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- 07 Oct 2015 11:46
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: CBB Conlang Relay VII
- Replies: 93
- Views: 43066
Re: CBB Conlang Relay VII
Since we've still not heard from Fanael, I vote we carry on and send the torch to gestaltist.
- 22 Sep 2015 00:05
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: CBB Conlang Relay VII
- Replies: 93
- Views: 43066
Re: CBB Conlang Relay VII
...torch passed on to xroox.
- 19 Sep 2015 22:45
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: CBB Conlang Relay VII
- Replies: 93
- Views: 43066
Re: CBB Conlang Relay VII
Torch received.
- 01 Aug 2015 18:25
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: CBB Conlang Relay VII
- Replies: 93
- Views: 43066
Re: CBB Conlang Relay VII
Never relayed before, but I'm interested. I'm in with Necthiøth.
- 09 Jun 2015 20:12
- Forum: Translations
- Topic: Do not go gentle into that good night
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4467
Re: Do not go gentle into that good night
Necthiøth: Kia rui esia emáclu uelauphán eriøzmél; [ kjá ʁúj ʔɪsjá ʔemáxlu welawpʰán ʔɪʁjɔʃmél ; ] kie rui e-sie e-máclu ue-lau-phá-n e-riøznél; NEG dark ADJ-4 ADJ-good into-2SG-IMP-BAD ADJ-unresisting ; Do not go gentle into that good night, Naicøslauphán, naicøslauphán uǿøføie engé kutai. [ najxøs...
- 09 Jun 2015 20:02
- Forum: Translations
- Topic: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
- Replies: 61
- Views: 24287
Re: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
Necthiøth: Pimóne epaúukhéph euair uʉklungaph me etlʉ́cnaic. [ pimó:ne ʔepaw:kʰépʰ ʔéwajʁ wyklúŋapʰ mé ʔétlýxnajx . ] pimóthne e-pautkhéph e-uair uʉl-khu-nga-ph mé e-tlʉ́cnaic . fox ADJ-brownhaired ADJ-fast jump-over-3-GOOD dog ADJ-lazy . The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. Fairly straightf...
- 24 May 2015 12:51
- Forum: Translations
- Topic: Up Goer Five
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2839
Re: Up Goer Five
That's one way to put it. Really interested in giving this a try. Were you concerned with word frequencies in your Necthioth translation or just with the syntax stuff? I don't really have a large enough Necthioth corpus to accurately tell what the most common words are - so no, I was just concentra...
- 23 May 2015 20:57
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Logogenesis!
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4042
Re: Logogenesis!
Perhaps PTSnoop thought that /a/ counted as a back vowel, when it actually counts as a front vowel? ...Guilty as charged! Fixed version here: Pinjətjei cjəuseu pjei seimji fjjüi tju zhaifisha. Tjəumjljü, bjü, kweutrjɛ zmɛ. Xo loisɔi fnjai vudnoi cmɔpɔ cjə njezi, njeslje tshiu so. Mniulweuwlji vjo s...
- 23 May 2015 00:23
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Logogenesis!
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4042
Re: Logogenesis!
Sounds good. I'm in! Romanisation: <p b t d k g ʔ> <pj bj tj dj c cj ʔj> <f v s z x h> <fj vj sh zh ch> <ts dz> <tsh dzh> <l lj j w> <r rj> <m n> <mj nj> <i u ü> <e o ö> <ə> <ɛ ɔ> <a> <ei ɛi ui əi üi oi öi ɔi ai> <iu eu ɛu əu ou öu ɔu au> Palatalised consonant clusters only get the final j - tj + rj...
- 22 May 2015 00:03
- Forum: Translations
- Topic: Up Goer Five
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2839
Up Goer Five
A writing challenge I found lying around, that I'd apparently started months ago and never finished. XKCD's Up Goer Five , the Saturn V rocket "explained using only the ten hundred words people use the most often". Low on vocabulary, high on syntax hurdles and intriguing relative clause co...
- 21 May 2015 11:30
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: CALS vs WALS: A Comparison
- Replies: 23
- Views: 18703
Re: CALS vs WALS: A Comparison
kaleissin: A CALS REST api would be a very useful thing to have. For me personally, though, I don't think it'd help all that much - I've already written a web scraper to pull all the raw numbers off the website. Also, this is the final set of graphs, so I'm pretty much done for now. Thanks for the o...
- 14 May 2015 13:10
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: CALS vs WALS: A Comparison
- Replies: 23
- Views: 18703
Re: CALS vs WALS: A Comparison
PART 4: CLAUSES http://sasha.sector-alpha.net/~ptsnoop/calswals2a/099_alignment_of_case_marking_of_pronouns.png The case-marking alignment graphs look similar for noun-phrases and pronouns - strong trend away from "neutral" (no case marking), with the excess split between nom-acc and activ...
