[conlang] Digest Number 9070

2013-01-19 Thread conlang
e can forget. But in a 24 hours > base system (which some natural languages do use) one cannot forget to > precise it. (and personally, I think 24 hours is still not ideal; something > like 10 would be more useful IMO: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_time). OTOH, IMO it would be bet

[conlang] Digest Number 9071

2013-01-19 Thread conlang
e conducted in Maggel. It > would cut down on the number of lawsuits considerably. > That, and the fact (well, mostly a rumour, actually) that a common sentence in Maggel lawsuits is for the loser to be eaten by the winner. Some very bad people even say sometimes the sentence is to be eaten a

[conlang] Digest Number 9072

2013-01-19 Thread conlang
Jan 19, 2013 4:30 pm ((PST)) --- On Sat, 1/19/13, Leonardo Castro wrote: > From: Leonardo Castro > Subject: Re: [CONLANG] Passive verb: inflection or modifier particle? > To: conl...@listserv.brown.edu > Date: Saturday, January 19, 2013, 12:34 PM > Back to an old post:

[conlang] Digest Number 9073

2013-01-20 Thread conlang
>>>> and psychology to know that they are not so different from us: they are >>>> not logical by nature, but rather by long and arduous training. It may >>>> very well be that those Vulcans who are deepest in the art of logic use >>>> some kind of loglang as a second

[conlang] Digest Number 9074

2013-01-20 Thread conlang
-- Christophe Grandsire-Koevoets. http://christophoronomicon.blogspot.com/ http://www.christophoronomicon.nl/ Messages in this topic (4) ____ 2a. Re: Sapir-

[conlang] Digest Number 9075

2013-01-20 Thread conlang
diacritics From: Eugene Oh 4a. Re: A Practice Conlang - For Your Enjoyment & Critiques From: J. M. DeSantis 4b. Re: A Practice Conlang - For Your Enjoyment & Critiques From: Eugene Oh 4c. Re: A Practice Conlang - For Your Enjoyment & Critiques From: J.

[conlang] Digest Number 9076

2013-01-20 Thread conlang
There are 15 messages in this issue. Topics in this digest: 1a. Re: Romanization: digraphs vs. diacritics From: Jörg Rhiemeier 2a. Re: A Practice Conlang - For Your Enjoyment & Critiques From: Roger Mills 2b. Re: A Practice Conlang - For Your Enjoyment & Critiques

[conlang] Digest Number 9077

2013-01-20 Thread conlang
There are 12 messages in this issue. Topics in this digest: 1a. Re: So, about Ithkuil... From: selpa'i 1b. Re: So, about Ithkuil... From: John Q 1c. Re: So, about Ithkuil... From: John Q 1d. Re: So, about Ithkuil... From: selpa'i 2a. Re: A Practice Con

[conlang] Digest Number 9078

2013-01-21 Thread conlang
There are 15 messages in this issue. Topics in this digest: 1a. Re: Quoting dialog From: Jim Henry 1b. Re: Quoting dialog From: Padraic Brown 2a. Re: A Practice Conlang - For Your Enjoyment & Critiques From: Patrick Dunn 3a. Re: Natlang evolution (was RE: Fr

[conlang] Digest Number 9079

2013-01-21 Thread conlang
irst > thought was to indent dialog and non-dialog differently, or to have > different margins, so that narrative text is full width and dialog text > is in a narrower block, like the HTML "blockquote" tag. > > Here's a sample I threw together. I think it looks useable:

[conlang] Digest Number 9080

2013-01-21 Thread conlang
: logical language VS not-so-logical l From: Adam Walker 2.1. Re: So, about Ithkuil... From: John Q 3a. Re: Quoting dialog From: Charles W Brickner 4.1. Conlang Writing (was Re: So, about Ithkuil...) From: David Peterson 5a. Re: Natlang evolution (was RE: French

[conlang] Digest Number 9081

2013-01-21 Thread conlang
There are 7 messages in this issue. Topics in this digest: 1.1. Re: Conlang Writing (was Re: So, about Ithkuil...) From: selpa'i 2.1. Re: So, about Ithkuil... From: selpa'i 2.2. Re: So, about Ithkuil... From: Jim Henry 3a. Re: A Practice Conlang - For Your

