Feayran's strategy for proper nouns in general is to drop any word-final vowels and replace them with the appropriate affix. Some foreign nouns ended up...
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kate rhodes
masukomi@...
Nov 3, 2009 7:33 pm
... [snip] ... well, if you bring in aliens with a radically different sense of self you might want to start thinking about how ants or other hive/colony type...
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Daniel Demski
dranorter@...
Nov 3, 2009 7:26 pm
I must ask about a couple of sound changes I'm considering! First, could there be any possible explanation for palatalization turning to rounding/whistling?...
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Daniel Demski
dranorter@...
Nov 3, 2009 7:10 pm
... That is the sort of concept of self I am aiming for with my unnamed conlang... ugh I'll just go ahead and name it: Morkux. That will change when I get my...
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Craig Daniel
teucer@...
Nov 3, 2009 6:57 pm
... Seasons allow both, as I noted upthread. Common nouns require the article (unless, of course, they are mass nouns, which seasons clearly aren't), proper...
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Mark J. Reed
markjreed@...
Nov 3, 2009 6:32 pm
Okaikiar has a declension pattern especially for nouns that don't fit any of the other patterns. This applies not only to borrowed nouns, but also to many...
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Philip Newton
philip.newton@...
Nov 3, 2009 6:12 pm
Those of you who have inflectional languages - what do you do with foreign proper nouns (in particular, personal names and names of other countries and their...
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Philip Newton
philip.newton@...
Nov 3, 2009 6:05 pm
... By that token, I suppose the seasons are proper nouns, too, since "in spring" is possible next to "in the spring". Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton...
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David McCann
david@...
Nov 3, 2009 6:01 pm
... This topic is currently being debated (with varying degrees of expertise) on the Conlanger and Zompist fora (or forums, if preferred). Obviously some...
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R A Brown
ray@...
Nov 3, 2009 12:13 pm
... Hans Winkler, of the University of Hamburg, coined the word _Genom_ in 1920. Nor is it actually an obvious Greek compound. It would seem that Hans Winkler...
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Christophe Grandsire-...
tsela.cg@...
Nov 3, 2009 10:42 am
2009/11/3 Maxime Papillon <salut_vous_autre@...> ... Indeed. They are mostly restricted to conservative scientific environments, and even then usually...
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Christophe Grandsire-...
tsela.cg@...
Nov 3, 2009 10:00 am
2009/11/3 Matthew Turnbull <ave.jor@...> ... I take it you mean [ʒenoˈmik], otherwise the pronunciation isn't French :) . And as Maxime indicated, the...
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Njenfalgar
njenfalgar@...
Nov 3, 2009 9:45 am
Dear all I have put some documentation on-line about Sar, Troilgulm and other languages that were spoken on the planet of Troil 500 years ago (from the ...
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Njenfalgar
njenfalgar@...
Nov 3, 2009 9:07 am
2009/11/2 Roger Mills <romiltz@...> ... Vietnamese just takes these words from Chinese. They take the Chinese characters and pronounce them the...
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Maxime Papillon
salut_vous_autre@...
Nov 3, 2009 9:01 am
... Since "library" and "librairie"are false friends, it indeed is a borrowing. However, as far as the rhetorical strength of a Google search goes, I'd say...
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Matthew Turnbull
ave.jor@...
Nov 3, 2009 5:29 am
I was in molecular biology class today, and we're studying genomic libraries, anyhow, I noticed that the french word for genomic library is "librarie...
... Yeah, that pattern is a feature of English syntax. I have no idea what corresponding pattern if any holds in German or Greek - or if there's even a...
... Though that doesn't work in those German dialects which allow (or even require? not sure) the definite article with names of people: "der Sepp und die...
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Roger Mills
romiltz@...
Nov 2, 2009 5:45 pm
For people familiar with Chinese, Vietnamese and similar monosyllabic languages.... In the course of LoCoWriMo, I've had to resort to some Gwr vocab. to borrow...
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kate rhodes
masukomi@...
Nov 2, 2009 4:57 pm
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Peter Bleackley ... Many would argue that that's simply a more accurate description of normal perception. No way to tell if...
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Peter Bleackley
Peter.Bleackley@...
Nov 2, 2009 4:34 pm
Occasioned by the discussion of what the languages of the Fairies in "Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrel" might be like, I've been wondering what a language might...
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Craig Daniel
teucer@...
Nov 2, 2009 4:13 pm
... I think it has to do with whether they permit "the" without any other qualifications. Ergo: Joe ate a pickle. The Joe with green eyes ate a pickle. *The...
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Toms Deimonds Barvidis
emopunk14@...
Nov 2, 2009 2:17 pm
... I don't think it has to make historical sense from our - human - point of view. Well.. it is an ELVEN (or what ever you call them) languages. Who knows...
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kate rhodes
masukomi@...
Nov 2, 2009 1:13 pm
... They're all names (or descended from names) of gods or planets. Sunday is named after the sun. Monday is the moon day. Tuesday is named for Tiwaz' the god...
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Larry Sulky
larrysulky@...
Nov 2, 2009 12:57 pm
... That's where my university Russian professor learned Russian and German....
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Mark J. Reed
markjreed@...
Nov 2, 2009 12:35 pm
I could swear we had a long thread about this quite recently, going back and forth on the orthography vs proper-nounness issue (are they capitalized because...
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Mark J. Reed
markjreed@...
Nov 2, 2009 12:16 pm
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 4:40 AM, Christophe Grandsire-Koevoets ... I certainly interpreted it as sarcasm, even at the tender age at which I first read the...
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Peter Bleackley
Peter.Bleackley@...
Nov 2, 2009 12:07 pm
... I seem to remember that Frodo didn't understand Galadriel's lament at the time, but that the magical properties of Quenya meant that it stuck in his mind...
