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1364 risto@...
rkupsala Send Email
Feb 24, 2012
9:01 am
Hello! I have updated the English version of Pandunia web site recently. Now there is new outline of grammar, three lessons and a little larger dictionary than...
1365 lingwadeplaneta Send Email Mar 6, 2012
7:42 am
Hi Jens, how do you like this post: http://verda-stelo.blogspot.com/2012/02/wikileaks-sema-saba-yan-ta-sema-baomi.html Dimitry...
1366 Jens Wilkinson
jowilkinson4 Send Email
Mar 14, 2012
2:58 pm
Thanks for the notification. I'm happy to see that people are still looking after the language.  -Jens   Jens Wilkinson Neo Patwa language:...
1367 risto@...
rkupsala Send Email
Mar 19, 2012
10:38 am
There's another new global dictionary project called PanLex http://rosettaproject.org/blog/02012/feb/27/panlex-joins-rosetta-long-now/ In principle you can...
1368 lingwadeplaneta Send Email Mar 20, 2012
7:08 am
Do you know about OmegaWiki? http://www.omegawiki.org/Meta:Main_Page Recently Lidepla has been added to it, and I am adding Lidepla definitions little by...
1369 risto@...
rkupsala Send Email
Mar 20, 2012
8:47 am
... I have visited OmegaWiki too. A common problem in multilingual dictionaries is lack of pronunciation aids. That leaves translations to some languages...
1370 Dmitry Ivanov
lingwadeplaneta Send Email
Mar 23, 2012
8:03 am
Rober Winter is now at early stages of developing a worldlang named Simpel. One thing he wants to do is to do without any R completely. I had an idea how it...
1371 risto@...
rkupsala Send Email
Mar 23, 2012
2:28 pm
... It's crazy because "zh" is also an uncommon sound. And the rules for voicing and devoicing seem complex. If he really wants to avoid "r" in worldlang, he...
1372 Stephen Rice
ansric Send Email
Mar 23, 2012
5:06 pm
I am almost annoyed to agree with Risto here, but unfortunately he's right. It's unfortunate because the solution is ingenious, but it's also suboptimal. ... ...
1373 JerryM
unumondo Send Email
Mar 24, 2012
1:47 pm
I believe I have avoided the R-L confusion, and most consonant pronunciation problems, in my fledgling "lalamijo"; development. 13 phonemes, no "R" sound, no...
1374 Risto Kupsala
rkupsala Send Email
Mar 24, 2012
10:36 pm
... I guess that's because English <r> is pronounced with lip rounding. That doesn't happen with the trilled <r>, so I would find it weird if <r> was replaced...
1375 Stephen Rice
ansric Send Email
Mar 25, 2012
3:11 am
... Mine isn't. As noted, no one knows how to pronounce the thing. That ... Everyone would find it weird if someone replaced <r> with anything but their...
1376 Stephen Rice
ansric Send Email
Mar 25, 2012
5:57 am
... I experimented with this back around 1980 after encountering Babm (boabomu), which uses all 26 letters, but as a syllabary. It's impressive, and the...
1377 Risto Kupsala
rkupsala Send Email
Mar 25, 2012
1:34 pm
... Yes, in Italian. On the other hand, in Portuguese C+l often becomes C+r, which makes me think that there is no essential difference between /l/ and /r/...
1378 JerryM
unumondo Send Email
Mar 25, 2012
6:50 pm
... Thanks, Steve. I really appreciate your taking the time to consider my ambitions. I note for those unfamiliar with "Ido for All" that the credit line on...
1379 Stephen Rice
ansric Send Email
Mar 25, 2012
10:08 pm
... I would agree that Eo phonology is too complex. On the other hand, no other auxlang in history has succeeded better at true interlinguistic use. It...
1380 Stephen Rice
ansric Send Email
Mar 25, 2012
10:34 pm
... I tweaked Bebson's English a bit. I actually like Ido as a language, though I'm no good at it myself. (I find Eo easier.) I do think its culture,...
1381 Jens Wilkinson
jowilkinson4 Send Email
Mar 26, 2012
9:01 am
________________________________ I believe I have avoided the R-L confusion, and most consonant pronunciation problems, in my fledgling "lalamijo"; development....
1382 JerryM
unumondo Send Email
Mar 26, 2012
3:51 pm
... You own compositions can let the language find its own expressions and idioms, especially when compositions of others (collaborators) are factored in. I...
1383 Stephen Rice
ansric Send Email
Mar 26, 2012
5:32 pm
... I haven't found anything really good, unfortunately, though Aesop's fables are a reasonable start: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18732 I think that one's...
1384 lingwadeplaneta Send Email Mar 27, 2012
8:06 am
Salam! I have just uploaded the song "Dai a me kisa" (in MP3) by German raggae singer Jonny M. to the Files section of this group. Jonny has composed lyrics on...
1385 risto@...
rkupsala Send Email
Mar 27, 2012
11:54 am
... He was aware of the phenomenon even if it didn't have a name. That b/v thing happens in dialects of Spanish, and also in the evolution from classical Greek...
1386 Stephen Rice
ansric Send Email
Mar 28, 2012
3:58 am
... And this because of nagging sanity. After arguing that <z>/[z] has no clear identity internationally, he proposes merging <z> with <s>. But note that [s]...
1387 risto@...
rkupsala Send Email
Mar 28, 2012
7:26 am
... Don't worry. I built up the vocabulary anew in a few weeks before and after announcing the continual of Pandunia's development. Working fast is not a...
1388 Stephen Rice
ansric Send Email
Mar 28, 2012
6:48 pm
... I'll pretend to find this encouraging. ... Well, so long as I didn't disrupt anything, then... ... LdP already has that without quotas. So does NP. ... ...
1389 Risto Kupsala
rkupsala Send Email
Mar 28, 2012
9:05 pm
... In informal situations you are free to use whatever word you think that your listener/reader would or should understand. But you shouldn't just coin words...
1390 Stephen Rice
ansric Send Email
Mar 29, 2012
6:37 am
... What if I don't care? The goal is communication, not winning a lexical popularity contest. Consider how Esperanto works: there is a process for...
1391 lingwadeplaneta Send Email Mar 29, 2012
10:40 am
Salam, amigas! Considering translation of H.G.Wells's Invisible Man into Lidepla, I'd like to know how popular this book is in different countries. In Russia...
1392 risto@...
rkupsala Send Email
Mar 29, 2012
12:29 pm
salam, amiga! The story is known from movie and TV adaptations. The book was translated in 1986 last time. I haven't seen reprints. -- Risto...
1393 Stephen Rice
ansric Send Email
Mar 29, 2012
12:38 pm
... In the US the idea is well-known, though mostly through movies. I'm not sure many people have read the book, but then comparatively few have read...
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