... There may be a sub-conscious pun working there, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zurvan :) - Andrew. -- Andrew Smith -- hobbit@... -- ...
andrew
hobbit@...
Apr 1, 2009 8:01 am
159413
... You are right in your description of how it says, and Roger is AFAIK right in his explanation of why (your vocal chords are still being told to...
Tristan McLeay
conlang@...
Apr 1, 2009 8:13 am
159414
... True. Consider that to have been what I meant! ;-) /BP -- unused to bear the logician's hat. (there's a reason I'm a Yogácárin and not a Mádhyamaka!...
Benct Philip Jonsson
bpj@...
Apr 1, 2009 9:28 am
159415
... Seconded, thirded and fourthed! /BP...
Benct Philip Jonsson
bpj@...
Apr 1, 2009 9:30 am
159416
... Then why does it matter if languages go extinct? -- Tristan....
Tristan McLeay
conlang@...
Apr 1, 2009 9:34 am
159417
... Is an Arabic broadpen cut straight or slanted for right-handed writers? That would be a clue, if anyone has seen an illutration. On a tangent: once on a...
Benct Philip Jonsson
bpj@...
Apr 1, 2009 9:43 am
159418
... Because the more the merrier! (And because language student's hats and language creator's hats are differently shaped, even though creator's hats usually...
Benct Philip Jonsson
bpj@...
Apr 1, 2009 9:47 am
159419
... What do you mean by "aim"? Is there a requirement that there should be voicing after a /p/ in English? (And is this a clue to why it is dropped before a t...
Lars Finsen
lars.finsen@...
Apr 1, 2009 11:06 am
159420
Following on Arthur C. Clarke's 3rd Law, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." we have Shermer's Last Law: "Any sufficiently...
RoseRose
faithfulscribe@...
Apr 1, 2009 1:36 pm
159421
That's an interesting aesthetic challenge. Are you familiar with Margaret Magnus and phonosemantics <http://www.trismegistos.com/>? She makes a strong...
RoseRose
faithfulscribe@...
Apr 1, 2009 1:43 pm
159422
yeah, that's why i put "cause" in quotes. i tend to think in systems, like cybernetics, especially 2nd order cybernetics. Especially when i comes to ...
RoseRose
faithfulscribe@...
Apr 1, 2009 1:43 pm
159423
I went down the mass and spacetime path with you a way, thought about that formula of Einstein's: the mass of a moving body = the mass of the body at rest...
RoseRose
faithfulscribe@...
Apr 1, 2009 1:51 pm
159424
That's delicious. Thanks for the "secret" peek into Lojban humor. I have the book, and there weren't too many chuckles in it. RR...
RoseRose
faithfulscribe@...
Apr 1, 2009 1:56 pm
159425
... I was talking about a /p/ in an onset, which is aspirated. Obviously because of the phonotactics of English, the only possible sounds you can get after /p/...
Tristan McLeay
conlang@...
Apr 1, 2009 1:58 pm
159426
I'm starting to see the conlang book idea as being a series: telling jokes in conlangs, erotic literature in conlangs, etc. RR...
RoseRose
faithfulscribe@...
Apr 1, 2009 1:59 pm
159427
Beautiful rant, indeed.Whether one puts attention on emphasizing likeness and universals, as I think you are getting at, or differences, as I was trying to...
RoseRose
faithfulscribe@...
Apr 1, 2009 2:39 pm
159428
That is a very high level of skill indeed, to be able to differentiate language and thought in a sequential manner--much less to have some control over it....
RoseRose
faithfulscribe@...
Apr 1, 2009 2:42 pm
159429
uh--boys will be boys? [girls will be girls too of course--we just talk about "it" differently?] RR...
RoseRose
faithfulscribe@...
Apr 1, 2009 2:46 pm
159430
... It is this mutual co-evolutionary aspect that interests me. Thanks. RR...
RoseRose
faithfulscribe@...
Apr 1, 2009 3:03 pm
159431
... Variety is charming. It makes linguists busy. Maybe that's enough of a point after all. But from a practical point of view it really would have been much...
Lars Finsen
lars.finsen@...
Apr 1, 2009 3:24 pm
159432
... And I think it does. It's probably true that there's nothing you can express in one general-purpose language that you can't express in any other; but ...
Jim Henry
jimhenry1973@...
Apr 1, 2009 3:26 pm
159433
That depends on the language. If a language is formally oligosynthetic with a closed set of morphemes, than any new coinages automatically make a new...
Mark J. Reed
markjreed@...
Apr 1, 2009 3:52 pm
159434
... There really is a point-- a language isn't just a cultural artifact or a tool for communication or expression or even for thought. It's a badge of...
M.S. Soderquist
gloriouswaffle@...
Apr 1, 2009 4:18 pm
159435
... Exactly! Why otherwise was Hebrew revived in Israel? Why in the last century did enthusiasts revive Cornish etc? O bydded i'r hen iaith barhau! -- Ray ...
R A Brown
ray@...
Apr 1, 2009 6:00 pm
159436
... Define "practical." As previously discussed, there are multiple ways to express something in a single language; the selection between these is...
Paul Kershaw
ptkershaw@...
Apr 1, 2009 6:03 pm
159437
Does anyone know anywhere I can find data on how long people could expect to live in old times once they had managed to reach adulthood -- i.e. basically life...
Benct Philip Jonsson
bpj@...
Apr 1, 2009 6:46 pm
159438
... Turing completeness, eh?...
G. van der Vegt
gijsstrider@...
Apr 1, 2009 6:57 pm
159439
Sigh. You can say--all ice cream is ice cream. Or you can appreciate flavors. Personally, I default to chocolate (my native tongue?) but can be talked into...
RoseRose
faithfulscribe@...
Apr 1, 2009 7:04 pm
159440
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_expectancy http://www.efmoody.com/estate/lifeexpectancy.html http://ije.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/34/6/1435 I think...
Sai Emrys
saizai@...
Apr 1, 2009 7:05 pm
159441
What you want is 'historical adult mortality rates'. Here is a l;ink to a Google search on that: ...
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