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- 18 Jan 2011 00:49
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: IPA, X-SAMPA or Z-SAMPA - Your Input
- Replies: 36
- Views: 6514
Re: IPA, X-SAMPA or Z-SAMPA - Your Input
<SNIP> E.g. a Greek <ν> looks like a <v>, <ω> like a <w>, etc. At least now, you know that <n>, <ɲ>, <ɳ> and <ŋ> are all slight variations of /n/. <SNIP> I meant replacing, not adding. The Greek v and w looking like the Latin v and w is immaterial; we wouldn't be using the Latin characters. First, ...
- 10 Jan 2011 07:01
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: An unnamed map
- Replies: 46
- Views: 11293
Re: An unnamed map
I was trying to encourage you. And how am I a tease? Do you even know what that means?
- 10 Jan 2011 06:57
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: An unnamed map
- Replies: 46
- Views: 11293
Re: An unnamed map
KiKi, you go girl!
- 07 Jan 2011 07:04
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Conworlding Pet Peeves
- Replies: 102
- Views: 21618
Re: Conworlding Pet Peeves
for example most Asian (in the sense that they're located mainly in Asia, not that they are typically chosen by asians, although that would sort of make sense >.>) religions are non-theistic, which imo is the way to go, you get a decent set of morals (usually) without getting thrown into a fantasy ...
Re: Taian
Your use of a word that directly translates as "to shed" in the same manor as contemporary English metaphorical use of "to shed" is a bit conspicuous. Ofcourse, if this isn't a problem for you than it's not a problem. As long as you're achieving your design goals everything is gr...
- 06 Jan 2011 09:06
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Project Idea: Rosetta Stone
- Replies: 126
- Views: 22740
Re: Game
Think of it as Z-SAMPA. I actually have no idea what it's supposed to be.
Re: Taian
I can tear new orifices if need be. :) A thought: <Tō hēme> as "the blood" is just a little transparently stolen from Ancient Greek. Which is fine if you don't mind folks (like me) noticing this. But if you want your lang to be less obvious in its borrowings, you might need to switch thing...
Re: Game
You use a tilde between the stem and the reduplicated element.rickardspaghetti wrote:* the plural is made by reduplicating the first syllable of the root word. I don't know how to gloss this.
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ko~kochtin
PL~squirrel
@Micamo: Way to make it easy for Krov.
Re: Taian
I was thinking about making alignment cases like Ancient Greek, but I decided not to. If you don't have alignment cases, you'll need to show roles in some other way, mostlikely through syntax. This means syntax will have to be more systematic/strict than it otherwise might be. EDIT: Also, please an...
- 03 Jan 2011 00:11
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Project Idea: Rosetta Stone
- Replies: 126
- Views: 22740
Re: Project Idea: Rosetta Stone
There's no way you can make a story or philosophical musing of any length without inserting some kind of cultural (or species) bias. If you want to be as neutral as possible, translate the periodic table. This is exactly the problem I was trying to highlight. That and Doctor Who.
Re: Taian
@Micamo: Hast thou not been reading the lessons?! @wakeagainstthefall: What Micamo said. Plus: Your language is apparently synthetic. What degree of fusion does it demonstrate? Are the genders randomly assigned or based on the semantic gender of the noun? Are articles clitics, as in English? Do they...
- 02 Jan 2011 23:53
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: (C&C) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 2001
- Views: 720532
Re: Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
For the geography part:
Creating an Earthlike Planet
Not much dedicated specifically to maps, but the stuff on climate, etc. should help.
For the drawing part:
How to draw nice maps
Making sinusoidal maps
Creating an Earthlike Planet
Not much dedicated specifically to maps, but the stuff on climate, etc. should help.
For the drawing part:
How to draw nice maps
Making sinusoidal maps
Re: Taian
It would be nice if you could run us through the basic nominal morphology, basic verbal morphology, and basic syntax. If you have more than that, feel free to post it.
- 02 Jan 2011 21:11
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Favorite/Hated... Grammar!
- Replies: 86
- Views: 12960
Re: Favorite/Hated... Grammar!
By 'gender' I was referring to what Germanic languages use, in that they (seemingly) arbitrarily sort nouns into groups of 'male', 'female', and 'neuter', making it impossible to form a grammatically correct sentence without knowing the genders of the nouns in question. It also makes it easier to p...
Re: Taian
@wakeagainstthefall: Phonologically, the only thing that distinguishes this from English is the ach-laut and geminated sonorants. I don't know how interested you are in making your phonology less Englishy, but if you are (interested), you might try reading up on phonetics/phonology and then moving s...
- 02 Jan 2011 12:21
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2019]
- Replies: 7086
- Views: 1413193
- 02 Jan 2011 11:43
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: You
- Replies: 952
- Views: 285261
Re: You
I think there was some confusion. He means this love is requited, unless he has some unusual doctrines indeed.
- 02 Jan 2011 04:03
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Favorite/Hated... Grammar!
- Replies: 86
- Views: 12960
Re: Favorite/Hated... Grammar!
I know. Everyone can use some reminding.
- 01 Jan 2011 18:34
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Favorite/Hated... Grammar!
- Replies: 86
- Views: 12960
Re: Favorite/Hated... Grammar!
I'm not a big fan of grammatical gender. I'd never use it in a conlang, unless I was trying to fit it into the style or family of a natlang. Noun classes are cool, because they generally tell you something about the noun itself and you can usually tell which noun fits into which class by meaning, i...