I'd like to remind those interested in this project of Pennsylvania German. Here you have a variety of naturally developed Central or Upper German dialect that...
I'm on tangental excursion from my High German conlang, up north into the low Franconian/low Saxon areas (ostensibly because I need a little dilaectal input...
... Franconian), but old Saxon will be of some interest too. ... I-Umlaut (or any other Umlaut for that matter)? ... The definitive work on Old Saxon,...
Hi all, I'm currently writing my last essay before my graduation and as a part of this essay, which is about conlanging, I'm conducting a poll about conlanging...
Hi Israel, There should have been an option 'send announcement of this poll to the entire group' (or something similarly formulated) when you created the poll;...
Hi Bernard, ... I am not quite familiar with the terms of question 3 in this context. I guess 'a priori' and 'a posteriori' mean that a language is created as...
James wrote: "An "a priori" lang would not be based on existing langs (e.g. Klingon); "a posteriori" conlangs are based on existing languages/families (e.g. ...
While writing a passage in Jameld, I've run up against a small problem. Many Jameld adjectives can be used unchanged as adverbs, e.g. "oterördernlauk" means...
I think perhaps you hit upon the answer when you mentioned punctuation. Gotta love those commas. ... From: "Älvard J. te Kraamlep" <kraamlep@...> Sent:...
Hi James, Officially in Dutch one puts a komma between two equivalent adjectives, while one doesn't put one between an adverb and an adjective: 'een bijzonder,...
... Hmm, gotta show me that castle! :) ... Yepyep, although I doubt whether that is such a truly new phenomenon. I'd say that even in a text with poor...
... There has been a discussion about a proper name for engelangs in other languages. In Dutch, I've proposed "conceptuele talen". You might be interested in...
... Maybe the example with 'bijzonder' isn't a good one; this word indeed almost automatically assumes the role of an adverb. In the next example however the...
... What I forget to mention, is that I've never been very happy with the term "engineered languages" anyway. It's a division of conlangs according to purpose...
... This is a great article even as translated by Google! (Of course Dutch isn't totally obscure to me so a comparison of original and translation helps!) Ever...
Many thanks to everyone for their input! ... And I have to add an important notice: the confusion between adverbs or adjectives applies only when the following...
... I refer my honourable friend to the answer I prepared earlier :-) See http://jameld.blogspot.com/ for an extended report in Jameld and English, with...
... Agreed, the article is impressive... Everyone should have a look. By the way, are you planning an English version for those who cant read Dutch? cheers...
I have created new folders with links to historical phonologies, grammars and (etymological) dictionaries to the Links sections of the Romconlang and...
If you are on Linux and have trouble printing out those b/w pdfs from the Internet Archive try converting them with pdf2djvu and print from the generated djvu....
thanks for those, i think some of them may be of help. Any ideas where I might find a etymology resource for German? Preferably in English, but german would be...
... The standard for German etymology is Kluge's "Deutsches Etymologisches Wörterbuch" (or similar title). It's probably available at your local university's...
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