What about using different synonyms for a certain meaning to convey more info? Maybe when you use the "native" root the sentence is true, and when you use the...
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Charlie
caeruleancentaur@...
Nov 1, 2009 9:54 am
... Any 24-hour period (commonly midnight to midnight) is called a day. Day is a common noun. In the seven-day cycle commonly used each day has a name....
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Toms Deimonds Barvidis
emopunk14@...
Nov 1, 2009 1:50 pm
... Longrimol uses animacy as a distinctive feature both in pronouns and verb conjugation, while gender distinction appears in pronouns only. ... -- In mist...
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Gary Shannon
fiziwig@...
Nov 1, 2009 3:34 pm
... If the people doing the coercing/surveillance where not native speakers of your L1 (assume English for the moment) then it would be unlikely that they...
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Muke Tever
muke@...
Nov 1, 2009 4:09 pm
... But that's an exception, not the rule. We don't normally make regular parts of things proper, even when cyclical; we don't say morning, noon, afternoon,...
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kate rhodes
masukomi@...
Nov 1, 2009 4:10 pm
... Not yet, I will relatively soon. Right now it's just over 300 words. I was unable to do LoCoWriMo in Oct, so instead of NaNoWriMo I intend to just do...
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Alex Fink
000024@...
Nov 1, 2009 5:02 pm
... David Peterson's, I think you mean. Alex...
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Eldin Raigmore
eldin_raigmore@...
Nov 1, 2009 5:41 pm
Paul Hartzer's Fri 14 Aug post to the "Punctuation, capitalization, collation" thread comes closest, among posts on that thread, to addressing my questions in...
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Eldin Raigmore
eldin_raigmore@...
Nov 1, 2009 5:51 pm
On Sat, 31 Oct 2009 17:55:23 -0500, Eric Christopherson ... <http://listserv.brown.edu/archives/cgi-bin/wa?A1=ind0908b&L=conlang> ... Paul Hartzer's Fri 14 Aug...
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Eldin Raigmore
eldin_raigmore@...
Nov 1, 2009 6:11 pm
If you have a pre-arranged numeric code, you could reply in words of N syllables. For instance if you wanted to pass along "three one four one five nine" you...
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Arnt Richard Johansen
arj@...
Nov 1, 2009 7:56 pm
... I'm too lazy to find any references for this, but I seem to recall that stage magicians have for a long time used the initial consonants of words to...
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Gary Shannon
fiziwig@...
Nov 1, 2009 8:47 pm
... As a former semi-profession magician (back in the early 1960's) the method I'm familiar with is a set of code phrases. An assistant goes out into the...
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Craig Daniel
teucer@...
Nov 1, 2009 11:01 pm
... The best variant of two-person telepathy I'm aware of (documented, IIRC, in Corinda) involves the magician explaining that he is going to have people take...
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Eric Christopherson
rakko@...
Nov 1, 2009 11:28 pm
... So how *does* the assistant know?...
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Herman Miller
hmiller@...
Nov 1, 2009 11:38 pm
... I used to have Elves in my previous world (the Kolagian universe), although over time I started calling them "Nelya" instead of "Elves". It made sense to...
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Craig Daniel
teucer@...
Nov 2, 2009 12:14 am
... Hah, that somehow got deleted as I was editing my message. The information is conveyed through the duration of the pause between confirming one object and...
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Patrick Dunn
pwdunn@...
Nov 2, 2009 12:22 am
... Just as a guess, maybe there's a pre-memorized sequence of items. Say, "keys, wallet, coin, watch." The magician just needs to point to objects in that...
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Larry Sulky
larrysulky@...
Nov 2, 2009 2:31 am
Any of you ever seen this? The US Border Patrol uses an artificial language to assess candidates' ability to learn Spanish....
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Larry Sulky
larrysulky@...
Nov 2, 2009 2:32 am
Oops. Maybe I should paste the link, eh? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSeRs3BfWTk...
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David Peterson
dedalvs@...
Nov 2, 2009 2:39 am
... This isn't limited to that. There's apparently a test that's a part of joining the Army (likely other branches of the military, too) that helps them...
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Larry Sulky
larrysulky@...
Nov 2, 2009 2:55 am
Next time I go to see a magic show I'm going to have, in my pocket, a rubber chicken, a grapefruit spoon, a doily, and a gas mask....
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Gary Shannon
fiziwig@...
Nov 2, 2009 3:09 am
... In 1963 the US Air Force gave me and a handful of other recruits in my flight a series of language aptitude tests that included translating to and from a...
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David E
cryoforion@...
Nov 2, 2009 3:13 am
I'll bring extras to pass out to the other patrons....
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Roger Mills
romiltz@...
Nov 2, 2009 3:30 am
AT one point in my two+ years in the army, I applied for the Army Language School, then in Fort Ord Calif. There was a test of course, I think it included data...
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David Peterson
dedalvs@...
Nov 2, 2009 3:43 am
... It was a part of the general test that all recruits took. I suspect its use has simply been expanded. -David ...
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kate rhodes
masukomi@...
Nov 2, 2009 6:34 am
... Er, yes. Sorry David. Not sure why I thought it was Jim's. -Kate...
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Christophe Grandsire-...
tsela.cg@...
Nov 2, 2009 9:42 am
2009/10/31 Toms Deimonds Barvidis <emopunk14@...> ... He was probably taught both Elvish languages by Bilbo, but there is no indication that he was...
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Christophe Grandsire-...
tsela.cg@...
Nov 2, 2009 9:48 am
2009/10/30 Sam Stutter <sam.stutter@...> ... Hehe, nothing wrong with that. I myself am using quite a few more or less obvious borrowings...
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Christophe Grandsire-...
tsela.cg@...
Nov 2, 2009 10:08 am
2009/10/29 Peter Bleackley <Peter.Bleackley@...> ... I'm not sure whether Maggel's grammatical structure reflects insanity (trying to document it does...
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Peter Bleackley
Peter.Bleackley@...
Nov 2, 2009 10:22 am
... Kennings. Have a system of non-obvious but memorable metonyms for some of the things you want to discuss (eg the Bread's Voice for a priest). Used a bit in...
