... Oh? Well, when are you going to show us yours? -- Shreyas Sampat http://njyar.blogspot.com...
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Shreyas Sampat
ssampat@...
Mar 1, 2006 8:15 am
... Hm. Okay, I think this is a way to put it: The consonant glyphs show -citation forms.- If he felt the need to be extremely pedantic and clear, then a...
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Jörg Rhiemeier
joerg_rhiemeier@...
Mar 1, 2006 9:31 am
Hallo! ... Very true; I have made the same observation. Most auxlangers only know a handful of western and central European languages, and take "typically...
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Tristan Alexander McL...
conlang@...
Mar 1, 2006 10:23 am
... Oi, Pidse [wiD@] ("the only regularly-spelt word in the language") is an auxlang that's almost always got a phonetic transcription of the pronunciation of...
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Henrik Theiling
theiling@...
Mar 1, 2006 12:53 pm
Hi! ... Please! You have prejudices against auxlangers, ok, but this does not mean we want to risk a flamewar here. Prejudices are prejudices -- there are...
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Mark J. Reed
markjreed@...
Mar 1, 2006 2:03 pm
Re: WSB - I've heard that it stands for "Southern Broadcasting", but that could jiust be a folk etymology/urban legend. The TV station is affiliated with ABC....
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Jim Henry
jimhenry1973@...
Mar 1, 2006 2:11 pm
... Interesting. Although I started doing a little bit of lexicon-only conlanging in 1989, after reading Tolkien's _Book of Lost Tales_, I didn't really get...
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Mark J. Reed
markjreed@...
Mar 1, 2006 2:12 pm
Many English speakers naturally have a voiceless fricative [W] for the "wh" in words like "what"; it's not pedantry for them. I haven't heard plain [w_0], but...
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John Vertical
johnvertical@...
Mar 1, 2006 2:24 pm
... 1) So they show the underlying form (which may be changed by harmony)? ... 2) I.e. the vowel markers always agree with the phonetic realization? ... 3) /T...
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Mark J. Reed
markjreed@...
Mar 1, 2006 2:30 pm
... Ahm. I don't mean to be rude, but you seem to have made a grammatical error here, and as a non-native English speaker, I thought you might appreciate a...
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Ph.D.
phil@...
Mar 1, 2006 2:31 pm
... [snip] I think there are many mnemonically significant callsigns around the United States. In Detroit, TV channel two was owned by Kaiser Broadcasting, so...
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Henrik Theiling
theiling@...
Mar 1, 2006 2:32 pm
Hi! ... I do! :-) ... Really? That's a funny irregularity. That was a translato then. :-) ... Yeah that's most natural :-) **Henrik -- Relay 13 is running: ...
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Sanghyeon Seo
sanxiyn@...
Mar 1, 2006 3:07 pm
I came across this quote by Alan Kay, and I thought it'd make a good translation exercise: The best way to predict the future is to invent it. Seo Sanghyeon...
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caeruleancentaur
caeruleancentaur@...
Mar 1, 2006 3:21 pm
... Norfolk, VA, has WNOR & Virginia Beach has WVAB. I believe there is a WRVA in Richmond. The PBS station in Tidewater, VA, is WHRO for Hampton Roads. The...
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Joe
joe@...
Mar 1, 2006 5:04 pm
... I think he's joking. Maybe....
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Scotto Hlad
scott.hlad@...
Mar 1, 2006 5:15 pm
You're making me homesick! I remember when WDIV was WWJ and owned by the Detroit News. There is no mnemonic value to this, but wow, you are taking me back to...
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Steven Williams
feurieaux@...
Mar 1, 2006 5:48 pm
... Well, I was studying German, when I encountered the accusative/dative prepositions, and thought about how cool that was, and how alien it felt to me at the...
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Roger Mills
rfmilly@...
Mar 1, 2006 6:25 pm
... Yas......I'm reminded of S.I. Hayakawa's "Language in Thought and Action", where, for fun, he rang similar changes on various verbs, on the order of ...
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Sapthan
sapthan@...
Mar 1, 2006 6:31 pm
I'm very new to the conlang list, but here's my story. ... Since I was about 6 I started inventing cultures (conculture?) and from then it was only logical to...
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Andreas Johansson
andjo@...
Mar 1, 2006 6:33 pm
... In a similar vein, Terry Pratchett has noted that farmers become insane, small traders and craftsmen go mad, nobles become excentric, and a king may be a...
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Arthaey Angosii
arthaey@...
Mar 1, 2006 8:00 pm
... And if he's not joking, then it must only be true for certain people. I'm a native (Californian) English speaker, and I have no warning bells going off in...
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Shreyas Sampat
ssampat@...
Mar 1, 2006 8:00 pm
John Vertical wrote:-- ... Yep. ... Ya. ... Yeah - this is an organisational device for me, I wanted them to be listed next to /ts/ /dz/. ... Right. ... It's a...
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Jörg Rhiemeier
joerg_rhiemeier@...
Mar 1, 2006 8:25 pm
Hallo! ... Yes. ... I apologize. ... True. There are some brilliantly-designed auxlangs on the market, and lots of humdrum artlangs. It's just my impression...
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Sai Emrys
sai@...
Mar 1, 2006 8:29 pm
http://community.livejournal.com/ucb_lcs/3229.html Only two entrants so far - Roger Mills & Taliesin. - Sai...
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Mark J. Reed
markjreed@...
Mar 1, 2006 8:47 pm
Oy. It was indeed a joke. I was trying to obliquely make the point that directly calling someone "prejudiced" is somewhat rude (whatever the facts of the...
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Aaron Morse
artlangs@...
Mar 1, 2006 9:32 pm
... I always loved languages. I started creating words when I was 7-8 or so, and then read the Lord of the Rings, by JRR Tolkien. After that, the Language...
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Michael Adams
michael.adams1@...
Mar 1, 2006 10:05 pm
If you got a could break, or just liked to join the US Military, what service would you join, and why? But most importantly, what languages would you like to...
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Michael Adams
michael.adams1@...
Mar 1, 2006 10:42 pm
JRR Tolkien was part of it, but having a father who was a German/Russian linguists for his SF unit helped some. Also beeing around people who spoke various...
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veritosproject@...
Mar 1, 2006 10:48 pm
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlative for a table....
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Roger Mills
rfmilly@...
Mar 1, 2006 10:54 pm
I need a good listing of these, for Gwr. I've seen such lists on various sites but don't remember... any refs? (I mean the set of things like: ...
