... Senjecas: sifa yuun-met-am! prosperous new-year-ACC.sg "I wish you" understood. Charlie...
caeruleancentaur
caeruleancentaur@...
Jan 1, 2009 11:34 am
156924
Jorayn doesn't really have a concept for year, but one might say mayaya'kko tiirsa vijerétoòmol ovo'yaliiyotuncar ma-yaya'-kko tiirsa vijeré-toòmo-l...
Matthew Turnbull
ave.jor@...
Jan 1, 2009 4:29 pm
156925
Snap - since the Auleri don't actually measure years (which usually are said to start around the Spring equinox) there's no "New Year's Day" as such, so one...
Michael Poxon
mike@...
Jan 1, 2009 5:04 pm
156926
Happy new year! ¡Feliz año nuevo! С Ðобым Годом! Bonan Jaron! ... <deinx nxtxr>[Dana Nutter] deinx.nxtxr@... LI SASXSEK LATIS....
<deinx nxtxr>
deinx.nxtxr@...
Jan 1, 2009 6:13 pm
156927
There is a version of Dia for Windows XP. --john...
John H. Chalmers
jhchalmers@...
Jan 1, 2009 6:53 pm
156928
Hi, Perikyan hiro mino! year happy new With regards to such wishes I tend not to use case marking because it'd be understood anyway. In my conlang the word for...
Carsten Becker
carbeck@...
Jan 1, 2009 6:55 pm
156929
Hallo! Old Albic: Aral nau laith thin! year new happy you-DAT 'A happy new year to you!' Germanech: Un felich an nov a vos! a happy year new to you 'A happy...
Jörg Rhiemeier
joerg_rhiemeier@...
Jan 1, 2009 7:59 pm
156930
On Thu, 1 Jan 2009 00:15:55 -0500, Amanda Babcock Furrow ... That's a rather long wish! Is that particularly formal, or is that the usual way of saying it? ...
I was looking up the BASIC programming language, and I thought that something like BASIC could double as a spoken language with some major adjustments. An...
Vincent Pistelli
pva003@...
Jan 3, 2009 1:28 am
156933
... Computer languages really can't easily be compared to human languages. Computer language for example has no need for an indicative mood which is the main...
<deinx nxtxr>
deinx.nxtxr@...
Jan 3, 2009 2:09 am
156934
... I beg to differ. The BASIC DATA statement is a fine example of an indicative. The indicative mood supplies statements of fact - that is to say,...
Mark J. Reed
markjreed@...
Jan 3, 2009 2:44 am
156935
... Yes, it could. And it does! It's called English. You're proposing a conlang that is restricted to things that your coding style would allow. That seems...
Christopher Wright
dhasenan@...
Jan 3, 2009 3:49 am
156936
Maybe yEd will do? I use it: <http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html> Edgard. On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 4:53 PM, John H. Chalmers...
Edgard Bikelis
bikelis@...
Jan 3, 2009 4:16 am
156937
I don't think that you quite understand me. I meant that I wanted to make a human language based on programming syntax not the word variety. Sent from my iPod ...
Vincent Pistelli
pva003@...
Jan 3, 2009 4:40 am
156938
I suggest the people interested in this thread take a look at HyperTalk: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperTalk -- Hasta la pasta, Rebecca Bettencourt. ... I...
Rebecca Bettencourt
beckiergb@...
Jan 3, 2009 5:22 am
156939
... How would you do that, though? How would you distinguish between past and non-past, for example? (Or is this a distinction you're not interested in...
Philip Newton
philip.newton@...
Jan 3, 2009 6:21 am
156940
... Just off the top of my head, let "red" be a function, called with the thing to be modified with redness: red(apple). Let tense be a function applying its...
Gary Shannon
fiziwig@...
Jan 3, 2009 8:29 am
156941
... Ah the memories! I actually wrote an entire interactive adventure/treasure hunt story where the names of places objects and characters and the course of...
Benct Philip Jonsson
bpj@...
Jan 3, 2009 12:22 pm
156942
... From: Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...> ... Actually, there are already mechanisms for depicting adjectives in OOP. For instance, in PHP: 1. apple->color ==...
Paul Kershaw
ptkershaw@...
Jan 3, 2009 3:27 pm
156943
Benct Philip Jonsson
bpj@...
Jan 3, 2009 5:41 pm
156944
I find that if the tongue is placed between the upper lip and the upper teeth, one can produce nasals and plosives as in a regular place of articulation....
Campbell Nilsen
cactus95@...
Jan 3, 2009 6:06 pm
156945
Seras hurain tulii ñasom! "May the solstice gladden y'all!" in Meghean (yeah, the solstice was two weeks ago. Sue me for laziness.) ... -- Andreas Johansson ...
Andreas Johansson
andreasj@...
Jan 3, 2009 6:07 pm
156946
It's normally called a lisp. :-) Eugene ... -- Eugene...
Eugene Oh
un.doing@...
Jan 3, 2009 7:08 pm
156947
... Smalltalk (assuming that the maiden lived in the mentioned town): Time:= #once. town:= Place new: #urban position: X. lair:= Place new: #rural position:...
Lars Finsen
lars.finsen@...
Jan 3, 2009 7:12 pm
156948
-- On Sat, 1/3/09, Paul Kershaw <ptkershaw@...> wrote: ... In C++: apple.color = red; // when "apple" is an object apple->color = red; // when "apple" is...
Gary Shannon
fiziwig@...
Jan 3, 2009 7:29 pm
156949
... apple.color == red; //Statement, can be either true or false. Remember that programming languages are a type of loglang, as computer science is a type of...
Ina van der Vegt
gijsstrider@...
Jan 3, 2009 9:16 pm
156950
... And I think they ought to be expressed with operators/ideographs rather that functions, if the exercise is going to be anything but a weird resyntax for...
Benct Philip Jonsson
bpj@...
Jan 3, 2009 9:17 pm
156951
... I think a major obstacle to using computer language syntax for natural languages is the function of each sort of communication. Computer language is used...
Paul Kershaw
ptkershaw@...
Jan 3, 2009 9:30 pm
156952
... There are declarative programming languages (Prolog, METAFONT) in which the programmer describes the state of the world and can then query for more...