... IIRC /l_e/ occurs only in the word Allah, i.e. 'God'. ... NAFAIK. ... Some of those spellings reflect Persian realizations of the ... With /&/ being...
Benct Philip Jonsson
conlang@...
Aug 1, 2007 9:05 am
147662
... I suppose, like any form of communication, it depends on the context. If a tag on a wall means "Hey, look at me, I'm cool!", then it's just buffoonery. If...
Joseph Fatula
joefatula@...
Aug 1, 2007 9:21 am
147663
... I OTOH don't much like calling your number "forty". I find it handy to always have "ten" around to mean 'the number of dots in ..........' even when "10"...
Alex Fink
a4pq1injbok_0@...
Aug 1, 2007 9:27 am
147664
... Do Kelen and/or Gwr speakers have only four fingers, or do they not use their thumbs when counting? I have thought about how octal and duodecimal counting...
Benct Philip Jonsson
conlang@...
Aug 1, 2007 9:31 am
147665
... I recently read about a group of people somewhere who count not on their finger(tip)s, but on the spaces between the fingers, therefore also arriving at an...
Philip Newton
philip.newton@...
Aug 1, 2007 10:50 am
147666
In a message dated 7/31/2007 9:41:45 PM Central Daylight Time, ... I would use both, e.g.: allor - 40 octal (= 32 decimal). stevo </HTML>...
MorphemeAddict@...
Aug 1, 2007 12:04 pm
147667
... How about a system of binary finger combinations. You could get hexadecimal with just four fingers of one hand....
li_sasxsek@...
Aug 1, 2007 3:12 pm
147668
... Yes, but you have to have flexible fingers to make some of those combinations. :) My Dankarans use base-6; each hand is one digit. -- Mark J. Reed...
Mark J. Reed
markjreed@...
Aug 1, 2007 3:31 pm
147669
... Actually, I think I like this. I could gloss it as 4x8, and then in the longer definition explain more fully about it being octal 40 and decimal 32. -- ...
Sylvia Sotomayor
terjemar@...
Aug 1, 2007 3:36 pm
147670
On Wed, 1 Aug 2007 12:45:32 +0200, Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> ... I once heard someone's theory of the duodecimal system's origin that said the...
John Crowe
johnxcrowe@...
Aug 1, 2007 3:41 pm
147671
... Yes, octal, decimal. Why does my brain never remember these short succinct words when I need them? :-) -S -- Sylvia Sotomayor terjemar@... ...
Sylvia Sotomayor
terjemar@...
Aug 1, 2007 3:45 pm
147672
... Actually, the Kelen do have only four digits per hand. I'm not sure if it's the middle finger and the ring finger that have fused*, or the ring finger and...
Sylvia Sotomayor
terjemar@...
Aug 1, 2007 3:47 pm
147673
... I would certainly explain in the longer definition that this was 40 base 8 (or octal) which is 32 base 10, but for the one word gloss, I'm thinking 32...
Sylvia Sotomayor
terjemar@...
Aug 1, 2007 3:51 pm
147674
... I go away for three days and come back to this grouchy rubbish!!!! You may talk about over-analyzing - *I WAS NOT*. *I* (and of course my family) actually...
R A Brown
ray@...
Aug 1, 2007 4:03 pm
147675
Rex May has started a blog of cartoons in his conlang Ceqli. The posts and cartoon captions are in Ceqli, with a link to the lessons and dictionaries in the...
Jim Henry
jimhenry1973@...
Aug 1, 2007 4:25 pm
147676
David J. Peterson wrote: <<<< (f) hopoko lamuto (palinok). /man-ABS. pet-ANTI. (panda-OBL.)/ "The man's petting at the panda (but not very successfully or ...
Nick Scholten
nick.scholten@...
Aug 1, 2007 4:38 pm
147677
... (What's the "O" stand for? "Own"? Isn't that redundant?) I've gotten the impression that 3-vowel conprotolangs are popular for some reason. uwjge also...
John Vertical
johnvertical@...
Aug 1, 2007 4:53 pm
147678
Hallo! ... You should gloss it as 32, or better, 4*8, but *not* as 40 because it is a different number. ... brought to you by the Weeping Elf...
Jörg Rhiemeier
joerg_rhiemeier@...
Aug 1, 2007 5:20 pm
147679
... Yes, I think I will gloss it as 4*8, as that has the most info and is the least misleading. Thanks to everyone who gave suggestions. -S -- Sylvia Sotomayor...
Sylvia Sotomayor
terjemar@...
Aug 1, 2007 5:32 pm
147680
... [snip] ... Also Kichwa (Quechua) over in Peru where I was earlier this year. It can get a bit nippy at hight in high Andes (and the very high Andes don't...
R A Brown
ray@...
Aug 1, 2007 5:35 pm
147681
Hallo! ... This is basically what the British Elves, who have a duodecimal number system, use. ... brought to you by the Weeping Elf...
Jörg Rhiemeier
joerg_rhiemeier@...
Aug 1, 2007 5:42 pm
147682
... 50 different words for sno? *ducks and runs for cover* John Vertical...
John Vertical
johnvertical@...
Aug 1, 2007 6:49 pm
147683
Hallo! ... Proto-Albic also has a 3-vowel system without quantity. In Classical Old Albic, the diphthongs *ai and *au changed into /e/ and /o/, respectively,...
Jörg Rhiemeier
joerg_rhiemeier@...
Aug 1, 2007 7:23 pm
147684
Sylvia wrote: << I would certainly explain in the longer definition that this was 40 base 8 (or octal) which is 32 base 10, but for the one word gloss, I'm ...
David J. Peterson
dedalvs@...
Aug 1, 2007 7:52 pm
147685
Nick: << Actually, I did read that/your article on ergativity. I do understand how the antipassive works (and that it can apply in certain situations) but, I ...
David J. Peterson
dedalvs@...
Aug 1, 2007 8:05 pm
147686
... I'm not sure why that would be the case. The ancestral language to most of the langs I've been working with over the past few years has a 9-vowel system,...
Joseph Fatula
joefatula@...
Aug 1, 2007 8:09 pm
147687
... Back in the 70s, my Natl.Public Radio station ran a series produced in Alaska-- folk tales of the Aleut (IIRC) people. The title ("The things that were...
ROGER MILLS
rfmilly@...
Aug 1, 2007 8:09 pm
147688
... Wow. And they say that even 10-vowel systems (including length) are unstable. :) -- Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>...
Mark J. Reed
markjreed@...
Aug 1, 2007 8:21 pm
147689
Well, my Gwr do have four fingers per hand. Maybe when they count in decimal they use the palm or the fist for 5 and 10......... At one point I was so...
ROGER MILLS
rfmilly@...
Aug 1, 2007 8:56 pm
147690
... Do I read you right in claiming a vowel system comprised of /i: i I: I 1: 1/? Is there an anadew for that? ... That, at least, is unscary. -- Tristan....
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