[conlang] Digest Number 8656

2012-07-16 Thread conlang
IME any cursive script may be written to give beautiful, calligraphic results or written as (almost) eligible scrawls - and, in practice, a whole load of variants in between. -- Ray ====== http://www.carolandray.plus.com == Frust

[conlang] Digest Number 8657

2012-07-17 Thread conlang
correlates with the calligraphic culture. I believe that the only > important calligraphies have been developed in the Arabic/Persian cultural > sphere and in the Chinese/Japanese cultural sphere. In these cultures, > calligraphy receives at least as much attention as painting (i

[conlang] Digest Number 8658

2012-07-18 Thread conlang
: Speedtalks and briefscripts (was: Hemingway story From: R A Brown 2.4. Re: Speedtalks and briefscripts (was: Hemingway story From: J. 'Mach' Wust 3a. Happy Conlang Day! From: Philip Newton 3b. Re: Happy Conlang Day! From: Tony Harris 3c. Happy Birthday, Johann Marti

[conlang] Digest Number 8659

2012-07-18 Thread conlang
There are 6 messages in this issue. Topics in this digest: 1.1. Re: Speedtalks and briefscripts (was: Hemingway story From: Padraic Brown 1.2. Re: Speedtalks and briefscripts (was: Hemingway story From: Padraic Brown 2a. Re: Happy Conlang Day! From: Mia Harper

[conlang] Digest Number 8660

2012-07-18 Thread conlang
: Hemingway story From: R A Brown 1.4. Re: Speedtalks and briefscripts (was: Hemingway story From: Allison Swenson 2a. Re: Happy Conlang Day! From: Gary Shannon 2b. Re: Happy Conlang Day! From: Jim Henry 2c. Re: Happy Conlang Day! From: Tony Harris 2d. Re: Happy

[conlang] Digest Number 8661

2012-07-18 Thread conlang
There are 15 messages in this issue. Topics in this digest: 1a. Re: Happy Conlang Day! From: Douglas Koller 1b. Re: Happy Conlang Day! From: David Peterson 1c. Re: Happy Conlang Day! From: Adam Walker 2.1. Re: Calligraphy (was: Speedtalks and briefscripts) From

[conlang] Digest Number 8662

2012-07-19 Thread conlang
There are 9 messages in this issue. Topics in this digest: 1.1. Re: Happy Conlang Day! From: Amanda Babcock Furrow 1.2. Re: Happy Conlang Day! From: Cosman246 1.3. Re: Happy Conlang Day! From: Amanda Babcock Furrow 2.1. Re: Calligraphy (was: Speedtalks and briefscripts

[conlang] Digest Number 8663

2012-07-19 Thread conlang
ty" (was: Calligraphy) From: And Rosta 2.4. Re: "Absolute beauty" (was: Calligraphy) From: Adam Walker 2.5. Re: "Absolute beauty" (was: Calligraphy) From: Mechthild Czapp 3.1. Re: Happy Conlang Day! From: Mia Harper (Soderquist) 3.2. Re:

[conlang] Digest Number 8664

2012-07-19 Thread conlang
nguages From: Anthony Miles 3.1. Re: Happy Conlang Day! From: Anthony Miles 3.2. Re: Happy Conlang Day! From: Douglas Koller 3.3. Re: Happy Conlang Day! From: Douglas Koller 4.1. Re: Calligraphy (was: Speedtalks and briefscripts) From: R A Brown 4.2. Re: Calligra

[conlang] Digest Number 8665

2012-07-20 Thread conlang
From: George Corley 2a. Re: Anthropomorphized Abstractions in Animacy-Sensitive Languages From: George Corley 3.1. Re: Happy Conlang Day! From: Mia Harper (Soderquist) 4. Tense Marking Nouns in FairyLang From: John Erickson 5.1. Re: Calligraphy (was: Speedtalks and briefscript

[conlang] Digest Number 8666

2012-07-20 Thread conlang
/, what would they >>>> most likely corrupt it to: specifically which dictionary-English words >>>> would they become (like "super mare")? Bonus points if the name sounds >>>> like it could very easily come from Middle England. Assume an R.P. or >>&g

