In the last episode, (On Sunday 01 July 2007 03:44:58), ... Yes, that would probably be more accurate. The model is Chinese, Japanese and other languages that...
Jeff Rollin
jeff.rollin@...
Jul 1, 2007 9:20 am
146965
... Urianians are pretty fond of using participle constructions instead of full verbal clauses in such sentences. (I gather they are less frequent in...
Lars Finsen
lars.finsen@...
Jul 1, 2007 9:45 pm
146966
The winner of the 2007 Smiley Award is Teonaht. http://www.frontiernet.net/~scaves/teonaht.html Most everyone knows Teonaht. It's Sally Caves's labor of love...
David J. Peterson
dedalvs@...
Jul 2, 2007 1:49 am
146967
... For some reason the page just refuses to have more than the first sheet of it printed out! /BP...
Benct Philip Jonsson
conlang@...
Jul 2, 2007 5:31 am
146968
... In Firefox at least. For some reason it worked in Internet Exploder. Perhaps your page contains some Tinylimp 'HTML' oddities? /BP...
Benct Philip Jonsson
conlang@...
Jul 2, 2007 5:45 am
146969
... Yes, but this is surely confusing the meanings of "vowel". It is true that "Plan B" is written only with symbols conventionally called 'consonants', but...
R A Brown
ray@...
Jul 2, 2007 6:24 am
146970
... Sorry if this sounds obtuse, but do you mean actually print out with a printer? I've never tried to print out a page of my webpage with my printer, so I...
David J. Peterson
dedalvs@...
Jul 2, 2007 6:45 am
146971
I redid the internal mechanisms of the page, and it now passes validation. What may have happened is I had two division tags that were never closed. That may...
David J. Peterson
dedalvs@...
Jul 2, 2007 7:12 am
146972
What a touching text... specially towards the end of it, about phases. And so true! I kind of envy your... easy going... English. I read somewhere in your page...
Edgard Bikelis
bikelis@...
Jul 2, 2007 7:30 am
146973
Edgard wrote: << BTW, for not letting this message to be totally off-topic: My conlang, Ausónya Bháma, is my linguistic credo, and I shape it as the easiest...
David J. Peterson
dedalvs@...
Jul 2, 2007 8:03 am
146974
Is there still going to be a Friday afternoon tour? If so, where and when do we meet?...
Jeffrey Jones
jsjonesmiami@...
Jul 2, 2007 8:15 am
146975
... Yes, there is. It's at 1:30 p.m. at Sather Gate, which is right in between Dwinelle Hall and Sproul Plaza (which itself is just north of the intersection...
David J. Peterson
dedalvs@...
Jul 2, 2007 8:32 am
146976
In a message dated 7/2/2007 1:26:34 AM Central Daylight Time, ... Okay, I just wanted to make sure people knew about it. Obviously you already do. stevo...
MorphemeAddict@...
Jul 2, 2007 12:52 pm
146977
... Well, yeah, I mean, those background colors would go through ink pretty fast. ;-) </snark> On-side-topic: I make a habit of running my pages through HTML...
Mark J. Reed
markjreed@...
Jul 2, 2007 1:18 pm
146978
Hallo! ... It can indeed be argued that Plan B has 16 consonant phonemes and 16 vowel phonemes with a rule that forbids both consonant clusters and vowel...
Jörg Rhiemeier
joerg_rhiemeier@...
Jul 2, 2007 2:57 pm
146979
... Hi! [Plan B etc] ... [snip] ... It most certainly has 16 consonant phonemes. Whether it has 8 or 16 vowel phonemes is a matter of interpretation. If...
R A Brown
ray@...
Jul 2, 2007 4:00 pm
146980
Hallo! ... I did not remember that the "16 vowels" included 8 /r/+vowel combos. I'd say that /r/ is a phoneme, so there are 17 consonants, one of them being...
Jörg Rhiemeier
joerg_rhiemeier@...
Jul 2, 2007 7:51 pm
146981
... Just caught up on this. Looks like body-part nouns are inalienable and take a suffix? Jeff -- "Please understand that there are small European...
Jeff Rollin
jeff.rollin@...
Jul 2, 2007 9:17 pm
146982
Jeff wrote: << Just caught up on this. Looks like body-part nouns are inalienable and take a suffix? ... If they're inalienable, doesn't that mean they...
David J. Peterson
dedalvs@...
Jul 2, 2007 9:22 pm
146983
In the last episode, (On Monday 02 July 2007 22:21:56), David J. Peterson ... My understanding is that "inalienable" means "cannot be unpossessed", e.g. you ...
Jeff Rollin
jeff.rollin@...
Jul 2, 2007 10:03 pm
146984
Hi all You've probably heard of "inverse number", where the marked form for each noun is the /unusual/ number for that noun: e.g. in a language where there is...
Jeff Rollin
jeff.rollin@...
Jul 2, 2007 10:11 pm
146985
... Oops! "lolomo" should appear in the plural too ;-) Jeff -- "Please understand that there are small European principalities devoted to debating Tcl vs. Perl...
Jeff Rollin
jeff.rollin@...
Jul 2, 2007 10:14 pm
146986
... Dear, oh, dear. I really am getting confused. Here's what the paradigm for "lolo" "a blade of grass" should *really* be: Sing. Dual Pl. lolomo lolomo lolo ...
Jeff Rollin
jeff.rollin@...
Jul 2, 2007 10:17 pm
146987
... Ahem. And that's wrong too. Really shouldn't post when tired. Nevertheless: iyaman voso pan "The man will eat the bread" iyaman vosok panek "The bread will...
Jeff Rollin
jeff.rollin@...
Jul 2, 2007 10:30 pm
146988
... Not necessarily--you're talking about obligatory possession, and it's not the same. Alienable possession uses different grammatical machinery (a different...
Hi all I have an introduction and three questions in total, if I may: Intro: I'm creating a language that will be (phonologically speaking), a sort of cross...
Jeff Rollin
jeff.rollin@...
Jul 3, 2007 11:53 am
146991
... Oh, and: kasta / katsa /kastwa /katsya but not: kandza / kandsa and fairly obviously not: kaznda / kasnda Jeff -- "Please understand that there are small ...
Jeff Rollin
jeff.rollin@...
Jul 3, 2007 12:12 pm
146992
Jörg Rhiemeier wrote: [Plan B] ... Yep - I think in summary if describing Plan B _phonologically_ one would say that it has: - sixteen consonants that...
R A Brown
ray@...
Jul 3, 2007 1:46 pm
146993
My much tried lang is facing orthographic changes the size of which haven't been seen since I switched from LATIN1-encoding to UTF8 some years ago, but in many...
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