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1a. Re: proliferation of parts of speech
From: Alex Fink
2a. Re: Conlang words that sound funny in natlangs...
From: Alex Fink
3a. Re: An Age-Built Lexicon
From: Daniel Prohaska
3b. Re: An Age-Built Lexicon
the zero
case.
>>I'm still not sure I get it 100%. And I want to, because I suspect it
>>would help me in getting unstuck on one particular point in revising
>>Celimine. Just as the tense and positional deictic systems are merged,
>>I wanted to find some way of expressi
ther nonsense (was
From: David Peterson
6c. Re: Paid contractor vs Artistic collaborator and other nonsense (was
From: Sai
7a. Re: Conlang & IP law
From: Sai
Messages
1a. Re: OT: YAEPT"T"
at 10:58 PM, Matthew Merlo wrote:
>> And I have been "politely" insulted by your president.
>Wait, wait, let me make something clear. I am the president of the LCS, but
>the Conlang-L is something completely >separate from and independent of the
>LCS. I in
e:
On 06/12/2012 09:06, Matthew Merlo wrote:
>> On Dec 5, 2012, at 10:58 PM, Matthew Merlo
[snip]
>
> Of course you can just say I'm a jerk ...
That would be too polite.
Your initial request was unrealistic; it has been pointed
out why.
Some of your notions are not linguistically sound; it
____
2. Arturo Alfandari
Posted by: "Michael Everson" ever...@evertype.com
Date: Fri Dec 7, 2012 8:43 am ((PST))
Does anyone have any idea where
quot;?
From: Matthew Boutilier
2e. Re: USAGE: Generic pronoun for "I, here, this, my"?
From: Leonardo Castro
3a. Conlang altitude record
From: Daniel Bowman
3b. Re: Conlang altitude record
From: George Corley
3c. Re: Conlang altitude record
From: Danie
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From: Alex Fink
2b. Re
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From: Eric Christopherson
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From: Alex Fink
2a. Re: Conlang altitude record
stopherson
2b. Re: USAGE: Generic pronoun for "I, here, this, my"?
From: Leonardo Castro
3a. Re: Conlang altitude record
From: Daniel Bowman
3b. Re: Conlang altitude record
From: Christian Thalmann
4a. Re: Development of Proto-Enamyn
From: Melroch
4b. Re:
tructure, we still need a way to mark a whole phrase as projective or
not, though, independent of the marking of any of the constituents as
role-assigner or head. Perhaps projectiveness is handled with
phrase-level clitics.
So, by examining the functions of different parts of speech or
syntactic cons
>
> and you can do cool things with this -- like in Arabic if the subject of
> the reported speech is a pronoun, you can suffix that pronoun right onto
> the "that"-word.
>
> 2.5. or i just thought of the (mainly written) German thing where you don't
> need a
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1a. Re: oratio obliqua
From: Matthew Boutilier
2a. Re: Conlang & IP law
From: Cíat Ó Gáibhtheacháin
2b. Re: Conlang & IP law
From: Cíat Ó Gáibhtheacháin
3a. Re: Functional Approach to Conlanging
he skkarpl
From: Melroch
4b. Re: the good, the bad, and the skkarpl
From: Puey McCleary
5a. Re: Proto-Janjarin and Modern Janjarin
From: Nikolay Ivankov
6. SF Bay Area conlang meetup
From: Sai
7a. Re: USAGE: Generic pronoun for "I, here, this, my"?
Fro
sages
1a. Re: A grammar based on Occam's razor
Posted by: "Herman Miller" hmil...@prismnet.com
Date: Mon Dec 10, 2012 6:04 pm ((PST))
On 12/10/2012 4:08 AM, Michael Weber wrote:
> Hi. My conlang just went online. It&#x
now... too much. Won't it
be more like browsing? And also, what kind of books are meant? A short
paper in math, physics or linguistics worth tons of pulp fiction, imho.
I read about 20 books a year. Mostly it is my subject and popular science,
and mostly in the languages that are foreign for m
are not the same as
> for "general population".