[conlang] Digest Number 9082

2013-01-22 Thread conlang
There are 15 messages in this issue. Topics in this digest: 1a. Re: Is there a word for this? From: George Corley 2a. Re: Orthography congruous to pronunciation From: Roger Mills 3.1. Re: Conlang Writing (was Re: So, about Ithkuil...) From: Gleki Arxokuna 3.2. Re

[conlang] Digest Number 9083

2013-01-22 Thread conlang
There are 15 messages in this issue. Topics in this digest: 1.1. Re: Conlang Writing (was Re: So, about Ithkuil...) From: selpa'i 1.2. Re: Conlang Writing (was Re: So, about Ithkuil...) From: Gleki Arxokuna 1.3. Re: Conlang Writing (was Re: So, about Ithkuil...)

[conlang] Digest Number 9084

2013-01-22 Thread conlang
There are 9 messages in this issue. Topics in this digest: 1a. Conlang music (was RE: Orthography congruous to pronunciation) From: Mathieu Roy 1b. Re: Conlang music (was RE: Orthography congruous to pronunciation) From: selpa'i 1c. Re: Conlang music (was RE: Orthog

[conlang] Digest Number 9085

2013-01-23 Thread conlang
There are 15 messages in this issue. Topics in this digest: 1a. Re: Is there a word for this? From: Ralph DeCarli 2a. Re: Development of rhyming words From: Matthew Boutilier 2b. Re: Development of rhyming words From: Christophe Grandsire-Koevoets 3a. Re: Conlang music

[conlang] Digest Number 9086

2013-01-23 Thread conlang
There are 15 messages in this issue. Topics in this digest: 1a. Re: Conlang music (was RE: Orthography congruous to pronunciation) From: Roger Mills 1b. Re: Conlang music (was RE: Orthography congruous to pronunciation) From: Christophe Grandsire-Koevoets 1c. Re: Conlang music

[conlang] Digest Number 9087

2013-01-23 Thread conlang
There are 2 messages in this issue. Topics in this digest: 1.1. Re: So, about Ithkuil... From: selpa'i 2a. Re: Conlang music (was RE: Orthography congruous to pronunciation) From: Herman Miller Mes

[conlang] Digest Number 9088

2013-01-24 Thread conlang
There are 15 messages in this issue. Topics in this digest: 1a. Re: Conlang music (was RE: Orthography congruous to pronunciation) From: Alex Fink 1b. Re: Conlang music (was RE: Orthography congruous to pronunciation) From: Andrej ©uc 1c. Re: Conlang music (was RE: Orthography

[conlang] Digest Number 9089

2013-01-24 Thread conlang
) From: Leonardo Castro 1.4. Re: On not perceiving (was: RE: Loglan[g] VS Natlang) From: Jim Henry 1.5. Re: On not perceiving (was: RE: Loglan[g] VS Natlang) From: Nikolay Ivankov 2a. Re: Esperanto morphosemantics (was: Re: [CONLANG] So, about Ithkuil. From: David McCann

[conlang] Digest Number 9090

2013-01-24 Thread conlang
epositions (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 tha

[conlang] Digest Number 9091

2013-01-25 Thread conlang
) From: George Corley 1i. Re: Lexicon (proportion and quantity) From: Christophe Grandsire-Koevoets 1j. Re: Lexicon (proportion and quantity) From: MorphemeAddict 2.1. Re: On not perceiving (was: RE: Loglan[g] VS Natlang) From: Leonardo Castro 3.1. Re: Conlang music (was

[conlang] Digest Number 9092

2013-01-25 Thread conlang
ed or > augmented by their particular biasses. Right. A natlang works essentially like Wikipedia: there are thousands of people of the most varied interests and experiences who each contribute their terminologies to the vocabulary of the language. Nobody ever masters all the words there are,

[conlang] Digest Number 9093

2013-01-25 Thread conlang
(proportion and quantity) From: Herman Miller 2a. Re: USAGE: Symmetric and asymmetric formal and informal pronouns. From: Christophe Grandsire-Koevoets 2b. Re: USAGE: Symmetric and asymmetric formal and informal pronouns. From: Mathieu Roy 2c. Using pre-existing conlang Roots to

