... 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...
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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....
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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@...>...
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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....
195240
Daniel Demski
dranorter@...
Feb 20, 2013 7:15 am
... Come to think of it I have never played an "add inflectional category" card and then had someone follow up with an additional inflection (invariably ...
195241
James Kane
kanejam@...
Feb 20, 2013 7:14 pm
... 'What if Latin survived in the Balkan sprachbund?' Probably what I really mean is that Romanian is interesting in its evolution and divergence. Of course a...
195242
Matthew George
matt.msg@...
Feb 20, 2013 9:22 pm
Poetic language often violates principles of grammar regarding syntax and word order. I think it may be for reasons other than meter and rhyme. What effect...
195243
And Rosta
and.rosta@...
Feb 20, 2013 9:56 pm
... What sorts of principles of grammar regarding syntax and word order does it violate? Do you have examples in mind? (I think I would be inclined to say that...
195244
Daniel Burgener
burgener.daniel@...
Feb 20, 2013 10:51 pm
... How about the first line of Poe's The Raven? "Once upon a midnight dreary". In non-poetic speech that would be "a dreary midnight". -Daniel...
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Matthew Boutilier
bvticvlarivs@...
Feb 20, 2013 10:57 pm
But *"Once dreary a midnight upon" would have been an impossible choice for Poe (unless he were writing in Turkish, incidentally). Where do you draw the line...
195246
BPJ
bpj@...
Feb 20, 2013 11:01 pm
... But that's what allows them to break out of the bogosphere and into the altosphere (yes, intentiontally ambiguous coinage!) so it's actually a good thing....
195247
BPJ
bpj@...
Feb 20, 2013 11:08 pm
... I'd actually argue that a word "made out of recognizable word-pieces" -- and their recognizable meanings -- *is* a word. A nonce-word, yes, and probably...
195248
Matthew George
matt.msg@...
Feb 20, 2013 11:27 pm
... In English - which is the only language I'm sufficiently familiar with regarding poetry - violating SVO order in normal sentences is not permitted, and...
195249
Matthew George
matt.msg@...
Feb 20, 2013 11:35 pm
Here's another example: Emily Dickenson<http://www.bartleby.com/113/4016.html> ... *The clouds their backs together laid, The north began to push *The first...
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Patrick Dunn
pwdunn@...
Feb 20, 2013 11:49 pm
"The clouds their backs together laid" isn't ungrammatical. It's not punctuated the way we'd normally do it now, but it's perfectly grammatical: The clouds,...
195251
Matthew George
matt.msg@...
Feb 21, 2013 12:28 am
... Nope; that means something very different. The normal version of the sentence would be "The clouds laid their backs together". "their backs" is the...
195252
And Rosta
and.rosta@...
Feb 21, 2013 12:34 am
... It's not clear what the violated principle is. Probably that for most nouns, a postposed adjective must be weighty: a midnight dreary and cold a midnight...
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Patrick Dunn
pwdunn@...
Feb 21, 2013 12:34 am
Even if you're correct, it's not ungrammatical. We can, as I said, put the object before the verb in prose. ... -- Second Person, a chapbook of poetry by...
195254
Matthew George
matt.msg@...
Feb 21, 2013 12:58 am
Altering the word order away from the normal obviously has psychological implications, then. Is it merely that it's nonstandard, or does the actual order...
195255
Patrick Dunn
pwdunn@...
Feb 21, 2013 1:15 am
One function of word order deviating from SVO -- in prose as well as poetry -- is to emphasize the fronted element. I suspect in good poetry that uses ...
195256
Nicole Valicia Thomps...
goldyemoran@...
Feb 21, 2013 2:01 am
Doesn't it depend on the conlang? Mine would have the sentence cats she had, which I think is is Ovs. ... From: Constructed Languages List...
