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by KaiTheHomoSapien
12 Mar 2017 03:10
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: What did you accomplish today? [2011–2019]
Replies: 11462
Views: 1631767

Re: What did you accomplish today?

^12 moods?! [O.O] I thought I had a lot with 6!
by KaiTheHomoSapien
12 Mar 2017 00:18
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2020]
Replies: 11605
Views: 2044065

Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

I bring this up because in modern spoken varieties (in the UK at least: I get the impression that gonna is more common across the pond, though it's also definitely used over here) this auxilliary is reduced to a clitic 'll , as in 'I'll visit Germany next year". From I'm gonna, we also have: I...
by KaiTheHomoSapien
07 Mar 2017 00:20
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Learran
Replies: 51
Views: 9862

Re: Learan

It definitely so far reminds me of Romanian, which is cool since Romanian has long been my favorite Romance language :)
by KaiTheHomoSapien
04 Mar 2017 00:04
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: Linguistic pet peeves
Replies: 338
Views: 88565

Re: Linguistic pet peeves

^^ Project idea: Make the world's "gayest" conlang, featuring phonemes perceived as homosexual around the world [;)]
by KaiTheHomoSapien
01 Mar 2017 19:32
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Naming Conlangs?
Replies: 3
Views: 1214

Re: Naming Conlangs?

My language's exonym, Metazawan (or Mantian ), comes from the name of the fantasy kingdom where it's spoken. The endonym, Ineta , probably comes from an ancient root meaning "people", an unoriginal source for names of peoples and languages :p But it works :) For me it was more about the fa...
by KaiTheHomoSapien
27 Feb 2017 02:18
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2019]
Replies: 7086
Views: 1317901

Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

I'd avoid prescriptivist standards, and instead, I would go with the most freely flowing speech. Most style books dictate saying "It is I" instead of "It's me". And if it comes from Strunk and White (only), then you can gladly ignore it: it's based in 1920s philosophy instead of...
by KaiTheHomoSapien
26 Feb 2017 20:41
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2019]
Replies: 7086
Views: 1317901

Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

Right, grammatical issues are rarely that simple. Thanks for that link though; definitely some great information there. "*Almost none of the apples is edible." is an example I never would've thought of, but it does seem to forbid the singular there. Even "translating" none into &...
by KaiTheHomoSapien
26 Feb 2017 19:23
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2019]
Replies: 7086
Views: 1317901

Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

So what do you guys think? Is the English word none singular or plural? Etymologically it comes from "not one" and when you replace it with "not one" in a given sentence, only the singular of the verb is acceptable: None of us were/was? surprised. Not one of us was/*were surprise...
by KaiTheHomoSapien
24 Feb 2017 06:42
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2019]
Replies: 7086
Views: 1317901

Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

GrandPiano wrote: To my knowledge, [ɰʷ]=[w] is actually true.
Mind = blown

Reminds me of when I learned that 0.9999.... = 1.
by KaiTheHomoSapien
23 Feb 2017 02:23
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2019]
Replies: 7086
Views: 1317901

Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

Hmm. Wiktionary lists "Old English" as the source for the French terms at least. I'll have to look into it more. I'd think its Proto-Anglo-Frisian. *este is only deriveable from Anglo-Frisian. It appears Charlemagne is attributed with starting this (https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Vita_K...
by KaiTheHomoSapien
22 Feb 2017 21:58
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2019]
Replies: 7086
Views: 1317901

Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

Hmm. Wiktionary lists "Old English" as the source for the French terms at least. I'll have to look into it more.
by KaiTheHomoSapien
22 Feb 2017 19:24
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2019]
Replies: 7086
Views: 1317901

Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

Why are words for cardinal directions in Romance languages borrowed from English? E.g. sud, ouest, etc.
by KaiTheHomoSapien
20 Feb 2017 19:15
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2020]
Replies: 11605
Views: 2044065

Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

Is there a general direction for word order to shift? For example, the Romance languages have an SVO word order while Latin was SOV. I think the same thing occurred in English, IIRC. What would a VSO language become overtime, or an SVO language. Is this shift from SOV to SVO a common occurrence or ...
by KaiTheHomoSapien
19 Feb 2017 19:25
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Your Early Conlangs?
Replies: 24
Views: 4323

Re: Your Early Conlangs?

Bad. My first attempts go back to when I was like 10 or 11. I created a conlang that was mostly a copy of Latin. My first attempt was basically a romlang that was similar to "Latina sine flexione". I also created one that was clearly based on Quenya, but it was also lacking and too derivat...
by KaiTheHomoSapien
16 Feb 2017 19:56
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2019]
Replies: 7086
Views: 1317901

Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

Syntactic trees are the one thing about a linguistics major I'm not looking forward to. It looks like O-chem of linguistics [:S]
by KaiTheHomoSapien
16 Feb 2017 19:55
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2020]
Replies: 11605
Views: 2044065

Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

One question: how common are four-vowel systems without /o/? I derived my vowel system from Hittite and thus only have /a e i u/ with long counterparts. Hittite is the only language I really know with this vowel inventory. If a language has only four vowels, what are they most likely to be? I think...
by KaiTheHomoSapien
16 Feb 2017 06:22
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2020]
Replies: 11605
Views: 2044065

Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

One question: how common are four-vowel systems without /o/? I derived my vowel system from Hittite and thus only have /a e i u/ with long counterparts. Hittite is the only language I really know with this vowel inventory. If a language has only four vowels, what are they most likely to be?
by KaiTheHomoSapien
14 Feb 2017 19:26
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: If natlangs were conlangs
Replies: 150
Views: 110049

Re: If natlangs were conlangs

PIE creator: I think the reason you never finished this language is because it's too complicated for its own good. Why should a noun ablaut in three different ways in the same paradigm? No /b/ but /bʰ/, only voiced aspirates with no voiceless counterparts, syllabic laryngeals, only mid vowels (if yo...
by KaiTheHomoSapien
14 Feb 2017 07:56
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2020]
Replies: 11605
Views: 2044065

Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

Interesting that people have such different ideas :) I've never actually attempted a fully a priori conlang, though. Does anyone else find a posterori conlanging to be way harder than a priori? I'm trying to make my conlang's verbal inflection stem from reconstructed PIE forms, but the more I try to...
by KaiTheHomoSapien
13 Feb 2017 22:20
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2020]
Replies: 11605
Views: 2044065

Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

Does anyone else find a posterori conlanging to be way harder than a priori? I'm trying to make my conlang's verbal inflection stem from reconstructed PIE forms, but the more I try to make it match, the more confusing and harder it gets and I want to bang my head against my desk and just make everyt...