Hi! ... You probably meant to add a link to that page? :-) http://www.carolandray.plus.com/TAKE/Verbs2.html Just found a small typo: 'The people make_s_ laws...
Henrik Theiling
theiling@...
Nov 1, 2007 2:26 pm
149514
Quoting Benct Philip Jonsson <conlang@...>: [discussion snipped] ... Personally, I find either decidedly infelicitous. For _programsprk_, the meaning...
Andreas Johansson
andjo@...
Nov 1, 2007 3:03 pm
149515
In a message dated 11/1/2007 9:46:58 AM Central Daylight Time, ... Another typo: /Some people mediopassive/Some people use mediopassive / stevo </HTML>...
MorphemeAddict@...
Nov 1, 2007 3:15 pm
149516
Hi! ... Well, once a romanian friend corrected me, saying that "a few" means something like "not few ~ many" and "few" means just "few". As neither of us is a...
Edgard Bikelis
bikelis@...
Nov 1, 2007 5:43 pm
149517
Hi all, 'verbs - Part 2' is now, hopefully, completed (apart probably from correcting one or two typos :) We now have enough of the language to be able to...
R A Brown
ray@...
Nov 1, 2007 5:48 pm
149518
... What is the Swedish name for the academic discipline called "engineering" in English? How does Swedish translate "software engineering" and "chemical...
And Rosta
and.rosta@...
Nov 1, 2007 6:08 pm
149519
... So there's the mail! It seems to have spent 1 day, 10 hours on listserv.brown.edu before being forwarded. I wonder what gave the mail server such ...
Philip Newton
philip.newton@...
Nov 1, 2007 6:17 pm
149520
... According to LEO, possible German translations are "Softwaretechnik" and "Chemotechnik", respectively, which suggests "technolang" :D Sounds more like...
Philip Newton
philip.newton@...
Nov 1, 2007 6:23 pm
149521
Hi! ... I suppose we do agree that language development may reduce affixes more than stems. English has almost no adjective endings anymore. Or the general...
Henrik Theiling
theiling@...
Nov 1, 2007 7:03 pm
149522
On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 22:37:42 +0000, Douglas Koller <laokou@...> ... my ... I'm not sure I understand the question. Maybe this will help. A phrase in...
Jeffrey Jones
jsjonesmiami@...
Nov 1, 2007 8:10 pm
149523
... My understanding is that some search engines, at least, will ignore anything in the keywords tag that does not also appear in the body of the page -- this...
Jim Henry
jimhenry1973@...
Nov 1, 2007 8:46 pm
149524
Could you elaborate on the pronunciations of those pairs? Most of them are perfect homophones IML. (The exception being finger/singer, which don't even have...
Mark J. Reed
markjreed@...
Nov 1, 2007 9:10 pm
149525
... A literal translation of the Greek, I fear, in which ὁ δῆμος is singular. Actually 'people' can be found used as singular in English, but this...
R A Brown
ray@...
Nov 1, 2007 9:29 pm
149526
... Is Homer using the definite article instead of a relative pronoun? Or is he using a relative pronoun, which is one the way to becoming a definite article...
Philip Newton
philip.newton@...
Nov 1, 2007 9:38 pm
149527
In a message dated 11/1/2007 3:17:36 PM Central Daylight Time, ... You could check sections 14 and 15 of Chapter 5 of "The Complete Lojban Language": ...
MorphemeAddict@...
Nov 1, 2007 9:44 pm
149528
Hi! ... Yes, indeed -- now that you say it! So that's why the examples felt natural. :-) ... The German relative pronoun is very similar to the article. ... ...
Henrik Theiling
theiling@...
Nov 1, 2007 10:02 pm
149529
<http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=109891> Huh?! Did they have this when I was in high school...? -David ...
David J. Peterson
dedalvs@...
Nov 1, 2007 11:58 pm
149530
... I find your usage of slashes rather than brackets odd - surely these are all differing *phonetic* realizations of the same *phonemic* structure? One...
Andreas Johansson
andjo@...
Nov 2, 2007 12:16 am
149531
... That's a peculiarity of using "few" with "quite", though. Also, I think there's a gradation in meaning between "few cats", "quite a few cats", and "many...
Eric Christopherson
rakko@...
Nov 2, 2007 3:18 am
149532
Sadly, I've no idea what you are saying to me. It was my understanding to use slashes as I used them. I'd welcome clarification as to how I can improve my...
Scotto Hlad
scott.hlad@...
Nov 2, 2007 5:29 am
149533
... this ... Thanks. I actually read that eons ago and had completely forgotten about it. I had even made a summary, but that's long since disappeared. Jeff...
Jeffrey Jones
jsjonesmiami@...
Nov 2, 2007 5:36 am
149534
... [snip] ... Funny how I've never thought about that -- that is, the fact that "die" and "den" look exactly like the appropriate form of the definite ...
Philip Newton
philip.newton@...
Nov 2, 2007 8:20 am
149535
... Yes, but it is an occasionally use in Homer & not the norm. ... No. ... No. the definite article was originally a _demonstrative_ pronoun. In Homer it is...
R A Brown
ray@...
Nov 2, 2007 9:08 am
149536
Traditionally, slashes are used for phonemic transcription, while square brackets are used for phonetic transcription. See ...
Mark J. Reed
markjreed@...
Nov 2, 2007 12:17 pm
149537
In a message dated 11/1/2007 7:04:47 PM Central Daylight Time, ... The first one was in 2003. stevo </HTML>...
MorphemeAddict@...
Nov 2, 2007 12:47 pm
149538
I've been meaning to add this bit of trivia.... Somewhere years ago I saw a (semi-serious) definition: "a few are eight" :-)))) ... Not in English, where "a...
ROGER MILLS
rfmilly@...
Nov 2, 2007 4:22 pm
149539
... [snip examples] ... It might have been that this variety retained the schwa in the past-tense ending long enough for the cluster simplification not to have...
Eugene Oh
un.doing@...
Nov 2, 2007 4:58 pm
149540
On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 08:31:31 -0400, "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...> ... What difference? ... If "madder" is monomorphemic, it'd be [m&d@] for me; whereas...
T. A. McLeay
conlang@...
Nov 2, 2007 5:09 pm
149541
... _Ingenjrsvetenskap_, I suppose. But you never speak of it as *an* academic discipline: it's a whole spectrum of disciplines. ... _Programvaruutveckling_...
Andreas Johansson
andjo@...
Nov 2, 2007 5:22 pm
149542
... My very bad mistake!! Disclpame! Poca gente asisti. Charlie...
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