[conlang] Digest Number 8667

2012-07-20 Thread conlang
nn 3.10. Re: "Absolute beauty" (was: Calligraphy) From: Matthew DeBlock Messages 1a. Re: Tense Marking Nouns in FairyLang Posted by: "Dustfinger Batailleur" dustfinge...@gmail.com Date: Fri Jul 20, 2012 8:23 am

[conlang] Digest Number 8668

2012-07-21 Thread conlang
day 20 July 2012 02:11:45 Patrick Dunn wrote: > On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 4:20 PM, Jörg Rhiemeier wrote: > > I know that you are a Platonic idealist, which has the > > consequence that, for you, absolute beauty must exist. > > In my opinion, this philosophy is unable to c

[conlang] Digest Number 8669

2012-07-21 Thread conlang
a close and return to the question > originally raised by Virginia way back on 11th July. Her > question about a writing system that said a lot in just a > squiggle was interesting and so far IIRC it has not really > been addressed. > > So I join Padraic in bidding adieu to this thr

[conlang] Digest Number 8670

2012-07-21 Thread conlang
From: Alex Fink 2.1. Re: Happy Conlang Day! From: Roger Mills 3a. Re: Tense Marking Nouns in FairyLang From: Garth Wallace 4a. Re: Plea for help (was: [relay] Music and Language (was: Torch Passi From: Roger Mills 4b. Re: Plea for help (was: [relay] Music and Language

[conlang] Digest Number 8671

2012-07-22 Thread conlang
ail.com> wrote: > A phonaestheme is a sound-meaning correspondence below the morpheme > level -- that is, it is a pattern in which a bunch of stems that mean > similar things . For example, initial /sn-/ is an English > phonaestheme for things to do with the nose, showing up i

[conlang] Digest Number 8672

2012-07-22 Thread conlang
t to a loudspeaker] > EXPERMENTÄT > VOLÜME > INTERCÖM > OFFE – ON > KLÖSE – OPENZ > MAIHN POWAR > MANIPULAT > > Plus the usual TELEFON on phone booths everywhere. > > And what is probably the most ridiculous example, a folder of classified > information

[conlang] Digest Number 8673

2012-07-22 Thread conlang
tive this way, what's wrong with Fairylang marking aspect on a copular predicate just as it does on direct objects? Messages in this topic (23) 4c. Re: copula (was: Tense Marking Nouns in FairyLang) Posted by: "Douglas Koller" douglaskol...@hotmail.com Date: Sun Jul 22, 2012 5:16 pm ((PDT)) > Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2012 18:57:22 -0400

[conlang] Digest Number 8674

2012-07-23 Thread conlang
eem to be regular. -us makes adjectives from verbs and nouns. Motmah: slip. Motmahus: slippery. -iik may be a suffix indicating an agent, like -er. Some stupidity: "NOK" is both "to lie" as in to become horizontal, and "lie" as in falsehood. Infinitive

[conlang] Digest Number 8675

2012-07-23 Thread conlang
nnect to the next one do actually connect if the following letter naturally starts with an upstroke. For instance, my _f_ and my _k_ (which end respectively with a leftstroke and with a downstroke) normally doesn't connect with the following letter, unless that letter is another _f_, a _l_ o

[conlang] Digest Number 8676

2012-07-23 Thread conlang
passive). >> >> It doesn't exactly work with "to be": Tom is a cat >> (active) *A cat is been by Tom (passive) >> > Not in English no, Nor in french, Dutch, German, Latin, Greek, Swahili, etc. > so in this case you're right that English makes a >

[conlang] Digest Number 8677

2012-07-24 Thread conlang
've been reading your > > discussions for some time. > > I don't know anything about video games in general or Skyrim in > > particular but I am aware of the existence of the Skyrim dragon language. > > I'm not going to bash it or make fun of it, I think that (fro

[conlang] Digest Number 8678

2012-07-24 Thread conlang
x27;t always as smooth as nowadays. A small amount of experimenting with a soft steel nib dipped in ink will show anyone what's it about. That's true also of modern shorthand systems, which were developed in the era of the steel nib. Many of them make distinctions between strokes with strong and

[conlang] Digest Number 8679

2012-07-25 Thread conlang
is, I think, an artifact of Okrent being more keyed in on the historical aspect of conlanging. My impression that the online conlanging community (as it's existed since the early 90s) was something of a new discovery for her after she'd already planned out and researched her book, and

