... I personally would think - if I was coming to Tanala without ever having known it before, I would think a word like praratrashya was indoaryan. But...
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Carsten Becker
naranoieati@...
Oct 1, 2005 9:38 am
... This makes me think of how Ayeri could handle this. I'd most probably translate the given sentence "Is her dream a thought or is her thought a dream?" as ...
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Andreas Johansson
andjo@...
Oct 1, 2005 10:31 am
... Because I was of the impression that Gimbutas et consortes thought that IE was carried west by nomads. If not, I suppose I attacked a strawman. ... Being...
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Patrick Littell
puchitao@...
Oct 1, 2005 12:05 pm
On 9/29/05, R A Brown <ray@...> wrote:> It seems to me that apart from on add short interjection here and there, ... Oh, I had been following...
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Carsten Becker
naranoieati@...
Oct 1, 2005 4:26 pm
On Sat, 01 Oct 2005, 03:10 CEST, Joćo Ricardo de Mendonēa ... I don't know. However, Erntedank is only a "church holiday", so not an official one. ... I come...
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Peter Coogan
cooganwold@...
Oct 1, 2005 5:36 pm
It identified Mangani as Cebuano, which appears to be a langauge spoken in the phillipines. Also, I'm going to drop off the list. I've got too much stuff...
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Taka Tunu
takatunu@...
Oct 1, 2005 7:48 pm
Rémi Villatel wrote: <<< ... Kiki ya mite we Tunu. Xaki wo Tunu ya kanu. Tunu ya xaki we nuxo texa xuka wo xaro rari. ... "I hate Tunu. Tunu's sound is ugly....
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Joćo Ricardo de Me...
somnicorvus@...
Oct 1, 2005 8:19 pm
On 10/1/05, Carsten Becker <naranoieati@...> wrote: <SNIP> ... <SNIP> The only reason I thought it was a US-only holiday is that it is related to...
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Carsten Becker
naranoieati@...
Oct 1, 2005 8:40 pm
Well, I guess you're right. Someone else from the list sent me a side-note offlist and explained me why they are having Thanksgiving in Northern America. The...
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Carsten Becker
naranoieati@...
Oct 1, 2005 8:57 pm
I entered this[1] translation of a song into Ayeri. The Xerox analyzer again said it was Indonesian, the other one says it's gibberish. Must be the accents...
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Carsten Becker
naranoieati@...
Oct 1, 2005 10:19 pm
Meh, "[1]" in my previous msg. was supposed to be http://www.spinnoff.com/zbb/viewtopic.php?t=12361 Yours, Carsten...
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Remi Villatel
maxilys@...
Oct 2, 2005 12:54 am
... Did you inverse all the values in your lexicon or do you want to force me to say that I meant the contrary of what you write ? ;-) ... That's close from...
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Thomas Wier
trwier@...
Oct 2, 2005 5:48 am
... It also customarily includes yams, cranberries, and stuffing made of cornbread. Curiously, it is not certain that the Pilgrims ate turkey in 1621, since...
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Thomas Wier
trwier@...
Oct 2, 2005 5:51 am
... I'm sorry that I haven't been following this thread very closely; I've been busy with a new job and a class to TA and I have a paper due to the LFG people...
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Nik Taylor
yonjuuni@...
Oct 2, 2005 5:57 am
... Actually, the modern Thanksgiving is unrelated to the Pilgrims' Thanksgiving, though it did borrow some customs. According to the en.wikipedia's article ...
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R A Brown
ray@...
Oct 2, 2005 9:30 am
Because of darned GMAIL my reply got sent to Patrick & not to the list. Anyway, I have had one or two more thoughts so I'll sort of reply to my reply to...
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Wesley Parish
wes.parish@...
Oct 2, 2005 9:56 am
What are the mysterious words uttered by the SCO lawyer in this: http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20051002 "Your honour, on behalf of my client the SCO...
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Taka Tunu
takatunu@...
Oct 2, 2005 5:07 pm
Rémi Villatel wrote: <<< I surprise myself sometimes. ;-) I just opened the grammar and the lexicon in tabs. With the help of the examples, it took me no time...
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Carsten Becker
naranoieati@...
Oct 2, 2005 7:25 pm
(Just wanted to say I sent an apology to Joćo for my arrogant wording.)...
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Joćo Ricardo de Me...
somnicorvus@...
Oct 2, 2005 11:10 pm
... Carsten, no trouble at all. I appreciate you took the time to send me an apology, it was a nice gesture from you. Thank you very much. I hope we get along...
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Joćo Ricardo de Me...
somnicorvus@...
Oct 2, 2005 11:19 pm
Oh-oh... That was not meant to go the list! Sorry, Carsten, I didn't notice your reply-to was set to the mailing list address. I'm new to Gmail and I'm still...
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B. Garcia
madyaas@...
Oct 3, 2005 7:28 am
... Our family doesn't like cornbread stuffing... no thanks. Regular bread stuffing (or dressing as some places call it) is what we have (and absolutely no...
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Paul Bennett
paul-bennett@...
Oct 3, 2005 7:57 am
... I'm actually typing this to try and make myself come up with possibilities for a Thagojian or Br'ga harvest-time festival, but the agricultural options are...
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Shaul Vardi
vardi@...
Oct 3, 2005 8:05 am
Since we're in holiday mood, I'm going to emerge briefly from the lurk mode I've chosen in recent months to wish Shanah Tovah (happy new year) to those...
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Joćo Ricardo de Me...
somnicorvus@...
Oct 3, 2005 1:49 pm
... <SNIP> Does that word (Poxtuga) come from "Portugal";? Joćo Ricardo de Mendonēa...
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Paul Bennett
paul-bennett@...
Oct 3, 2005 5:56 pm
On Mon, 03 Oct 2005 09:30:09 -0400, Joćo Ricardo de Mendonēa ... Yes. It fits quite tidily because -ga is the ending for ethnonyms. I'm thinking that...
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Joćo Ricardo de Me...
somnicorvus@...
Oct 3, 2005 6:37 pm
... Paul, where is this island of yours and when was it discovered by the Europeans? Maybe I can help you providing some Portuguese explorers that were in the...
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Jörg Rhiemeier
joerg_rhiemeier@...
Oct 3, 2005 7:47 pm
Hallo! ... Gimbutas may have thought so, but I definitely don't. So you indeed attacked a strawman. ... Yes. This may have been part of it. ... Probably...
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Jörg Rhiemeier
joerg_rhiemeier@...
Oct 3, 2005 7:50 pm
Hallo! ... Yes. It is clarly an unnatural feature, but who asks for naturalism in a loglang? Loglangs are _per se_ unnatural. ... Nice. ... Sort of, I'd say....
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Roger Mills
rfmilly@...
Oct 3, 2005 8:04 pm
... My thought here: W.Europe was heavily forested, no? That would totally flummox nomads. Farmers at least would figure out slash-and-burn, even if they...
