On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 10:29 AM, Matthew Martin ... I would suggest paying more attention to whether your minimal pairs are in the same distributional...
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Jörg Rhiemeier
joerg_rhiemeier@...
Nov 3, 2010 3:18 pm
Hallo! ... WHAT? -- ... brought to you by the Weeping Elf http://www.joerg-rhiemeier.de/Conlang/index.html...
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Matthew Turnbull
ave.jor@...
Nov 3, 2010 4:26 am
... I agree, I almost constantly mix up such words, and I'm much more likely to forget what order sounds come in than what sounds compose the word. I agree ...
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Patrick Dunn
pwdunn@...
Nov 3, 2010 2:25 am
I find minimal pairs *helpful* in learning a language, as it offers me a mnemonic hook to associate words. ... -- I have stretched ropes from steeple to...
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Amanda Babcock Furrow
langs@...
Nov 3, 2010 2:22 am
... In my language-learning experience, I wasn't thrown by minimal pairs, but by words which switched elements - say, forak/forka. tylakhlp'f, Amanda...
Latin "com" - "con" *together* Latin "tonus" - *tune* / *tight* / *tense* "ables" - enabling use Contunerables - items used to tie together, such as rope and...
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BPJ
bpj@...
Nov 2, 2010 8:08 pm
... More probably someone took a definite masculine singular for a definite plural. Or even more probably it took its neuter gender from _víg_ 'battle'. As...
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Gary Shannon
fiziwig@...
Nov 2, 2010 7:34 pm
It became painfully apparent after doing the second day's translation exercise that maintaining a bilingual dictionary for conlang-X (No name as yet) was going...
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Matthew Martin
matthewdeanmartin@...
Nov 2, 2010 7:27 pm
Interesting, but it turns out to be difficult! I took the words I initially generated, replaced the consonants with a dash and counted how many dupes I had. I...
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David McCann
david@...
Nov 2, 2010 5:32 pm
... Trade with India via the Red Sea had been going on for years, though carefully hugging the coast. The direct trip across the Indian Ocean was introduced...
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And Rosta
and.rosta@...
Nov 2, 2010 5:22 pm
... I think we should ask ourselves what contunerbales are, in a world in which they aren't just contubernales. So today's Conlang challenge: provide an...
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Douglas Koller
laokou@...
Nov 2, 2010 5:01 pm
... From: "Matthew Boutilier" <mboutili@...> To: CONLANG@... Sent: Tuesday, November 2, 2010 12:31:50 PM Subject: Re: The War to Baffle All...
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Matthew Boutilier
mboutili@...
Nov 2, 2010 4:34 pm
... i've always wondered, how *do* you explain away disjunctions such as these? i have a feeling it would be a similar principle at work. matt...
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Philip Newton
philip.newton@...
Nov 2, 2010 4:29 pm
On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 3:29 PM, Matthew Martin ... How about alliteration? I assume you're going to allow more than one word per initial letter.... AFAIK,...
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Philip Newton
philip.newton@...
Nov 2, 2010 4:27 pm
... Make that "dislocation" and "equivocation", since "asphyxiation" doesn't have a /keI/ stressed syllable. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton...
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Larry Sulky
larrysulky@...
Nov 2, 2010 4:24 pm
It depends on your native language(s). If you speak Samoan, it's easy to get the consonants confused but you'll be very sensitive to vowels. (This is not ...
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Douglas Koller
laokou@...
Nov 2, 2010 3:27 pm
Okay, I can explain away things like: la mer/el mar, la fin/el fin etc. but "war" in Germanic: der Krieg de krijg (ja, ik weet, "de oorlog") krigen krigen ...
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Alex Fink
000024@...
Nov 2, 2010 3:01 pm
The following is the de facto Conlang-L FAQ, hosted at http://wiki.frath.net/Conlang-L_FAQ . Someone will post it once a month, copied directly from that page,...
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Matthew Martin
matthewdeanmartin@...
Nov 2, 2010 2:45 pm
I'm working on a 30 day Conlang as well, I've got my word list, now I need to remove defectives. I think minimal pairs are hard to learn (I don't know if that...
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Ph.D.
phil@...
Nov 2, 2010 11:37 am
Still a long way to go on this....
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Eugene Oh
un.doing@...
Nov 2, 2010 10:03 am
My first thought was: you'd have to drastically improve the naval technology of the times to make their failed trip possible in the first place… 2010/11/2...
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Douglas Koller
laokou@...
Nov 2, 2010 9:33 am
... From: "Peter Bleackley" <peter.bleackley@...> To: CONLANG@... Sent: Tuesday, November 2, 2010 5:01:22 AM Subject: Incorporating...
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Peter Bleackley
peter.bleackley@...
Nov 2, 2010 9:04 am
My "Latin by the Road Less Travelled" idea seems to be heading towards some type of marked nominative system at the moment, which has given me an idea for the...
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Peter Bleackley
peter.bleackley@...
Nov 2, 2010 8:07 am
... Sounds like Yoda, it does. Pete...
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Gary Shannon
fiziwig@...
Nov 2, 2010 1:41 am
... LOL! Just to prove that sometimes an old dog CAN learn new tricks. :) Besides, I needed a way to describe the sound I was making while saying the word, so...
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Ph.D.
phil@...
Nov 2, 2010 1:23 am
Gary, I like the start of your new conlang, but I never thought you'd ever use terminology like "that 'kh' is a voiceless velar or possibly uvular fricative."...
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Arthaey Angosii
arthaey@...
Nov 1, 2010 11:14 pm
... That's very true. I still like the orthography; "Işèna" makes me happier than "Ishenna" (although I could type the latter and search/replace it into the...
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Gary Shannon
fiziwig@...
Nov 1, 2010 9:24 pm
FWIW: The first day's translation is done: Miro kinta ka'anui susa ne ban khanu, kho byano matawika luyatu ne ka'anui opa hali. Dota edo mapona sofalia yamu a...
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Gary Shannon
fiziwig@...
Nov 1, 2010 5:30 pm
Since all of my previous conlangs (with the exception of a reverse Polish experiment) have been SVO, my first executive decision in creating my new, unamed...