[conlang] Digest Number 9094

2013-01-26 Thread conlang
From: neo gu 3a. Re: Theory: "I fok horses" From: J. 'Mach' Wust 3b. Re: Theory: "I fok horses" From: Douglas Koller 4. Re: Using pre-existing conlang Roots to create a new language From: Elliott Lash 5. Fw: Using pre-existing conlang

[conlang] Digest Number 9095

2013-01-26 Thread conlang
n 26, 2013 12:19 pm ((PST)) On 2013-01-26 00:17, Alex Fink wrote: >> Jörg << It is IMHO useful to keep a thematic dictionary of >> your conlang where words are sorted according to fields of >> discourse; this shows better than an alphabetically sorted >> dictionary w

[conlang] Digest Number 9096

2013-01-27 Thread conlang
) From: Roger Mills 2g. Re: Sort of Future English (was: Verb Articles) From: Leonardo Castro 3a. Fwd: [CONLANG] Using pre-existing conlang Roots to create a new lang From: Melroch 3b. Re: Fwd: [CONLANG] Using pre-existing conlang Roots to create a new From: Jörg

[conlang] Digest Number 9097

2013-01-27 Thread conlang
There are 4 messages in this issue. Topics in this digest: 1a. Re: [LCS Members] Conlang Card Exchange From: David Peterson 2a. Re: Is there a word for this? From: Jeff Sheets 2b. Re: Is there a word for this? From: Gary Shannon 3a. Re: NLP class (was RE: Is there a

[conlang] Digest Number 9098

2013-01-28 Thread conlang
Fink 1d. Re: The language previously known as hɛlo, Take 5 From: Sylvia Sotomayor 1e. Re: The language previously known as hɛlo, Take 5 From: Wm Annis 1f. Re: The language previously known as hɛlo, Take 5 From: Sylvia Sotomayor 2a. Re: [LCS Members] Conlang Card Exchange

[conlang] Digest Number 9099

2013-01-28 Thread conlang
: David Peterson 1e. Re: On the fine are of verbing From: Leonardo Castro 1f. Re: On the fine are of verbing From: Daniel Bowman 1g. Re: On the fine are of verbing From: Gary Shannon 2a. Re: [LCS Members] Conlang Card Exchange From: Jim Henry 3.1. Re: Is there a word

[conlang] Digest Number 9100

2013-01-28 Thread conlang
s might help. Their wrapper layer was one of the sources of inspiration for my conlang. They have a similar, yet different wrapper for every language pair and the classic way to avoid the proliferation wrappers is to create a single intermediate format that can comprehend all languages. I know that

[conlang] Digest Number 9101

2013-01-29 Thread conlang
ys [ˈdatːən] as well but turns _Philip_ into [tʰiːli(p)], with the final [p] missing more often than not. I've also noticed that early on many children omit word-initial consonants entirely, which also makes them hard to understand. Rhotics tend to be acquired late, being replaced by [

[conlang] Digest Number 9102

2013-01-29 Thread conlang
I can use what we would consider incorrect grammar such as an > > incorrect past tense as a part of my conlang. In other words, if I make > taked the past tense of take in my conlang would that work or would an > Earthling correct it, thinking it was a misuse of took. > Emerging poet &g

[conlang] Digest Number 9103

2013-01-30 Thread conlang
ded vowels. This need not be a problem if i- and u-umlaut weren't simultaneous. Possibly i-umlaut of back rounded vowels resulted in front unrounded vowels and u-umlaut of front unrounded vowels resulted in front rounded. u/_i > y > i o/_i > ø > e a/_i > æ > E i/_u > >

[conlang] Digest Number 9104

2013-01-31 Thread conlang
owels. > This need not be a problem if i- and u-umlaut weren't simultaneous. > Possibly i-umlaut of back rounded vowels resulted in front unrounded vowels > and u-umlaut of front unrounded vowels resulted in front rounded. > > u/_i> y> i > o/_i> ø> e > a/

