http://xkcd.com/c191.html -- Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>...
Mark J. Reed
markjreed@...
Dec 1, 2006 4:11 pm
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On Fri, 1 Dec 2006 17:23:40 +0000, "Simon Clarkstone" ... 2 * 3 = 6. A tritone is 6 semitones wide. Everything Peter Bleackley said is correct. And B-F (or...
James W.
emindahken@...
Dec 1, 2006 5:35 pm
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... No, the intervals B-D and D-F are both 3 semitones, not 4 semitones. Peter Bleackley's definition rules out BDF....
Simon Clarkstone
simon.clarkstone@...
Dec 1, 2006 5:40 pm
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They have DRM strong enough to get into your video card drivers? That would irritate me enough to make me want to crack it just because. Valuable service and...
Sai Emrys
sai@...
Dec 1, 2006 7:52 pm
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Yeah, it's called Palladium. And yes, i'm back :)...
veritosproject@...
Dec 1, 2006 8:14 pm
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Mark Reed and I discussed-- ... (MR) ... I may have mentioned that this doesn't seem to work in my quirky version of Word 2000; however, when the "insert...
Roger Mills
rfmilly@...
Dec 1, 2006 8:44 pm
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FWIW, I use a nifty little utility program called "Unicode Input" that lets me quickly enter an arbitrary Unicode character into any document, given its scalar...
Mark J. Reed
markjreed@...
Dec 1, 2006 9:17 pm
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My mailer has done some font substitution in the following. I hope that does not mean it has switched to rich text without telling me. I apologise in advance...
Paul Bennett
paul-bennett@...
Dec 1, 2006 11:45 pm
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Dear List! Please see my updated Conlang Archives Mirror site: http://archives.conlang.info/ Major changes include implementation of many of the requests for ...
Henrik Theiling
theiling@...
Dec 2, 2006 1:20 am
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... I guess the search seems to be working for the most part. The first time I tried the search, it linked to a list of threads: ...
Herman Miller
hmiller@...
Dec 2, 2006 3:00 am
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... Seems good, but I just noticed something I hate to see in web sites. ... I would recommend using actual words instead of (or in addition to) the |<, <,...
Eric Christopherson
rakko@...
Dec 2, 2006 3:56 am
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On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 08:49:29PM -0600, Herman Miller wrote: [...] ... FWIW, _tiki_ means "rabbit" in Tatari Faran. ;-) T -- "640K ought to be enough" --...
H. S. Teoh
hsteoh@...
Dec 2, 2006 6:53 am
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Teoh wrote: << FWIW, _tiki_ means "rabbit" in Tatari Faran. ;-) ... Tiki is also a name in Kamakawi (means "lava"): ...
David J. Peterson
dedalvs@...
Dec 2, 2006 9:11 am
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I was trying to translate the phrase "under uncaring stars" into Latin the other day, and found that the Latin-English dictionaries at my disposal helpfully...
Andreas Johansson
andjo@...
Dec 2, 2006 9:30 am
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Hi! ... That's a matter of taste, of course. I just love ASCII-art and I also love symbols on buttons (as long as one can vaguely guess what the links are...
Henrik Theiling
theiling@...
Dec 2, 2006 12:20 pm
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Hi! ... Hehe. I searched by Conlang lexicons, too: 'digi' means 'first' in Nibuzigu. The language has only one series of plosives (b,d,g), so it is probably...
Henrik Theiling
theiling@...
Dec 2, 2006 12:21 pm
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Hi! ... I spotted this problem, too, when the first pages had been indexed, so I added hints to all the index pages to ask spiders not to index them, but only...
Henrik Theiling
theiling@...
Dec 2, 2006 12:24 pm
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Translation for Neimalu: 1. kizoþju or kizioþju « kizi (return) + oþju (word) kizoþj-ar ag-ön eskrat-obuxos answer.GEN she.ABL to_be_small.too-much 'Her...
Pieterson
kyrawertho@...
Dec 2, 2006 1:32 pm
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I apologize if this is too elementary a book for the original purpose of the post, but for others interested in diachronic linguistics....One of my personal...
Donald Boozer
donaldboozer@...
Dec 2, 2006 2:15 pm
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I'd second a recommendation for Deutscher's book. I own the hardcover myself. And for those of us who need more "elementary information" (yes, I'm pointing...
... Oh, I see now that Safari (which I normally use) does not include the spaces as part of the clickable link; Firefox does. Safari also doesn't highlight the...
Eric Christopherson
rakko@...
Dec 2, 2006 8:28 pm
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Definite improvements! So, more things I would recommend: * the monthly page doesn't seem to be sorted in any particular way (at least by visible columns) -...
Sai Emrys
sai@...
Dec 2, 2006 9:25 pm
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... It turns out that tiki means "prairie dog" in Minza....
Herman Miller
hmiller@...
Dec 2, 2006 10:18 pm
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alchang@... nevesht:> > This is a class project for sociolinguistics class that I am taking this > semester. My project begins primarily focusing on...
wayne chevrier
wachevrier@...
Dec 2, 2006 10:26 pm
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... 2, going on 3, for a fictional world; by name, Kash, Gwr, Prevli (I exclude 2 created as a teen-ager; almost nothing survives, thank God...) ... Kash--...
Roger Mills
rfmilly@...
Dec 3, 2006 1:23 am
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On Sat, 02 Dec 2006 12:45:17 -0500, Philip Newton ... Hooray! ... Sounds sensible. I hadn't yet properly researched the distribution of /y/ letters -- I...
Paul Bennett
paul-bennett@...
Dec 3, 2006 1:31 am
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http://www.spinnoff.com/zbb/viewtopic.php?p=449125 for planning the next one and pics of this one. This time we had 9 people for most of it (!) plus Weld...
Sai Emrys
sai@...
Dec 3, 2006 9:52 am
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... *incurans is not Classical - and if it had occurred would, I think, have meant "not curing, not healing." I suggest: sub insollicitis stellis -- Ray ...