[conlang] Digest Number 8680

2012-07-26 Thread conlang
t as international auxiliary languages (I'd consider Lojban such a "marginal case": while it is not *primarily* meant as an auxlang, it *has* been suggested that it be used that way by people seriously involved with it - AFAIK the idea of using Loglan as an IAL goes back to J. C. B

[conlang] Digest Number 8681

2012-07-26 Thread conlang
1i. Re: orienting Hebrew-Aramaic Script From: Randy Frueh 1j. Re: orienting Hebrew-Aramaic Script From: Roger Mills 2. Music and conlanging, WAS Re: [CONLANG] OT: Help: Music composition From: Patrick Dunn 3a. In Defense of Monster Raving Loony Alignment From

[conlang] Digest Number 8682

2012-07-27 Thread conlang
s, proof of a conlang's existence is established when > enough of it is published to be usable, even if in a limited > degree. For example, there a limits to what one can do with > Sindarin or Quenya without coining new words or making > assumptions over missing bits of grammar. [snip] Agreed, i think the pro

[conlang] Digest Number 8683

2012-07-27 Thread conlang
conlanging, WAS Re: [CONLANG] OT: Help: Music composit From: Jörg Rhiemeier 3b. Re: Music and conlanging From: Fenhl 3c. Re: Music and conlanging From: Toms Deimonds Barvidis 3d. Re: Music and conlanging From: Padraic Brown 3e. Re: Music and conlanging, WAS Re: [CONLANG] OT

[conlang] Digest Number 8684

2012-07-28 Thread conlang
m: Randy Frueh 2c. Re: Focus & Spatial Deixis From: David McCann 2d. Re: Focus & Spatial Deixis From: Zach Wellstood 2e. Numbers from your conlang? From: janko gorenc 3a. Need Greetings for Conlangery From: George Corley 3b. Re: Need Greetings for Conlang

[conlang] Digest Number 8685

2012-07-29 Thread conlang
& palato-alveolar stop phonemes Posted by: "Eldin Raigmore" eldin_raigm...@yahoo.com Date: Sat Jul 28, 2012 11:11 am ((PDT)) Long ago, somebody, either on the ZBB or on CONLANG-L, told me that there was no natural language that had phonemes at all three of the following po

[conlang] Digest Number 8686

2012-07-29 Thread conlang
se it alternatively > > ¨abu Gad¨hu we Zaªht¸uj ke lamnu Saºhaps¸u Qaršati > > father Gedee and my Gat as evil Hoofik of Kers > > or > > ¨abu Gad¨hu we Zaªht¸uj kal min Saºhaps¸u Qaršati > > father Gedee and my Gat wholly without Hoofik of Kers > Messages in t

[conlang] Digest Number 8687

2012-07-29 Thread conlang
ht¸jklmnsºhps¸qršt Wow, a sentence that contains each letter of the abjad exactly once, in the traditional sorting order! (Indeed, I conjecture that this order was originally based on such a mnemonic verse.) This is just ROCK'N'ROLL!!! -- ... brought to you by the Weeping Elf

[conlang] Digest Number 8688

2012-07-29 Thread conlang
_ 2c. Re: Transcription system for Books Posted by: "MorphemeAddict" lytl...@gmail.com Date: Sun Jul 29, 2012 2:47 pm ((PDT)) On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 4:35 PM, J. M. DeSantis wrote: > Conlang List, > > I'll try to add my (modestly inf

[conlang] Digest Number 8689

2012-07-30 Thread conlang
5a. Re: Numbers from your conlang? From: R A Brown 5b. Re: Numbers from your conlang? From: Jennifer Collins-Jai 5c. Re: Numbers from your conlang? From: R A Brown 6a. Re: Hoofik From: A. da Mek 6b. Re: Hoofik From: Alex Fink 7a. Re: Morphological

[conlang] Digest Number 8690

2012-07-30 Thread conlang
There are 9 messages in this issue. Topics in this digest: 1a. Re: Numbers from your conlang? From: G. van der Vegt 1b. Re: Numbers from your conlang? From: Patrick Dunn 2a. Re: Transcription system for Books From: J. M. DeSantis 2b. Re: Transcription system for Books