[conlang] Digest Number 9105

2013-02-01 Thread conlang
: Sylvia Sotomayor 3a. Jan29 verb class names From: neo gu 3b. Re: Jan29 verb class names From: Roger Mills 3c. Re: Jan29 verb class names From: neo gu 3d. Re: Jan29 verb class names From: MorphemeAddict 4.1. META: Conlang-L FAQ From: Henrik Theiling 5. ASL

[conlang] Digest Number 9106

2013-02-01 Thread conlang
> Hallo conlangers! > > On Wednesday 30 January 2013 18:35:00 BPJ wrote: > > > Sicilian comes close with > > > > ī ĭ ē > i > > ū ŭ ō > u > > ā ă > a > > > > Had only ĕ ŏ merged with a it would have been a done deal. > > That would be a los

[conlang] Digest Number 9107

2013-02-02 Thread conlang
2b. Re: ASL writing systems (and other OT subjects) From: Alex Bicksler 3a. English ambiguity (rage comic) From: Mathieu Roy 3b. Re: English ambiguity (rage comic) From: Alex Bicksler 4a. Re: Jan29 verb class names From: neo gu 5a. Not really a conlang

[conlang] Digest Number 9108

2013-02-03 Thread conlang
: MorphemeAddict 3a. Re: Not really a conlang... From: R A Brown 3b. Re: Not really a conlang... From: Jeffrey Brown 3c. Re: Not really a conlang... From: MorphemeAddict 3d. Re: Not really a conlang... From: Roger Mills 3e. Re: Not really a conlang... From: Jörg

[conlang] Digest Number 9109

2013-02-03 Thread conlang
a photo to share here? I have a filet > knife that has an inscription on the blade. It looks somewhat like Russian > but I really don't know and would like some help in translation. Thanks! > > Brian Messages in this topic (5) ___

[conlang] Digest Number 9110

2013-02-03 Thread conlang
nt Sub- begins subordinate clause -Abl source -Agt agent -All destination -Aor aoristic aspect -Dur durative aspect -Img what's perceived -Loc location -Rsl result c = [S] x = [X] q = [q] ñ = [J] è = [E] ò = [O] circumflex = long vowel However, the syntax doesn't require any given

[conlang] Digest Number 9111

2013-02-04 Thread conlang
There are 15 messages in this issue. Topics in this digest: 1a. Re: Not really a conlang... From: Adnan Majid 1b. Re: Not really a conlang... From: R A Brown 1c. Re: Not really a conlang... From: Jörg Rhiemeier 1d. Re: Not really a conlang... From: Jeffrey Brown

[conlang] Digest Number 9112

2013-02-04 Thread conlang
Point and La >> Guardia, New York. Where did you find the thing? >> >> On 3 Feb 2013,at 22:18, Nikolay Ivankov wrote: >> >>> Hard to interpret, really. The last letter of the first word may be î from >>> Romanian alphabet, bit I' can't be

[conlang] Digest Number 9113

2013-02-05 Thread conlang
really a conlang... From: Jeffrey Brown Messages 1a. Re: VERY URGENT : Saarland Radio is looking for some Saarlander who Posted by: "Roman Rausch" ara...@mail.ru Date: Tue Feb 5, 2013 6:39 am ((PST)) &

[conlang] Digest Number 9114

2013-02-06 Thread conlang
ri" On 5 Feb 2013, at 18:51, Gary Shannon wrote: > Now that Unicode is available to the world, we have a large range of > interesting typographic squiggles that can be used in a conlang > orthography. So what if various Unicode squiggles were chosen to > represent the symbols in

[conlang] Digest Number 9115

2013-02-07 Thread conlang
From: George Corley 4a. Easy-typing Arabic romanization (was: Not really a conlang...) From: J�rg Rhiemeier 4b. Re: Easy-typing Arabic romanization (was: Not really a conlang...) From: David McCann 4c. Re: Easy-typing Arabic romanization (was: Not really a conlang

[conlang] Digest Number 9116

2013-02-07 Thread conlang
There are 6 messages in this issue. Topics in this digest: 1a. Re: Odd use of "k" in Gawain and the Green Knight From: Matthew Boutilier 2a. Re: Easy-typing Arabic romanization (was: Not really a conlang...) From: MorphemeAddict 2b. Re: Easy-typing Arabic romanization