>
> Até mais!
>
> Leonardo
>
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Yahoo! Groups Links
<*> To visit your group on the web, go to:
Right now I'm
more concerned with finishing/polishing/collecting my own poetry of the past 60
years, with the goal of self-publishing. The only fiction I've written lately
was the LoCoWriMo story in Kash/English in 2009 (2010?). My main writing
activity is in INdonesian linguistics, so
n.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_chemical_elements_discoveries
>
Nice table, but I used this: http://www.zompist.com/versci.htm
> I've been trying to come up with Tirelat names of the chemical elements. At
> their level of scientific development, they've probably discovered most if
&g
juncts,
>but not all disjuncts are necessarily non-restrictive, instead having
>that modal-evidential feel. This is going to reduce your part of
>speech count again, but you could then simply classify evidential
>markers as disjuncts.
Eh, I actually like it as an idea to run with. It
communication,
> e.g. volute of barking = how angry the dog is. But all I can say without
> resorting to mathematics is the dog is very, very angry-- some sort of fuzy
> but descrete system. The obvoius throw-down-the-gauntlet challenge here to
> conlangers is to put together a human
o to:
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e /piÅkɯl/, /pεÅkɯl/,
/phiÅkɯl/ and /ppiÅkɯl/ in Korean shows me that there is an analogous
system in place there, but I expect it to be richer because of more vowel
qualities, interaction with vowel harmony and coda consonants. Yet, I wasn't
able to find anything comprehensive.
3 months, but still, he proves it is entirely possible.
http://www.fluentin3months.com
He also has a blog and a Facebook page where he gives a lot of great tips and
hints. I’ve seen a number of them that could just as easily be put to use
learning a conlang.
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vanese, but seems to have
little meaning. (It crops up as an honorific in some cases.)
walaupun 'although' -- walau is ???, maybe related somehow to kalau 'if'
These don't seem to occur widely in speech; mainly in technical/Western
influenced writing.
Although I've pored
t;Logan Kearsley" chronosur...@gmail.com
Date: Fri Dec 14, 2012 10:14 am ((PST))
On 13 December 2012 14:23, Zach Wellstood wrote:
> liyaá' łí'!
>
> I am wondering if anyone can explain or point me in the direction of a
> fairly well accepted research paper that explains the
osted by: "Nicole Valicia Thompson-Andrews" goldyemo...@gmail.com
Date: Fri Dec 14, 2012 3:28 pm ((PST))
I read the post. I'm not sure what the authpor is trying to say. The post
was quite brief, so I'm lost.
Emerging poet
Pen Name Mellissa Green
Budding novelist
tweet m
.com
Date: Sat Dec 15, 2012 8:05 am ((PST))
Feliĉan Zamenhof-tagon al ĉiuj el la tuta mondo!
Let’s put on our green stars and wish happy birthday to Doctor Esperanto
himself!
In some ways Esperanto is the Great-Grandfather in this Conlang family. I
suppose that makes Volapük and Solresol G
at 10:00 PM, Paul Schleitwiler, FCM <
pjschleitwiler...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Recent podcast brought to my attention by my wife.
> http://www.theworld.org/2012/12/beyond-elvish/
>
> Found link there to an older one on Dothraki which I'd not heard before.
>
> http://www.t
", i.e. that German was the
language of Adam and Eve. This "fact" is laid into the basis of the
"conclusion", that everyone speaking other languages (in particular
Romance) would be said guilty in the End of Times, at least for falling off
from a "true language".
ges. In Latin _villa_ was 'estate' but its
French reflex means 'town'. I think this is well nigh a universal.
/bpj
Den söndagen den 16:e december 2012 skrev Roger Mills:
> --- On Sun, 12/16/12, Daniel Prohaska >
> wrote:
> English and Dutch (as well as Frisian and
el. Leastways among native speakers. Among ESL speakers, sure.
FWIW, the gemination also comes out in terribly careful speech.
