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- 15 May 2014 18:51
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Combinations and meaning
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1576
Re: Combinations and meaning
Do you have a grammatical voice to mark causative diathesis? Do you have a grammatical voice to mark reflexive diathesis? Do you have a grammatical voice to mark reciprocal diathesis? No to all! causative voice; reflexive voice; reciprocal voice; None of those feel "oblique" like the prev...
- 15 May 2014 17:28
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Combinations and meaning
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1576
Combinations and meaning
I just had an idea hit me in the head, quite painfully I went unconciouss for about 30 minutes but I digress. I was originally going for something else and realised I could use applicative voice aswlel within my construct without loss of anything and meaning and nothing would have to be changed or a...
- 10 May 2014 20:06
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Name of mood
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2967
Re: Name of mood
Having read others' responses, I now realize I misread the O.P., and wish to controvert about half of my first response. "Voilitive" is still just fine; it's not "volitional", like DesEsseintes worried. (When DesEsseintes suggested it might get confused with "volition"...
- 10 May 2014 19:41
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Name of mood
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2967
Re: Name of mood
Oh? Elabroate pleaseSalmoneus wrote:Or commissive, depending on the nuances.
- 10 May 2014 17:03
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Rare Verb Agreementing
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2490
Re: Rare Verb Agreementing
Done didily done :) I am curious to see what others have!eldin raigmore wrote:Look at WALS.infofeatureschapters 100, 102, and 104; probably 101 and 103 also.FeaturesChapters 25 and 29 might also be informative.
- 10 May 2014 16:59
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Name of mood
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2967
Re: Name of mood
"Volitive" is just fine. I think it would probably be called "second imperative" or something like that, though. Moods (and cases and other accidents) are often named for one of their main or most common uses and/or meanings, rather than for all of their common uses/meanings or ...
- 10 May 2014 16:22
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Rare Verb Agreementing
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2490
Rare Verb Agreementing
hello again! Reading up on agreements and pondering for my conlang I thought that Accusative agreement is quite common, and polypersonal agreement too (strangely from a european perspective seems strange atleast to me that it is more common) I wonder have anyone done any more "exotic" pers...
- 10 May 2014 15:49
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Name of mood
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2967
Name of mood
I am working on my verb system and I have decieded to have a mood which uses hortative, jussive and requests into a mix but I am not certain what to call it. Basicly the mood would be expressing things you want others to do or you with them but not direct commands and apply all persons and numbers, ...
- 07 May 2014 19:35
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Participle and moods
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2528
Participle and moods
I have been pondering and I am thinking, can participles carry moods?
- 12 Dec 2013 15:03
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Cow Language
- Replies: 23
- Views: 5248
Re: Cow Language
Mooooo
- 11 Nov 2013 06:27
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Auxlangs - for and against
- Replies: 78
- Views: 16887
Re: Auxlangs - for and against
What do you think about auxlangs, like Esperanto and the like? It propably was a good idea back then, but nowadays, we have English as the lingua franca of the Earth. and back when Esperanto was born, the lingua franca was French, if I recall. Not at all, it was a political language yes but not a l...
- 10 Nov 2013 07:52
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Script, information and lines
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1208
Script, information and lines
This is somewhat rambling but something I just thought on and would like to share for input The english alphabet, not counting special characters like space, comma, dot etc, have 26 letters. which requires around 4,7 bits of information, let's round it to an even 5 bits. So a letter contains 5 bits ...
- 10 Nov 2013 07:35
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Gliese 667 Cc
- Replies: 124
- Views: 25181
Re: Metalless civzilation
The reasons metals are so lovely is because they are easily formed to what we want, stones are not.
- 04 Nov 2013 14:51
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Need help/advice/ideas on my conlang (just a newbie here)
- Replies: 63
- Views: 10133
Re: Need help/advice/ideas on my conlang (just a newbie here
this is the very reason for my previous postValosken wrote:I've seen a variation on "Use IPA, so we can understand what you're saying." over 10 times, and it doesn't look like Mr. V3 has made much of an attempt to do so. I'm unsure whether it's bad English skills or...
- 21 Oct 2013 07:23
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Number Systems in your conlang
- Replies: 18
- Views: 7494
Re: Number Systems in your conlang
Not only that but Base-10 is the most efficient and easy to understand numerical system you can have. You're wrooooooong Base 10 is not inherently effient nor understandable, it is the most commonly used one due to our ten fingers which makes it easy to derive in history but it is all about hwat yo...
Re: Gadīl: The language of The Internet (And of deaf people)
Joke, Troll, ignorance or insanity? Inaccuracy. And yours is intolerance. Not at all, not knowing falls under ignorance so I was accurate and not intolerant. part is mindless aggression Mindless aggression I wouldn't say because that was about as wierd as saying that earth is a potato in a ginormou...
Re: Gadīl: The language of The Internet (And of deaf people)
Joke, Troll, ignorance or insanity?Every language at some point had three-consonant stems, even Proto-Greek and Proto-Latin
- 19 Oct 2013 07:06
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: ʂoʕˈʣoːʔ kɨˈt͡ɬʼɨːʕ (Spider language)
- Replies: 86
- Views: 14328
Re: Spider language
Spider pig, spider pig :D
- 12 Oct 2013 14:17
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Need help/advice/ideas on my conlang (just a newbie here)
- Replies: 63
- Views: 10133
Re: Need help/advice/ideas on my conlang (just a newbie here
I think that's the real issue, that it seemed like he was asking for advice, and then blatantly ignoring the advice given, doing it in his own way (which few to none of us understand) and then wondering why no one is really helping. This is the issue for my post, as I said in my post it is okey not...
- 10 Oct 2013 15:04
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Need help/advice/ideas on my conlang (just a newbie here)
- Replies: 63
- Views: 10133
Re: Need help/advice/ideas on my conlang (just a newbie here
IPA or http://seemslegit.com/_images/3f203b9d55b430ffa396a3b35069f489/41%20-%20gtfo%20kindly-leave%20picard%20star-trek%20theres-the-door.jpg V3, take it with the kindest form you can imagen, while we all agree it is difficult at first to learn IPA it is of absolute importance to learn. We have no c...