[conlang] Digest Number 9117

2013-02-09 Thread conlang
From: Nikolay Ivankov 3a. Re: vowels: five to three? From: Jörg Rhiemeier 4. Re: Arabic Transliteration (Was: Not really a conlang...) From: Jeffrey Brown 5a. Re: Easy-typing Arabic romanization (was: Not really a conlang...) From: Adnan Majid 6. OT a bookish

[conlang] Digest Number 9118

2013-02-09 Thread conlang
the same kind of change that happened in many > dialects of English when the "wh" sound was merged with /w/. Carl > Sagan's pronunciation of "human" as /jumən/ is an example of that > change. > > I could just arbitrarily write /J/ I guess. ɪ could write /j̥/, but >

[conlang] Digest Number 9119

2013-02-10 Thread conlang
n, /ç/ has become /ʃ/: "In der Palz geht der Parrer mit der Peife in die Kirsche". (Helmut Kohl's famous _Gechichte_ is a hypercorrection: in his native Pfälzer dialect, the word is _Geschischte_.) > > I could just arbitrarily write /J/ I guess. ɪ could write /j̥/, but > > the r

[conlang] Digest Number 9120

2013-02-11 Thread conlang
As a variation I tried to get my kids involved without success by introducing them to The Hobbit and Tolkiens writing systems at the 'right' age. The only hint that my only biological child has inherited my inclinations is that he learnt English very well very early and that he likes to i

[conlang] Digest Number 9121

2013-02-11 Thread conlang
me starters. Also, where are the results of the previous Lunatic Surveys I tried looking for them to grab the gender ratio stat but couldn't find it. :-/ - Sai Messages in this topic (2) 3b. Re: Why are there fewer female tha

[conlang] Digest Number 9122

2013-02-12 Thread conlang
-omp, -onk From: MorphemeAddict 4a. Conlang the Movie From: Matthew A. Gurevitch 4b. Re: Conlang the Movie From: Logan Kearsley 4c. Re: Conlang the Movie From: Nicole Valicia Thompson-Andrews 4d. Re: Conlang the Movie From: Logan Kearsley 4e. Re: Conlang

[conlang] Digest Number 9123

2013-02-12 Thread conlang
: how to get ahold of Russian work in linguistics? From: Roman Rausch 4a. Re: Proto-Jardic noun morphology From: Jörg Rhiemeier 5a. Re: Conlang the Movie From: Gary Shannon 6. Odd Cases with Even Names From: Nikolay Ivankov Messages

[conlang] Digest Number 9124

2013-02-12 Thread conlang
t catastrophically (manner series do it a bit more). Spontaneous retroflexion of a rhotic, on the other hand, *is* likely; it helps exaggerate the so-called flatness which is one of the perceptual cues of these sounds (a lowering of whatever formant it is). I suspect you just had an alveola

[conlang] Digest Number 9125

2013-02-12 Thread conlang
gt; >> > > >> > Hunt for proper nouns, which might be indicated by rare letter > >> > combinations, since you won't have upper- and lower-case letters to > >> > help. > >> > Especially be on the lookout for familiar place names or punctuat

[conlang] Digest Number 9126

2013-02-12 Thread conlang
teuyèpyer Pengàyejikh Tlheîqe. “Indeed, three elements there are that make up the Land of Story: Blood, Rainbow, and Word, and Blood is of the Father, Rainbow is of the Mother, and Word is of the Child.” Messages in this topic (22) ------

[conlang] Digest Number 9127

2013-02-13 Thread conlang
than male conlangers? From: Leonardo Castro 4a. Re: Conlang the Movie From: Sai 5a. Re: vowels: five to three? From: Leonardo Castro 6a. Ancient languages reconstructed by computer program From: Петр Кларк 6b. Re: Ancient languages reconstructed by comput

[conlang] Digest Number 9128

2013-02-13 Thread conlang
; "long" vowel that can appear before /ŋ/ (not counting foreign borrowings). > (Historically it would have been the CLOTH vowel.) > > My tally of responses (based on info given in responses): >> Zach (1) >> Tony (2) [perplexing! -- Tony: what words have the

