From Wiktionary: Undetermined, but probably from Middle English *fucken, *fukken, of North Germanic origin, related to dialectal Norwegian fukka (“to...
194739
Gary Shannon
fiziwig@...
Jan 25, 2013 8:34 pm
This is very interesting. Thanks for posting that link. I'll have to spend some more time looking into that. As for my formal grammar, I'm using a...
194740
Mathieu Roy
mathieu.roy.37@...
Jan 25, 2013 8:51 pm
Do some of your conlangs have a "scientific version" of some words in addition to the "normal" one? Is there a specific way in how people can/should coin new...
194741
Charles W Brickner
tepeyachill@...
Jan 25, 2013 9:09 pm
... Creating voacbulary is the most enjoyable part of conlanging for me. Senjecas has a rather complete grammar and I can translate a lot of stuff. Of...
194742
Sam Stutter
samjjs89@...
Jan 25, 2013 10:17 pm
Actually, I did quite the same when rebooting Nauspayr/Gyanese/whatever I'm calling it at the moment - one of my first ports of call for lexicon was local...
194743
Charles W Brickner
tepeyachill@...
Jan 25, 2013 10:45 pm
... From: Constructed Languages List [mailto:CONLANG@...] On Behalf Of Sam Stutter Charlie, do you have a full list of your specialised...
194744
Leonardo Castro
leolucas1980@...
Jan 25, 2013 11:11 pm
I have heard that the distinction between formal and informal pronouns (the T-V distinction) is kind of symmetric in some languages such as French and...
194745
David Edwards
dedwards@...
Jan 25, 2013 11:15 pm
Dr. Lera Boroditsky at Stanford has also done a good deal of research into linguistic relativity. You can find a lot of interesting evidence to support it in...
194746
Alex Fink
000024@...
Jan 25, 2013 11:18 pm
... Infer nothing from Basic English. It takes every advantage of English polysemy and idiom to keep its word count low; it is *not* a list of 850 fundamental...
194747
Alex Fink
000024@...
Jan 25, 2013 11:31 pm
... Nailed it! obPSA: Remember morphological analogy in your own diachronic conlanging work! As great as regular (and irregular, c.f. "dialect mixing") sound...
194748
Nikolay Ivankov
lukevilent@...
Jan 25, 2013 11:46 pm
... Well, me and my friend were designing the language in such a way that there would be many oddities, so I'd better say what happens in our source of ...
194749
Charles W Brickner
tepeyachill@...
Jan 25, 2013 11:46 pm
... From: Constructed Languages List [mailto:CONLANG@...] On Behalf Of Alex Fink This is strange to me. If you can express "satiate" in...
194750
Christophe Grandsire-...
tsela.cg@...
Jan 26, 2013 12:27 am
... That's actually incorrect. When I was in primary and junior high school, we pupils would all use "vous" towards our teachers, and they all used "tu" to ...
194751
Mathieu Roy
mathieu.roy.37@...
Jan 26, 2013 1:27 am
Most of what Christophe said also applied to how French is being used in Quebec, so I will not repeat in the case of primary and high school. The usage of "tu"...
194752
Mathieu Roy
mathieu.roy.37@...
Jan 26, 2013 1:53 am
<<[T]axonomic languages have a significant flaw in usability. They give the most similar words to the most similar meanings, and that means that if I...
194753
Herman Miller
hmiller@...
Jan 26, 2013 1:59 am
... Maybe to some extent because of isomers? Two different chemical compounds can have the same composition, but with the chemical bonds arranged differently....
194754
Elliott Lash
erelion12@...
Jan 26, 2013 2:03 am
Dear all, I have not been posting at all for a few years, but I have been trying to keep up with the conversations. One of my interests has always been to use...
194755
Ph. D.
phil@...
Jan 26, 2013 2:47 am
... On a somewhat related note, I am 58. When I was in college back in the 1970s, we students would call a graduate teaching assistant by his/her first name as...
194756
Herman Miller
hmiller@...
Jan 26, 2013 2:57 am
... You don't need to be an expert, but it's useful to be able to follow what the experts are saying. As far as insects, the experts will use the Latin names...
194757
Herman Miller
hmiller@...
Jan 26, 2013 3:12 am
... I expect so, but the only example that comes to mind is the Tirelat distinction between "žajvi" (the technical word for "animal") and "kažŋa" (a more...
194758
Roger Mills
romiltz@...
Jan 26, 2013 4:22 am
... Then how do you measure my vocabulary in any one Romance language? I fully believe that it's stored in my brain as a common *Romance* vocabulary + rules...
194759
neo gu
qiihoskeh@...
Jan 26, 2013 5:05 am
Jan19 derives stems from roots using ablaut. The roots are mostly CVCVC with some CVC and maybe a few irregular ones. Historically, there are 3 vowels: *i, *a,...
194760
J. 'Mach' Wust
j_mach_wust@...
Jan 26, 2013 9:30 am
... Swiss dialects have a word _figge_. Older generations still use this in a non-sexual meaning for 'rubbing', e.g. in _der Schue figget mi_ 'the shoe...
194761
Douglas Koller
douglaskoller@...
Jan 26, 2013 9:47 am
... I suppose "fidgeting" could be part of sexual congress, put it's not really whipping up a very fulfilling image. I do, however, like the idea of "It...
194762
MorphemeAddict
lytlesw@...
Jan 26, 2013 11:43 am
... I've forgotten how I learned to read my native language (English), but it seems to me a trivial matter to learn read a language you know fluently. Even in...
194763
Jim Henry
jimhenry1973@...
Jan 26, 2013 1:45 pm
... A larger factor, I suspect, is which form of the language we've had the most chance to practice with over the years. I was originally taught French in a...
194764
Elliott Lash
erelion12@...
Jan 26, 2013 2:09 pm
This did not go to the list, so i am forwarding it now....
194765
Elliott Lash
erelion12@...
Jan 26, 2013 2:13 pm
I am trying once again to forward the message that I sent to a private sender to the list, here it is: Hi, thanks for your interest. The article is actually...
194766
Jörg Rhiemeier
joerg_rhiemeier@...
Jan 26, 2013 3:06 pm
Hallo conlangers! ... Yep. As Mark Rosenfelder put it in the _Language Construction Kit_: "Ogden and Richards cheated". Basic English makes very much use of...
194767
Roger Mills
romiltz@...
Jan 26, 2013 3:11 pm
... Jan19 derives stems from roots using ablaut. The roots are mostly CVCVC with some CVC and maybe a few irregular ones. Historically, there are 3 vowels: *i,...
