The ancient-history site Livius.org has some stuff on the language of ancient Macedon at http://www.livius.org/maa-mam/macedonia/macedonia.html#Language , ...
Andreas Johansson
andjo@...
Feb 1, 2006 11:22 am
136758
... Yes, indeed it has. A site which claimed ancient Macedonian was Greek, period, is to be ignored - even more to be avoided is any site claiming ancient...
R A Brown
ray@...
Feb 1, 2006 12:37 pm
136759
... [talking about Jefferson Wilson's Glyphica Arcana] ... I think it's relevant to forward here a message Jefferson ... From: Jefferson Wilson...
Jim Henry
jimhenry1973@...
Feb 1, 2006 2:48 pm
136760
Could y'all please take the "OFFLIST" out of the subject when you decide to bring a conversation back ON-list? :) ... -- Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>...
Mark J. Reed
markjreed@...
Feb 1, 2006 3:20 pm
136761
I've been a long-time member on here (was on here under a handle prior to this one), and stopped reading of the posts as well as posting myself except for very...
Joseph B.
darkmoonman@...
Feb 1, 2006 7:01 pm
136762
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Tom Chappell
tomhchappell@...
Feb 1, 2006 10:43 pm
136763
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Tom Chappell
tomhchappell@...
Feb 1, 2006 10:44 pm
136764
... AMEN!! ... Now we seem to have the bizarre situation where Sai & Jefferson are corresponding offlist & indirectly via Tom who then puts it all onlist! It...
R A Brown
ray@...
Feb 2, 2006 9:25 am
136765
... *laugh* I wasn't trying to correspond w/ Jefferson, just with Tom for a couple emails (not that I object). He then quoted me in his conversation with...
Sai Emrys
sai@...
Feb 2, 2006 9:48 am
136766
... I've been thinking that it would be a good idea for all concerned to give the whole subject of 2d scripts a rest for the time being. On what's normally a...
Peter Bleackley
Peter.Bleackley@...
Feb 2, 2006 9:55 am
136767
... So do I. Having it in a subject line destined for the list seems an entirely unnecessary breach of netiquette. Andreas...
Andreas Johansson
andjo@...
Feb 2, 2006 11:28 am
136768
Hallo! ... Seconded. Posting to the list with an "OFFLIST" tag in the subject line is rather self-contradictory. ... Nutty indeed. Does Tom really think we...
Jörg Rhiemeier
joerg_rhiemeier@...
Feb 2, 2006 12:49 pm
136769
Hi! Ok, frankly, up to now I found this thread mildly funny and did not take it too seriously. If you think I'm late, then sorry for intervening late. Anyway,...
Henrik Theiling
theiling@...
Feb 2, 2006 1:45 pm
136770
Hi! I'm currently gathering data for my new long-term project S17, which will be Latin with Icelandic sound changes. The conhistory will probably start around...
Henrik Theiling
theiling@...
Feb 2, 2006 2:05 pm
136771
If anyone would like to take part in a collaborative conlanging project, there's one going on at http://artlangs.com at the moment. It's a triconsonantal...
Peter Bleackley
Peter.Bleackley@...
Feb 2, 2006 2:51 pm
136772
Hi! I seem to have misphrased my words. I clearly also disapprove the use of wrong tags in the subject line. Using the word 'arbitrary' was meant to be a...
Henrik Theiling
theiling@...
Feb 2, 2006 3:07 pm
136773
I was studying Greek's orthography a bit, and I realised that although it seems to have the letters for voiced stops (beta, gamma, delta) it seems to be using...
veritosproject@...
Feb 2, 2006 3:36 pm
136774
... Classical Greek voiced stops underwent sound change to fricatives, hence beta, gamma and delta are pronounced [v] [G] and [D] in Modern Greek. Does anyone...
Peter Bleackley
Peter.Bleackley@...
Feb 2, 2006 4:41 pm
136775
... To answer the last question: "No, it is not". But there is a clearly confusion in the above. It is _modern Greek_ that uses |nt| to transcribe [d] in...
R A Brown
ray@...
Feb 2, 2006 4:56 pm
136776
... Minor quibble: [opa'teras]. (Unless you're speaking Graeca sine flexione.) -- Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>...
Philip Newton
philip.newton@...
Feb 2, 2006 5:24 pm
136777
... Presumably the aspirate => voiceless fricative sound change went through an affricate stage, eg [t_h] => [th] => [tT] => [T] Is there any evidence of the...
Peter Bleackley
Peter.Bleackley@...
Feb 2, 2006 5:28 pm
136778
Hi, I've been lurking for many months, rare forays excepted. Now it's not even fun to lurk here any more. Bye, Shaul....
Shaul Vardi
vardi@...
Feb 2, 2006 5:47 pm
136779
Hi Shaul! ... This is really sad. :-( So we're annoying and driving away old members. I really hope that the discussions move back to interesting conlang...
Henrik Theiling
theiling@...
Feb 2, 2006 6:00 pm
136780
... Absolutely correct! Thanks for pointing it out. ... Ah, but then the definite article wouldn't change either ;) ================================= Peter...
R A Brown
ray@...
Feb 2, 2006 6:02 pm
136781
... It took some poking around to find it since I'd not been to artlangs.com before -- it's under "Forums" > Collaborative Conworld > Collab Lang. Also, until...
Jim Henry
jimhenry1973@...
Feb 2, 2006 6:12 pm
136782
Most of the languages I'm familiar with have just one conjunction to introduce a subordinate clause, whether that clause is the subject or the object of the...
Jim Henry
jimhenry1973@...
Feb 2, 2006 6:19 pm
136783
As a tone-deaf 'Murkin, I have some questions on tone languages, especially Mandarin. First, is there still phrasal intonation, as we have in English, ...
Mark J. Reed
markjreed@...
Feb 2, 2006 6:20 pm
136784
... /delurk I certainly find the discussions here interesting, although I don't read all of them. I learn a little something new everyday. It seems to me that...
轡虫
snapping.dragon@...
Feb 2, 2006 6:52 pm
136785
Hi! ... Maybe Japanese? I don't know it good enough, though. I perceive 'that' not as marking case on clauses, but as transforming a clause into a noun...
Henrik Theiling
theiling@...
Feb 2, 2006 7:02 pm
136786
Mark -- Those are really interesting questions. I'm learning Mandarin currently and their phrases don't use tone for inflection or have an overall tonal arc...
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