... That's one nice thing about having the same language for 11 years. Since I haven't been developing Jarda continuously, I study the old texts for examples...
195211
Herman Miller
hmiller@...
Feb 19, 2013 12:44 am
No, the numbers 1-10 haven't changed (except for the updated spelling of the Romanization). But I realized that now that Jarda's on a Sangari world, it needs...
195212
Daniel Bowman
danny.c.bowman@...
Feb 19, 2013 3:22 am
Quite a lot to reply to, so I'll do the best I can! @Alex: The only thing Angosey's really lost is pronoun conjugations. It's gained affixes and gender...
195213
Herman Miller
hmiller@...
Feb 19, 2013 4:19 am
... This is going from memory, and it was a long time ago, so I'll probably get things out of order. One change involves the sibilants: I had two ways of...
195214
Roger Mills
romiltz@...
Feb 19, 2013 4:31 am
Minor question: What's to prevent _JaGkovRom ģağkôvṛôm (3*6+8) means "26"_ from being interpreted as 3*(6+8) i.e 3*14= 42? In Gwr, also octal, there...
195215
James Kane
kanejam@...
Feb 19, 2013 5:17 am
I have done a Vulgar Latin descended from proto-Germanic which isn't too bad because the cases and tenses of proto-Germanic collapse nicely, but there was a...
195216
Garth Wallace
gwalla@...
Feb 19, 2013 7:44 am
... I think rather than a distinct "in or out", there are gradations to a word's existence in a natlang. A one-off, nonce word is on the low end of the scale,...
195217
R A Brown
ray@...
Feb 19, 2013 8:19 am
... [snip] ... OOPS - sorry! ... Yes. ... It certainly ain't. [snip] ... I agree on both points. [snip] ... I cannot think of any actual examples among...
195218
R A Brown
ray@...
Feb 19, 2013 8:53 am
On 19/02/2013 08:19, R A Brown wrote: [snip] ... Um - on second thoughts - no, not a bogolang. There was no application of French sound changes to a Saxon...
195219
Daniel Bowman
danny.c.bowman@...
Feb 19, 2013 1:09 pm
... I agree. I came up with "glossarch" because its meaning is deducible by a small but significant fraction of the English speaking population. However, if...
195220
Jörg Rhiemeier
joerg_rhiemeier@...
Feb 19, 2013 4:11 pm
Hallo conlangers! ... Good. ... Indeed not. French, for instance, does not have the kind of umlaut process German has - it arrived at its front rounded vowels...
195221
James Kane
kanejam@...
Feb 19, 2013 6:14 pm
Romanian is almost a real life altlang and IMO quite a cool language. It doesn't have an identical phonology to the surrounding Balkan or Slavic languages, nor...
195222
Hugo Cesar de Castro ...
hcesarcastro@...
Feb 19, 2013 6:43 pm
I see people creating altlangs/bogolangs between (somewhat) closely related families. Usually Indo-european ones. Does anyone here know of an alt/bogolang...
195223
Daniel Demski
dranorter@...
Feb 19, 2013 6:57 pm
I am still thinking about the advantages versus disadvantages of having the Grammatical Distinction card rather than just Coin Grammar cards. Given that we're...
195224
Adam Walker
carraxan@...
Feb 19, 2013 7:22 pm
Years back someone was working on a Vulgar Latin with Chinese sound changes bogolang, IIRC. Adam...
195225
R A Brown
ray@...
Feb 19, 2013 7:39 pm
... [snip] ... Yes, it did. Tho it alone of the Romancelangs has them and the proximity and, indeed, in some places, intermingling with Germanic speakers...
195226
Jörg Rhiemeier
joerg_rhiemeier@...
Feb 19, 2013 8:33 pm
Hallo conlangers! ... This is likely. BTW, I am pretty certain that Old High German already had [æ], [ø] and [y] even though they don't show up in writing -...
195227
Roger Mills
romiltz@...
Feb 19, 2013 8:54 pm
... Romanian is almost a real life altlang and IMO quite a cool language. It doesn't have an identical phonology to the surrounding Balkan or Slavic languages,...
195228
Alex Fink
000024@...
Feb 19, 2013 9:08 pm
... "Bogus", yes. For me the term calls particularly to mind Geoff Eddy's primer which invents a Slavicised romlang: ...
195229
father's personal
tepeyachill@...
Feb 19, 2013 9:20 pm
... General question: what's the "etymology" of _bogolang_? bogus??? It's new to me. Incidentally I find "glosarch"; a perfectly good formation--- after all, we...
195230
Jim Henry
jimhenry1973@...
Feb 19, 2013 11:08 pm
... What about something like this: "Specify how, when and whether [agency / topicality / definiteness / ... / wildcard grammatical category ] is marked. By...
195231
Daniel Bowman
danny.c.bowman@...
Feb 19, 2013 11:50 pm
Yes! Glossarch is officially a word! I say this slightly tongue in cheek, but as I recall, I stated that I did not feel comfortable calling "glossarch" a word...
195232
Roger Mills
romiltz@...
Feb 20, 2013 1:24 am
... Yes! Glossarch is officially a word! I say this slightly tongue in cheek, but as I recall, I stated that I did not feel comfortable calling "glossarch" a...
195233
Herman Miller
hmiller@...
Feb 20, 2013 2:28 am
... For one thing, "6+8" would actually be written "8+6" (always with the larger number on the left if you're adding). But as I remarked on the web page, the...
195234
Anthony Miles
mamercus88@...
Feb 20, 2013 2:33 am
... Na mi me'a ka ku 'ena ka voka ho Koha Elopa hi he'a. (It pleases me [schmeckt, not passt gut] that you can see the words from [European] German.). RM That...
195235
Adam Walker
carraxan@...
Feb 20, 2013 3:15 am
He's Norwegian. And he exhibited very troll-like behavior on list. Adam...
195236
Daniel Bowman
danny.c.bowman@...
Feb 20, 2013 3:44 am
2013/2/19 Adam Walker <carraxan@...> ... Considering the info on the website link I posted, I'm not terribly shocked to hear that....
195237
Daniel Bowman
danny.c.bowman@...
Feb 20, 2013 3:44 am
The only other user of glossarch is a troll...wonderful. 2013/2/19 Daniel Bowman <danny.c.bowman@...>...
195238
Roger Mills
romiltz@...
Feb 20, 2013 4:30 am
... He's Norwegian. And he exhibited very troll-like behavior on list. ================================================== Right you are. My apologies to the...
195239
Garth Wallace
gwalla@...
Feb 20, 2013 5:38 am
... If usage by jerks negated wordhood, a copy of the Oxford English Dictionary would be able to fit in a pocket. The large print edition....
