I'm off to Spain for a week or so, so I've gone NOMAIL. ¡Hasta luego! -- Ray ================================== http://www.carolandray.plus.com ...
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Peter Bleackley
peter.bleackley@...
Apr 1, 2011 8:36 am
... Not exactly. They are suffixes that fulfil a variety of morphological roles, and a noun can carry a number of different segunakar simultaneously. And is...
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Peter Bleackley
peter.bleackley@...
Apr 1, 2011 8:49 am
... The interesting thing about this idea is that perlative is a logical match for an instrumental. I wonder if secundative=instrumental is a combination of...
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Samuel Stutter
Sam.Stutter@...
Apr 1, 2011 12:43 pm
L1: English L2: Spanish A little rusty on: French Limited knowledge of: Mandarin, Old English, Romani, Swedish Trying to learn: Gaelic, Finnish, Armenian From...
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Njenfalgar
njenfalgar@...
Apr 1, 2011 4:02 pm
2011/3/31 Adam Walker <carraxan@...> ... Under the exact conditions you are describing, I would say the toughest part would be to survive... :-) [1] As...
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Patrick Dunn
pwdunn@...
Apr 1, 2011 5:33 pm
This language, called Alurastinanic (pronounced [ba]] is a oligofusional language in which all morphemes are fused into a single conjugation of the same...
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James 'Twey' ...
twey@...
Apr 1, 2011 5:37 pm
Phonetic mutations and anything that blurs word boundaries. So long as I can pick out words I'm usually okay, but when the language starts making that hard I...
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Padraic Brown
elemtilas@...
Apr 1, 2011 5:43 pm
... It's not so much about the language itself, but what does actually make a language hard for me is not having an informant that can explain the language....
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Toms Deimonds Barvidis
emopunk14@...
Apr 1, 2011 5:47 pm
Despite my grandpa having died yesterday, this definitely made my day. Especialy the "no one likes adverbs" part. P.S. I really hope this is an April's fools...
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Adam Walker
carraxan@...
Apr 1, 2011 5:49 pm
This is hillarious! Thanks for the laugh. Huge waste of dorks' time... LOL Adam...
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Adam Walker
carraxan@...
Apr 1, 2011 5:50 pm
Sorry about your bad news, but, yes, that was another of my favorite lines. Adam On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Toms Deimonds Barvidis...
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Eric Christopherson
rakko@...
Apr 1, 2011 5:59 pm
... Is this language related to the all-[da] language illustrated here <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lih0Z2IbIUQ&feature=related> ?...
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Adam Walker
carraxan@...
Apr 1, 2011 6:04 pm
... Absolutely not. It can be empirically shown that {da} somes from an underlying [Nop] while is underlyingly [tIs]. Don't let surface forms fool you! Adam...
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Matthew Turnbull
ave.jor@...
Apr 1, 2011 6:07 pm
I play it too, and I'm really looking forward to it. But they've been keeping it under wraps, I think with the new set release they'll give up the info. I hope...
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Daniel Bowman
danny.c.bowman@...
Apr 1, 2011 6:50 pm
... Exactly. I really hate adverbs. Hopefully I will be able to avoid them in the future, while not procrastinatingly typing emails at work....
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Matthew Martin
matthewdeanmartin@...
Apr 1, 2011 7:19 pm
I'm participating in the Powhatan Reconstruction Project & working on learning the language as seen in the move The New World. Since it is a remnant language,...
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Dale McCreery
mccreery@...
Apr 1, 2011 7:22 pm
Dale-ba baba, Ba, bababaaa, ba ba ba. Ba ba baba ba-bababa? BA! ba ba "joke"-ba, baba "linguists"-ba, baÂ’aba, Dale-ba baba "NO!" Baba, baba, baaaba ba ...
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Daniel Bowman
danny.c.bowman@...
Apr 1, 2011 7:28 pm
Bark....
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Dale McCreery
mccreery@...
Apr 1, 2011 7:37 pm
My language laicwaamapoleeht is algonquian type, including obviate/proximate, independent/conjunct verb systems, pronoun ordering and initial/medial/final...
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Arthaey Angosii
arthaey@...
Apr 1, 2011 8:19 pm
... You, sir, are my hero. Even if you *did* get Conjunction Junction stuck in my head. ;) I have tweeted your awesomeness: ...
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Matthew Martin
matthewdeanmartin@...
Apr 1, 2011 8:23 pm
On Fri, 1 Apr 2011 12:32:34 -0700, Dale McCreery <mccreery@...> ... That is hard core to write your reference grammar for a conlang in an uncommon 2nd...
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taliesin the storytel...
taliesin-conlang@...
Apr 1, 2011 9:42 pm
... How does the first "sleepiness" differ from the second "sleepiness"? t....
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Adam Walker
carraxan@...
Apr 1, 2011 9:53 pm
On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 4:37 PM, taliesin the storyteller < ... The first "sleepiness" is between aspect and colorfulness, while the second "sleepiness" is...
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Jim Henry
jimhenry1973@...
Apr 1, 2011 10:45 pm
On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 4:14 PM, Matthew Martin ... My original documentation for gjâ-zym-byn was about half in English, half in Esperanto (which I was...
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Larry Sulky
larrysulky@...
Apr 1, 2011 11:31 pm
... Ahem. "Furiosity". -- *Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.* -- Gustave Flaubert...
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J. Burke
rtoennis@...
Apr 1, 2011 11:43 pm
Great project. I'm in love with Algonquian (esp. the Central languages and Cheyenne); they've been my conlanging fodder for years. My main language family...
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J. Burke
rtoennis@...
Apr 1, 2011 11:57 pm
Moreover, it varies among the daughter languages; the proximate-obviative distinction seems to have begun in Algic as some kind of topicality or definiteness...
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David Edwards
dedwards@...
Apr 2, 2011 1:37 am
(Cross-posting from the ZBB:) Hey guys! So, I started sketching a new project. I have a morphosyntactic analysis in mind, but I suspect I may be overthinking...
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Matthew Martin
matthewdeanmartin@...
Apr 2, 2011 3:34 am
... you'd like; but I'll warn you that it's large in volume, and dense. Yes! True story-- I was researching polysynthetic languages in general, for an ...
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Andrew Mendes
andrewtmendes@...
Apr 2, 2011 3:34 am
Wow! So I could assign one feature to phrase modifiers and another to head modifiers... or something like that?Haha, "macro" and "micro". Of course, cause I'd...