[conlang] Digest Number 8691

2012-07-30 Thread conlang
sister's death From: BPJ 4a. Re: Numbers from your conlang? From: Padraic Brown 4b. Re: Numbers from your conlang? From: Arthaey Angosii 4c. Re: Numbers from your conlang? From: Jennifer Collins-Jai 4d. Re: Numbers from your conlang? From: Arthaey Angosii 5a

[conlang] Digest Number 8692

2012-07-31 Thread conlang
: [LCS Members] How can I show my conl From: Adam Walker 3a. Re: Numbers from your conlang? From: Padraic Brown 3b. Re: Numbers from your conlang? From: R A Brown 4a. Re: In Defense of Monster Raving Loony Alignment From: Logan Kearsley 5a. Re: A new direction in

[conlang] Digest Number 8693

2012-07-31 Thread conlang
way I wouldn't have to fool with capital letters. Charlie Messages in this topic (38) Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/conlang/ <*>

[conlang] Digest Number 8694

2012-08-01 Thread conlang
There are 15 messages in this issue. Topics in this digest: 1.1. Re: Transcription system for Books From: BPJ 1.2. Re: Transcription system for Books From: Charles W Brickner 2a. Re: Numbers from your conlang? From: janko gorenc 2b. Re: Numbers from your conlang

[conlang] Digest Number 8695

2012-08-01 Thread conlang
> > um-tu elapunamsunam, > um-tu e-le-a-pu-nam-su-ne-a-am > person-DAT 3.IN-1-buy/sell.IMPFV-SG-INCEPTIVE-DIR.AWAY-IMPFV-POS.MOD-NFV > le-tu aleyeketuna: > le-tu a-le-ye-ke-tu-ne-a > 1-DAT 3.IN.OBJ.FOC-1-speak.PFV-PAUC-DIR.TOWARDS-PFV-POS.MOD > 'Lumeke-kem elaputumam

[conlang] Digest Number 8696

2012-08-01 Thread conlang
sense is in simplifying the onset constraint for syllables- you could just say "they must all start with a consonant". But in terms of actual pronunciation, there would be words that really do start right of with a straight-up rounded vowel, and saying that there's actually an extra phoneme there seems like cheating. Hm. Another thought: this means that vowels can only be in hiatus word-int

[conlang] Digest Number 8697

2012-08-02 Thread conlang
knows and knows not he knows He is asleep. Wake him. He who knows and knows he knows He is wise. Follow him. -l. Messages in this topic (8) 2b. Re: Conjunction Curiosity Posted by: "Daniel Bowman" danny.c.bow.

[conlang] Digest Number 8698

2012-08-03 Thread conlang
Posted by: "And Rosta" and.ro...@gmail.com Date: Thu Aug 2, 2012 11:36 am ((PDT)) R A Brown, On 25/07/2012 17:57: > I notice that And correctly referred to Livagian being > publicated in 1991, not published. Actually I said "It is a conlang that has been much mentione

[conlang] Digest Number 8699

2012-08-04 Thread conlang
t;> > >> publicated in 1991, not published. > > > > Actually I said "It is a conlang that has been much > > mentioned on Conlang (almost always by me, of course) but > > never publicated", > > OOPS! That'll reach me to check the original and not r

[conlang] Digest Number 8700

2012-08-05 Thread conlang
27;t think it's any different from a bilabial approximant. (Liva's "Laterals" could perfectly well be renamed "Approximants".) I see that Ray said much of this a year ago <http://listserv.brown.edu/archives/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1108a&L=conlang&P=1414>. --An

[conlang] Digest Number 8701

2012-08-06 Thread conlang
English in words like _milk_, I can't say it was not true! I am not an English dialectologist. > I do not know of any occurrence of the uvular lateral > approximant, but clearly the IPA guys think it possible (as > indeed it is) although no symbol has yet been assigned to it. It i

[conlang] Digest Number 8702

2012-08-06 Thread conlang
ly contemporary world English as the H variety. For sure, literacy and education etc. will keep the channels of influence between H and L open, but will it be much different to the way present-day Muslims of any Arabic language variety are familiar with Qur'anic? Though I'd guess one thin

