So far there hasn't been much inteaction on this group, so I thought it might be a good idea to find out more about our membership. Below are some questions...
In the spirit of trying to get things moving, I'll start by filling out my own survey. ... Dana Nutter, Male, 42. ... Born in Long Beach, California. Moved to...
... As given (with an acute accent on the c), male, 23. ... Linz (Austria -- 200 km west of Vienna), Linz and Vienna. ... Vienna; a few months in Paris. ... ...
David Marjanovic
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Nov 12, 2005 5:12 pm
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... Jim. Male. 43 ... Peru. English parents. ... Now live in Mexico. Have also spent several years in England and the Middle East. ... English. ... Spanish,...
A downloadable copy (PDF) of the dictionary is now available on the SASXSEK website. It will be periodically updated to reflect the latest changes to the...
Some shifts have been made in the lexicon including some common roots. As always, the latest information can be found in the online dictionary but some...
I just noticed that someone has posted an article in Esperanto about SASXSEK on Wikipedia. Surprising, since my English article was axed by them a while back....
... "The page is now unfull", which I guess means empty. Indeed it is empty and lacks a discussion page. http://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sasxsek I don't...
David Marjanovic
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Dec 31, 2005 3:23 pm
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... I just got the same thing, but then did a search and found this link. Maybe it needed all caps. http://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/SASXSEK The article itself has...
I've been playing around with some things for the past couple of days and decided to google "sasxsek". Looking through the results I found some things which...
... Oh yeah, this one exists. It just has one problem... it displays every <sx> as <^s>... Is there a way to fix that?...
David Marjanovic
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Dec 31, 2005 8:01 pm
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... I noticed that as well. When editing the page it shows as "sx". Apparently they set up the E-o Wiki to automatically assume "sx" means I wanted to enter...
New: * "A" This marker is used to address the speaker. ven fu domut a li johan. go to home {a} (name) John. Come home, John. * Superlatives are best. The "-IT"...
... Sent: Monday, December 19, 2005 12:56 AM ... Fine, except for the Yangzi: if you really want a language without (phonemic) shibilants, it'd IMHO be better...
David Marjanovic
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Jan 4, 2006 1:37 am
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... (like ... introduce Proper nouns do not have to follow the same rules as general vocabulary so clusters are valid on these name. The geographic names used...
... OIC. ... I know, but my point was that most people in the world would have trouble learning it. ... Interesting. ... Ah, good....
David Marjanovic
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Jan 4, 2006 1:20 pm
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... Yes, but the intention is to preserve the native name as much a possible. [n] can be an allophone of /N/ for example. Another option would be to put and...
... From: <sasxsek@...> Sent: Monday, January 02, 2006 1:47 AM ... Ah, the Irish vocative marker... very good, much better than pretending something in...
David Marjanovic
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Jan 5, 2006 11:57 pm
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... Good point about <li>. I was thinking the same thing since there aren't really many occasions when there won't be a proper noun following it. Maybe this...
Here is the proposed list of allowed consonant combinations. Are there any here that some think may be a problem? The only one I have some reservations about...
... Maybe we shouldn't have word-initial consonant clusters that begin with a fricative. For example even something as European as Hungarian doesn't allow fl-;...
David Marjanovic
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Jan 6, 2006 6:07 pm
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... I didn't know of that limitation in Hungarian. Do they have [vl] or [vr]? ... /h/ should be [x] but possible allophones are [h] [X]. So /xw/ could also be...
... At least not word-initially. (For what it's worth, even German doesn't have word-initial [vl] or [vr], and I can't think of English examples either. [fl]...
David Marjanovic
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Jan 6, 2006 10:07 pm
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... Don't know of any English examples either but I have never heard any English speakers have a problem pronouncing names like "Vladimir" (which most English...
... There are people (German monoglots) over here who tend to let my dad <Vladislav> start with [f]. ... If it were, you couldn't whisper it. Whisper [v] and...
David Marjanovic
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Jan 7, 2006 3:55 pm
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UT -> O The <-ut> suffix has been changed to <-o>. The website and dictionary have been updated to reflect the changes. Here are a few examples. besut ->...
* The dictionary has just reached the 2500 word milestone. Lexicon development continues. The addition of a few consonant clusters has greatly helped in...
The reference materials, both online and the downloadable PDF's, have been revised to reflect the latest and to hopefully provide a little more detail than...
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