Could you please help me with various Germanic-language equivalents of: EN Get well soon NO God bedring DE Gute Besserung e.g. from Dutch, Frisian, Icelandic,...
I posted this same message in a different group, so please do not be too upset, and if I should not do this, I am sorry, but I really need some help with a...
Hello, I was wondering if anyone knows of any resources (preferably on the web) about Middle English as it was actually spoken by the average English person of...
I do not understand what you meant by that last post. I am sincere in trying to find out about Spoken Middle English, so any help would be appreciated. Clark...
Thanks for the feedback on "Get well soon" (although there were only a couple of responses). I was trying to come up with an idiomatic expression for Jameld. ...
... IIRC it was John Cowan who posted the link to a set of sound fragments to Conlang not so long ago. It was a short conversation between a man and a woman,...
... In Dutch, that would be "Ik wens jou beterschap toe". ... Nice! Especially the short form! ... Shame on me, but I must admit that I haven't one yet....
... In everyone's favorite Føtisklang (because it's the only one around yet :), Ancient Føtisk (Foietisc), I'm thinking maybe 'if wuiesce fie better ...
Jan eskrë » ... Really? With that word order? My Dutch really is very rusty, but the word order of the Frisian expression seems very... well, Frisian. ... ...
... He's pointing out that the English didn't know potatoes until Sir Walter Raleigh's day, considerably after the Middle English period. -- Eric Raymond is...
And here a bit of the Ancient Føtisk (Foietisc) culture: their calendar. Well, some of it. Not all of it is known, as is often the case with this kind of...
... BTW, me and my pedantry thinks it's worthwhile mentioning that the -s here is not unintentional; the -s was generalised from the other declensions to...
... Whoa dude... your language must be the last stage before E Prime. ;-) Seriously, how can it remain even remotely analysable with such reduced words? --...
... D'oh! I just realized those phonemics were meant to represent a fragment rather than the whole word. You also mentioned it was Ancient Føtisk. I guess...
... Yeah. Probably should've had dots or dashes or something. Lazy fingers :) ... Freaky reductions are solely the domain of Modern Føtisk; they are what set...
This one looks ever so possible. (And other people on Germaniconlang, why don't you do it to? They do it at romconlang!) ... freeund goodo freeundo ist uft...
No new words needed - wow. Read "ts" as the ts ligature, /S/. ... framki An gut framki jist oft an jortsa ew swerats. ... véperen Vor instertom, et wä aunts...
I was wondering if anyone had created a language that would be Lombardic if it had survived today. If not, is there anyone who knows of a place I could find a...
<I was wondering if anyone had created a language that would be <Lombardic if it had survived today. If not, is there anyone who <knows of a place I could find...
The only problem is that Lombardic is an East Germanic language, which were all closely related. And, unfortunately, all extinct. Therefore, I cannot find a...
<The only problem is that Lombardic is an East Germanic language, <which were all closely related. And, unfortunately, all extinct. <Therefore, I cannot find a...
... Well, fine, fine. But I ain't dating any Goths who haven't learned at least one Romance language. -- The Imperials are decadent, 300 pound John Cowan...