conlang@...
Sep 3, 2005 10:58 am
... My guess is that they just omit the diacritics entirely, e.g. "köszönöm" probably just becomes "koszonom";. It couldn't cause that much trouble for...
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caeruleancentaur
caeruleancentaur@...
Sep 3, 2005 11:35 am
... seems ... As I understand it, it is rather the umlaut substituting for the "e." The German cursive "e" used to look something like a cursive "n" and came...
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Andreas Johansson
andjo@...
Sep 3, 2005 12:18 pm
... Never heard the word before - it's usually called "eszett" or "sharfes es" in German. Andreas...
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Henrik Theiling
theiling@...
Sep 3, 2005 2:58 pm
Hi! ... Although these reasons of trust are very tempting for inclusion in a future conlang, I left anything like this out of Qthyn|gai because I didn't want...
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caeruleancentaur
caeruleancentaur@...
Sep 3, 2005 3:12 pm
... To me, the name "Ringeles," "curly S," sounds like a child's name for the grapheme, rather than an official or proper name. Charlie ...
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Steven Williams
feurieaux@...
Sep 3, 2005 3:15 pm
Speaking from Tampa, Florida, and knowing all too well the impact and destructive potential hurricanes can have, I breathe a sigh of relief that the storm...
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Henrik Theiling
theiling@...
Sep 3, 2005 3:21 pm
Hi! ... I vaguely remember that the Dutch I met in Groningen told me the same about their German classes. But it's definitely not German, in German it's...
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Henrik Theiling
theiling@...
Sep 3, 2005 3:22 pm
Hi! ... Exactly, and sometimes Fraktur fonts provide umlauts written as small 'e' above the vowel. ... Ah! Right! I always wondered how the glyph came about as...
