...  This is how Tengwar fonts work. The normally tall rectangular Tengwar table is mapped sideways to the physical keys of the broad rectangular QWERTY...
Benct Philip Jonsson
bpj@...
Oct 1, 2008 9:02 am
155368
Hi! ... I wonder whether some words are direct translations from German, like _chokestuff_ 'Stickstoff' and _sourstuff_ 'Sauerstoff'. They look so much like...
Henrik Theiling
theiling@...
Oct 1, 2008 10:57 am
155369
Hi! ... This is very interesting to me, as I never found it necessary with German (my L1) stuff. I also watch English stuff without captions, because with...
Henrik Theiling
theiling@...
Oct 1, 2008 11:19 am
155370
You misunderstand, at least in my case. I watch everything with captions so I don't have to worry about auditory interruptions that keep me from hearing, not...
Mark J. Reed
markjreed@...
Oct 1, 2008 12:52 pm
155371
Hi! ... Ah, now I understand. Thinking of it, a few years ago I was living next to a tram line and I tended to turn the volume up and down constantly....
Henrik Theiling
theiling@...
Oct 1, 2008 1:28 pm
155372
... I've always loved the German compound nouns, ever since a friend and I discovered, while still in elementary school, that Stinktier meant skunk. Whenever I...
caeruleancentaur
caeruleancentaur@...
Oct 1, 2008 2:10 pm
155373
As an antecedent of "raak" how about 'rake' in English? In the sense of both the garden implement (which essentially 'rakes' straight lines in the soil) and...
Michael Poxon
mike@...
Oct 1, 2008 2:35 pm
155374
... The PIE root *reg- (move-, direct-, -in a straight line) gives English (through *rog- in Germanic) the word "rake," (German "rechen") the garden implement...
caeruleancentaur
caeruleancentaur@...
Oct 1, 2008 6:13 pm
155375
Hello, I am interested in the language Idiom Neutral of Waldemar Rosenberger from 1902. Does any one know if a dictionary of it is available on Internet and if...
Doro Winkelhofer
andoromeda83@...
Oct 1, 2008 6:54 pm
155376
... That was certainly my assumption when I read the text. Cheers, -- Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>...
Philip Newton
philip.newton@...
Oct 1, 2008 7:12 pm
155377
Hallo! ... It is. ... Haven't heard of these projects yet; I'd be interested in learning about them. Set Reply-To: to CONLANG list because it is no longer ...
Jörg Rhiemeier
joerg_rhiemeier@...
Oct 1, 2008 7:35 pm
155378
... The first is Rhaetian ( http://conlang.wunschzetel.de/rhaetian/ ): basically Ancient Greek with sound changes from PIE through Common Germanic to Modern...
Philip Newton
philip.newton@...
Oct 1, 2008 8:06 pm
155379
On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:00:48 -0400, Eldin Raigmore ... combine ... For what it's worth there is currently not a 5 posts per day limit in force: ...
Alex Fink
000024@...
Oct 1, 2008 9:17 pm
155380
On Wed, 1 Oct 2008 18:03:18 -0000, caeruleancentaur ... How do we know which of those two motivated the semantic extension? Is there a cognate in some other...
Alex Fink
000024@...
Oct 1, 2008 9:37 pm
155381
... Forgot about that; another good example. In fact it reminds me I once found one Tengwar font in which the tengwar were bound to keys related to their ...
Alex Fink
000024@...
Oct 1, 2008 10:03 pm
155382
... that ... A ... up ... living ... Yes, I suppose that would also come in handy for people that have roomates as well though most of the ones I've had had...
deinx nxtxr
deinx.nxtxr@...
Oct 1, 2008 10:06 pm
155383
... I think that was pretty much the idea behind CSUR, that each script could have its own allocation of characters from the PUA, which wouldn't overlap. On...
Herman Miller
hmiller@...
Oct 2, 2008 2:44 am
155384
I'm not trying to hijack this thread, but I read something that sparked an idea: BPJ: << There is obviously one place where this is of paramount desirability,...
David J. Peterson
dedalvs@...
Oct 2, 2008 3:05 am
155385
You can embed fonts in web pages; but the mechanism for doing so has not been standardized, so it's not widely used. Besides the technical issues, there are...
Mark J. Reed
markjreed@...
Oct 2, 2008 3:19 am
155386
... I'm glad this subject came up because I would like to get my site set up to push out the Deini fonts. Right now all I have is a notice letting people know...
deinx nxtxr
deinx.nxtxr@...
Oct 2, 2008 4:13 am
155387
Allow me to bespeak Galliotic (French of WHAT) for myself. It would be great fun! /BP...
Benct Philip Jonsson
bpj@...
Oct 2, 2008 6:08 am
155388
Mark: << Besides the technical issues, there are IP ones: Adobe doesn't want you to take one of their fonts that you have to pay for and put it someplace that...
David J. Peterson
dedalvs@...
Oct 2, 2008 7:09 am
155389
... A historically plausible idea that I might try if I ever found the right sound changes is Indo-Hellenic. Pete...
Peter Bleackley
Peter.Bleackley@...
Oct 2, 2008 8:52 am
155390
... Theoretically, it's possible in CSS 3: "Note that we can include within a declaration some instructions for intelligent substitution, downloading, and...
Przemys³aw Ziobro...
pmva@...
Oct 2, 2008 9:19 am
155391
... Well, Adobe wanting to be paid for the use of their work doesn't disgust me. They had to pay the artists who developed the fonts, after all. But like...
Mark J. Reed
markjreed@...
Oct 2, 2008 10:53 am
155392
... IE and Safari already support it, and Firefox 3.something will reportedly do so. That will pretty much make it "standard", especially if IE comes around...
Mark J. Reed
markjreed@...
Oct 2, 2008 10:56 am
155393
... The reference to "straight pieces" (note the plural) is not to the long handle, but to short pegs of wood inserted into a board which is then attached to...
caeruleancentaur
caeruleancentaur@...
Oct 2, 2008 1:21 pm
155394
I just wanted to show my "new" keyboard with QWERTY in black, DVORAK in blue — plus TENGWAR in green and TEHTAR in red! ... or ... The Dvorak actually stands...
Benct Philip Jonsson
bpj@...
Oct 2, 2008 2:06 pm
155395
This has come up once or twice before. I do remember a website a few years back for a conlang (name and author forgotten [the word for 'automobile'was _ford_...
ROGER MILLS
rfmilly@...
Oct 2, 2008 2:39 pm
155396
... A while back, (Feb, 2005 through Oct 2005) there was a thread on the list about my "does-everything" font. Just as a reminder, I came up with a single font...
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