... The problem is that even if I think the form of some articles on FW is suboptimal it is the form their authors have given them, and as such the authors are...
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Benct Philip Jonsson
bpj@...
Mar 1, 2008 11:07 am
... It is also the usual solution....
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Jim Henry
jimhenry1973@...
Mar 1, 2008 4:09 pm
... Sai can correct me, but I think by "form" he might have meant things like "different conlangs being documented on half a dozen different wikis", "different...
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Jörg Rhiemeier
joerg_rhiemeier@...
Mar 1, 2008 5:54 pm
Hallo! ... Yes. The point is that the person most knowledgeable about a particular conlang or conworld usually is *the author himself* - what he says is as...
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Eric Christopherson
rakko@...
Mar 1, 2008 8:22 pm
... Most GUIs have a lot of keyboard shortcuts... you just have to learn them. You should be able to find them in the help for the program and in the menus....
151395
Eric Christopherson
rakko@...
Mar 1, 2008 8:26 pm
... I had one too, for my Commodore 128. I think it cost $70 in the late '80s. I loved it, especially to draw with, and have often wondered why they didn't...
151396
Sai Emrys
sai@...
Mar 1, 2008 10:13 pm
... That is primarily correct, in that that meaning of 'form' is all I meant there. It's true though that I *also* support editing form in the sense of how...
151397
li_sasxsek@...
Mar 1, 2008 10:26 pm
... forcing ... ability ... keyboard ... to ... devices ... of ... IBM ... My issue is that I just hate the whole point-and-click concept as the primary means...
151398
li_sasxsek@...
Mar 1, 2008 10:39 pm
... Christopherson ... forcing ... ability ... keyboard ... to ... devices ... of ... learn ... and ... too. They have *some* keyboard shortcuts. Not...
151399
li_sasxsek@...
Mar 1, 2008 10:41 pm
... Christopherson ... late ... Mine was for my Apple II. I bought it. Played with it breifly and never used it again. ISTR is costing a lot more than that,...
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Tristan McLeay
conlang@...
Mar 1, 2008 10:51 pm
... Microsoft was just copying other keyboards like the Mac and Sun keyboards, which both contain an extra command key compared to 101-key keyboards. Some...
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Mark J. Reed
markjreed@...
Mar 1, 2008 11:23 pm
... The Apple ][ had a black/greenscreen display, sure. But the Commodore and Atari 8-bits had color displays, typically on a TV, with default screen colors...
151402
li_sasxsek@...
Mar 2, 2008 3:31 am
... why ... this ... way ... I ... to ... Most of what Microsoft does is copied from others. I've always hated XP (been running 2000 for home), and Vista...
151403
li_sasxsek@...
Mar 2, 2008 3:37 am
... Yeah, Apples were the high-end of the home market so there weren't too many users using televisions as the primary monitor, especially since they didn't...
151404
Henrik Theiling
theiling@...
Mar 2, 2008 4:23 am
Hi! ... Not a problem for me: I'm switching between that ergo keyboard I posted earlier and a laptop very often (several times a day), but since they are so...
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Paul Bennett
paul.w.bennett@...
Mar 2, 2008 5:36 am
... Dual-boot is so 1990s. VMware is definitely the new hotness. Paul -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/...
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li_sasxsek@...
Mar 2, 2008 6:54 am
... That could be an option too. I'm not sure I have the hardware to handle it....
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Eric Christopherson
rakko@...
Mar 2, 2008 7:26 am
I recall seeing a while back a web page or article that gave a short list of some of the uses which reduplication serves in languages around the world -- e.g....
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David J. Peterson
dedalvs@...
Mar 2, 2008 8:39 am
Eric C. << Second, does anyone know of any theory dealing with reduplication where both the base and the reduplicant have some sort of *semantic* value and are...
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Mr Veoler
veoler@...
Mar 2, 2008 12:19 pm
One thing I have had in mind to ask: What about definiteness? The definite article, and a generic demonstrative - what's the difference? Is an indefinite...
151410
Mark J. Reed
markjreed@...
Mar 2, 2008 12:38 pm
... Yup. March 26th, 5ish PM, CNN Center food court near the Starbuck's. -- Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>...
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caeruleancentaur
caeruleancentaur@...
Mar 2, 2008 12:56 pm
... The Wikipedia entry on reduplication is quite extensive! It does not mention, however, it's use in Spanish as an intensive/continuative, perhaps because...
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Douglas Koller
laokou@...
Mar 2, 2008 3:57 pm
From: caeruleancentaur <caeruleancentaur@...> ... "She cried and cried (and cried)." Not so mystical. Kou...
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Philip Newton
philip.newton@...
Mar 2, 2008 4:00 pm
... Does it do hardware graphics acceleration, though, so you can play games that you only have for your secondary operating system? (Or view graphical...
151414
Philip Newton
philip.newton@...
Mar 2, 2008 4:13 pm
... Ah, as in the famous, "Yes, but do you just like her, or do you 'like her' like her?". Cheers, -- Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>...
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MorphemeAddict@...
Mar 2, 2008 6:22 pm
In a message dated 3/2/2008 06:59:58 AM Central Standard Time, ... Is that even reduplication? It seems to me to be mere repetition. stevo </HTML>...
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Paul Bennett
paul.w.bennett@...
Mar 2, 2008 7:41 pm
On Sun, 02 Mar 2008 10:57:57 -0500, Philip Newton ... Current versions don't do direct host graphics access for the guest OS. I understand it's one of the...
151417
Paul Bennett
paul.w.bennett@...
Mar 2, 2008 7:49 pm
... Semantically, very little, if any. I suspect you could replace every demonstrative "that" and every "the" in English both with "bleen" and be just as...
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David J. Peterson
dedalvs@...
Mar 2, 2008 7:59 pm
Stevo: << Is that even reduplication? It seems to me to be mere repetition. ... I agree. We see the same thing in English with longer phrases: "And she would...
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Eric Christopherson
rakko@...
Mar 2, 2008 8:12 pm
... I was just about to bring up the same distinction. How is it done in Spanish? ... In my Dhaqran, at least as I envision it right now, the distinction is...