[conlang] Digest Number 8703

2012-08-07 Thread conlang
> revival of modern Hebrew could be informative - does > modern Hebrew simplify complex grammatical structures of > Biblical Hebrew? Yes, Matthew Gurevitch gave a very informative answer regarding modern Hebrew (tho I did not agree with his last paragraph). During the Cornish language

[conlang] Digest Number 8704

2012-08-07 Thread conlang
Insular Celtic natlangs). Lesson: *Don't* post about half-remembered things without prior research! Celltiecc is found here: http://www.oocities.org/tylluan_

[conlang] Digest Number 8705

2012-08-08 Thread conlang
word set resulted in the absence of the syllable /ti/. It didn't fall in with anything. I assume names of places and persons use /ki/. Although you do raise a good point: /ti/ is an acceptable syllable in Ulok in such words as /ulotil/ 'I worship' ('worshipped'? I

[conlang] Digest Number 8706

2012-08-09 Thread conlang
scribed to it quite a while ago, and I have to say, I really like reading some of the interesting topics that have appeared here and I'm jsut sorry I didn't subscribe to the list before. :) In any case, I've decided to finally post here because after all the years I've spent on m

[conlang] Digest Number 8707

2012-08-10 Thread conlang
nistrative regions in like fashion. Philosophy itself is divided into "stoases", the broad schools of thought and "scholia", the more focused perspectives. So, as I understand the (American) word "nation", I don't really see a direct equivalent *there*. The politic

[conlang] Digest Number 8708

2012-08-11 Thread conlang
ntence? > > Or what about "backwards" animacy hierarchies, where inanimate things are > the subject and animate things are the object (say the speakers of such a > language interpret the lower things &q

[conlang] Digest Number 8709

2012-08-11 Thread conlang
f Anatolian, as most scholars now assume, split off earlier than the other IE languages, one has to distinguish between an "Early PIE" as the ancestor of all IE languages including Anatolian, and a "Late PIE" as the ancestor of the non-Anatolian languages. The stan

[conlang] Digest Number 8710

2012-08-12 Thread conlang
nt > they were simple /t d/, that leaves many possibilities for what the *d > series was. I've e.g. also seen seriously proposed (I forget by whom) the > idea that they were voiced spirants; they went on to explain the gap at *b > by an old merger /B/ > /w/, which would also

[conlang] Digest Number 8711

2012-08-13 Thread conlang
ur in a single root, while otherwise two stops in a root have to agree in their voicing and aspiration. PIE */bh/ behaves as it should regarding these rules, and not like */b/. ObConlang: In my Hesperic family, which is meant to be a sister group

[conlang] Digest Number 8712

2012-08-14 Thread conlang
ome point /D/ had glottalic realization, either [t'] or > "[d']" (implosive). Assuming that late PIE did have a [dh]:[d]:[t(h)] > contrast (or was it [Th]:[d]:[t]?), The former, I think; the reflexes of *Dh are voiced in so many branches that it must have been voiced.

[conlang] Digest Number 8713

2012-08-14 Thread conlang
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.yahoo.com/group/conlang/join (Yahoo

[conlang] Digest Number 8714

2012-08-14 Thread conlang
2a. Re: True Blood Language? Posted by: "John Erickson" john.erickson.so...@gmail.com Date: Tue Aug 14, 2012 12:56 pm ((PDT)) Aramaic makes sense, story-wise, but I was kinda hoping for a vampire conlang. Now they

[conlang] Digest Number 8715

2012-08-15 Thread conlang
bject and along with it comes (the subject that does the action). So it prefers using a SV-adjacency than an OV-adjacency (used by 91% of the languages, according to statistics presented before). > > >> >> --And. >> > > Messages in this topic (10) ___

[conlang] Digest Number 8716

2012-08-15 Thread conlang
wrote: > Hi there, > > I'm interested in constructed language families (like Tolkiens elvish > languages). I would like to know which conlangs posted on the website were > constructed belonging to a language family? > > I would be glad if anyone can help. > Best regards.

[conlang] Digest Number 8717

2012-08-16 Thread conlang
(note that it's stop closures and releases where the > palatalisation would be salient; the middle of the [t_j] > is still a silence!), speakers analyse that this fronty > [(_+_r)(j_X)t_j] thing is a realisation of /jt/ rather > than /tj/, and the end result is /kati/ > /kajt/.