[conlang] Digest Number 9129

2013-02-14 Thread conlang
nt it is). I suspect you just had an > > alveolar *r of some sort in the proto-language, which has gone to > > modern Jarda _ṛ_. Similarly: > > Modern Jarda has an ordinary trilled /r/ as well, and I'm assuming that > was a t

[conlang] Digest Number 9130

2013-02-14 Thread conlang
oesn't seem to fit with the rest of the Proto-Jardic sounds. The Jarda sound is more like trying to say /j/ with your tongue tip curled back than it's anything like an American English /r/. When it dissimilates after /r/, it changes to /j/. So I don't know that I'd call it a

[conlang] Digest Number 9131

2013-02-15 Thread conlang
them nicely play together with suffixes. There really is nothing wrong with head-initial compounds, but they indeed give somewhat weird results with suffixes (consider a Spanish word form such as _tocadiscoses_ 'record players', which has two plural suffixes in a row). > >

[conlang] Digest Number 9132

2013-02-16 Thread conlang
zech fricative trills, so why not a sound like the Jarda /ṛ/? Messages in this topic (15) 2b. Re: Proto-Jardic noun morphology Posted by: "Herman Miller" hmil...@prismnet.com Date: Fri Feb 15, 2013 6:56 pm ((PST

[conlang] Digest Number 9133

2013-02-17 Thread conlang
ad a great discussion about conlangs. I look forward to bringing up several things we touched on during the conversation. The first is the evolution of my conlang Angosey over the last eleven years. I mentioned that I retranslate the same poem every so often, and I can trace the changes that have occu

[conlang] Digest Number 9134

2013-02-18 Thread conlang
een > altlang & bogolang. I would use altlang to denote a > language that might _plausibly_ have developed in an > alternative history. Correct. > I would classify Jörg's "Old Albanic" as an altlang. Yes. The "what-if" assumption in Old Albic (not "

[conlang] Digest Number 9135

2013-02-18 Thread conlang
Messages in this topic (1) Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/conlang/ <*> Your email settings: Digest Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yaho

[conlang] Digest Number 9137

2013-02-19 Thread conlang
gut] that you can see the words from [European] German.). RM That was my first impression too. Knowing a bit about Polynesian sound changes helped, /u/ is a phoneme in Koha - the Tosa (pre-Koha) word for "mother" was 'ti muta'. Rule: u > o/_Ca# Note that /e/ does not

[conlang] Digest Number 9138

2013-02-20 Thread conlang
le* i-umlaut triggered i.a. by an Italian- style development of -AS, -OS, -ES into */i/. The only thing which doesn't make it a total parody is the premise that it beside being at least plausible above all should reflect its author's aesthetic predilections; the only thing which could save

[conlang] Digest Number 9139

2013-02-20 Thread conlang
r order from Finishing Line Press<http://www.finishinglinepress.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>. Messages in this topic (16) _______

[conlang] Digest Number 9140

2013-02-21 Thread conlang
before a noun (informally): "Este é um puta carro!" = "This is a great car!" "Esta é uma puta conlang!" = "This is an impressive conlang!" In the Big Brother Brasil TV Show (sorry for mentioning it), a woman recently said "Eu sou uma puta mulher!&

[conlang] Digest Number 9141

2013-02-21 Thread conlang
ot; decadent.muf...@gmail.com Date: Thu Feb 21, 2013 2:08 pm ((PST)) Well, one could argue that a gender-typical male would show far less interest in conlanging than those of the list, although I may be influenced here by those males I know IRL. I wouldn't say that women "usually&quo

[conlang] Digest Number 9142

2013-02-22 Thread conlang
how far less > interest in conlanging than those of the list, although I may be influenced > here by those males I know IRL. > > I wouldn't say that women "usually" want to marry and have kids. I'd > venture to say that a good portion of women my age (college) are

[conlang] Digest Number 9143

2013-02-23 Thread conlang
2b. Re: What psychological effect does word order have in languages? Posted by: "Hugo Cesar de Castro Carneiro" hcesarcas...@gmail.com Date: Sat Feb 23, 2013 8:35 am ((PST)) On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 1:33 PM, Hugo Cesar de

