Re: DIS: [Meta] Linguistic Experimentation

2018-11-30 Thread Aris Merchant
Without objection, I do so. .ui.o'u (contented happiness). -Aris On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 4:41 PM Aris Merchant < thoughtsoflifeandligh...@gmail.com> wrote: > I propose to conduct an experiment into the nature of the Agoran > dialect, and specifically how easy it is to change it. I'm planning to

Re: DIS: [Meta] Linguistic Experimentation

2018-11-25 Thread Rebecca
haha gotcha i don't know crap about anything except american law i guess and even that interest is very casual. i flaunt my own ignorance. On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 12:16 PM Aris Merchant < thoughtsoflifeandligh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Indeed. Or perhaps "All Agorans are snerds". > > -Aris > On

Re: DIS: [Meta] Linguistic Experimentation

2018-11-23 Thread Reuben Staley
I would like to congratulate you on (1) being, surprisingly, the second person to berate me due to my lack of vowel transliteration knowledge, and (2) demonstrating how much of a snerd you yourself are in the process. On 11/23/18 11:17 PM, Jakob Burgos wrote: The pronunciations should

Re: DIS: [Meta] Linguistic Experimentation

2018-11-23 Thread Jakob Burgos
The pronunciations should probably be the following: * American English /snɝːd/ * Received Pronunciation /snɜːd/ On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 8:04 PM Reuben Staley wrote: > Instead, how about we adopt the following term: > > snerd > > * American English /snɚd/ > * British English /snəd/ > > (noun)

Re: DIS: [Meta] Linguistic Experimentation

2018-11-22 Thread Aris Merchant
Careful, Lojban. Loglan is Lojban's predecessor, and is widely considered to be deprecated, despite some people still trying to use it. -Aris On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 7:43 PM Jacob Arduino wrote: > The Loglan and the Snerds both seem like useful constructions, and not at > all mutually

Re: DIS: [Meta] Linguistic Experimentation

2018-11-22 Thread Jacob Arduino
The Loglan and the Snerds both seem like useful constructions, and not at all mutually exclusive. I'll be sure to try my hand at both. - Jacob Arduino On Nov 22, 2018 20:16, "Aris Merchant" wrote: Indeed. Or perhaps "All Agorans are snerds". -Aris On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 5:04 PM Reuben

Re: DIS: [Meta] Linguistic Experimentation

2018-11-22 Thread Aris Merchant
Indeed. Or perhaps "All Agorans are snerds". -Aris On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 5:04 PM Reuben Staley wrote: > > Instead, how about we adopt the following term: > > snerd > > * American English /snɚd/ > * British English /snəd/ > > (noun) 1. short for "super nerd"; i.e. "People who know Lojban are

Re: DIS: [Meta] Linguistic Experimentation

2018-11-22 Thread Aris Merchant
je'e mi'e eris On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 5:00 PM Timon Walshe-Grey wrote: > > .u'i .o'iru'e > > -twg > > > ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ > On Friday, November 23, 2018 12:40 AM, Aris Merchant > wrote: > > > I propose to conduct an experiment into the nature of the Agoran > > dialect, and

Re: DIS: [Meta] Linguistic Experimentation

2018-11-22 Thread Timon Walshe-Grey
also: https://xkcd.com/191/ -twg ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Friday, November 23, 2018 1:04 AM, Reuben Staley wrote: > Instead, how about we adopt the following term: > > snerd > > - American English /snɚd/ > - British English /snəd/ > > (noun) 1. short for "super nerd"; i.e.

Re: DIS: [Meta] Linguistic Experimentation

2018-11-22 Thread Reuben Staley
Instead, how about we adopt the following term: snerd * American English /snɚd/ * British English /snəd/ (noun) 1. short for "super nerd"; i.e. "People who know Lojban are snerds" -- Trigon On Thu, Nov 22, 2018, 17:41 Aris Merchant < thoughtsoflifeandligh...@gmail.com wrote: > I propose to

Re: DIS: [Meta] Linguistic Experimentation

2018-11-22 Thread Timon Walshe-Grey
.u'i .o'iru'e -twg ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Friday, November 23, 2018 12:40 AM, Aris Merchant wrote: > I propose to conduct an experiment into the nature of the Agoran > dialect, and specifically how easy it is to change it. I'm planning to > start occasionally sprinkling some

DIS: [Meta] Linguistic Experimentation

2018-11-22 Thread Aris Merchant
I propose to conduct an experiment into the nature of the Agoran dialect, and specifically how easy it is to change it. I'm planning to start occasionally sprinkling some Lojban indicators [1] into my emails. They represent expressions like "yay!", ";)", or "IMO", but Lojban has many more of them