Hi Jens! Thanks for opening this new group! I understand Dana what he says he had difficulties to manage the group. Personnally, I had a job that devoured my...
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ansric
Mar 3, 2009 6:24 pm
... my ... Why does your blog show only posts for 2007 and 2008? At one point I thought you had abandoned sambahsa. Would you consider putting your material on...
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cafaristeir
Mar 3, 2009 8:02 pm
Sellamat Steve! ... interest. ... on ... I ... Not at all (for the moment, sambahsa may even be the last thing I've not abandoned...); I've even posted some...
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steve rice
ansric
Mar 4, 2009 5:31 am
... The problem with using a blog is that people expect them to be updated regularly--at least once a week--so it makes Sambahsa look dead. It also is an...
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Dmitri Ivanov
lingwadeplaneta
Mar 4, 2009 6:26 am
... Hao sabah, kare Olivier! It would be good at least to have the whole of French-Sambahsa dictionary on one page. Then one could use browser search to...
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jowilkinson4
Mar 4, 2009 6:28 am
... No problem. I'm happy to continue whatever discussions we were having. And just for the record, since we are a small group, we can discuss problems if they...
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Dmitri Ivanov
lingwadeplaneta
Mar 4, 2009 7:05 am
... I remember that idea of yours. Yesterday another idea, I'm not sure how serious it is, came to me: maybe start with grammar? I mean the following. For...
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cafaristeir
Mar 4, 2009 8:26 am
Sellamat prients! ... Well, that's true... But as I'm bad at computer technics, a blog was the only possibility I had to lodge sambahsa on the net. ... Thanks...
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steve rice
ansric
Mar 4, 2009 4:51 pm
... I sketched an artlang along those lines in the 80s. The idea was that a group of nomadic traders used particles for grammar and borrowed vocabulary from...
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steve rice
ansric
Mar 4, 2009 4:57 pm
... Okay, but I hope that will be soon. As we hardly ever say in English, all grammar and no vocabulary makes Jack an uncommunicative boy. ... I promise I will...
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steve rice
ansric
Mar 4, 2009 7:32 pm
... It's still pretty rough, but it's there: http://sambahsa.pbwiki.com/ You were supposed to get an invitation of some kind. I think you'll find PBWiki is as...
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cafaristeir
Mar 4, 2009 8:03 pm
Sellamat prients! Y'all can now witness Steve's efficiency! (One yahoo group dies, but another one is born, as well as a worldlang wiki; c'est la vie...) This...
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Jens Wilkinson
jowilkinson4
Mar 5, 2009 7:30 am
... I think I can understand the idea, but I'm not completely sure. I assume that you are not proposing that the prepositions be chosen beforehand. If that is...
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Dmitri Ivanov
lingwadeplaneta
Mar 5, 2009 8:17 am
... I thought that prepositions should be included (and maybe also words like "what", "who" and "where"), so knowing them and their usage is part of Unigram....
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Jens Wilkinson
jowilkinson4
Mar 6, 2009 5:04 am
Just FYI, I went through my inbox and it turns out I have 622 messages (I know, I'm not good at deleting things!) from the old worldlangs group. I'll keep them...
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Dmitri Ivanov
lingwadeplaneta
Mar 6, 2009 6:49 am
... "As long as there is chaos in Russia, it is invincible" (from an old joke) :) That is nice, they could be attached to our Files section. The only question...
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Florent Garet
florentgaret
Mar 9, 2009 10:39 am
Hi everybody! Is someone here has tried to use a TTS software to generate sample sentences in their auxlang? These softwares allow some tweaking, so it may be...
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steve rice
ansric
Mar 9, 2009 4:05 pm
... I admit I'm not a fan of TTS. I could probably get such software to produce reasonable output for Sona (which I will use as an example worldlang), but it...
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jowilkinson4
Mar 18, 2009 5:40 am
... Hi Olivier, I'm sorry I didn't get around to answering that. I decided to answer, and spent some time looking in the auxlang archives for it, then realized...
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steve rice
ansric
Mar 19, 2009 3:58 am
... This is very helpful to me. After Olivier sent the text to be translated into Inlis, I found my weekend and week were even busier than usual, so I haven't...
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Dmitri Ivanov
lingwadeplaneta
Apr 12, 2009 5:40 am
Here's another video lesson of LdP: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VnOA9RMRWs...
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Dmitri Ivanov
lingwadeplaneta
Apr 20, 2009 8:06 am
I wonder if anyone has created a language with homonymy. I mean, when one word may have completely different meanings, like "bear" (animal) and "bear" (carry)....
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Jens Wilkinson
jowilkinson4
Apr 20, 2009 8:29 am
... I wonder if anyone has created a language with homonymy. I mean, when one word may have completely different meanings, like "bear" (animal) and "bear"...
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steve rice
ansric
Apr 20, 2009 4:13 pm
... Sona is somewhat like that: its "radicals"; are rather loosely defined, so (for example) "uma" is "mother; nation; home." For greater clarity, you can...
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steve rice
ansric
Apr 20, 2009 4:37 pm
... Now that I think about it, Elisabeth Wainscott, a UN interpreter, created an auxlang called UNI that did feature homonymy--she defended the idea in her...
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risto@...
rkupsala
Apr 21, 2009 6:03 am
... I don't know any such languages, but I suppose homonyms have slipped in to some. At least Esperanto is criticized for having some homonyms due to ...
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cafaristeir
Apr 21, 2009 7:10 am
Sellamat prients! About Mandarin, I wonder if we can really speak of homophons, since those words are distinguished by tones. Thus, they don't sound the same. ...
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Jens Wilkinson
jowilkinson4
Apr 21, 2009 7:24 am
... About Mandarin, I wonder if we can really speak of homophons, since those words are distinguished by tones. Actually they are not. For example, for a...
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Dmitri Ivanov
lingwadeplaneta
Apr 21, 2009 7:49 am
... And for "shi", pronounced with the forth tone only, my small dic that I have at hand gives 19 separate entries with completely different meanings: to be;...
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Jens Wilkinson
jowilkinson4
Apr 21, 2009 8:01 am
... And for "shi", pronounced with the forth tone only, my small dic that I have at hand gives 19 separate entries with completely different meanings: to be;...
