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11195
Hello again. I haven't really looked at the most recent list of the vocabulary or anything, but I did take a look at the way you guys "make up" words of the...
atamskuuk
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Jul 12, 2007
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11196
I've never considered the etymoloy of "or," so I may be talking out of ther wrong orifice here, but I had always imagined de "oder" and en "other/either" to...
Peter Collier
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Jul 12, 2007
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11197
Well, do you think "eder" would be a good Folkspråk version? ... of ther ... with ic ... would tie ... /f/ < > ... dutch's /T/ > ... because the ... happened....
atamskuuk
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Jul 12, 2007
9:17 pm
11198
I should point out that the Danish is "tårn" (allthough taarn is exactly thesame), but that å in this case (and in most cases) can be considered as the...
atamskuuk
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Jul 12, 2007
9:19 pm
11199
... From: "atamskuuk" <adam_skoog5@...> To: <folkspraak@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2007 10:16 PM Subject: [folkspraak] Re: Vocabulary ...
Peter Collier
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Jul 12, 2007
9:39 pm
11200
What's the difference?...
atamskuuk
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Jul 12, 2007
9:51 pm
11201
/D/ and /T/ are xsampa symbols, used in place of the IPA which is hard to reproduce on email. IPA for /D/ is a barred d, /T/ is the IPA theta. /D/ is a voiced...
Peter Collier
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Jul 12, 2007
10:15 pm
11202
Oh, as I thought then. Well, I don't think we should use /D/ unless we have a speciall symbol for it, like icelandic ð. Then I think we should rather use a...
atamskuuk
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Jul 12, 2007
10:21 pm
11203
Well my preference is for only basing Folkspaak words on words that share an etymological relationship. I know some other members make words from mixes of...
David Parke
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Jul 12, 2007
10:45 pm
11204
To a great extent of course, how any language is *written* is irrelevant. All the spelling shows you is how various monks half a millenium ago though it best...
Peter Collier
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Jul 12, 2007
11:02 pm
11205
If you read the end of the post, I also tried to make it as easy as possible to understand in a context for a speaker of any Germanic language. In Swedish,...
atamskuuk
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Jul 12, 2007
11:24 pm
11206
Actually, there are more languages using both eth and thorn or at least one of them. There are also some languages using an eth where the lower case form looks...
atamskuuk
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Jul 12, 2007
11:24 pm
11207
... Hi Adam. ... These links might be interesting for you: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=other&searchmode=none ...
stefichjo
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Jul 13, 2007
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11208
Heh. :] I took a thought about what you said about "other" having something to do with it as well. "You other me" > "You, otherwise me". "Otherwise" is...
atamskuuk
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Jul 13, 2007
12:16 am
11209
... Hi Stefan. There is one place where cross-words may have their place, and that is with onomatopoeic words. There are words that sound like what they ...
David Parke
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Jul 13, 2007
12:33 am
11210
... EN Other is directly cognate to DE ander, NL ander, Scandy andre/andra etc. It's lost the "n" due to the North Sea Germanic nasal spirant change. I think...
David Parke
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Jul 13, 2007
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11211
... I believe timmer means a speciall type of wood in Swedish. ... I found "Dis is to dyr" in the wordlist before. I had a good laugh at that, since it looks...
atamskuuk
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Jul 13, 2007
12:44 am
11212
... If it's my dialect of FS (which it may be since those are all valid words in my dialect), then it might look English but would be pronounced somewhat...
David Parke
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Jul 13, 2007
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11213
... both). ... like DE ... represented ... word, ... I know very well about that, since that is an interesting phenomena I've thought about. Between Germanic...
atamskuuk
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Jul 13, 2007
1:51 am
11214
I have added "els" and "eller" to my Wordschatt. :-) But I'm not 100% sure about the meaning. Apparently "els" and "eller" are both derivations from an extinct...
stefichjo
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Jul 14, 2007
3:03 pm
11215
Since the 10th of this month a claim for deleting the german Wikipedia article "Folkspraak" is pending. I have already stated why I think this article should...
stefichjo
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Jul 14, 2007
6:14 pm
11216
Hi, Stephan. I think you posted an excellent and thoughtful counter to the deletion request. Not to mention the amusing stab at the guy's name. =) Well, I...
Markus Martin
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Jul 15, 2007
12:54 am
11217
Thank you Markus for your participation. It cheers me up. It's a law of Wikipedia that articles must have a relevance to people except from the creator him- or...
stefichjo
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Jul 15, 2007
1:11 am
11218
Glad to see everyone is back well almost everyone...heheh! I will be glad to see what you all have been working on...Just have a crazy summer here in Sweden...
harrisro303
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Jul 16, 2007
8:28 am
11219
Hi, these (German Wikipedia) articles about artificial languages are going to be deleted, maybe: Afrihili (Wikipedia:Löschkandidat) Arcaicam Esperantom...
stefichjo
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Jul 16, 2007
11:08 am
11220
Folkspraak has been deleted. "No relevance." :-( Many other languages have been deleted, too. Bye, Stephan...
stefichjo
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Jul 17, 2007
9:08 pm
11221
*sigh*.. Despite all the people calling for keeping them. =/ I was curious as to who actually carried out the deletion, and so I looked at the user page of...
Markus Martin
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Jul 18, 2007
2:51 am
11222
I had the responsible admin move the folkspraak article to my area. Now it is here: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Stephan_Schneider/Folkspraak Thanks...
stefichjo
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Jul 18, 2007
12:13 pm
11223
Hello, as I prepare the Wiki FS article (with our without relevance), I would like to tell you how I see the history of FS: - Folkspraak (by der...
stefichjo
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Jul 18, 2007
8:02 pm
11224
Hi Stephan What exactly are you planning to do with the article? Include it in your wikibook, or maybe just keep it on your user page? I am just curious. ...
Markus Martin
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Jul 19, 2007
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