...  This is how Tengwar fonts work. The normally tall rectangular Tengwar table is mapped sideways to the physical keys of the broad rectangular QWERTY...
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Henrik Theiling
theiling@...
Oct 1, 2008 10:57 am
Hi! ... I wonder whether some words are direct translations from German, like _chokestuff_ 'Stickstoff' and _sourstuff_ 'Sauerstoff'. They look so much like...
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Henrik Theiling
theiling@...
Oct 1, 2008 11:19 am
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...
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Mark J. Reed
markjreed@...
Oct 1, 2008 12:52 pm
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...
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Henrik Theiling
theiling@...
Oct 1, 2008 1:28 pm
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....
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caeruleancentaur
caeruleancentaur@...
Oct 1, 2008 2:10 pm
... 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...
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Michael Poxon
mike@...
Oct 1, 2008 2:35 pm
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...
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caeruleancentaur
caeruleancentaur@...
Oct 1, 2008 6:13 pm
... The PIE root *reg- (move-, direct-, -in a straight line) gives English (through *rog- in Germanic) the word "rake," (German "rechen") the garden implement...
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Doro Winkelhofer
andoromeda83@...
Oct 1, 2008 6:54 pm
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...
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Philip Newton
philip.newton@...
Oct 1, 2008 7:12 pm
... That was certainly my assumption when I read the text. Cheers, -- Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>...
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Jörg Rhiemeier
joerg_rhiemeier@...
Oct 1, 2008 7:35 pm
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 ...
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Philip Newton
philip.newton@...
Oct 1, 2008 8:06 pm
... The first is Rhaetian ( http://conlang.wunschzetel.de/rhaetian/ ): basically Ancient Greek with sound changes from PIE through Common Germanic to Modern...
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Alex Fink
000024@...
Oct 1, 2008 9:17 pm
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: ...
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Alex Fink
000024@...
Oct 1, 2008 9:37 pm
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...
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Alex Fink
000024@...
Oct 1, 2008 10:03 pm
... 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 ...
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deinx nxtxr
deinx.nxtxr@...
Oct 1, 2008 10:06 pm
... 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...
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Herman Miller
hmiller@...
Oct 2, 2008 2:44 am
... 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...
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David J. Peterson
dedalvs@...
Oct 2, 2008 3:05 am
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,...
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Mark J. Reed
markjreed@...
Oct 2, 2008 3:19 am
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...
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deinx nxtxr
deinx.nxtxr@...
Oct 2, 2008 4:13 am
... 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...
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Benct Philip Jonsson
bpj@...
Oct 2, 2008 6:08 am
Allow me to bespeak Galliotic (French of WHAT) for myself. It would be great fun! /BP...
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David J. Peterson
dedalvs@...
Oct 2, 2008 7:09 am
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...
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Peter Bleackley
Peter.Bleackley@...
Oct 2, 2008 8:52 am
... A historically plausible idea that I might try if I ever found the right sound changes is Indo-Hellenic. Pete...
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Przemys³aw Ziobro...
pmva@...
Oct 2, 2008 9:19 am
... Theoretically, it's possible in CSS 3: "Note that we can include within a declaration some instructions for intelligent substitution, downloading, and...
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Mark J. Reed
markjreed@...
Oct 2, 2008 10:53 am
... 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...
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Mark J. Reed
markjreed@...
Oct 2, 2008 10:56 am
... 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...
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caeruleancentaur
caeruleancentaur@...
Oct 2, 2008 1:21 pm
... 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...
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Benct Philip Jonsson
bpj@...
Oct 2, 2008 2:06 pm
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...
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ROGER MILLS
rfmilly@...
Oct 2, 2008 2:39 pm
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_...
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Gary Shannon
fiziwig@...
Oct 2, 2008 4:49 pm
... 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...