[conlang] Digest Number 8718

2012-08-16 Thread conlang
-------- 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:

[conlang] Digest Number 8719

2012-08-16 Thread conlang
: An Hypothetical Scenario From: George Corley 5c. Re: An Hypothetical Scenario From: Roger Mills 6a. Re: [relay] Conlang classification (was: the next relay /Was: Remark From: Jörg Rhiemeier 6b. Re: [relay] Conlang classification (was: the next relay /Was: Remark From

[conlang] Digest Number 8720

2012-08-17 Thread conlang
which is rather a different concept, but various multilingual ships > can be figured into the mythos as well.) It might be fun to try that with Toki Pona, except that it's copyright AND the Toki Pona culture is very anti-tinkering. They want it to stay pure and simple. Maybe a new proto-conla

[conlang] Digest Number 8721

2012-08-17 Thread conlang
There are 15 messages in this issue. Topics in this digest: 1a. Re: Conlang classification (was: the next relay) From: Jörg Rhiemeier 2a. Re: An Hypothetical Scenario From: George Corley 2b. Re: An Hypothetical Scenario From: Gary Shannon 2c. Re: An Hypothetical Scenario

[conlang] Digest Number 8722

2012-08-18 Thread conlang
. They > don't intrinsically lower one's work's quality. They may do so if you use > them indiscriminately, but then it's your usage of them that is at fault, > not the tools themselves. Secondly, with all the various word generators > online nowadays, nobody really ne

[conlang] Digest Number 8723

2012-08-18 Thread conlang
Scenario From: Adam Walker 2.9. Re: An Hypothetical Scenario From: Jim Henry 3a. Re: [relay] Conlang classification (was: the next relay /Was: Remark From: Jim Henry 3b. Re: Conlang classification (was: the next relay /Was: Remarks regard From: Jörg Rhiemeier 4.1. Re

[conlang] Digest Number 8724

2012-08-19 Thread conlang
what the aliens are saying rather than how they are saying it. In "The Coming Race," by Bulwer-Lytton, the outline of the language of the Vril-ya is provided. It's a euroclone--two genders, 4 noun cases, etc. as I recall. Walter E. Meyers wrote a book, "Aliens and Linguists," in 1980 on this subject. My re

[conlang] Digest Number 8725

2012-08-20 Thread conlang
#x27;d be interested in hearing y'all's comments or suggestions on the state of our non-linear language so far, grammar features we've added, anything that's still ambiguous, further things we should try to translate, etc. Criticism welcome. Thanks, - Sai Messages in this

[conlang] Digest Number 8726

2012-08-21 Thread conlang
relay] Definition of "exolang" (was: the next relay /Was: Remar From: Padraic Brown 2.1. Re: constructed language famillies From: Alex Fink 3a. Re: Linguistics in Science Fiction (was: Re: An Hypothetical Scenari From: Jim Henry 4a. Re: Conlang classification (was

[conlang] Digest Number 8727

2012-08-21 Thread conlang
al Life, the origin of life, etc. is no longer Exobiology, but Astrobiology. Two of the leading journals use astrobiology in their names (Astrobiology, International Journal of Astrobiology) and NASA uses it to name its programs and its web pages (Astrobiology Magazine). I suppose xenoling

[conlang] Digest Number 8728

2012-08-21 Thread conlang
ObConlang: While in a particularly sadistic mood once, I thought of > >> creating a conlang with an animacy hierarchy that involved social > >> deixis (i.e. the participant of higher status would be the subject by > >> default), where honorific and humble forms would

[conlang] Digest Number 8729

2012-08-22 Thread conlang
Date: Tue Aug 21, 2012 9:48 pm ((PDT)) --- On Tue, 8/21/12, George Corley wrote: > From: George Corley > Subject: Re: [CONLANG] Social Hierarchy (Was: USAGE: totoyer in Spanish) > To: conl...@listserv.brown.edu > Date: Tuesday, August 21, 2012, 9:55 PM > On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 8:44

[conlang] Digest Number 8730

2012-08-22 Thread conlang
use", "old house". 1f. Possessed state. 2. Relational categories: cases. 3. Agreement marking of possessed noun with possessor, in any of the above categories, although gender would be the most likely. Messages in this topic (8) -----

