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...
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Leonardo Castro
leolucas1980@...
Feb 21, 2013 2:30 am
... All the Romance languages I know have some adjectives whose meaning is different depending on whether they precede or follow the noun. IIRC, the sense of...
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George Corley
gacorley@...
Feb 21, 2013 2:31 am
I'm largely thinking that these poetic constructions are not ungrammatical (at least, not to the poet) but merely low-frequency. It makes sense for poetry to...
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Patrick Dunn
pwdunn@...
Feb 21, 2013 2:37 am
Considering that the location of English adjectives is already a deep and dark hole, a hole deep and dark, I don't think I dare to venture there either. ... --...
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Leonardo Castro
leolucas1980@...
Feb 21, 2013 9:40 am
BTW, the word "puta" ("whore") can have an exclamatory function when placed before a noun (informally): "Este é um puta carro!" = "This is a great car!" "Esta...
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carolandray+ray
ray@...
Feb 21, 2013 10:20 am
I'm away from home & having to use webmail, so formatting may not be brilliant. ... [snip] ... _May_ allow them if: 1. the situation is a plausible one, e.g....
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Leonardo Castro
leolucas1980@...
Feb 21, 2013 2:56 pm
... When I was a Physics student, a female colleague told us that women usually don't think about doing scientific research as seriously as men do because they...
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Jörg Rhiemeier
joerg_rhiemeier@...
Feb 21, 2013 3:14 pm
Hallo conlangers! ... Never mind. It came out OK. ... Yes. ... I have seen several bogolangs that were broken beyond repair, usually starting with an utterly...
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Roger Mills
romiltz@...
Feb 21, 2013 3:28 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...
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George Corley
gacorley@...
Feb 21, 2013 4:13 pm
... Ah, but you could say "It was the sky that the Almighty hurled Him headlong from". It's not even such a poetic use, it's just suggest a very ...
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And Rosta
and.rosta@...
Feb 21, 2013 5:03 pm
is the _bogo_ in _bogolang_ from _bogus_ or _bogof_ (buy one get one free) or something else? If _bogus_, what sense is meant? Something that looks real but...
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Jörg Rhiemeier
joerg_rhiemeier@...
Feb 21, 2013 5:04 pm
Hallo conlangers! ... I think it is from _bogus_ in the sense of looking real but being false. -- ... brought to you by the Weeping Elf ...
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BPJ
bpj@...
Feb 21, 2013 5:25 pm
... OK, I should have added "if the scenario isn't all too outrageous. ... OK, so maybe I'm expecting to much of the average newbie, but essentially I agree...
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Patrick Dunn
pwdunn@...
Feb 21, 2013 5:38 pm
That's what I assumed, and therefore do not like the term very much. It seems to imply an attempt to pass something off as something it's not. ... -- Second...
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MorphemeAddict
lytlesw@...
Feb 21, 2013 5:46 pm
... stevo...
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Leonardo Castro
leolucas1980@...
Feb 21, 2013 6:15 pm
I didn't know the meaning of bogolang either, but I had no courage enough to ask... A thing that comes to mind is that a conlang that is aimed to be realistic...
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Alex Fink
000024@...
Feb 21, 2013 6:40 pm
As I said in the other thread, I think Geoff Eddy was the first to apply "bogus" to this sort of conlanging: ...
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Matthew George
matt.msg@...
Feb 21, 2013 8:06 pm
... General question: would be English equivalent be "bitchin' "? Matt G....
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Matthew George
matt.msg@...
Feb 21, 2013 8:24 pm
... But then the subject becomes "the sky" instead of "Him". The meaning is fundamentally changed - the alteration to word order disrupts the semantics. I'm...
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Matthew George
matt.msg@...
Feb 21, 2013 8:29 pm
It might be appropriate to mention the episode of The Simpsons<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_the_Iconoclast>that coined two neologisms that subsequently...
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George Corley
gacorley@...
Feb 21, 2013 9:10 pm
... Embiggen is certainly a word. I'm not sure how much use "cromulent" gets -- I've only really heard it in contexts talking about that episode (where it is,...
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George Corley
gacorley@...
Feb 21, 2013 9:19 pm
... The semantics don't change. The syntax does, as do the implications for discourse (as you would only see this construction in the wild in very particular...
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DM
decadent.muffin@...
Feb 21, 2013 10:08 pm
Well, one could argue that a gender-typical male would show far less interest in conlanging than those of the list, although I may be influenced here by those...
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Jörg Rhiemeier
joerg_rhiemeier@...
Feb 21, 2013 10:48 pm
Hallo conlangers! ... Sure. Making a "bogolang"; with a plausible scenario (I don't like this word, and prefer calling them "graftlangs", as grafting is what...
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MorphemeAddict
lytlesw@...
Feb 22, 2013 1:19 am
... But elegance is a form of esthetics. stevo...
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Roman Rausch
aranwe@...
Feb 22, 2013 12:16 pm
... Does it really, though? He himself calls it "very different from Elvish, yet organized and expressive, as would be expected of a device of Sauron before...
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Leonardo Castro
leolucas1980@...
Feb 22, 2013 1:03 pm
... I would like you to place it here on the list. Anyway, I'm interested on having access to your thoughts by whatever means. BTW, I think there's another...
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BPJ
bpj@...
Feb 22, 2013 1:05 pm
... I couldn't agree more, but look up his description of his intentions with BS -- in "Letters" I think, which I don't have at hand. My own Sohlob is...
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Leonardo Castro
leolucas1980@...
Feb 22, 2013 1:53 pm
... I didn't know this expression, but, judging by Urban Dictionary definitions, yes. [...] ... Yes with regard to me. ... I guess the less common order is...
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George Corley
gacorley@...
Feb 22, 2013 2:32 pm
... Are poetry and songwriting considered feminine? I think I might think of poetry as somewhat feminine, but this has to be extremely culturally specific, as...