[conlang] Digest Number 9144

2013-02-24 Thread conlang
1.1. Re: What psychological effect does word order have in languages? Posted by: "Matthew A. Gurevitch" mag122...@aol.com Date: Sun Feb 24, 2013 8:31 am ((PST)) Dear Conlang-L, According to what I know of Latin,

[conlang] Digest Number 9145

2013-02-25 Thread conlang
ation. Even if the data holds up to > the scutiny of far better scientific minds than mine, how do you get from > there to profound abstract musings on how people perceive and correlate > their present and future selves, and even if *that* somehow proves to be > true, how do you then leap t

[conlang] Digest Number 9146

2013-02-26 Thread conlang
", and then was disappointed when you mentioned it already. :) Since APL has been taken, I will propose J as another possible contender. > Agree, disagree? What is the of > programming languages, or the here> of conlangs, or the ...? Well, I don't think we can have a con

[conlang] Digest Number 9147

2013-02-26 Thread conlang
been "obvious" to the reader. Messages in this topic (12) ____ 2a. Re: CHAT: the Ithkuil of programming languages? Posted by: "Logan Kearsley&quo

[conlang] Digest Number 9148

2013-02-27 Thread conlang
ntent that you have just respectfully expressed at length against my verbal capabilities, I am afraid that I must unfortunately bring it to your attention that I am, in fact, NOT verbose. Messages in this topic (13) ____ 2d. Re: C

[conlang] Digest Number 9149

2013-02-27 Thread conlang
*begin* to imagine how to link Ithkuil to even the most advanced > programming languages. That's why this kind of analogy is based on "deviations from the mean". The more complex conlang represents the more complex "programlang", and the same for the more concise, th

[conlang] Digest Number 9150

2013-02-28 Thread conlang
age designs that are all Turing-complete, but nobody > would seriously consider using them for any real programming tasks. > On that subject, what conlang best exemplifies Whitespace? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_%28programming_language%29 Mess

[conlang] Digest Number 9151

2013-02-28 Thread conlang
possibly part of why ambiguity-banishing languages have never really caught on. I suspect that successful languages will have ways to state precisely or ambiguously on important matters, with less important ones having fewer options. This example is useful for another reason, though. I think that if someone &

[conlang] Digest Number 9152

2013-03-01 Thread conlang
/grammar in Russian From: MorphemeAddict 2c. Re: OT: Middle Egyptian dictionary/grammar in Russian From: A. da Mek 3.1. META: Conlang-L FAQ From: Henrik Theiling 4.1. Articles From: A. da Mek 5a. USAGE: Do foreign names sound like phrases in Chinese? From

[conlang] Digest Number 9153

2013-03-01 Thread conlang
rdo Castro wrote: >2013/2/28 Matthew George : >> I suppose definite/indefinite gets a lot of use in English precisely >> because it's simple and available. Plus, there are many situations where >> it can't be omitted formally. > >I've considering using th

[conlang] Digest Number 9154

2013-03-01 Thread conlang
termediate results, etc., just to throw it all away again later. If, on the other hand, the language includes built-in mechanism for specifying sequential execution, the compiler will know that that's all I want, and sequential execution is something that physical microprocessors do really, really well, so it will be able to skip all of the incid

[conlang] Digest Number 9155

2013-03-02 Thread conlang
and available. Plus, there are many situations where >>> it can't be omitted formally. >> >>I've considering using the same word for "it" and the definite article >>in my conlang. >> >>"The dog wants the bone." -> "It dog wan

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2013-03-02 Thread conlang
es (but not to one's face), though I don't actually have any good examples handy, though I've tried.. Best one sofar-- they refer to Kash people as _ka-h chi-r_ 'lazy awkward' or _ka-h chih-r_ 'lazy lewd'. (The Kash return the favor by calling Gwrs _feliyoç

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2013-03-03 Thread conlang
have received your text within 24 hours of your turn starting, you will be skipped. 6. Send a smooth English translation of your relay text to: terje...@gmail.com, using the subject LCC5 [name of language] TORCH, along with a copy of your torch. Questions? Let me know. Also, feel free to copy th