- 12 May 2015 11:13
- Forum: Translations
- Topic: I am not a cactus
- Replies: 35
- Views: 9972
Re: I am not a cactus
Necthiøth:
Kia nlangautøn . Nek riøntøn søpia rasʉ́tøph .
[ kjá nláŋawtøn . nék ʁjɔntøn søpjá ʁásýtøpʰ . ]
kie lnangau-tø-n . nek riong-tø-n søp-ie rsʉ́-tø-ph .
NEG cactus-1SG-BAD . water need-1SG-BAD so-because alive-1SG-GOOD .
I am not a cactus. I need water to live.
Kia nlangautøn . Nek riøntøn søpia rasʉ́tøph .
[ kjá nláŋawtøn . nék ʁjɔntøn søpjá ʁásýtøpʰ . ]
kie lnangau-tø-n . nek riong-tø-n søp-ie rsʉ́-tø-ph .
NEG cactus-1SG-BAD . water need-1SG-BAD so-because alive-1SG-GOOD .
I am not a cactus. I need water to live.
- 07 May 2015 14:53
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: CALS vs WALS: A Comparison
- Replies: 23
- Views: 18703
Re: CALS vs WALS: A Comparison
Thanks for the kind words, guys! k1234567890y: That's what I'd have expected - and yes, there are plenty of cases explained by "people write what they're used to". But we've got some other cases that - to my mind - are better explained by the opposite, "people try to write what they'r...
- 02 May 2015 15:34
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: CALS vs WALS: A Comparison
- Replies: 23
- Views: 18703
Re: CALS vs WALS: A Comparison
PART 2: NOUNS Nominal Categories http://sasha.sector-alpha.net/~ptsnoop/calswals2a/036_the_associative_plural.png Conlangs are distinctly lacking associative plurals. Apparently I'm not the only person who doesn't really understand what they are... http://sasha.sector-alpha.net/~ptsnoop/calswals2a/0...
- 28 Apr 2015 21:18
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: CALS vs WALS: A Comparison
- Replies: 23
- Views: 18703
CALS vs WALS: A Comparison
Hi, I'm PTSnoop. You may vaguely remember me from the previous CALS vs WALS thread almost two years ago. I originally set out to do a statistical comparison of the conlangs on CALS and the natlangs on WALS, to see what intriguing features of natural languages we conlangers tend to pay more/less atte...
- 15 Oct 2013 14:52
- Forum: Translations
- Topic: The snowball game: translating with only 625 words
- Replies: 224
- Views: 142213
Re: The snowball game: translating with only 625 words
214. Asícørik, khʉsia nee eruiákh snóoftsengal paitará, ngaslaia etháic eníuof kølará phane náungac, uecngac phania . [ ʔásixøʁik, kʰysjá ne: ʔeʁujákʰ snó:ftseŋal pajtaʁá, ŋáslaja ʔetʰájx ʔɪníwof kølaʁá pʰáne náwŋax, wéxŋax pʰɛnjá . ] a-sícorik, khus-ia niáu e-ruiékh nsof-thse-nga-l pait-rá, ngazla-...
- 13 Oct 2013 22:16
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: East and West Poles and Tidelocked Planets
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4886
Re: East and West Poles and Tidelocked Planets
When I first read the title of this post, I was expecting a discussion about something more like Uranus's rotation - it's got an axial tilt of about 90°, so the axis it rotates around is perpendicular to the axis of its orbit around the sun. Its poles could concievably be described as "east and...
- 04 Oct 2013 19:33
- Forum: Translations
- Topic: The snowball game: translating with only 625 words
- Replies: 224
- Views: 142213
Re: The snowball game: translating with only 625 words
This one throws me for a bit of a loop. What's happening here? How does a foodstuff going off and smelling like your gran's unwashed armpit work out to "goodsmell" and a verb, stative or resultative, tagged "GOOD"? Sarcastic understatement? Yeah, what we have here is a slightly ...
- 02 Oct 2013 11:58
- Forum: Translations
- Topic: The snowball game: translating with only 625 words
- Replies: 224
- Views: 142213
Re: The snowball game: translating with only 625 words
210. Lakøthi sørakaingaph nefizuarınthʉli thik - nia narauia ecáføng tuáangaln phuthak? [ lákøtʰi sǿʁakajŋapʰ nɪfíʃwaʁɨntʰyli tʰik - nja náʁawja ʔexáføŋ twá:ŋaln pʰútʰak ? ] lakothi sørkain-nga-ph nefizua-on-thuli thik nia nrau-ia e-cáføng tuak-mal-n phu-thak ? goodsmell forge-3-GOOD ice-container-a...