I have been more productive in conlanging in the last month than I think I have in the last several years put together, and most of that in the last week and a...
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Fredrik Ekman
ekman@...
Jan 3, 2012 6:12 pm
... At least two writers have exploited that idea. Both Stuart Byrne in Tarzan on Mars (an intended but unpublished pseudo-official sequel to Burroughs' books)...
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Hugo Cesar de Castro ...
hcesarcastro@...
Jan 3, 2012 3:07 pm
... I see, but I think that verblessness is the only way to create my [closed word classes]-less language. Involuntarily I came to this concept, I really ...
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Nikolay Ivankov
lukevilent@...
Jan 3, 2012 2:11 pm
On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Hugo Cesar de Castro Carneiro < ... Ok, I see, so basically You now let GEN and POSS to be more independent and become...
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Hugo Cesar de Castro ...
hcesarcastro@...
Jan 3, 2012 1:48 pm
... I read the 3rd versicle of Tower of Babel "And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar." and then I chose to use associative case for the...
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Nikolay Ivankov
lukevilent@...
Jan 3, 2012 12:59 pm
On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Hugo Cesar de Castro Carneiro < ... Well, I don't think I' got rid of the pronouns completely, but, I think, most of the words...
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Christophe Grandsire-...
tsela.cg@...
Jan 3, 2012 8:34 am
... I'm still trying to discover it as well. You'll be the first to know if I manage! :) ... Interesting. Originally mine was just filling up the possibilities...
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Alex Fink
000024@...
Jan 3, 2012 6:19 am
... Apparently it's DNS change propagation time and people can't see that. I quote the relevant section. ... (I said present / past / gnomic last time, I...
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Puey McCleary
pueymccleary@...
Jan 3, 2012 3:46 am
Since any reconstruction of Barsoomian is going to be rather imaginative, I’d just like to toss out a few ideas. For instance, isn’t the Mangani language...
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Alex Fink
000024@...
Jan 3, 2012 1:53 am
Sorry, I've been sitting on this and meaning to reply, but no-one's told me the secret of the 48-hour day yet, and you know how it is. Funnily enough I also...
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Sylvia Sotomayor
terjemar@...
Jan 2, 2012 8:35 pm
... No. There are several (minor) inconsistencies in the section on KÄ“len* which I would have corrected if asked. On the other hand, this way all the...
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Charlie Brickner
caeruleancentaur@...
Jan 2, 2012 8:25 pm
... you have, how have you classified and categorized the various types of abnormalities? As the first-created of the six peoples of Sefdaania, the Ethrans, in...
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Sam Stutter
samjjs89@...
Jan 2, 2012 8:10 pm
... Didn't he ask the people who created the languages? Or at least ask people who knew them in reasonable depth?...
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Padraic Brown
elemtilas@...
Jan 2, 2012 7:48 pm
... The book itself was mentioned, with a small amount of discussion. The below quoted review has not, so no worries! A couple comments on the book, now that...
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Wm Annis
wm.annis@...
Jan 2, 2012 6:44 pm
... It is hard to imagine two sentences which could surpass these in demonstrating the ignorance, arrogance and snowclone-style laziness that characterizes...
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John H. Chalmers
jhchalmers@...
Jan 2, 2012 5:52 pm
I hadn't seen this before or discussed on Conlang, so I thought I'd pass it on. Apologies if it is old news. --John * * * A Dictionary Of Made-Up Languages by...
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Hugo Cesar de Castro ...
hcesarcastro@...
Jan 2, 2012 5:01 pm
... You're right, Gary. I tried to translate this sentence you wrote, and I ended up with something like this: Making POSS-John GEN-end POSS-project INSTR-tool...
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Gary Shannon
fiziwig@...
Jan 2, 2012 3:08 pm
I played with a similar idea myself, many years ago, and as you point out, anything beyond the primer level becomes increasingly difficult to express. Things...
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Hugo Cesar de Castro ...
hcesarcastro@...
Jan 2, 2012 1:30 pm
... In my conlang there are no pronouns, only determiners (represented as affixes attached to the words they modify). So one can say "my book is blue" as...
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Nikolay Ivankov
lukevilent@...
Jan 2, 2012 12:11 pm
I've had similar ideas in my conlang, where I actually had a two-case system for a word: the one dealing with the "verb class" and another with the...
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Christophe Grandsire-...
tsela.cg@...
Jan 2, 2012 8:32 am
... Apparently nobody else either :/ . ... Thanks. I'm glad somebody else agrees. When I came up with the idea of using the noun morphology in the verb...
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Brian Woodward
altrius13@...
Jan 2, 2012 5:11 am
... Towards (as you said), to, on, at, into (depending on meaning). I like the idea you have going there. It's definitely unique!...
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Fredrik Ekman
ekman@...
Jan 2, 2012 1:52 am
This is a comment on Donald Boozer's fifth blog post on the Barsoomian language, titled "Adventures in Barsoomian Continued..." and published at ...
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Hugo Cesar de Castro ...
hcesarcastro@...
Jan 1, 2012 11:47 pm
Hallo conlangers, I'm creating my first conlang and I wanted it to have no stopwords/closed word classes (adpositions, conjunctions, particles, measure words,...
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Jim Henry
jimhenry1973@...
Jan 1, 2012 10:49 pm
... Sorry, sent that before I was finished with it... f,k, fÄm-cô-kyw-cjaj; cystic fibrosis ( < designed to match Fr. 'FK' < fibrose kystique) fÄm-cô...
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Jim Henry
jimhenry1973@...
Jan 1, 2012 10:47 pm
... gjâ-zym-byn has a number of words for specific illnesses, as well as general vocabulary for types of medical treatment and medical professionals. -- Jim...
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Logan Kearsley
chronosurfer@...
Jan 1, 2012 9:20 pm
... Yes, but that has little to do with how a non-European culture might classify things. ... From an objective, linguistics-oriented, point of view, that's...
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Jim Henry
jimhenry1973@...
Jan 1, 2012 5:55 pm
... gjâ-zym-byn's lexicon has 227 new entries in 2011, the last few of which aren't on the website yet. Nearly all those were derived words, only a handful...
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Padraic Brown
elemtilas@...
Jan 1, 2012 2:33 pm
... Interesting indeed! I'll definitely look into it. In the World's medicine, wounds are generally the province of the leechmen -- these are the healers that...
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MorphemeAddict
lytlesw@...
Jan 1, 2012 8:53 am
All of Europe uses one basic writing system, yet nobody considers all the various languages of Europe as mere dialects of some one language. Writing the...
