Dear Mr. Gilson, Being German myself, I'm willing to look through your reworked Novial dictionary items for the correctness of German entries. How would you...
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Bruce R. Gilson
brg1942
Mar 5, 2010 8:06 pm
... That would be fine. -- Bruce R. Gilson brg1942@......
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nov_ialiste
Mar 14, 2010 12:10 pm
Kar novialistes, I have a pdf file of the Finnish version of "An International Language" (Kansainvälinen Kieli, 1931). The file is quite big, 243 422 kt. So...
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nov_ialiste
Mar 14, 2010 2:01 pm
Kar novialistes, little by little over the last several years I have made an expanded version of Novial Lexike in which the English entries are as necessary ...
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Bruce R. Gilson
brg1942
Mar 14, 2010 7:11 pm
... Do I understand this correctly as saying that the rest of the alphabet is already compiled and will be posted soon? If so, I might as well give up my own...
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nov_ialiste
Mar 14, 2010 7:55 pm
Kar Bruce, I suppose if I can find the enthusiasm I could proof-read and post the rest within a couple of weeks. I already have the expanded English entries in...
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novial-discussion@yah...
Mar 14, 2010 10:06 pm
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the novial-discussion group. File :...
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nov_ialiste
Mar 14, 2010 10:30 pm
Kar noviaistes, recently I have come across the blog of an enthusiastic new IAList. In his blogs he has posted about his first impressions of some of the main...
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nov_ialiste
Mar 15, 2010 10:44 am
Welcome Robert! I know that you are looking for Novial learning materials. There are some reference materials in the "Files" section of this board which, as...
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Robert Winter
robert.winte...
Mar 15, 2010 1:11 pm
Thank you, nov_ialiste. I apologise to the group for writing in English. I do not yet know any Novial so you will have to bear with me while I learn. I am very...
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Kjell Rehnstr?öm
purfluvie
Mar 15, 2010 1:46 pm
... You are most certainly excused! I understand most here prefer to write about Novial in English and not using Novial, which I humbly think would be a good...
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nov_ialiste
Mar 16, 2010 12:03 am
Kar novialistes, I've tried to attach the pdf file to emails without success. I'll probably rescan the book as 4 smaller pdfs. So I may be able to email it in...
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nov_ialiste
Mar 16, 2010 10:35 am
Kar noviaistes, for a bit of fun I made a Novial word cloud at Wordle. This produces a visual representation of the frequencies of different words in a text. ...
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Robert Winter
robert.winte...
Mar 16, 2010 7:10 pm
Kar noviaistes, In English there is a "Present perfect progressive" tense, also known as the "Present perfect continuous" tense. Example: I have been studying...
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Hermann
hphilipps_2000
Mar 16, 2010 7:35 pm
Dear Robert, you should perhaps not expect to find every peculiarity of the English language reflected in Novial. "Me studiad Novial" should suffice in most...
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James Chandler
idojc
Mar 16, 2010 7:45 pm
Novial lacks a progressive tense so simply say: Me ha studia Novial Or if you want to emphasise that the activity continues into the present time, you could...
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Robert Winter
robert.winte...
Mar 16, 2010 7:51 pm
Dear Hermann and James, Thank you very much for your answers. I very much appreciate your help. Kordialim, Robert...
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Hermann
hphilipps_2000
Mar 16, 2010 8:04 pm
Dear Robert, James is right. I got the "present perfect progressive tense" wrong. We simply don't have such awkward things in German. Cheers, Hermann...
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Kjell Rehnstr?öm
purfluvie
Mar 17, 2010 7:06 am
Hello! In our Swedish grammar there is nothing like present continuous or any past continuous either, but we do express it, using phrazes like: "I was doing...
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Robert Winter
robert.winte...
Mar 17, 2010 9:18 am
Thank you very much, Kjell, I understand. This is really a fascinating subject. I will keep learning. Robert Winter (a literary pseudonym) Website:...
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nov_ialiste
Mar 17, 2010 11:53 am
In a Wizard of Oz chapter I used one continuous form: Tanta Em esed lavant li plates. http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Novial/Wizard_of_Oz_1 This was to convey the...
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Bruce R. Gilson
brg1942
Mar 17, 2010 3:37 pm
... I have placed a link to the site, with the note that it is just beginning so people understand that it is not complete, on my site. I hope that you will be...
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Kjell Rehnstr?öm
purfluvie
Mar 17, 2010 3:41 pm
... Un amase de lingues ne usa ti forme. Kjell R...
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nov_ialiste
Mar 18, 2010 3:03 pm
Plenty of languages don't have separate present perfect and past tenses, definite articles etc. Lavant is an adjective meaning "washing". "La es lavant" is a...
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Robert Winter
robert.winte...
Mar 18, 2010 8:54 pm
That is fascinating. So, in summary, I understand that: "Me es studiant Novial." (This is similar to English.) Is correct but to speak in this manner is...
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Nick Warren
nw2394
Mar 18, 2010 10:47 pm
... understand me. Therefore I am thinking of telling myself ALWAYS to use... ... have any knowledge whatsoever of any European language, so how could I ...
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Kjell Rehnstr?öm
purfluvie
Mar 19, 2010 4:22 am
The present continuous in English is as compulsory as it could be. As to Spanish I have seen it, but I don't know how necessary it is to use it in all those...
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Kjell Rehnstr?öm
purfluvie
Mar 19, 2010 8:40 am
If someone says "me studia novial" or "me es studiant novial" is no big deal. The person will be understood, and we can never prevent that people will use...
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Robert Winter
robert.winte...
Mar 19, 2010 9:59 am
Thank you, everyone, for your very helpful answers. Although I can't find mention of it in Jespersen's 'An International Language' (1928), my understanding is...
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Mithridates
dave5dave5dave
Mar 19, 2010 1:52 pm
Me anke voli skripte plu in Novial si on krea un plu boni lexike in li interrete. Nu me pote skripte in li lingue kun men konoso de Ido e tempe por trova...
