There are 4 messages in this issue.
Topics in this digest:
1a. Re: Ejective distributions
From: Matthew Boutilier
2. 30-Day Conlang: Day Eight
From: Gary Shannon
3a. The Fantastical Devices of Pete the Mad Scientist
From: Peter Bleackley
3b. Re: The Fantastical Devices of Pete the Mad Scientist
From: Jim Henry
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1a. Re: Ejective distributions
Posted by: "Matthew Boutilier" mbout...@nd.edu
Date: Mon Nov 8, 2010 11:36 am ((PST))
whoa!! this is fantastically interesting. thank you both for the
disillusionment.
matt
On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 7:29 AM, David McCann <da...@polymathy.plus.com>wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-11-07 at 21:20 -0500, Matthew Boutilier wrote:
>
> > really? hmm, interesting, i hadn't heard about that. as far as i know,
> > neither /ts/ nor /dz/ is reconstructed in proto-semitic. out of
> curiosity,
> > do you have a source for this that i can check out?
>
> The reconstruction of ProtoSemitic was done in the 19th century on the
> basis of Hebrew, Aramaic, and Arabic. Study of the South Semitic
> languages, and of the AfroAsiatic languages, shows that the original
> reconstruction had the right number of phonemes but the wrong values:
> e.g. /š s ś/ for /s c ɬ/. A good source is the Cambridge Encyclopedia of
> the World's Ancient Languages. Most Semiticists keep the old
> transcription, on the grounds that otherwise when someone wrote "s"
> they'd be wondering if they were a modernist and meant the old "š" or a
> traditionalist and meant the new "c"! AfroAsiatic studies seems to use
> the new version, just to make life more interesting.
>
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2. 30-Day Conlang: Day Eight
Posted by: "Gary Shannon" fizi...@gmail.com
Date: Mon Nov 8, 2010 12:42 pm ((PST))
On day eight I have 895 words out of 2198, or 41% of the original text
translated.
The dictionary now contains 251 conlang words and 548 English words.
http://fiziwig.com/conlang/thirty_day.html
I've streamlined the process of creating new words. I am taking some
inspiration from a Pali dictionary to give me a starting point, then
toss out the vowels and I fool around with the consonants until I get
something that fits my morphology. For example, "hand" is Pali: (m)
hattha; bhuja; kara; sahayakammakara (f) disa
So I picked "kara" from that list and fiddled with it a bit until it
became "akalu", which is different enough from the Pali to be
original, yet still somewhat inspired by the Pali, so that I don't
have to stare at a blank wall each time I need a new word. I guess
this method might tend to give my lexicon a slightly Indo-European
flavor.
--gary
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3a. The Fantastical Devices of Pete the Mad Scientist
Posted by: "Peter Bleackley" peter.bleack...@rd.bbc.co.uk
Date: Tue Nov 9, 2010 5:39 am ((PST))
I've just started a blog with the above title at
http://fantasticaldevices/wordpress.com
It's not all about conlanging, but any posts about conlangs will be
tagged as such. I've just put up a post about Latin By The Road Less
Travelled.
Pete
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3b. Re: The Fantastical Devices of Pete the Mad Scientist
Posted by: "Jim Henry" jimhenry1...@gmail.com
Date: Tue Nov 9, 2010 6:41 am ((PST))
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 9:36 AM, Peter Bleackley
<peter.bleack...@rd.bbc.co.uk> wrote:
> I've just started a blog with the above title at
> http://fantasticaldevices/wordpress.com
Should be:
http://fantasticaldevices.wordpress.com/
--
Jim Henry
http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry/
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