[conlang] Digest Number 8731

2012-08-22 Thread conlang
ut have become parts of the English lexicon, and can thus be combined without regard whether they are "bastard words" or not. It does not really matter for the purpose of English word formation whether a root or affix is Anglo-Saxon,

[conlang] Digest Number 8732

2012-08-23 Thread conlang
Posted by: "Roman Rausch" ara...@mail.ru Date: Thu Aug 23, 2012 7:53 am ((PDT)) >I'm sorry, but there is a significant difference in effort between manually >applying sound changes and just taking a quick look at a word. Some of us >want to include our conlangs in n

[conlang] Digest Number 8733

2012-08-23 Thread conlang
f syntactic transformations that can move almost any constituent to topic position before the verb. But not, however, the very rigidly sentence-initial tense particles. -l. Messages in this topic (13) ___

[conlang] Digest Number 8734

2012-08-23 Thread conlang
: Translations needed From: Roger Mills 1f. Re: Translations needed From: Padraic Brown 1g. Re: Translations needed From: Douglas Koller 2a. Re: Conlang classification From: And Rosta 2b. Re: Conlang classification From: George Corley 2c. Re: Conlang

[conlang] Digest Number 8735

2012-08-24 Thread conlang
From: François Rémond 3.3. Re: Translations needed From: Charles W Brickner 3.4. Re: Translations needed From: Padraic Brown 4a. Re: Conlang classification From: Christophe Grandsire-Koevoets 4b. Re: Conlang classification From: R A Brown 4c. Re: Conlang classification

[conlang] Digest Number 8736

2012-08-24 Thread conlang
(was: Conlang classification) From: R A Brown 5. THEORY: Case vs Adpositions From: Arthaey Angosii Messages 1a. Re: Cases and Declensions: Fortunatian Posted by: "Adam Walker" carra...@gmail.com

[conlang] Digest Number 8737

2012-08-24 Thread conlang
From: Anthony Miles 1e. Re: THEORY: Case vs Adpositions From: Arthaey Angosii 2a. Re: Why Brithenig ain't an engelang (was: Conlang classification) From: Jörg Rhiemeier 2b. Re: Why Brithenig ain't an engelang From: And Rosta 3a. Re: Conlang clas

[conlang] Digest Number 8738

2012-08-25 Thread conlang
: Fortunatian From: Padraic Brown 4b. Re: Cases and Declensions: Fortunatian From: Anthony Miles 5.1. Re: Conlang classification From: R A Brown 5.2. Re: Conlang classification From: R A Brown 6a. Re: Good natlang grammars (was Re: Rigidity vs Exceptions) From: R A

[conlang] Digest Number 8739

2012-08-25 Thread conlang
There are 2 messages in this issue. Topics in this digest: 1.1. Re: Why Brithenig ain't an engelang From: R A Brown 2.1. Re: Conlang classification From: Jörg Rhiemeier Messages 1.1. Re: Why Brit

[conlang] Digest Number 8741

2012-08-26 Thread conlang
ain't an engelang Posted by: "R A Brown" r...@carolandray.plus.com Date: Sun Aug 26, 2012 6:47 am ((PDT)) On 26/08/2012 11:30, Jörg Rhiemeier wrote: > Hallo conlangers! > [snip] >>> On Saturday 25 August 2012 21:09:59 R A Brown wrote: [snip] >&g

[conlang] Digest Number 8742

2012-08-26 Thread conlang
pragmatic > qualities rather than trying to analogise with engelangs. Too much > confusion there I guess! Yes. The "artism/pragmatism" axis of The Box does not seem to correspond with the "artlang/engelang" axis of the Gnoli Triangle as much as with the "artlang/auxlan

[conlang] Digest Number 8743

2012-08-27 Thread conlang
There are 15 messages in this issue. Topics in this digest: 1a. Language Academies for Your Conlang From: Anthony Miles 1b. Re: Language Academies for Your Conlang From: Nicole Valicia Thompson-Andrews 1c. Re: Language Academies for Your Conlang From: George Corley 1d. Re

