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- 19 Apr 2024 14:00
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1734
- Views: 361162
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
ETAONRISHDLFCMUGYPWBVKJXQZ Traditionally, it's considered to be ETAOIN SHRDLU CMFWY PVBG KQJXZ (the letters of a linotype keyboard). Wikipedia also gives the orders (putting the trad version next to them for easier comparison): ETAOIN SHRDLU CMFWY PVBG KQJXZ (trad) ETAOIN SRHDLU CMFYW GPBV KXQJZ ET...
- 19 Apr 2024 13:09
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1734
- Views: 361162
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Using a word gen, having troubles deciding what order of frequency my phonemes should be in. Learned that phoneme distributions tend to follow a Yule-Simon distribution pattern. So I have a bunch of questions whose answers i think will give me insight on what to do: 1) Would sonorants/resonants be ...
- 14 Apr 2024 21:41
- Forum: Language Learning & Non-English
- Topic: Latin questions (Lingua latina)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 132
Re: Latin questions (Lingua latina)
That's not a fallacy, though. That's all totally logical. It leaves one premise (the reason to not want something to happen in a certain place) unexpressed, but the argument itself is logical. Premise 1: some people don't like it when other people kiss in public [kind of implied by the very fact of ...
- 12 Apr 2024 20:44
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: The Sixth Conversation Thread
- Replies: 789
- Views: 199183
Re: The Sixth Conversation Thread
I tend to slightly overcook everything - due to a combination of laziness, poor timekeeping, and paranoia (it's better to slightly overcook and be disappointed than undercook and be vomiting!) - and unfortunately quinoa does not respond well to being overcooked. But properly-cooked quinoa bought fro...
- 10 Apr 2024 23:04
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Whale Linguistics
- Replies: 7
- Views: 250
Re: Whale Linguistics
This seems rather over-egged. Playing a noise game - which you can do with a cat or a dog - is not the same as having a conversation. Even if whales can speak, they wouldn't necessarily use speech when playing a turn-taking noise game. I don't have any resources off-hand but you can search for them ...
- 09 Apr 2024 00:25
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1734
- Views: 361162
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
I think you're kind of coming from the wrong direction and getting trapped as a result. Languages don't work on the principle of "here's a cool label a linguist invented - I guess I'd better work out where it most logically applies!" They work on the principle of "this is what we do, ...
- 05 Apr 2024 00:39
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1734
- Views: 361162
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Voiced codas can lengthen vowels, but I wonder if long vowels can voice codas? In my conlang, Middle Wenthish, a Germanic language, I voice consonants after long vowels - and, since this isn't something that comes naturally to me or that I've done in any other language, I presume I had a good reaso...
- 03 Apr 2024 19:07
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: False cognates
- Replies: 909
- Views: 332622
Re: False cognates
Another odd thing about having a language from an entirely different biome is stuff like "ribbit". There are no frogs that sound anything like that here, just "gronk gronk gronk", "reeeeeeeeee", "wark" and "ree-kit-kit" ... some that just make a lou...
- 03 Apr 2024 18:23
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1734
- Views: 361162
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Do the triggers also have to be back?
- 30 Mar 2024 02:09
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: The Great Exposition of Ruykkarraber
- Replies: 32
- Views: 1903
Re: The Great Exposition of Ruykkarraber
Please don't use the word "experiencer" for 'intransitive subject'. It's WRONG . Rather, "experiencer" is a semantic role that may or may not be an intransitive subject. Many, in fact, most intransitive subjects aren't experiencers. [:x] [:$] [>_<] Thank you; I've looked it up, ...
- 30 Mar 2024 01:29
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1734
- Views: 361162
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Does anyone have any advice about how to make a reference grammar of a conlang in the style of a real reference grammar? (Aside from reading a lot of real reference grammars.) How should it be organized? What should it include? It should include whatever is necessary to fully describe the language,...
- 30 Mar 2024 01:26
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1734
- Views: 361162
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
What do you think of this vowel harmony system? Is it plausible? It's /a e i ɤ o ɯ u/ /o u/ are rounded /ɤ ɯ/ are unrounded /a e i/ are neutral /a/ is usually unrounded/back in rounding/backness harmony systems and paired (or re-paired) with a back rounded or front unrounded vowel. Are there any ot...
- 29 Mar 2024 23:29
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1123
- Views: 292605
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
I don't think anything and everything is the correct answer. I know of no language that uses only word order to distinguish person, number, tense, aspect, modality, or evidentiality. But I might be wrong of course. I can't name any, but I'd be surprised if there are no languages that at least secon...
- 29 Mar 2024 02:14
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: Web 1.0 nostalgia
- Replies: 12
- Views: 853
- 29 Mar 2024 02:13
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: Web 1.0 nostalgia
- Replies: 12
- Views: 853
Re: Web 1.0 nostalgia
Late 19th and early 20th century Russia was an amazing time period, culturally. Diverse political engagement, and a fantastically rich artistic culture - graphic art, literature, music, architecture. There's various modernists, alongside both conservatives and populists, all in dialogue with one ano...
- 28 Mar 2024 21:29
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1123
- Views: 292605
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Another of my 'speculative' questions... How might a language develop an animate/inanimate (or any other binary gender-like) distinction, on demonstratives specifically? I ask about demonstratives, since they are likely one of the first points in the development of a gender system (at least accordi...
- 27 Mar 2024 14:08
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Clothing and Clothing Inspiration for Concultures
- Replies: 9
- Views: 821
Re: Clothing and Clothing Inspiration for Concultures
I'm a bit confused by the economics/ideology here - is this a totalitarian state of some sort? How have you broken the universal human need for status symbols? If something is expensive, people will powerfully want to own it. In our world, for instance, ownership of white goods, cars, even houses is...
- 23 Mar 2024 23:40
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1123
- Views: 292605
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Not an expert, but since we've raised the question, I'd guess there are three reasons why Latin developed mostly-free word order: a) the word order was probably ancestrally never totally fixed anyway. Strong SOV tendencies in the earliest records may be in part a literary decision, a style of "...
- 22 Mar 2024 23:54
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: The Sixth Conversation Thread
- Replies: 789
- Views: 199183
Re: The Sixth Conversation Thread
Just encountered a beautiful Irish sentence glossed for me: An t-ealaíontóir gur mhór aici an damhan alla agus gur mhór a cuid damhan alla, Louise Bourgeois, fuair sí bás ar na mallaibh. Literally: "the artist that big with her the spider and that big her lot of spider, Louise Bourgeois, found ...
- 22 Mar 2024 23:43
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1123
- Views: 292605
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
I'm afraid I don't know any syntax (in a linguistics sense, imaginary trees and brackets and anagrams and whatnot), so I probably can't give the sort of answer you want. Thank you very much for this! To be honest, my knowledge of syntax/"linguistics" is very rudimentary, and I favour comm...