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- 20 May 2015 21:11
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Adjectives
- Replies: 32
- Views: 6990
Re: Adjectives
It seems to be very popular for conlangers to merge adjectives with either verbs or nouns; I guess some kinda merge them both ways (i.e. what we'd translate as nouns, some of them are verbs in the language, some are nouns). However, why doesn't anyone ever split adjectives into two new categories?
- 20 Apr 2015 02:35
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: Other Creativity
- Replies: 1362
- Views: 358660
Re: Other Creativity
New piece of music (still not completed, but good enough to be in presentable shape), this time alternating between the LsLsLsL scale of 11-edo (L=tone, s=semitone) and the sLLLLL scale of the 11-edo.
https://soundcloud.com/markus-miekk-oja/party-regret
https://soundcloud.com/markus-miekk-oja/party-regret
- 16 Apr 2015 10:14
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: This is possibly the dumbest of questions.
- Replies: 40
- Views: 7825
Re: This is possibly the dumbest of questions.
Quick Crash Course. Recognize the parts of a sentence The cats jumped over the cliff There's some problems here. I'll try and explain. The - Article. Shows which noun is being used Well, not really. In English, the article shows that the noun referred to is known from before. I.e. it's either a cat...
- 16 Apr 2015 10:11
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: This is possibly the dumbest of questions.
- Replies: 40
- Views: 7825
Re: This is possibly the dumbest of questions.
A while ago, I started a blog where I intended to write understandable primers to concepts like these. It never really got off the ground, but it might be of some help. Here:
http://http://jargonforconlangers.blogspot.com/
http://http://jargonforconlangers.blogspot.com/
- 16 Apr 2015 09:59
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Non-traditional economies
- Replies: 25
- Views: 5801
Re: Non-traditional economies
No, socialist is not non-traditional, Ahzoh. So, let's talk about economies that function in ways different from real life. Here's a few, off the top of my head: Post-scarcity : Where everything is so abundant, everybody can have effectively everything they want. Most people assume such a system wo...
- 09 Apr 2015 21:48
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Who's actually learning conlangs?
- Replies: 310
- Views: 44057
Re: Who's actually learning conlangs?
IMHO from birth is a very noble intention. I would think though that the main "prestige" language ought to be taught. If you natively speak a non-prestige language, it's turned out that speaking your native language to your kid is better than speaking the prestige language - unless they'r...
- 09 Apr 2015 12:02
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Who's actually learning conlangs?
- Replies: 310
- Views: 44057
Re: Who's actually learning conlangs?
I see I have shaken up some controversy again. Well and good. Let's consider some things here. For a child to turn out bilingual, it almost certainly needs a speaker community with which to interact. In fact, parents who speak a foreign language but live in an almost monolingual milieu often fail to...
- 30 Mar 2015 17:23
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Unique and/or odd distinctions
- Replies: 185
- Views: 30408
Re: Unique and/or odd distinctions
Simply said, you don't have to drink to live, Uhh… are you sure about that? Generally, we can find a large amount of water in fresh food, if you are mainly eating vegetables and *soups* as we discussed. In theory we could avoid every liquid other than those and still live, although with a dangerous...
- 28 Mar 2015 13:17
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Unique and/or odd distinctions
- Replies: 185
- Views: 30408
Re: Unique and/or odd distinctions
Might be a difference between cultures that consume soup with cutlery (spoons) as opposed to actually drinking straight out of the bowl. Might be a difference between cultures that consume thicker soups or soups with more substance (like potatoes) that one actually has to chew as opposed to thin so...
- 24 Mar 2015 21:46
- Forum: Teach & Share
- Topic: How to make a phonology
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3421
Re: How to make a phonology
Someone really needs to write a guide to phonology that goes beyond 'phonological inventories' soon. I am just getting the daunting feeling that it'll have to be me. :(
- 31 Jan 2015 11:30
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: False cognates
- Replies: 902
- Views: 325368
Re: False cognates
English 'be' and Nanai (Tungusic) 'bi'.
Georgian genitive -(i)s, Germanic genitive -s.
Georgian genitive -(i)s, Germanic genitive -s.
- 30 Jan 2015 15:04
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: My conlang, not yet named, but Angelic.
- Replies: 67
- Views: 12792
Re: Gender in a conlang
Can anyone explain to me what the purpose of gender in a language is, and how to apply it to a conlang? Like, for example, if I created a small base word and added a vowel to the end, is that enough? e.g. sen is the base for person, then adding an a makes it Divine gender, adding e makes it Mortal ...
- 14 Jan 2015 13:46
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: How can I teach a Conlang online?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3607
Re: How can I teach a Conlang online?
A relevant question: why? Do you think there'll be an audience for it? Do you think the effort you're going to put into that will have any returns whatsoever? Do you think your conlang genuinely is far along to be worth learning for anyone?
- 11 Nov 2014 23:54
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: Can anybody give me tips on grammar?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4982
Re: Can anybody give me tips on grammar?
For some inspiration as to dimensions your language can seep into, I do recommend my blog http://miniatureconlangs.blogspot.com
I know this is tooting my own horn, but it's intended as an inspiration as to all the kinds of cool things you can do with language.
I know this is tooting my own horn, but it's intended as an inspiration as to all the kinds of cool things you can do with language.
- 23 Oct 2014 10:31
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Usage of the English language (languages?)
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5252
Re: Usage of the English language (languages?)
Hypothesis: if there exist alternatives to those two, 'they have' is among them.
- 13 Oct 2014 12:03
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: NaS PaLaRo, an oligoanalytic language
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3230
Re: NaS PaLaRo, an oligoanalytic language
Examples plox! Word order is highly flexible, based on tags like Japanese, with a verb-first structure (usually). I would've expected strict word order being an analytic language. Strict word order might allow for less ambiguous statements, as I've read is a problem with olilangs. There are other w...
- 09 Oct 2014 22:44
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: Other Creativity
- Replies: 1362
- Views: 358660
Re: Other Creativity
A new song
https://soundcloud.com/markus-miekk-oja ... -ascension
Not entirely complete yet though, needs some production values
https://soundcloud.com/markus-miekk-oja ... -ascension
Not entirely complete yet though, needs some production values
- 23 Sep 2014 07:19
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: New words for Kala
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2829
Re: New words for Kala
If you ever go about to make a detailed grammar, you may want to be pretty specific on the title page (e.g. "Khemehekis' Kala" or somesuch)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kala_language
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kala_language
- 18 Sep 2014 22:34
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: North germanic neuter /t/
- Replies: 29
- Views: 8171
Re: North germanic neuter /t/
If the English missionaries showed up and say /ˈtʃiritʃe/ to the heathen northerners, why is it that that they end up pronouncing it "etymological"? with /k/? Maybe [tʃ] would be interpreted as being merely a weird form of [k] by the norse? How do the Finnish speaking people approximate t...
- 17 Sep 2014 03:26
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: How to identify someone's native language?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2000
Re: How to identify someone's native language?
And also some grammatical constructions: Using " of " instead of a S-genitive e.g. Car of Mark instead of Mark's car . Rejection of preposition stranding e.g. The person with who I'm going instead of The person who I am going with . AFAIK, both alternatives are correct. Portuguese speaker...