Alright, I am through with spammers, and I believe so are most of you. The last message has been deleted and the member unsubscribed. I have always wanted to...
If an Englishman wanted to learn a modern "heritage language," what language would that be? Excuse me for being vague, but I am interested in England as my mom...
Grantham. But her parents came from Sleaford and Bloxholme, and then Coleby is where my great grandmother came from. Historically, the area is Anglo-Saxon and...
It is interesting you ask that. No, I do not because the modern English language is based roughly on the Midlands dialect because of the literary works of...
... Tolkien had the same problem. That's why he invented his Elvishes! BTW what is the language you call Grantham? Brahmin's Tamil? /BP 8^) -- B.Philip...
Um, I did not call "Grantham" a language; it is the town where my mom comes from. I am not a huge fan of Elvish as I like the race of men in the Lord of the...
... Funny, because it is also the name of the script in which Tamils traqditionally wrote Sanskrit. _Grantha_ is a Sanskrit word for 'book'. The usual Tamil...
... Would you include the modern descendants of languages that in the past have provided significant contributions to English vocabulary? Various Scandinavian...
... I doubt many people who consider Cornish "theirs" would consider themselves to be English. As for Cornish not being a "heritage language", I would strongly...
... themselves to be English. I think plenty of people in Cornwall consider themselves English and that Cornish is theirs ... disagree. I should have said...
... themselves ... is ... Hello there, I know I'm late. This is from the other Dan. I was actually shocked to read the above at first. Not only was it my...
Just an invitation to join my new jameld-announce mailing list. I'll be using it to notify members of changes to my site (mainly Jameld-related, but the Plexus...
... Just out of curiosity... how many other "more enthusiastic" Jameldists are there, apart from myself? :-) Thomas (who just programmed himself a custom...
(forwarded from Conculture, as it contains some cool Gothic links) ... That's cool! ... Partially. Apart from the problems mentioned by others (namely, the ...
Hi all, I just started a group on "Nederlands NT2", Dutch as a Second Language: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Nederlands_nt2/ "This is a forum for anybody...
Now here's a thing: how does one handle plurals of abbreviations? Here's an example: I bought 3 CDs and a couple of old LPs. Plurals in Jameld depend on the...
In my FI universe, Vinland (ultimately New England and Canada's maritime provinces) and SC recieves settlers in the 13th century from Greenland, Iceland, and...
Hi, There's one striking feature about colonial varieties and that is that the phonology of the first wave of settlement seems to be disproportionately ...
... I 'm not a specialist in creyols, but I would expect that the new lg would have sounds that might be found in most of the contributing lgs. Your idea seems...
Vínlenzka in *my* ATL Lucus is a creole based on 10th century Norse and native languages. It is stratified with Acro-, Meso- and Basilects. The acrolect is ...
... Yes, Iroquoian languages generally lack labial obstruents, but most of them have /u~/ which is phonetically [m=]. Strange world! /BP 8^) -- B.Philip...
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