... I, too, "suffered"; from not knowing how to improve my glyphs; every time I tried to make a script for a conlang, it somehow looked the same. It got better...
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Philip Newton
philip.newton@...
Jan 1, 2005 6:40 pm
... Also used for Christmas, though -- "¡Felices Pascuas!" at that time would be understood as an abbreviation of the more complete "¡Felices Pascuas de...
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Rene Uittenbogaard
ruittenb@...
Jan 1, 2005 6:50 pm
... These look a lot like the German words: nah - near näher - nearer nächst - nearest _or_ next It is curious to see that these superlatives have...
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bob thornton
arcanesock@...
Jan 1, 2005 6:51 pm
... It takes more than emails to get me offended. Maybe a knife to the face, but little else will. Don't worry about me! I'm just here, man. ===== -The Sock ...
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Andreas Johansson
andjo@...
Jan 1, 2005 7:13 pm
... Your posts about how you, in the old spelling, could tell whether a word should have an eszett or a double s based on syllable borders make no sense at all...
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J. 'Mach' Wust
j_mach_wust@...
Jan 1, 2005 7:26 pm
... I'm sorry, it was me who had the idea when I was relating your variety of standard German to Swiss German, since both feature short /&/, which is definitly...
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Mark J. Reed
markjreed@...
Jan 1, 2005 7:27 pm
MT= Muke Tever MT> And "nigh" itself is just the positive of a series of familiar adjectives: I said that. :) RU = Rene Uittenbogaard RU> These look a lot like...
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Mark J. Reed
markjreed@...
Jan 1, 2005 7:38 pm
MJR = Mark J. Reed MJR> I think "pascua" is Easter/Passover PN = Philip Newton PN> Also used for Christmas, though -- "¡Felices Pascuas!" at that time PN>...
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J. 'Mach' Wust
j_mach_wust@...
Jan 1, 2005 7:43 pm
I think it helps a lot if you practice a little bit with the tools the writing system is intented to be written with, e.g. with a broad ink pen or with a...
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Jörg Rhiemeier
joerg_rhiemeier@...
Jan 1, 2005 8:27 pm
Hallo, and a happy new year! On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 12:13:34 -0800, ... Hey, that's quite a lot of `to be' verbs! Old Albic has three verbs that can be translated...
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Michael Potter
mhpotter@...
Jan 1, 2005 9:41 pm
... In Suvile: Tadoylud jiran dova le! (/tadojlud dZI4an dova: le/) (Lit: "May your new year be happy!") -- Michael...
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And Rosta
a.rosta@...
Jan 2, 2005 1:17 am
... I read your announcement with the same pang of grief others have felt. The grief partly the grief one feels at the passing of an era, and partly at the...
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And Rosta
a.rosta@...
Jan 2, 2005 1:17 am
... (what ... languages ... Among conlangs, Guaspi uses tone solely to mark syntactic structure. And in Livagian, marked tones occur only in closed-class...
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Arthaey Angosii
arthaey@...
Jan 2, 2005 1:36 am
... In Asha'ille: Chéjh ne geduna! /tSEZ nE gE'dunA/ che- éjhillev ne geduna OPT enjoy OBJ year "May you enjoy the year." If you really want to specify the...
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Paul Bennett
paul-bennett@...
Jan 2, 2005 1:51 am
On Sat, 01 Jan 2005 04:28:57 -0500, # 1 <salut_vous_autre@...> ... I started off wanting to write Old Thagojian in the cuneiform syllabary[*]. I didn't...
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B. Garcia
madyaas@...
Jan 2, 2005 2:00 am
... pedantry aside... Actually, ocean waves are caused by the winds. The tides are caused by the rising and falling of the ocean due to the moon's influence. ...
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Sylvia Sotomayor
kelen@...
Jan 2, 2005 2:52 am
... Sylvia is also way busy, and will point you to some Kelen webpages rather than write out an explanation. A short intro: http://www.terjemar.net/kelen.php ...
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(no author)
(no email address)
Jan 2, 2005 3:49 am
as much as you know, what is the natlang using the most little number of phonemes? I've heard about languages with only 4 wovels (nahuatl?) but wich one has...
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Elliott Lash
erelion12@...
Jan 2, 2005 3:54 am
... I guess there's really only one verb, the rest are particles or suffixes. ... This would use the descriptive verb ëa-, in Silindion ëasi o i marvi ...
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Stephen Mulraney
ataltanie@...
Jan 2, 2005 4:30 am
... The link to the program[1] gives a 404. But hey, it's New Year's Day :). The program looks quite handy, though. [1] http://fiziwig.com/glyphmaker.zip s. --...
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(no author)
(no email address)
Jan 2, 2005 5:07 am
I tought about having in my conlang, all the state verbs derived from the same root I could derive - to be (or maybe devided it in "ser" and "estar") - to...
On Sat, 1 Jan 2005 20:49:50 +0100, taliesin the storyteller ... I disagree; please explain why this is so. For that matter, I also believe that the server...
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Philip Newton
philip.newton@...
Jan 2, 2005 6:50 am
... The answer used to be Rotokas (6 consonants + 5 vowels = 11 phonemes) until Pirahã (7 consonants + 3 vowels = 10 phonemes) became more widely known. ... ...
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Cian Ross
cian@...
Jan 2, 2005 8:06 am
... Veldan: Aiti mathas i saulcuartas stévio. May-it-be[1] good the year for-you. [1] Optative stem of 'to be' with a continuitive sense...
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Gary Shannon
fiziwig@...
Jan 2, 2005 8:24 am
... Sorry. I had a typo in the file name. Now fixed. --gary...
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Gary Shannon
fiziwig@...
Jan 2, 2005 8:38 am
Regiu Ona Bi McGuffey Poa Mutande Palu http://fiziwig.com/mutande.html...
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Thomas R. Wier
trwier@...
Jan 2, 2005 12:28 pm
... Japanses actually uses three distinct nonalphabetic systems*: kanji (Chinese characters), and katakana and hiragana (both syllabic). These latter two are...
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Thomas R. Wier
trwier@...
Jan 2, 2005 12:53 pm
... Nahuatl indeed has four vowel qualities (not counting /u/~/u:/ borrowed from Spanish), but each of these also has a phonemically long counterpart, thus...
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B. Garcia
madyaas@...
Jan 2, 2005 1:00 pm
... While _I_ on the other hand find tengwar pretty, but not nearly as beautiful as the many forms of Arabic, or grass script Chinese. I also tend to prefer...