[conlang] Digest Number 8744

2012-08-27 Thread conlang
There are 8 messages in this issue. Topics in this digest: 1a. Re: Sayings in separate languages From: Charles W Brickner 2.1. Re: Translations needed From: Njenfalgar 3a. Re: Language Academies for Your Conlang From: Roger Mills 3b. Re: Language Academies for Your

[conlang] Digest Number 8745

2012-08-27 Thread conlang
There are 15 messages in this issue. Topics in this digest: 1a. Re: Language Academies for Your Conlang From: Michael Everson 1b. Re: Language Academies for Your Conlang From: David McCann 2.1. Re: Why Brithenig ain't an engelang From: Jörg Rhiemeier 3.1. Re: Of

[conlang] Digest Number 8746

2012-08-28 Thread conlang
: ! From: Matthew DeBlock 2e. Re: ! From: Matthew DeBlock 3.1. Re: Real names (was: Re: [CONLANG] Of cubes & triangles) From: Sai 4.1. Re: Real names From: R A Brown 5a. Re: Language Academies for Your Conlang From: Elena

[conlang] Digest Number 8747

2012-08-28 Thread conlang
peranto and all the others were meant to become by their authors - the language that every educated person speaks besides their native language, such that everybody can talk to everybody. What regards the idea of using Quenya as an auxlang, it is as far as I know of course a third-party suggestion;

[conlang] Digest Number 8748

2012-08-28 Thread conlang
cube can work. On reflection, however you define the axes, you're going to oversimplify and find that some conlangs are so contrary they fit neatly into you're cube. But i don't think 'auxlangity' can be measured on > an axis, line or vertex. > I think even with &#x

[conlang] Digest Number 8749

2012-08-29 Thread conlang
do with real people) From: Mechthild Czapp 2c. OT: caffeine (was Re: Names) From: taliesin the storyteller 3a. Conlang Word Sources (was Names (And I promise this has nothing to d From: Padraic Brown 4a. Re: Language Academies for Your Conlang From: Peter Collier

[conlang] Digest Number 8750

2012-08-29 Thread conlang
) From: George Corley 2b. Re: Who invented this? (Alũbetah) From: David Peterson 2c. Re: Who invented this? (Alũbetah) From: George Corley 3.1. Re: Real names (was: Re: [CONLANG] Of cubes & triangles) From: Brian Woodward 3.2. Re: Real names (was: Re: [CONLANG] Of c

[conlang] Digest Number 8751

2012-08-30 Thread conlang
From: BPJ 3.1. Re: Real names (was: Re: [CONLANG] Of cubes & triangles) From: A. da Mek 3.2. Re: Real names From: BPJ 3.3. Re: Real names From: taliesin the storyteller 4.1. Re: Dscript for conlangers From: And Rosta 5a. Re: Names (And I promise this

[conlang] Digest Number 8752

2012-08-31 Thread conlang
elf differently in different spheres / communities. I know judging a book by it's cover is supposedly Bad, but a cover usually tells you everything you need to know about how a person interacts with the world or wants to be perceived by the world: a name is just part of a person's dust

[conlang] Digest Number 8753

2012-09-01 Thread conlang
27;s Major Languages, 2ed (2011) From: MorphemeAddict 4a. Re: Rebellious Case Markings From: Alex Fink 4b. Re: Rebellious Case Markings From: Arthaey Angosii 5a. META: Conlang-L FAQ From: Henrik Theiling 6. ¡Hasta luego! From: R A Brown

[conlang] Digest Number 8754

2012-09-02 Thread conlang
covers" in the first place, and why we apply it to people as well! Padraic > Jim Henry Messages in this topic (98) 1.2. Re: Real names Posted by: "BPJ" b...@melroch.se Date: Sat Sep 1, 20

[conlang] Digest Number 8755

2012-09-02 Thread conlang
r /y/. IIRC, that was historically a vocative marker (according to Robt. Blust). A friend of mine's mother was known as Doña Fani, her real name was Estefania. Corazon Aquino was Cory. I wonder what they called Imelda Marcos.? Then there's the rather pejorative term for all F

[conlang] Digest Number 8756

2012-09-03 Thread conlang
guage to > orchestrate your thoughts, would you give yourself a name? How would you > make sense of the "me" living in your head? Cue Doctor Who references such > as "Stormagedon, Dark Lord of All" and a Farside cartoon entitled "Names we > give dogs and the names dog

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