On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 11:58 AM, Eric Christopherson <rakko@...> ... I guess that would imply an incomplete definition in our universe of what it means...
Eugene Oh
un.doing@...
Jun 1, 2008 7:52 am
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... I guess what you need is a formant to turn an adjective into a noun naming the tendency of displaying the property named by the adjective, and/or to turn a...
Lars Finsen
lars.finsen@...
Jun 1, 2008 9:57 am
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Thank you Ingmar On Fri, 30 May 2008 16:25:19 -0400, John Vertical...
Ingmar Roerdinkholder
ingmar.roerdinkholder...
Jun 1, 2008 10:36 am
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Yes, Bern, and Berlin, as well ;-) "X" means "crossed with", so: Bär, bear, beer X bjørn, björn = bern means: German/Engl/Dutch "bear" crossed with Dan/Swed...
Ingmar Roerdinkholder
ingmar.roerdinkholder...
Jun 1, 2008 10:47 am
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... Define rotate... if you rotate a 3-cube around a line, you have one degree of freedom (strictly: The Lie group of isometric maps from the embedding 3-space...
Lars Mathiesen
thorinn@...
Jun 1, 2008 12:44 pm
153454
... What about "trysexual" - willing to try anything out? Reminds me of "trylingual", which someone on LiveJournal's linguaphiles community tried to coin...
Philip Newton
philip.newton@...
Jun 1, 2008 2:15 pm
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I'm not sure whether this has been shared yet, but there's a nice short animated movie about moving from one dimension all the way up through 10-dimensions at:...
Donald Boozer
donaldboozer@...
Jun 1, 2008 2:19 pm
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I think it was clear that by "rotation" I meant what you called 1 degree of freedom. At least in 3-space, and so I assume higher spaces as well,...
Mark J. Reed
markjreed@...
Jun 1, 2008 3:31 pm
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Seems like "trysexual" would just be a synonym for "college student", then... :) ... -- Sent from Gmail for mobile | mobile.google.com Mark J. Reed...
Mark J. Reed
markjreed@...
Jun 1, 2008 3:41 pm
153458
... Thanks for your comments, John V. Much appreciated. You are right that a stop turning into a fricative will pretty soon lose any aspiration. So at least...
Lars Finsen
lars.finsen@...
Jun 1, 2008 3:52 pm
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Then "buysexual" would be a customer. What would we replace "mono" with? (: Eugene...
Eugene Oh
un.doing@...
Jun 1, 2008 4:03 pm
153460
Greetings to all! I'm looking for assistance from any Dutch or Frisian speakers on the list. Because it's off-topic to the list, I'd like to invite anyone to...
Chris Peters
beta_leonis@...
Jun 1, 2008 5:27 pm
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Sorry for the bad formatting in my previous email. Let's try this again so maybe it reads better! Greetings to all! I'm looking for assistance from any Dutch...
Chris Peters
beta_leonis@...
Jun 1, 2008 5:36 pm
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I'll send it to a good friend of mine who lives in Friesland. He 'll probably know the song, or can understand it from what you wrote... Ingmar On Sun, 1 Jun...
Ingmar Roerdinkholder
ingmar.roerdinkholder...
Jun 1, 2008 6:24 pm
153463
Hi, Chris. With your permission I'd like to forward your message to a forum with a lot of Dutch and Frisian members, who are also knowledgeable in English. LEF...
Lars Finsen
lars.finsen@...
Jun 1, 2008 6:46 pm
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moan-oh-sexual? moan-o'-sexual? moan-no-sexual? more-know-sexual? more- no-sexual? ;-) But trysexuality rules! Ingmar On Mon, 2 Jun 2008 00:03:13 +0800, Eugene...
Ingmar Roerdinkholder
ingmar.roerdinkholder...
Jun 1, 2008 6:51 pm
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Lars, Thanks -- you have my permission. You also have permission to share my personal email address, as well. (Please feel free to clean up the formatting of...
Chris Peters
beta_leonis@...
Jun 1, 2008 6:59 pm
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This excerpt from the Widipedia article on engineered language used the phrase "Russian lawn". Does anyone know what that means? "John Quijada's <A...
MorphemeAddict@...
Jun 1, 2008 8:39 pm
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As I recall from Mark's discussion of the idea when he was on this list, a "Russian Lawn" is a large, grassy field without any paved walkways. People ...
Dirk Elzinga
dirk.elzinga@...
Jun 1, 2008 9:01 pm
153468
This is the answer from my friend from Friesland, he recognized it immediately. He sent me the so-called Stellingwarvian version of the song, from the Low ...
Ingmar Roerdinkholder
ingmar.roerdinkholder...
Jun 1, 2008 9:27 pm
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http://www.tresoar.nl/ is the website of this organisation, you can choose between Frisian, Dutch and English for this site Ingmar On Sun, 1 Jun 2008 17:26:58...
Ingmar Roerdinkholder
ingmar.roerdinkholder...
Jun 1, 2008 9:29 pm
153470
Nonassertive sounds good. Thanks, And. Josh...
JR
fuscian@...
Jun 1, 2008 11:10 pm
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While we're at it, anyone able to identify this song? I don't know what language it is; it might be gibberish for all I know. It goes: /%bEtS@%batS@"beit@ ...
Eric Christopherson
rakko@...
Jun 1, 2008 11:21 pm
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On Sun, 1 Jun 2008 18:21:14 -0500, Eric Christopherson ... betsje batsje beete in de oven steet e wikstiesie wiekstiesoe kam de kettel alle soe an de mama an...
Ingmar Roerdinkholder
ingmar.roerdinkholder...
Jun 2, 2008 4:56 am
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In a message dated 6/1/2008 16:03:55 PM Central Daylight Time, ... I agree that it's an interesting idea. Your description matches the vocabulary of Classical...
MorphemeAddict@...
Jun 2, 2008 5:01 am
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I've asked my Frisian colleague, and she recognized it and wrote down the following version: Suze nane poppe, poppe leit yn e groppe heit en mem sa fier fan...
... Back around 1970, they built a new university here in Michigan. They didn't put in any sidewalks. After the first year, they could tell by the size of the...
Ph. D.
phil@...
Jun 2, 2008 4:12 pm
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Okay, we forgot to mention what it means: Suzie is lulling the baby baby lies in the trench Dad and Mom so far from home could not be called by it Ingmar On...
Ingmar Roerdinkholder
ingmar.roerdinkholder...
Jun 2, 2008 5:25 pm
153478
... Okay, since this silly thred doesn't seem to be going away, I'll just say what I've been thinking all along: upgrade to stereosexual to be able to use both...