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Topics in this digest:
1a. Lexicon (proportion and quantity)
From: Mathieu Roy
1b. Re: Lexicon (proportion and quantity)
From: MorphemeAddict
2.1. Re: On not perceiving (was: RE: Loglan[g] VS Natlang)
From: Douglas Koller
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1a. Lexicon (proportion and quantity)
Posted by: "Mathieu Roy" [email protected]
Date: Thu Jan 24, 2013 6:10 pm ((PST))
What is the proportion of
verbs/adverbs/adjectives/substantives/conjunctions/prepositions (or whatever
categories you use) of the words in your (or someone else) conlang?
What are the conlangs that have the most (different) words? (using the two
different definition of "words": 1. all possible sequences of letters
without a space AND 2. All "basic" words that cannot be derivate from some
grammar rules such has adding an 's' for plurality). Also (to the conlangs
it can apply) what about the most (different) unconjugated verbs?
Adjectives/adverbs? Substantives? Conjonctions/prepositions? And how many
do they have?
How did you decide where to stop in the quantity of substantives? For
example, if your conlang is to be use on Earth, how many mammals of the 10k
that exist did you name and how did you picked?
Mathieu
PS: I've read the tread "Word limit" of last week, but I don't think these
questions have been answered and I was curious about them.
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1b. Re: Lexicon (proportion and quantity)
Posted by: "MorphemeAddict" [email protected]
Date: Thu Jan 24, 2013 6:42 pm ((PST))
Some conlangs, like Lojban and Loglan, do not make any distinction at all
between nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs. Others (e.g., Esperanto,
Latejami, my Saweli) have stems that can take any part-of-speech ending, so
I doubt this sort of arbitrary distinction has any value.
stevo
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 9:10 PM, Mathieu Roy <[email protected]>wrote:
> What is the proportion of
> verbs/adverbs/adjectives/substantives/conjunctions/prepositions (or
> whatever
> categories you use) of the words in your (or someone else) conlang?
>
> What are the conlangs that have the most (different) words? (using the two
> different definition of "words": 1. all possible sequences of letters
> without a space AND 2. All "basic" words that cannot be derivate from some
> grammar rules such has adding an 's' for plurality). Also (to the conlangs
> it can apply) what about the most (different) unconjugated verbs?
> Adjectives/adverbs? Substantives? Conjonctions/prepositions? And how many
> do they have?
>
> How did you decide where to stop in the quantity of substantives? For
> example, if your conlang is to be use on Earth, how many mammals of the 10k
> that exist did you name and how did you picked?
>
> Mathieu
>
> PS: I've read the tread "Word limit" of last week, but I don't think these
> questions have been answered and I was curious about them.
>
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2.1. Re: On not perceiving (was: RE: Loglan[g] VS Natlang)
Posted by: "Douglas Koller" [email protected]
Date: Thu Jan 24, 2013 6:54 pm ((PST))
> Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 14:46:49 -0200
> From: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: On not perceiving (was: RE: Loglan[g] VS Natlang)
> To: [email protected]
> When I told him I thought that
> it should be "Wie sieht der Fuß aus?",
The linchpin sentence to any good German conversation...
> As he was
> half-Brazilian and half-Swiss; probably this behaviour was because he
> learned the Brazilian "malandragem" well.
Move over saudade. With its own Wiki page, I think we have another
"untranslatable" concept on our hands that would make Milan Kundera proud. ;)
Kou
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