Padraic
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Is that used by most Brazilians, whether of Euro or Afro descent, or mainly by
Afro-Brazilians?
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3.1. Re: OT:
Henry.
Henry muakoo John.
* prohibiting the passive form of this verb (rigorously, "muako" would
be the passive form of "to be larger than") and using the verb "to be
smaller than" instead:
John muake Henry.
Henry miene John.
---
2012/12/17 Charles W Brickner :
ysics or linguistics worth tons of pulp fiction, imho.
>>
>> I read about 20 books a year. Mostly it is my subject and popular
>> science,
>> and mostly in the languages that are foreign for me. Plus conlang list,
>> plus popular science sites, about one publication a day.
ore about the Tirelat names for elements and
the history of Sangari chemistry. In ancient times, the Sangari would
have had names for what they considered basic or pure substances, much
like the Greek elements. But there were more of them, and each element
could have more than one form. Th
2>.
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4a. Re: New Yorker magazine article on Ithkuil and conlanging
Posted by: "John Q" jquijad...@gmail.com
pas non plus" mean?
From: Christophe Grandsire-Koevoets
2f. Re: USAGE: French what does "n'ignore pas non plus" mean?
From: BPJ
2g. Re: USAGE: French what does "n'ignore pas non plus" mean?
From: Christophe Grandsire-Koevoets
2h. Re: USAGE:
mighty and most ferocious ruler.
>
> Zad first attempted to rush me down as a bull might a wolf, but I was
> much too quick for him, and each time I side-stepped his rushes he
> would go lunging past me, only to receive a nick from my sword upon
> his arm or back.
>
> Once the c
s of Mars_ was "Sak!"
>
> For those who do not know, "Sak!" is Barsoomian (Martian) for "Jump!"
>
> Quote:
>
> They first repeated the word "sak" a number of times, and then Tars Tarkas
> made several jumps, repeating the same wor
From: Logan Kearsley
5d. Re: deciphering an unknown language
From: Matthew Martin
6. Conlang humor
From: Sai
Messages
1a. Re: Auxlangs are to artlangs what spelling reforms are to ???
Posted by:
on-instinctive skills, like calculus and bike
riding.
If you can translate from English to some sort of Basic English/Globish to an
arbitrary conlang, I would imagine you'd be translating the core, instinctive
universal grammar.
The other idea that came to mind is that this methodology wou
sley" chronosur...@gmail.com
Date: Sat Dec 22, 2012 6:52 am ((PST))
On 21 December 2012 12:54, Matthew Martin wrote:
[...]
> The other idea that came to mind is that this methodology would produce an
> pixelated, 8 bit English and a very English-y grammar. Definite articles are
>
here are some more k- "who?" and m- "what?" examples:
> Proto-Chadic *k’-, Proto-Eskimo-Aleutian *ken, Seneca kwanu
> Proto-Afro-Asiatic *mi(n), Proto-Kartvelian *ma, Ryukyuan mī,
> Proto-Australian *miNa, Nez Perce mana, Quechua ima
This thread lead me to veer off on a
wn" elemti...@yahoo.com
Date: Sat Dec 22, 2012 8:03 pm ((PST))
--- On Sat, 12/22/12, Leonardo Castro wrote:
> From: Leonardo Castro
> Subject: Re: [CONLANG] How Languages Divide Colors
> To: conl...@listserv.brown.edu
> Date: Saturday, December 22, 2012, 9:24 PM
> 2012/12/
in syllable; also the
> frequency
> > that each letters appear; and things like that.
> >
> > (I already tried to Google it, and didn't find anything good)
> >
> > Thanks a lot,
> >
> > -Mat
>
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5.1. Re: USAGE: Generic pronoun for "I, here, this, my"?
From: Leonardo Castro
5.2. Re: USAGE: Generic pronoun for "I, here, this, my"?
From: Leonardo Castro
6a. Conlang Relay
From: Sam Stutter
6b. Re: Conlang Relay
From: Tony Harris
6
y thoughts?
