... In colloquial German: "Ej, lass' mal stecken" or "Ej, lass' mal gut sein". ("leave it sticking [where it was; don't pull it out]" or "let it be good; leave...
Philip Newton
philip.newton@...
Sep 1, 2008 1:46 pm
154992
... I had an unspayed female for a while; the first time she went into oestrus I kept her in, but it drove me crazy... I was talking on the phone one day with...
ROGER MILLS
rfmilly@...
Sep 1, 2008 8:51 pm
154993
... I might say "quit it!" in English I might say "laisse la!" en français In Jorayn I would most likely say / /maro'-ovo'nov-ta-omomo je'niiath-o! ...
Matthew
ave.jor@...
Sep 2, 2008 2:28 am
154994
I found an interesting coincidence as I was working on the Tirelat vocabulary: a pair of words that's a minimal pair in both English and Tirelat. żuki...
Herman Miller
hmiller@...
Sep 2, 2008 2:30 am
154995
Herman Miller: << Does anyone have examples of minimal pairs like this from their own languages (which translate to minimal pairs in an unrelated language)?...
David J. Peterson
dedalvs@...
Sep 2, 2008 5:37 am
154996
... Don't know about the mathematical probabilities, but I imagine it's very possible that the older word came to mind. I've caught myself on a number of ...
J R
tanuef@...
Sep 2, 2008 6:03 am
154997
... Well, there are different views, but I think it's a problem either way. Take a look at virtually any sentence. There are a lot that start off 'vayomer' ...
J R
tanuef@...
Sep 2, 2008 10:23 am
154998
My L1 default is probably "Cut it out!" Or simply "Stop that!" with appropriately exasperated tone ("exasperated" is, of course, Pinyin tone 6. I don't know...
Mark J. Reed
markjreed@...
Sep 2, 2008 12:22 pm
154999
"Don't let this happen to you. Order your Phonomatic(TM) Random Syllable Generator today, and keep your posteriori out of your a priori languages." ... -- ...
Mark J. Reed
markjreed@...
Sep 2, 2008 12:29 pm
155000
Redundancy + Ambiguity = What? There have been some talking about redundancy, and sometimes about the naturalness of ambiguity in a naturalistic conlang. But...
Veoler
veoler@...
Sep 2, 2008 12:37 pm
155001
... My understanding is that it used to be a requirement, but hasn't been so (or at least not as strictly so) since the 1970s copyright law changes. A few...
Jim Henry
jimhenry1973@...
Sep 2, 2008 3:47 pm
155002
... Interesting. Is it accessible to the public? Hope there are ample cubic kilometers yet of solid rock available for further excavation below there. LEF...
Lars Finsen
lars.finsen@...
Sep 2, 2008 4:07 pm
155003
Several different phenomena in various natlangs have been called "fourth person" at one time or another by one professional- linguist author or another. Here...
Eldin Raigmore
eldin_raigmore@...
Sep 2, 2008 4:36 pm
155004
I am collaborating on an agglutinating conlang with polypersonal agreement (verbs agree with their Subject; with their Primary-or-Direct Object if there is ...
Eldin Raigmore
eldin_raigmore@...
Sep 2, 2008 4:39 pm
155005
I am thinking of a clause-chaining feature like Hebrew's "wa-consecutives". I am imagining four clause-conjunctions (conjunctions that connect clauses with the...
Eldin Raigmore
eldin_raigmore@...
Sep 2, 2008 4:41 pm
155006
... It was at one time; not sure about now, post-terrorism panic. When I went to Washington in 1994 however it was closed for renovation and they weren't...
Jim Henry
jimhenry1973@...
Sep 2, 2008 4:52 pm
155007
... German has a separate reciprocal pronoun: "Sie kssten einander" is "They kissed one-another". However, "Sie kssten sich" is ambiguous between "They...
Philip Newton
philip.newton@...
Sep 2, 2008 5:14 pm
155008
... gzb: {!blâl-pôm ĝyl-ť-zô mwe.} frustration-ATD interrupt-2-V.ACT IMP {blâl-pôm} is an attitudinal, thus sentence-scope, adverb derived from the...
Jim Henry
jimhenry1973@...
Sep 2, 2008 5:20 pm
155009
... They're orthogonal; you might can increase or decrease either without perhaps directly affecting the other, as long as you allow other variables to vary in...
Jim Henry
jimhenry1973@...
Sep 2, 2008 5:34 pm
155010
The Obviative isn't limited to HAS or Direct/Inverse systems. It can appear in almost any language. You also have to be clear exactly what you mean by...
Aidan Grey
taalenmaple@...
Sep 2, 2008 6:03 pm
155011
Omina has a reflexive suffix -kse which can be combined with a conjugated preposition to give the idea of reciprocity: Using enki "hit": enki irekse = "They...
Michael Poxon
mike@...
Sep 2, 2008 6:05 pm
155012
Taalen does the following: reflexive: distinct marker reciprocal: reflexive plus the distributive marker I have the morphology figured out, but not the...
Aidan Grey
taalenmaple@...
Sep 2, 2008 7:03 pm
155013
... there is ... needed to ... This seems to be a problem I might face too. My (currently nameless) loglang project has similar detail'd argument marking,...
John Vertical
johnvertical@...
Sep 2, 2008 8:10 pm
155014
... I know that French sometimes uses the number agreement to disambiguate, but I can't think of a context right now. I know for sure it doesn't use it to...
Matthew
ave.jor@...
Sep 3, 2008 1:30 am
155015
... ;-) one method I've used successfully to avoid English bias (or anti-English bias for that matter) is to manually create a bunch of words without meanings,...
Herman Miller
hmiller@...
Sep 3, 2008 4:12 am
155016
... Tirelat: "Each other" is expressed by a comitative particle. "Themselves" is expressed with a prefix on the verb. su Żak kë Żil vyċimamin "Jack and...
Herman Miller
hmiller@...
Sep 3, 2008 4:15 am
155017
... despite living with a 12-year old spayed tabby as southern spring is coming on she is getting decidedly 'bouncy', including sitting in my lap as I type. ...
andrew
hobbit@...
Sep 3, 2008 7:53 am
155018
... Let me check how Urianian does this. I think the r-mood of the verb, which I'm not sure what to call yet, will be perceived as reflexive by default in the...
Lars Finsen
lars.finsen@...
Sep 3, 2008 8:18 am
155019
... Neither of those looks like grammatical French to me. Are you sure those are the correct forms? (I thought that "s'" was only used with third person...
Philip Newton
philip.newton@...
Sep 3, 2008 8:29 am
155020
... Do you accept all of the random pairings, or will you reject ones that strike you as really off? Personally, I haven't used any random methods, and ...
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