Is the sentence "Cantat is in hoc modo," correct or does it, in fact, contain a typo? Adam Ed ņavisud in junu suņu pera nun regrediri ad ul Erodu,...
Adam Walker
carrajena@...
Sep 1, 2007 8:58 pm
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It seems to be correct, though 'is in hoc modo cantat' would be a more natural order. 'is' for 'he' is less common than 'ille', for instance..., and so it...
Edgard Bikelis
bikelis@...
Sep 1, 2007 10:28 pm
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I would omit "in." Without any emphasis, "Hoc modo cantat." Emphasising "is": "Cantat hoc modo is." I'm not a Latin expert. I'm sure Ray can give you better...
Ph. D.
phil@...
Sep 1, 2007 10:37 pm
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Ooh are you composing a story or something in Latin (exciting!)? Or is that just a sentence you read somewhere? Eugene...
Eugene Oh
un.doing@...
Sep 2, 2007 5:05 am
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I'm having a small crisis over the vowels in Finlaesk. The two-penny tour: It's what happened to the Old Icelandic spoken by the settlers of Vinland (North...
Paul Bennett
paul.w.bennett@...
Sep 3, 2007 6:22 am
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I don't know if this is helpful, but what if you consider the vowel simplification process as a series of mergers rather than deletions? Even if it turns out...
Mark J. Reed
markjreed@...
Sep 3, 2007 1:36 pm
148281
... (snip) ... You skipped any details about which specific distinctions are core morphology and which aren't... but is that vowel length approximately cognate...
John Vertical
johnvertical@...
Sep 3, 2007 2:30 pm
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... See what vocabulary gets borrowed into Finlæsk and make adjustments from there. You could build in "ripple effects" which would sweep through the lexicon...
Dirk Elzinga
dirk.elzinga@...
Sep 3, 2007 3:05 pm
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... More _classical_, I think, is what you mean. But Latin continued to be used, at least as an L2, for 1000 years after the classical period! There are many...
R A Brown
ray@...
Sep 3, 2007 4:00 pm
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... I say you'd get mergers galore when Alg(onkian) speakers tried to speak ON. Surely that's where you should start out. IMHO you should also look at what...
Benct Philip Jonsson
conlang@...
Sep 3, 2007 4:14 pm
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On Mon, 03 Sep 2007 02:21:00 -0400, Paul Bennett ... Please accept my apologies for such a very bad post, by the way. I'd been meaning to write about my...
Paul Bennett
paul.w.bennett@...
Sep 3, 2007 8:04 pm
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I have created a new Yahoo group for those interested in my conlangs. He creado a nuevo grupo de Yahoo para esos interesado en mis conlangs. ...
li_sasxsek@...
Sep 3, 2007 9:18 pm
148287
... It's from a text book I'm not sure I have complete faith in. Adam Ed ņavisud in junu suņu pera nun regrediri ad ul Erodu, regrediruns ad il sustrus...
Adam Walker
carrajena@...
Sep 3, 2007 9:35 pm
148288
... That's more or less what I suspected -- that it isn't especially great Latin, but you're saying that *is* acceptable. Actually, I had forgotten about _is_...
Adam Walker
carrajena@...
Sep 3, 2007 10:04 pm
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Adam Walker wrote: I suspect the choice was ... I believe they sang that during the Saturnalia, or was it the Lupercalia? But oh dear, memory time-- as a...
ROGER MILLS
rfmilly@...
Sep 4, 2007 3:57 am
148290
... I think ogonek is fairly standard Amerind convention for nasalised vowels. ... What's ue-ligature's Unicode codepoint? I can't remember coming across that...
Philip Newton
philip.newton@...
Sep 4, 2007 5:35 am
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... A letter in my anomalously named Germanic conlang Føtisk LATIN SMALL LETTER UE U+1D6B (in Phonetic Extensions, down the back), it has no capital...
T. A. McLeay
conlang@...
Sep 4, 2007 6:17 am
148292
... Yes, _is_ is grammatically acceptable. ... I guess so. ... Nor as I know it! ... Sure. ... ROGER MILLS wrote: [snip] ... I know the latter as: Sodalis enim...
R A Brown
ray@...
Sep 4, 2007 7:31 am
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... It was included late, and it's included in Phonetic Extensions, which AFAIK includes only characters primarily used in non-IPA 20th century phonetic...
T. A. McLeay
conlang@...
Sep 4, 2007 8:35 am
148294
... is better than putting the emPHAsis on the seCOND sylLABle of "potest" (and inserting an extra syllable, which is harmless...). But how do you say "ten...
Mark J. Reed
markjreed@...
Sep 4, 2007 11:22 am
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... I think this is sort of crazy-logic. If we're to accept the idea that languages tend to establish roles quickly (which I am dubious of), then that's fine,...
Shreyas Sampat
ssampat@...
Sep 4, 2007 12:05 pm
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... I'm sorry, but these don't seem natural at all to me. For one thing front vowels usually don't become back, so y > u is unnatural. Also, and more...
Benct Philip Jonsson
conlang@...
Sep 4, 2007 12:21 pm
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... See, stuff like this is exactly why I'm glad I found this list. I could have spent *years* figuring out something as simple and realistic as that, though I...
Paul Bennett
paul.w.bennett@...
Sep 4, 2007 2:15 pm
148298
... The difference is the US vs. UK (or at least alternate) versions, if I'm not mistaken............ US: ...which nobody ca-an deny (8 syllables, extended...
ROGER MILLS
rfmilly@...
Sep 4, 2007 3:13 pm
148299
... Ah. Never heard the UK version. Had no idea. ... A very good point; ne'gat is no more correct than po'test. But it offends my ear less for whatever...
Mark J. Reed
markjreed@...
Sep 4, 2007 3:27 pm
148300
Flatus cerebri......... (I know there's a better word for "fart"...) ... Surely, "...all of us."...
ROGER MILLS
rfmilly@...
Sep 4, 2007 3:36 pm
148301
... Yes, indeed - this ancient Brit can confirm that this side of the Pond it's "and so say all of us." Tho "all of we" is almost certainly acceptable in some...
R A Brown
ray@...
Sep 4, 2007 3:55 pm
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From: ROGER MILLS <rfmilly@...> ... Well, now, this makes some sense. I was under the impression we were supposed to sing this to "I've Been Workin' on the...
Douglas Koller
laokou@...
Sep 4, 2007 9:44 pm
148303
In a message dated 9/4/2007 4:54:53 PM Central Daylight Time, ... But the last line of the Latin scans all wrong for that melody. stevo </HTML>...
MorphemeAddict@...
Sep 5, 2007 3:26 am
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... No, you are, I fear, mistaken. If you read back through earlier posts in this thread you will find that the last line over here in the UK is "and so say...
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