[conlang] Digest Number 9158

2013-03-03 Thread conlang
the Spanish didn't have much influence, but the Port. did. > Does Port. have a similar word (perhaps old/archaic?)? My little > dictionary doesn't have anything > Messages in this topic (2) -----------

[conlang] Digest Number 9159

2013-03-04 Thread conlang
about, does seem to show such a development. Messages in this topic (33) ________ 3.2. Re: Tonogenesis Posted by: "Roger Mills" romi...@yahoo.com Date: Mon Mar 4, 2013 7:43 am ((PST)) My understanding of tonogen

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2013-03-05 Thread conlang
w terrible for performing mathematics that whole system is. Then it occurred to me that I've never encountered a conlang with a system anything like it. Toki Pona's is somewhat similar, but much simpler, and is obviously related to that lang's design intent. Pretty much all of

[conlang] Digest Number 9161

2013-03-05 Thread conlang
ogical finding to report. On New Year's Day, I had written: > Also, Alpianic > *alp- 'mountain' looks like a regular descendant of PH *xalb-, > perhaps from the notion that high mountains (such as those of > the Alps where Alpianic languages are spoken) are snow-ca

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2013-03-06 Thread conlang
odecimal system could be expressed using only decimal digits: 10[A] = A = twofrom dozen = IIЖ 11[A] = B = onefrom dozen = IЖ 12[A] =10[C] = dozen = Ж 13[A] = 11[C] = dozen one = ЖI ... 21[A] = 19[C] = dozen nine = ЖΨIII 22[A] = 1A[C] = twofrom twodozen = IIЖЖ 23[A] = 1B[C] = onefrom twodozen = IЖ

[conlang] Digest Number 9163

2013-03-07 Thread conlang
lb-, > > perhaps from the notion that high mountains (such as those of > > the Alps where Alpianic languages are spoken) are snow-capped > > and thus "white". > >

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2013-03-07 Thread conlang
e seen so far are way to similar to a digit 8 though! There is also your very good point that > I'd rather have > people plainly not knowing how to pronounce words > rather than people *thinking* they know how to > pronounce words and doing it wrong. Very good point indeed! But th

[conlang] Digest Number 9165

2013-03-07 Thread conlang
There are 15 messages in this issue. Topics in this digest: 1a. Re: conlang@listserv.brown.edu From: Jack Steiner 1b. Re: conl...@listserv.brown.edu From: Dustfinger Batailleur 1c. Re: conl...@listserv.brown.edu From: Gary Shannon 1d. Re: conl...@listserv.brown.edu

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2013-03-08 Thread conlang
issuing a proposed extension to co From: R A Brown 1d. Re: Are there any conventions for issuing a proposed extension to co From: George Corley 2a. Spam and Other Tasty Things was Re: [CONLANG] conlang@listserv.brown From: Padraic Brown 2b. Re: Spam and Other Tasty Things was

[conlang] Digest Number 9167

2013-03-08 Thread conlang
There are 5 messages in this issue. Topics in this digest: 1a. Re: Online Moten Dictionary From: Christophe Grandsire-Koevoets 1b. Re: Online Moten Dictionary From: BPJ 1c. Re: Online Moten Dictionary From: A. da Mek 2a. Re: How to choose the name of a conlang

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2013-03-08 Thread conlang
There are 15 messages in this issue. Topics in this digest: 1a. Re: How to choose the name of a conlang? From: Jörg Rhiemeier 1b. Re: How to choose the name of a conlang? From: R A Brown 1c. Re: How to choose the name of a conlang? From: Leonardo Castro 1d. Re: How to

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2013-03-08 Thread conlang
There are 15 messages in this issue. Topics in this digest: 1a. Re: Are there any conventions for issuing a proposed extension to co From: Matthew George 2a. Robot DARYL needs a conlang From: Kai Oliver Arras 2b. Re: Robot DARYL needs a conlang From: MorphemeAddict 2c

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2013-03-09 Thread conlang
There is 1 message in this issue. Topics in this digest: 1a. Re: How to choose the name of a conlang? From: Carsten Becker Message 1a. Re: How to choose the name of a conlang? Posted by: "Carsten Becker&

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