>
> With the holidays happening I don't have the attention for a longer response,
> which this merits (I'll put it on the queue), but I will say that your design
> goals have a strìking similarity to those of UNLWS, a conlang of Sai and
> myself .
> Perhaps
From: Leonardo Castro
3. Conlang Relay 21
From: Fenhl
4a. Re: Request for comments
From: Chris Crawford
4b. Re: Request for comments
From: Chris Crawford
4c. Re: Request for comments
From: Chris Crawford
4d. Re: Request for comments
From: Pat
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From: Roger Mills
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From: Philip Newton
a great page about vowel systems. Thanks.
> I particularly like the corners of V4: [i], [u], [E], [O] (Thanks,
> Leonardo.)
That's the Turkish vowel system minus front rounded
and back unrounded vowels, so it doesn't surprise
me that it occurs.
One not listed there which IIUC oc
which IIUC occurs is
>
> i ɨ u
>
> a
>
> I guess [ɨ] would be within the range of /ə/ in
> many languages conventionally described as /i u ɵ a/.
BTW, in such a system, maybe representing them with would be
better than with , because is better distinguished fro
Harris" t...@alurhsa.org
Date: Thu Dec 27, 2012 3:59 am ((PST))
Mine went out yesterday. In theory the US ones should arrive in the
next few days, and my three overseas ones will take somewhat longer.
I've gotten about a half dozen so far, maybe more.
On 12/27/2012 05:05
Crawford
2a. New 30-day conlang project - prep work
From: Gary Shannon
2b. Re: New 30-day conlang project - prep work
From: MorphemeAddict
2c. Re: New 30-day conlang project - prep work
From: nichole andrews
2d. Re: New 30-day conlang project - prep work
From: Gary
r at first,
> and the term for one used for the other? Or more than one term for
> indigenous populations?
I don't have a conworld nor a conculture, but I'm going to take this
opportunity to ask if any of you have exonym(s) and endonym(s) for
your conlang. And if the con
grammar, there are only a few classes of words, and so only a
> few colors are required to differentiate them. Thus, your requirement for
> discrete, highly differentiable colors is met by SympolTalk.
Agreed, for the parts you've described so far.
> Those 24 bits of color are f
clusters
From: Ph. D.
3i. Re: Consonant clusters
From: Gary Shannon
4a. Re: OT: cryptograms
From: Alex Fink
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From: MorphemeAddict
5a. Re: 30-Day Conlang, Take Two
From: Nico Baier
5b. Re: 30-Day Conlang, Take Two
From: Gary Shannon
clusters
From: J. M. DeSantis
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From: James Kane
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From: Gary Shannon
3a. Good = Mine
From: Daniel Demski
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From: Mathieu Roy
3c. Re: Good = Mine
From: Leonardo Castro
3d
press.com/NewReleasesandForthcomingTitles.htm>
and
Amazon<http://www.amazon.com/Second-Person-Patrick-Dunn/dp/1599249065/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1324342341&sr=8-2>.
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From: Sylvia Sotomayor
6a. Re: New 30-day conlang project - prep work
From: Gary Shannon
7a. Medium-length translation text?
From: Ian Spolarich
7b. Re: Medium-length translation text?
From: Puey McCleary
7c. Re: Medium-length translation text?
From: Cosman246
7
an Spolarich wrote:
From: Ian Spolarich
Subject: Medium-length translation text?
To: conl...@listserv.brown.edu
Date: Sunday, December 30, 2012, 8:43 PM
My conlang Adranik really needs to be practiced and is beyond the
construction of simple sentences. The language is not really well-suited
for Biblic
m-length translation text?
From: Jim Henry
5c. Re: Medium-length translation text?
From: Gary Shannon
5d. Re: Medium-length translation text?
From: Gary Shannon
5e. Re: Medium-length translation text?
From: MorphemeAddict
6. New 30-Day Conlang - last minute wafflin
1a. Re: Medium-length translation text?
