On Sat, 26 May 2012 10:31:07 -0500 ... Some languages transliterate, some transscribe. In English we've changed over the years: my generation write Khrushchev...
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Tony Harris
tony@...
May 26, 2012 7:20 pm
Thank you, Michael, for helping keep Volapük available! Sent from my ASUS Eee Pad...
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Jörg Rhiemeier
joerg_rhiemeier@...
May 26, 2012 7:45 pm
Hallo conlangers! ... Yes. As for my conlangs, in Roman Germanech the name is _Jesu_ [jÉ›'su], increasingly replaced by the form _Jesus_ which is borrowed...
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R A Brown
ray@...
May 26, 2012 7:52 pm
... If one was talking about auxlangs, then advantages & disadvantages would have some meaning. But let's leave that to Auxlang (far too flammable for here...
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Patrick Dunn
pwdunn@...
May 26, 2012 8:00 pm
All I can speak of is my personal tastes. I have, in general, preferred analytic languages aesthetically: one of my favorite Natlangs is Bahasa Indonesia. My...
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Jörg Rhiemeier
joerg_rhiemeier@...
May 26, 2012 8:16 pm
Hallo conlangers! ... Yup! Most auxlangers seem to opine against case, but as you said, this can is best left unopened here. ... Right. As for my own...
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Padraic Brown
elemtilas@...
May 26, 2012 8:27 pm
... (: Padraic...
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Padraic Brown
elemtilas@...
May 26, 2012 8:32 pm
... Well, what I was asking was the supposition that we did nòt borrow the name from Latin. But rather got it direct, in a manner of speaking. Or, perhaps,...
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Padraic Brown
elemtilas@...
May 26, 2012 8:45 pm
... I would just add my general agreement to what others have said: the answer really lies with what sort of conlang you have discovered. It's neither right...
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Roger Mills
romiltz@...
May 26, 2012 9:44 pm
To those who use Open Office Writer for their work: Over the past month I've been writing a paper on a topic in Indonesian linguistics; it includes a list with...
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Herman Miller
hmiller@...
May 26, 2012 9:48 pm
... I like cases for conlangs since they can help to identify the function of a noun in a sentence regardless of word order. Case agreement on adjectives can...
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Jeffrey Daniel Rollin...
jeff.rollin@...
May 26, 2012 10:04 pm
Sent from my iPhone ... Indeed. It wasn't until I started studying Judaism (in my late twenties) that I realised: (a) No-one except the central figure in...
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Nikolay Ivankov
lukevilent@...
May 26, 2012 10:04 pm
On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 5:59 PM, Dustfinger Batailleur < ... äÅÌÁ ÚÁÍÅÞÁÔÅÌØÎÏ! óÐÁÓÉÂÏ! Yep, to be honest, I know nothing about...
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Jeffrey Daniel Rollin...
jeff.rollin@...
May 26, 2012 10:09 pm
... I must be missing some messages as this is the first time I've seen this, but LOL....
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Jeffrey Daniel Rollin...
jeff.rollin@...
May 26, 2012 10:12 pm
Sent from my iPhone ... Unlikely to happen as the New Testament was, I believe, substantially or completely originally written in Greek, not Aramaic or Hebrew...
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Jeffrey Daniel Rollin...
jeff.rollin@...
May 26, 2012 10:18 pm
... Ok, maybe none of you will get this, but at this point I just have to say: "I get grossen Hhhammer and hhhit you on the hhhead with it, hhhhard!...
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Puey McCleary
pueymccleary@...
May 26, 2012 10:22 pm
Fawlty Towers: Basil: Manuel, go and get me a hammer Manuel: Que? Basil: A... hammer Manuel: Ahhhhh, a hammer sandwich! Basil: Oh, must we go through this...
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Jeffrey Daniel Rollin...
jeff.rollin@...
May 26, 2012 10:28 pm
That's the one. Hhhilarious! Sent from my iPhone...
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Garth Wallace
gwalla@...
May 26, 2012 11:31 pm
... I second this. Jim Breen is the man....
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Garth Wallace
gwalla@...
May 26, 2012 11:45 pm
On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 3:12 PM, Jeffrey Daniel Rollin-Jones ... Possible if they somehow got ahold of the Authentic Gospel of Matthew, if such a text ever...
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Charles W Brickner
tepeyachill@...
May 27, 2012 12:23 am
... Completely. Charlie...
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Charles W Brickner
tepeyachill@...
May 27, 2012 12:38 am
... If by "authentic" you mean a gospel prior to the Gospel of Matthew, only P. Benoit maintains today that there was an Aramaic original. The Greek of...
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Garth Wallace
gwalla@...
May 27, 2012 2:03 am
On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 5:38 PM, Charles W Brickner ... Yeah, I mean the gospel that Matthew supposedly wrote in "Hebrew" (probably meaning Aramaic), which is...
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Padraic Brown
elemtilas@...
May 27, 2012 2:13 am
... Right. I really wasn't suggesting anything of the sort! I really was just curious how the name "Yeshua'" would have turned out had we been using it since...
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R A Brown
ray@...
May 27, 2012 6:28 am
... [snip] ... Difficult to imagine how that could have happened. ... Well, Jerome did use the Hebrew for the guy we call Joshua rather than the Greek...
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Patrick Dunn
pwdunn@...
May 27, 2012 6:36 am
What was the general way that Greek transliterated and adapted names from other languages? Was it common to decline them as if they were native Greek words,...
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R A Brown
ray@...
May 27, 2012 8:08 am
On 26/05/2012 23:04, Jeffrey Daniel Rollin-Jones wrote: [snip] ... Not true. In Colossians 4:11 we have mention of a Jesus Justus and in the 13th chapter of...
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George Corley
gacorley@...
May 27, 2012 11:38 am
... Are your sure? The way people use personal names across languages can vary from place to place. For instance, Spanish-speakers I've known almost ...
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Puey McCleary
pueymccleary@...
May 27, 2012 12:51 pm
Bafö! Bravo! Lifom-ös Volapük! Long live Volapük! At last the tide is beginning to turn, and Volapük rises to challenge Esperanto’s dominance as the...
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Dustfinger Batailleur
dustfinger42@...
May 27, 2012 2:26 pm
Actually, if a conlang is completed, a grammar translated into said language shouldn't be all that hard. Tedious maybe, but not hard. Instead, it seems like a...
