Hi, I have a question for Dimitri but it could interest somebody else too. If I borrow a Russian word that ends in a consonant to Pandunia and want to add a...
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steve rice
ansric
May 18, 2010 4:18 pm
... I'll answer for English, since it has a lot of consonant-final words as well. ... Marking sex with vowels isn't a big issue in English, so consistency is...
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lingwadeplaneta
May 19, 2010 10:38 am
... If we are talking about nouns, I'd prefer -a (but maybe I am LdP-influenced already?). Nouns of both genders may end in -a (although feminine ones more...
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Dana Nutter
sasxsek
May 19, 2010 2:09 pm
... I would guess the obvious for palatal ("soft") consonants would be /i/ where <ь>, the others I'm not sure would matter too much but you may want to stay...
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Dana Nutter
sasxsek
May 19, 2010 2:15 pm
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 6:34 AM, lingwadeplaneta ... Yes, but "-(j)a" for masculines is more of an exception than a rule. Likewise for soft consonant endings. ...
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lingwadeplaneta
May 19, 2010 5:32 pm
... Funny that we both have names that end in -a but are masculine (the short name for Dmitri is Dima). ... We should take a look at Kyahta pigin. There almost...
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Dana Nutter
sasxsek
May 19, 2010 6:17 pm
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 1:31 PM, lingwadeplaneta ... Mine gets mistaken for female a lot. You should see the written correspondence I get addresses "Ms". If...
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<deinx nxtxr>
sasxsek
May 29, 2010 5:21 pm
... I just checked this thread again and noticed what should have been a very obvious solution that I overlooked. How about just checking the Russian word...
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Stephen Rice
ansric
May 31, 2010 3:32 am
The article is up: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worldlang It's only a beginning, and I hope for constructive extensions and tweaks. I'm reasonably confident it...
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<deinx nxtxr>
sasxsek
May 31, 2010 3:49 am
... Looks pretty good to me. I probably would have hyperlinked with many more cross-references but that can be done over time. As to future changes, I think...
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Stephen Rice
ansric
May 31, 2010 4:50 am
It does need more hyperlinks; I just wasn't feeling that hyper. I'll do some minor tweaks of that sort over the next few days. As to TP and IE, I'll look over...
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Jens Wilkinson
jowilkinson4
May 31, 2010 5:23 am
... Thanks for the work, Steve. Now I guess our main task is trying to make sure it doesn't get deleted. I'm not all that Wikipedia-savvy, so is there anything...
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risto@...
rkupsala
May 31, 2010 8:48 am
... Toki Pona has many Finnish words, e.g. ma from "maa" (earth). There's a list of them in the Finnish wikipedia: http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toki_pona I...
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<deinx nxtxr>
sasxsek
May 31, 2010 12:32 pm
... I think it's written well enough to get past the self-appointed Wiki-stapo. Their big concern is that articles are something factual and informative....
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<deinx nxtxr>
sasxsek
May 31, 2010 4:00 pm
... Also Japanese, Mandarin, Cantonese, Tongan, Georgian, etc... http://en.tokipona.org/wiki/Toki_Pona_word_origins It certainly isn't in any way balanced but...
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zeinelabidin
May 31, 2010 4:44 pm
... Dana, or Danh in the Arabic dialects of United Arab Emirates and also in Bahrain means a Pearl. Usually Dana (specifically Daana) means a large pearl. It's...
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<deinx nxtxr>
sasxsek
May 31, 2010 5:01 pm
... Technically it's a Scandinavian name meaning the same thing as Dane (=a Danish person). In reality American names don't really mean much of anything,...
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<deinx nxtxr>
sasxsek
May 31, 2010 5:07 pm
... In English, names ending in "-a" are generally feminine, and a lot of masculine names can be made feminine by adding "-a" (Robert > Roberta). "Dana" just...
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Stephen Rice
ansric
May 31, 2010 8:50 pm
About translating into Eo: I'm not sure how to translate "worldlang," as "mondlingvo" means something else already. I'm not sure how to translate it in most...
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cafaristeir
Jun 1, 2010 7:09 am
Re-sellamat Steve ! Congratulations for this article; well-written, with a lot of quotes. I hope the "Wiki-Macoutes" won't destroy it... Olivier...
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Jens Wilkinson
jowilkinson4
Jun 1, 2010 8:32 am
... I'm actually a bit surprised to hear that. The only person named Dana I'd ever met before you is a woman, so it never occurred to me it was often a male...
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Risto Kupsala
rkupsala
Jun 1, 2010 7:13 pm
... In English I would define worldlang in short as "global composite language". For Esperanto I would coin something like "mondkunmetlingvo", but I don't know...
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Alexandre Baudry
alex.baudry
Jun 1, 2010 8:54 pm
Hi all, ... I would be glad to contribute, as I speak esperanto. The world mondlingvo doesn't have a dedicated meaning in esperanto. The only problem is that...
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lingwadeplaneta
Jun 2, 2010 6:29 am
... tutmondlingvo vermondlingvo maleuxroklono (perhaps the exactest) I've seen a site where all English Wikipedia pages are automatically translated into Eo,...
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risto@...
rkupsala
Jun 2, 2010 6:39 am
... With "composite language" I mean a language that is put together (combined) of language material from various languages. I have seen the term "composite...
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Stephen Rice
ansric
Jun 2, 2010 8:30 am
Cxu mond-fonta lingvo (MFL)? Steve...
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Alexandre Baudry
alex.baudry
Jun 2, 2010 9:38 am
Hi, ... Ok. Conlang is indeed „artefarita lingvo“, even if esperantists prefer to class esperanto in an other concept (to avoid the „artificial“...
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Dana Nutter
sasxsek
Jun 2, 2010 7:25 pm
On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 2:29 AM, lingwadeplaneta ... "Maleuxroklono" really doesn't work because European languages are still part of a worldlang. For E-o it...
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lingwadeplaneta
Jun 3, 2010 6:36 am
... I meant not maleuxro-klono (opposite-European language) but mal-euxroklono (opposite-euroclone). The very term "worldlang" was coined with opposition to...
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Jens Wilkinson
jowilkinson4
Jun 3, 2010 8:53 am
... I hesitate a little bit, because I am not an Esperanto speaker, but the ideo of "maleuxroklono" makes sense to me. That's really what a worldlang means, in...
