Here's how I would sketch a vampire language out: select the migration pattern of the centers of vampiric power and place it in a timetable. Then, depending on...
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Gary Shannon
fiziwig@...
Aug 17, 2012 8:35 pm
No offense meant! By now I assume everyone on the CONLANG list knows my tongue-in-cheek, devil's advocate style. (such as my annual anti-phonology rant, for...
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Anthony Miles
mamercus88@...
Aug 17, 2012 8:38 pm
I can't speak for anyone else, but the reason Siye acquired two methods of coordination (the comitative enclitic =ni and the morpheme (h)am/-am/-m) is this....
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Douglas Koller
douglaskoller@...
Aug 17, 2012 8:44 pm
... /ɱ/, /p̪/, /b̪/, /f/, /v/, /ʋ/, /ⱱ/, /n̪/, /t̪/, /d̪/, and /θ/ and /ð/ (apologies to Mr. Fink ;) ) would be AWEsome! Labio-canines and canines? ...
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Logan Kearsley
chronosurfer@...
Aug 17, 2012 9:00 pm
... Indeed it is. There is a distinct lack of science fiction in which the relevant science (or one of the relevant sciences) is linguistics. There's the...
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Padraic Brown
elemtilas@...
Aug 17, 2012 9:11 pm
... Don't forget Lorinda's "Termite Queen" series! The relevant science is linguistics, and the hero of the story is a linguist! Padraic...
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Logan Kearsley
chronosurfer@...
Aug 17, 2012 9:15 pm
... I find myself uncomfortable with the given definition of "abstract language" in this kind of edge case; is gzb properly called abstract because *you* are...
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Dirk Elzinga
dirk.elzinga@...
Aug 17, 2012 9:27 pm
... I can think of these four right off the top of my head: * The Embedding. Ian Watson. The Embedding is center embedding. What happens to kids who are taught...
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George Corley
gacorley@...
Aug 17, 2012 9:29 pm
... Playing devil's advocate is fine, but (1) the whole point of playing devil's advocate is to make others hone their argument, so the person playing devil's...
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George Corley
gacorley@...
Aug 17, 2012 9:32 pm
I'm surprised no one has mentioned Embassytown yet. Yes, it is fantastic and the main premise is impossible, but it is all about linguistics (bizarre alien...
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Henrik Theiling
ht@...
Aug 17, 2012 9:49 pm
Hi! ... I tend to agree, but also disagree. I have been very successful in one case: Þrjótrun, and quite successful afterwards in another: Tirkunan. In the...
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Logan Kearsley
chronosurfer@...
Aug 17, 2012 10:00 pm
... Forgetting that would've been impossible, as I had not heard of it before. Unsurprising since it seems to have just been published this year, which just...
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Logan Kearsley
chronosurfer@...
Aug 17, 2012 10:09 pm
... Indeed. The problem lies not with any limits on the inherent flexibility of automatic sound-change appliers or word generators or computers in general, but...
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Patrick Dunn
pwdunn@...
Aug 17, 2012 11:28 pm
Waaaaaaaiiiit a minute. *What* labial-dental bias in "I-thou"? How the heck did I miss this? --Patrick On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 3:44 PM, Douglas Koller ... -- ...
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Adam Walker
carraxan@...
Aug 18, 2012 12:26 am
SHE's Native Tongue series also deals with linguistics, as does Rebecca Ore's Becoming alien/Being Alien/Human to Human series. Stephen Leigh's Alien Tongue...
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Adam Walker
carraxan@...
Aug 18, 2012 12:41 am
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 3:09 AM, Christophe Grandsire-Koevoets < ... Okay, so I am in the process of relexing Graavgaaln and have been considering using a word...
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Daniel Bowman
danny.c.bowman@...
Aug 18, 2012 4:19 am
Padraic, Thank you for having a look and giving detailed feedback. I intended it as an introduction to non-conlangers, but I do see your point about dwelling ...
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Eric Christopherson
rakko@...
Aug 18, 2012 4:34 am
... This conversation reminds me I need to get back to Riddley Walker, which has a fun version of postapocalyptic English. But I want to ask: does anyone know...
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John Erickson
john.erickson.socal@...
Aug 18, 2012 4:34 am
... That's pretty much exactly what I had in mind. ... That would depend on the specific vampire mythology. Most movies and stories I'm aware of have vampires...
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Gary Shannon
fiziwig@...
Aug 18, 2012 4:58 am
Maybe _The Book of Dave_ by Self? --gary...
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Eric Christopherson
rakko@...
Aug 18, 2012 5:19 am
... I'm sure that's not it, but I'm definitely adding it to my list. Good suggestion....
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Michael Everson
everson@...
Aug 18, 2012 8:47 am
On 17 Aug 2012, at 22:25, Dirk Elzinga wrote: ... Languages are dealt with (not in too great a depth, but in an interesting way) in C. J. Cherryh's Chanur...
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Eugene Oh
un.doing@...
Aug 18, 2012 8:54 am
Think he refers to "moi/toi" etc in other indoeuropean languages Eugene Sent from my iPhone...
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Roman Rausch
aranwe@...
Aug 18, 2012 10:35 am
... Even with regular sound changes, there is a lot going on - for example, languages will lose certain suffixes and acquire others by agglutination or some...
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Alex Fink
000024@...
Aug 18, 2012 2:06 pm
... Well, people go on about m-t and n-m pronoun systems: see e.g. http://wals.info/feature/136A and http://wals.info/feature/137A. Whether these are more...
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R A Brown
ray@...
Aug 18, 2012 2:16 pm
... [snip] I'm glad to say that Outidic, TAKE and Brx/ Bax all ignore this :) -- Ray ================================== http://www.carolandray.plus.com ...
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Cosman246
yashtulsyan@...
Aug 18, 2012 2:48 pm
... and Esperanto would look like? German. -Yash Tulsyan (yasht, cosman246) http://cosman246.com "Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope...
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George Corley
gacorley@...
Aug 18, 2012 5:01 pm
... I'm sorry, but there is a significant difference in effort between manually applying sound changes and just taking a quick look at a word. Some of us want...
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taliesin the storytel...
taliesin-conlang@...
Aug 18, 2012 6:38 pm
... You don't pronounce the "h" in Hypothetical? Not that I want to start a YAEPT or anything but I was taught that there are no exceptions to "'a' before...
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George Corley
gacorley@...
Aug 18, 2012 6:41 pm
On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 1:38 PM, taliesin the storyteller < ... AIUI, many newspapers have historically used "an" before anything beginning with "h" just in...