Posted by: "Padraic Brown" elemti...@yahoo.com
Date: Tue Jan 1, 2013 5:42 am ((PST))
--- On Sun, 12/30/12, Ian Spolarich wrote:
> My conlang Adranik really needs to be
> practiced a
greetings in merechi
From: nichole andrews
3e. Re: Audio New Year's greetings in merechi
From: Mathieu Roy
4a. 30-Day conlang - take two - day one
From: Gary Shannon
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From: Roger Mills
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2a. How to Describe a Conlang
From: Jeffrey Brown
2b. Re: How to Describe a Conlang
From: Gary Shannon
2c. Re: How to Describe a Conlang
From: Charles W Brickner
2d. Re: How to Describe a Conlang
From: Matthew Martin
3a. Re: Consonant clusters
From: R A B
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2a. The man is good to the dog
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From: MorphemeAddict
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and stack depth
From: Adam Walker
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From: Puey McCleary
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From: Matthew Martin
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From: Gary Shannon
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tp://www.carolandray.plus.com
==
There ant no place like Sussex,
Until ye goos above,
For Sussex will be Sussex,
And Sussex won't be druv!
[W. Victor Cook]
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?
From: Melroch
2c. Re: Merits of writing syntax in order of its natural history?
From: Alex Fink
3a. Day 5 - 30 day conlang
From: Gary Shannon
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From: Logan Kearsley
3c. Re: Day 5 - 30 day conlang
From: Matthew Martin
3d. Re: Day 5 - 30 day
From: Jim Henry
4. Phonology and Othography of Sivarian
From: Nikolay Ivankov
5. Day 6 - 30 day conlang
From: Gary Shannon
6a. A Neat Two-Minute Thesis
From: Patrick Dunn
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2a. How to "grow" a conlang.
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2c.
"grow" a conlang.
From: Nikolay Ivankov
5a. TECH: Current state of contextual ligature font support
From: Arthaey Angosii
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From: David Peterson
Assignment
From: Patrick Dunn
1i. Re: Introductory Linguistics Assignment
From: George Corley
1j. Re: Introductory Linguistics Assignment
From: Patrick Dunn
1k. Re: Introductory Linguistics Assignment
From: R A Brown
2a. Re: How to "grow" a conlang.
From
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3a. Re: Language documentation outlines for short attention spans?
Posted by: "Logan Kearsley" chronosur...@gmail.com
Date: Wed Jan 9, 2013 12:38 pm ((PST))
On 14 December 2012
ad up on how other languages with morphological
causatives deal with this. So far, so good, but all examples I could
find in the few sources I quickly found [1] included causation marked on
verbs -- while my conlang marks it on nouns or NPs, like this:
Sā konjaya veneyang bariley.
Assignment
From: BPJ
2.8. Re: Introductory Linguistics Assignment
From: Patrick Dunn
3. Jan06 Post A
From: neo gu
4a. Re: Fetal conlang, urgently need some advice, only 2 months left
From: Mathieu Roy
5a. Re: Exonyms / Exonyms for conlangs was Re: OT: Native Ame
same types of artifacts being in use for hundreds of
millennia. Apparently, the non-sapiens homos were unable to
consciously invent new gadgets.
> (and in light of recent evidence of interbreeding with H. neandertalis, we
> might need to revise our
re. Indeed,
the material remains seem to indicate this.
> There's an interesting article here:
> http://ebbolles.typepad.com/babels_dawn/2008/03/neanderthals--1.html
Interesting indeed. Perhaps the seeming evidence of Nea
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3a. Re: Creating a Conlang When Given the Native
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From: Patrick Dunn
3b. Re
Evolution (was Re: [CONLANG] Neanderthal language )
From: George Corley
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From: Nikolay Ivankov
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5. Jan06 Post C TAM
From: neo gu
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From: Jörg Rhiemeier
3.3. Re: human language origins
From: And Rosta
4a. Re: THEORY: Ideophone tendency for masculine and feminine.
