... Oops, ke'a is more for noi & poi, isn't it, rather than (lo) nu and friends, is it. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>...
Philip Newton
philip.newton@...
Jul 1, 2009 8:22 am
162117
Has any of you devised a tactile representation of your conlang('s script), such as something based on Braille? Obviously, if you use a plain-ASCII...
Philip Newton
philip.newton@...
Jul 1, 2009 8:30 am
162118
Very first thing I thought of - seeing as such a mixup of messages is not the norm for people on this list, and probably indicates a major untreated ...
Wesley Parish
wes.parish@...
Jul 1, 2009 11:17 am
162119
... It seems to me that the person for whom it was intended should remain nameless at ANY point. Charlie...
caeruleancentaur
caeruleancentaur@...
Jul 1, 2009 12:03 pm
162120
Hi! ... Hehe, thanks! :-) I was surprised myself when I found that one, actually -- it was pure coincidence. The sound shifts are so close to those of...
Henrik Theiling
theiling@...
Jul 1, 2009 12:47 pm
162121
FAIL Well, this message is so strange... I'm from Brazil, so I thought it could be for me, but the content doesn't match... I don't plan to meet interesting...
Bruno Barcelos
bruno.barcelos.alves@...
Jul 1, 2009 4:26 pm
162122
Could we just stop talking about this, please? Someone sent a message to the wrong address. It happens. Dwelling on it is just going to make them feel...
Mark J. Reed
markjreed@...
Jul 1, 2009 4:37 pm
162123
... The rules is actually that the tonos can only occur on a capitalised initial in a normal text. If the text is all capitals, then no accent is used. The...
David McCann
david@...
Jul 1, 2009 5:07 pm
162124
Appologies in advance to those who have recieved or will recieve multiple copies of this e-mail. Quite a number of you are on multiple con-whatsit lists, or...
Adam Walker
carrajena@...
Jul 1, 2009 6:08 pm
162125
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 7:03 PM, taliesin the ... Did I overlook something, or is that undocumented? "tšah" isn't in the short list of complemented verbs in...
Jim Henry
jimhenry1973@...
Jul 1, 2009 6:35 pm
162126
I take it by now, the answer is "no"...? Lee ... From: Sai Emrys <saizai@...> Subject: Re: Holly Lisle's Create A Language Clinic To:...
Lee
waywardwretch@...
Jul 1, 2009 11:05 pm
162127
... The first three chapters are available online, FWIW. :) http://hollylisle.com/tm/create-a-language1.html...
Ronald Craig
rjcraig@...
Jul 1, 2009 11:38 pm
162128
... I have a writing system similar to Braille called Pinteg (the idea is that it's used by raccoon people to allow reading in the dark). Unlike Braille, not...
Herman Miller
hmiller@...
Jul 1, 2009 11:46 pm
162129
... From chapter 1: "What does it mean to an Eskimo, who lives in a world where snow is both ally and enemy, and who has multiple words for the same frozen...
Paul Hartzer
paulhartzer@...
Jul 2, 2009 12:12 am
162130
... Oh, no, no, no, no.... -- Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>...
Mark J. Reed
markjreed@...
Jul 2, 2009 12:17 am
162131
... To be fair to her, that's not something I'd throw the entire book out over, since she's not pretending to be a linguist; it's not necessary to be a...
Paul Hartzer
paulhartzer@...
Jul 2, 2009 12:18 am
162132
Well - chapter two - about how most other languages don't have loan words, 'exceptions' to rules or much of the things that English has - doesn't strike me as...
Elliott Lash
erelion12@...
Jul 2, 2009 1:32 am
162133
... Sasxsek, uses the standard Braille. There is also a deaf alphabet, the beginnings of what will eventually be the signed version of the language. I don't...
<deinx nxtxr>
deinx.nxtxr@...
Jul 2, 2009 2:45 am
162134
... I know next to nothing about the Eskimo-Aleut languages, but IS this an urban legend? Obviously, while there aren't 20+ roots for snow, these being highly...
J. Burke
rtoennis@...
Jul 2, 2009 3:04 am
162135
... In a sense, yes. Inuktitut has hundreds of derivational and inflectional suffixes that can be combined to create new words from old roots. But if this...
David Peterson
dedalvs@...
Jul 2, 2009 3:12 am
162136
... Right; you can't offer Eskimo words for snow as an indication of the importance of snow in their culture or thought, because they can have umpteen...
J. Burke
rtoennis@...
Jul 2, 2009 3:45 am
162137
... Perhaps we should offer a collective CONLANG commentary for improvement of the book?...
J. Burke
rtoennis@...
Jul 2, 2009 3:45 am
162138
... Well, besides Zompist's Language Creation Kit, and the conlanging-oriented linguistics textbook project that seems to have been stalled for a couple of...
Jim Henry
jimhenry1973@...
Jul 2, 2009 4:13 am
162139
... I'll start. :) "In many languages, you cannot sashay, prance, amble, wander, stroll, strut, swagger, shimmy, wriggle, float, tiptoe, galumph, creep, clomp,...
J. Burke
rtoennis@...
Jul 2, 2009 4:20 am
162140
... She'd probably love that. I'd instead call for a different resource to replace it. -David ...
David Peterson
dedalvs@...
Jul 2, 2009 4:36 am
162141
... Geoffrey Pullum addresses the myth in The Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax...
Paul Hartzer
paulhartzer@...
Jul 2, 2009 4:42 am
162142
... urban legend? Obviously, while there aren't 20+ roots for snow, these being highly synthetic languages (on the order of Mohawk, I'm told), there very well...
Alex Fink
000024@...
Jul 2, 2009 4:45 am
162143
... Yes, well, now that I've had a chance to read chapters 2 and 3, I take it back, I would now say she's pretending to be a linguist, and as such is doing a...
Paul Hartzer
paulhartzer@...
Jul 2, 2009 4:56 am
162144
... For those of you exploring Braille and Braille-like representations, do you also provide Braille-like shortcuts? IIRC many common words and word parts have...
Lee
waywardwretch@...
Jul 2, 2009 5:11 am
162145
... No, I'm not that familiar with Braille. I would have to say no for now because I'm guessing that the existing shortcuts are tailored to particular...
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