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- 30 Jul 2017 21:11
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Post-Modern English
- Replies: 38
- Views: 14154
Re: Post-Modern English
I don't have dialect. [:P] /ɑ ɔ/ -> /a/ <â> /ɛ/ -> /e/ <e> /æ/ -> /ɛ/ <ê> /ʊ/ -> /o/ <o> /ʌ/ -> /ɔ/ <ô> /ɪ/ -> /ɨ/ <î> /u/ -> /u/ <u> /i/ -> /i/ <i> /ə/ -> /ə/ <a> unstressed /ɪ/ -> /ɪ e/ <i e> unstressed /ʊ/ -> /ʊ/ <u> unstressed /oʊ/ -> /o/ <o> unstressed /k/ -> /c/ <kh>, but new words with /k/ wi...
- 30 Jul 2017 02:29
- Forum: Translations
- Topic: She gave the child rice for the parents.
- Replies: 23
- Views: 6632
Re: She gave the child rice for the parents.
So taking your sentence, "she gave the child rice for the parents" this could very easily mean: ... - "she gave the child rice for the good of the parents" (she gave the child an education for the nation) The word 'for' is a generalization of all those cases. The specific case i...
- 29 Jul 2017 01:23
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Atlas: new auxlang
- Replies: 245
- Views: 63938
Re: Atlas: new auxlang
I hadn't noticed that this topic is long and I read only the half of the first page. [xP] Well, I really don't care if natural languages or constructed languages are chosen as international languages. However, I don't agree with that statement because there is a flaw: There will be a country that ch...
- 21 Apr 2017 21:16
- Forum: Translations
- Topic: "already"
- Replies: 39
- Views: 7620
Re: "already"
American to my ears. I think in British English, 'already' is used with the perfect most of the time. I would always say 'I've already seen him'. According to grammar books used by foreigner students, 'already' uses the perfect. It is taught even in schools that teach American English. :por: Portug...
- 15 Apr 2017 17:54
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2020]
- Replies: 11605
- Views: 2052655
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Are the rules stable for a long time? Stability, schmability. Whether the rules last one generation or ten, any language description, con- or nat-, is simply a snapshot taken at a particular moment/period of time. If you want to think of your lang as enduring throughout the ages, you'll need to tak...
- 15 Apr 2017 05:25
- Forum: Translations
- Topic: Commands and requests
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3875
Re: Commands and requests
:con: Juraban [Please][Don't] help me [, please] [oga,] [non] manule min [, oga]. [please], [NEG] help-IMP 1sg [, please]. [Please][Don't] Help me [, please] (pl) sos [oga,] [non] manule min [, oga]. Collective_Interjection [please] [NEG] help-IMP 1sg [, please]. [Please]Let's [not] help me [, pleas...
- 15 Apr 2017 05:04
- Forum: Translations
- Topic: Existential and locational clauses
- Replies: 27
- Views: 9159
Re: Existential and locational clauses
:con: Juraban (1) There's a cat in the house. Un neko setas ne toka. one cat be_present-PRS LOC.DEF house. (2) The cat is in the house. Le neko se ne toka. DEF cat be.PRS in_the house. (3) There's no cat in the house. Nu neko setas ne toka. zero cat be_present-PRS LOC.DEF house. (4) The cat is not i...
- 15 Apr 2017 04:24
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2020]
- Replies: 11605
- Views: 2052655
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
I have some weird rules in my conlang. I want to know if the rules are acceptable. In other words, can a human speaker use theses rules spontaneously and non-prescriptively? Are the rules is stable for a long time? There is a word that means "this/that". It is usually followed by a noun, b...
Re: Kyüweng
Fora Temer Golpista!All4Ɇn wrote:Мἰσιeλ Շeмeϱ (Michel Temer)
/'fɔrä 'tẽmer gol'pistä/
Φορα Շeмeϱ Гολϖἰσтα
Get out Temer the coup d'etat performer!
- 01 Jan 2017 23:23
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: You
- Replies: 946
- Views: 265982
Re: You
I don't know if I have ever answered it, but let me answer again. Alias(es): It is randomly thought when it is chosen. Location: Brazilian central area. It's 1000 km from the coast. I have never seen things like snow and sea. Therefore, the conlang lacks some words and 'snow' is 'water icecream'. [x...
- 31 Dec 2016 14:59
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: If natlangs were conlangs
- Replies: 150
- Views: 112295
Re: If natlangs were conlangs
English's author wanted to make an ideogram-based script, but they were lazy to draw the symbols and wanted something simple to type. Thus, they decided to use Roman letters to form ideograms. The native language of Japanese's author is Slavic. The author doesn't distinguish /e/ and /je/ nor /o/ and...
- 23 Dec 2016 19:38
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Unusual numbers
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2917
Re: Unusual numbers
-In a language I'm currently working on, which does not have a name yet, I plan to introduce two distinct plurals: a "group plural" and a "memberwise plural". The group plural would be used when the action affects a group as a whole, whereas the memberwise plural would be used w...
- 23 Dec 2016 16:35
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2020]
- Replies: 11605
- Views: 2052655
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
I have conlang based on Esperanto, in which a noun always ends with -o. I have problems for adopting words whose root ends with a vowel. The vowel is part of the root and cannot be removed in order to add -o. The problem is even worse when the stress is in the ending vowel, which must not be removed...
- 21 Dec 2016 13:50
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: What are the actual underlying phonemes of Japanese?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3550
- 18 Dec 2016 15:59
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Socio-economic systems in conworld
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5642
Re: Socio-economic systems in conworld
Canada and Europe are not socialist. They are successful by applying the combination of free market plus welfare state. It is a form of Social Democracy. International trade is very important for them. Suffice to say, imperialism and colonialism are alive in well, just in different forms. Thus, it i...
- 17 Dec 2016 19:55
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Socio-economic systems in conworld
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5642
Re: Socio-economic systems in conworld
I will create more concountries and add more systems: Anarcho-Communism, Messed-admnistration Socialism, Modern tribalism. I am curious: why not? As in, what prevents people from caring? In the international culture, the inner affairs of a country are part of the foreign culture. They think that it ...
- 11 Dec 2016 19:31
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Socio-economic systems in conworld
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5642
Re: Socio-economic systems in conworld
Most of these are accurate, especially with regards to what socialism really is (and not that Soviet State-Capitalist nonsense). Although it is important to understand that in socialism the state does not own the means of production, but the people do. Otherwise it's state-capitalism. I am not a so...
- 11 Dec 2016 06:00
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Socio-economic systems in conworld
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5642
Socio-economic systems in conworld
I am creating a conworld. It has 20 countries so far and they are different. In the conworld, tribal and industrial countries coexist. Monarchy and democracy coexist. No one cares if about the adoption of a different system in another country, so it is not a cause of conflits if the other country fe...
- 07 Dec 2016 03:12
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Translating 'has/have been'
- Replies: 25
- Views: 5887
Re: Translating 'has/have been'
One thing to add is Spanish's near-present, "acabar" The third example would be Ellos acaban de hablar con el. I assume similar happens with other Iberian Romance languages. It is like Portuguese, but Portuguese uses "acabar" in preterite rather than "present". The mea...
- 06 Dec 2016 01:00
- Forum: Teach & Share
- Topic: Lesson/Guide Requests
- Replies: 322
- Views: 350027
Re: Lesson/Guide Requests
Unfortunately, external resources for Malay and Tagalog are poor.
Maybe it is better to write some sentences in English and ask for translations with glosses.
Maybe it is better to write some sentences in English and ask for translations with glosses.