From: Padraic Brown
4b. Re: THEORY: Ideophone tendency for masculine and feminine.
From: Nikolay Ivankov
5. SF Bay Area Conlang meetup
ccording to its headers. Makes it
> slightly suspicious to me, since I get lots and lots of spam from China.
>
> Anyway, I found this curious and wanted to share it with you, especially
> those of you who participated in LCC4 (since that was mostly Conlang-L
> folk, I post this here). I t
own, On 13/01/2013 21:01:
[snip]
>> I'm afraid I've got rather occupied with that bit of
>> idiocy and just haven't been able to keep up with all
>> the Conlang emails :(
>
> <http://xkcd.com/386/>
:-)
That piece of idiocy seems to have calmed
ønt
> Pl. *kwendēi > hwenti
>
Yes there was a dual, but the nominative was just like the plural
with -r > -t except for original consonant stems. I had an
excessive fear of plural and dual becoming identical in ō/ū stems.
I also wanted it to look similar to ON neuter forms like
_þat, h
ority to H. Sap. in art and thought.
>
> Quite so! There is only one certainty we can have about such discussions
> as this, with all its conjecture: we can never know, can never even more
> than come up
two so you can have
syntax, or it's not a language.
A conlang is a model of a language. How much detail does it need? As much
as you wish to give it. A lot of conlangs only have a few hundred words.
Others have thousands. If you're aiming for a sense of naturalistic
"compl
ge origins)
From: Chris Crawford
4. 30-Day Conlang project RUN AMOK!
From: Gary Shannon
5a. Re: Verb Articles
From: David Edwards
Messages
1a. Word Limit
Posted by: "nichole andrews" g
t myself, since I have
precisely this kind of time in my conlang.
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 12:28 AM, Njenfalgar wrote:
> 2013/1/16 Nikolay Ivankov
>
> > As already said, Hopi. Hopi is polysynthetic, with up to AFAIR 5 prefixes
> > and up to 5 suffixes that you can attach to the
on marking.
>
> If one squints a bit, one could say that Navajo is developing a system
> a bit like yours. Centuries of exposure to IE languages seems to be
> inspiring the invention of past tense marking. But this is happening
> at the other end of the verb, with the prefix pile-up han
uot; carra...@gmail.com
Date: Thu Jan 17, 2013 4:06 pm ((PST))
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 5:49 PM, Matthew Martin wrote:
> >Is there a limit on how many words can be in a conlang?
>
> I'll approach this from the the angle of fandom and designing a productive
> derivationa
Posted by: "Alex Fink" 000...@gmail.com
Date: Thu Jan 17, 2013 7:05 pm ((PST))
On Thu, 17 Jan 2013 18:49:46 -0500, Matthew Martin
wrote:
>>Is there a limit on how many words can be in a conlang?
>
>I'll approach this from the the angle of fandom
Whoa, now there
3e. Re: Loglan[g] VS Natlang
Posted by: "Jim Henry" jimhenry1...@gmail.com
Date: Fri Jan 18, 2013 8:27 am ((PST))
On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 6:27 AM, Mathieu Roy wrote:
> What are the advantages of speaking a less log
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2a. Is there a word for this?
Posted by: "Gary Shannon" fizi...@gmail.com
Date: Fri Jan 18, 2013 9:02 am ((PST))
Working with my conlang machine translat
lready do; and can't do some of what a
> natlang does by nature. So, I don't see much point in them.
Don't get me wrong; the idea of a logical language has its merits,
it is certainly interesting to explore it. But what I have seen
so far looks so reduced to naked function that
ed by: "Gary Shannon" fizi...@gmail.com
Date: Fri Jan 18, 2013 2:53 pm ((PST))
On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 2:23 PM, Garth Wallace wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 12:15 PM, Gary Shannon wrote:
>>
>> And apparently I'm not doing too good a job of getting my idea
-logical language (was RE: Loglan[g] V
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8. A Practice Conlang - For Your Enjoyment & Critiques
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