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- 26 Apr 2016 04:50
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: An auxlang to be understood not spoken
- Replies: 57
- Views: 10167
Re: An auxlang to be understood not spoken
Or you can take it as meaning "I'm not talking out of my ass", since not everybody speaks as formally as you think they do. Or you can try starting arguments, like you seem to be doing.
- 26 Apr 2016 04:01
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: An auxlang to be understood not spoken
- Replies: 57
- Views: 10167
Re: An auxlang to be understood not spoken
No, of course not.DesEsseintes wrote:So what? So only you get to state facts about India?
But you can't draw conclusions about complex situations based on data sheets.
- 25 Apr 2016 18:04
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: An auxlang to be understood not spoken
- Replies: 57
- Views: 10167
Re: An auxlang to be understood not spoken
Yea... but well India is the type of ocuntry where only the rich people speak english. It is actually 125,226,449/1,210,000,000 you don't ned godlike math to see that this is about 11% Can you really call it the "lingua franca" of india if 11% of the speak it... did you know: I actually l...
- 24 Apr 2016 09:59
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: An auxlang to be understood not spoken
- Replies: 57
- Views: 10167
Re: An auxlang to be understood not spoken
Re: Chinese's speaker count coming up in auxlang threads
Remember that English is the primary lingua franca of India, the other country with a billion people.
Remember that English is the primary lingua franca of India, the other country with a billion people.
- 24 Apr 2016 05:01
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Regional Auxlangs
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2099
Re: Regional Auxlangs
But their idea of "language hotspot" is a smallish area with a largish number of (genetically diverse) endangered languages. I was thinking of Papua/New Guinea, of the Caucasus, of the Himalayas, and so on. I remember reading once that 15% of the world's languages are spoken only in about...
- 23 Apr 2016 12:35
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Regional Auxlangs
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2099
Re: Regional Auxlangs
"Regional" here means cultural/linguistic regions. Geographic regions are too blunt to work.
- 16 Apr 2016 16:38
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: Daughter Languages or Dialects?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3090
Re: Daughter Languages or Dialects?
Yeah, it's just the normal human ability to pattern-match, which depends on regular input.
- 14 Apr 2016 11:48
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: Pinyin-Style Input Panel
- Replies: 33
- Views: 9326
Re: Pinyin-Style Input Panel
This forum is for artificial languages we've made up for fun, if your language is a locally spoken natural language, then linguists would be very interested in documenting and preserving it.
- 14 Apr 2016 04:32
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: How much can a language change grammatically?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3888
Re: How much can a language change grammatically?
Yeah, it's correct. But to be clear, it usually happens by soundchange, like "all stop clusters merge" causing bg to become gg, then being generalized by analogy.GrandPiano wrote:I'm pretty sure what I said is correct, anyway. Someone with more experience in diachronics can say whether it is.
- 14 Apr 2016 04:28
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: Sci-Fi Writer Struggling with Slang Extrapolation
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2151
Re: Sci-Fi Writer Struggling with Slang Extrapolation
sick is already dated/humorous for me, while epic is current, although rarer today than when I was younger
- 13 Apr 2016 07:59
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: Is English a logographic writing system?
- Replies: 95
- Views: 43299
Re: Is English a logographic writing system?
globalization and the internet is accelerating language change, by increasing the amount of interactions
- 12 Apr 2016 04:08
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: Is English a logographic writing system?
- Replies: 95
- Views: 43299
Re: Is English a logographic writing system?
What's your native language, Moon?
- 10 Apr 2016 15:30
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: ATR/RTR
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1771
Re: ATR/RTR
"Tense/lax" is a non-specific distinction applied to a bunch of languages. The Germanic languages are known for using ATR in the tense/lax distinction (but not uniformly, English and Yiddish don't quite have it), hence the association.
- 10 Apr 2016 15:13
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: Is English a logographic writing system?
- Replies: 95
- Views: 43299
Re: Is English a logographic writing system?
Virtually no language would allow the orthography to diverge so far from the pronunciation, to boot. For all we like to talk about cultures and languages as abstractions, they're composed of people, and you're not going to convince speakers English or otherwise to do different. Especially in the era...
- 04 Apr 2016 08:55
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Uniqueness
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3373
Re: Uniqueness
Stop worrying about things like this already, please. Of course people are going to describe your conlangs in terms of other languages -- we don't have any other way to describe language aesthetics! The abstract principles of conlanging and art don't matter. Just make a language! Stick your face in ...
- 30 Mar 2016 14:44
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: How do non-Indo-European languages pose WH question?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 3846
Re: How do non-Indo-European languages pose WH question?
European languages also happen to merge the question and relative pronouns, a regional feature.
- 29 Mar 2016 12:46
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Challenge to David J. Peterson
- Replies: 18
- Views: 4263
Re: Challenge to David J. Peterson
this is rather dramatic, isn't it
Thrice Xandvii wrote:I'd like to see your half of the deal up front. It'd be fun to see a photo of that much cash.
- 29 Mar 2016 11:01
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Language Aesthetics
- Replies: 51
- Views: 8733
Re: Language Aesthetics
Well, I mean it's about a martial or warlike stereotype, not being considered bad.
- 29 Mar 2016 03:19
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Language Aesthetics
- Replies: 51
- Views: 8733
Re: Language Aesthetics
The only common feature between "harsh" languages is /x/ and how the speakers are/were viewed.
- 28 Mar 2016 15:30
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Language Aesthetics
- Replies: 51
- Views: 8733
Re: Language Aesthetics
Actually, although I think at least in the books it's the more fantasy, more connected-to-prior-worlds side of it that works best, personally in terms of setting I'd make it less overtly fantasy. I think the big unique thing in Shadowrun is the idea of goblinization, and I think the horror and diso...