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by CinnamonTrees
07 Jun 2014 00:40
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: Weird Dream Thread
Replies: 310
Views: 142088

Re: Weird Dream Thread

But a pretty one. One time, I was driving up I-5, and I wanted to take US-97. Missed the turnoff, and I was to Medford by the time I realized it. So I cut over through the heaviest of the forest, and even though it added an hour to an already 14-hour drive, it was something I'd love to do again. Ye...
by CinnamonTrees
06 Jun 2014 20:41
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: Weird Dream Thread
Replies: 310
Views: 142088

Re: Weird Dream Thread

Normally I dream about things like biking through Klamath National forest from Walla Walla, WA to Portland, OR on a school-owned cruiser bike that isn't supposed to leave campus. (The weird thing is, Klamath National Forest is in the wrong part of Oregon for this to be possible.) But now I just wan...
by CinnamonTrees
02 Jun 2014 01:35
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Yay or Nay? [2011–2018]
Replies: 2876
Views: 446933

Re: Yay or Nay?

Shall I romanize /ʔ/ as <h> or <j> or <'>? I am not too fond of the apostrophe because it makes me feel like it isn't as much a letter as the other sounds that get a full Latin glyph... But I also have /h/ in the language, so while the glottal stop could be <h> and the /h/ <j> (similar to Spanish) ...
by CinnamonTrees
24 May 2014 20:29
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Reverse CBB Lexicon Building [2011–2019]
Replies: 4357
Views: 577878

Re: Reverse CBB Lexicon Building

DesEsseintes wrote:qáʼaƛ
to chant
DesEsseintes wrote:Why isn't my uvular fricative displaying properly?
Looks fine to me.

Next: hän [ˈhæn]
verb, infinitive, intransitive
(I already have to be, to walk, and to fall; any other verb is fine.)
by CinnamonTrees
24 May 2014 08:08
Forum: Language Learning & Non-English
Topic: Language practice thread
Replies: 6104
Views: 1004162

Re: Language practice thread

No, the language names are full nouns and operate independently of "langue". If we took loglorn's post, and pretended it was actually in French, he would have said "Quelle est cette langue intéressante …?" Therefore, in your response, you say "Je crois que cette langue est ...
by CinnamonTrees
24 May 2014 06:40
Forum: Language Learning & Non-English
Topic: Language practice thread
Replies: 6104
Views: 1004162

Re: Language practice thread

Je crois qu'il est que c'est / qu'elle est l' albanais. The original sentence means "I think he is Albanian". So you need the article. And if you want to use a gender pronoun, "elle" works better than "il", seeing as "langue" is feminine. Thanks. Although, Wi...
by CinnamonTrees
24 May 2014 02:26
Forum: Language Learning & Non-English
Topic: Language practice thread
Replies: 6104
Views: 1004162

Re: Language practice thread

loglorn wrote:by the way, what's that interesting language full of <ë>'s?
Je crois qu'il est albanais.
by CinnamonTrees
19 May 2014 22:41
Forum: Beginners' Corner
Topic: Question on Phoneme Inventory Sizes
Replies: 17
Views: 3181

Re: Question on Phoneme Inventory Sizes

Oh, indeed. It would be laughable to call any of my conlangs anything more than 1% complete, and I've not stopped working on them at all. I'd never have a plan to just leave them at the phonology, that's simply where I absolutely have to begin.
by CinnamonTrees
19 May 2014 21:40
Forum: Beginners' Corner
Topic: Question on Phoneme Inventory Sizes
Replies: 17
Views: 3181

Re: Question on Phoneme Inventory Sizes

[rant]I have always thought the "start with the phonology" idea was bad advice. Not that it's the best strategy, but I always thought "start with complex sentences and paragraphs and work backwards to the sounds" would have been better than "start with the sounds and work u...
by CinnamonTrees
18 May 2014 08:06
Forum: Teach & Share
Topic: Caddo sketch and Q/A
Replies: 33
Views: 13479

Re: Caddo sketch and Q/A

It's not very pretty, but I hope it's clear. I wish I knew how you guys create those pretty tables, but I'm all thumbs when it comes to computer skills. Does anyone here have the know-how to put up something prettier? Easiest way I can think of is to take screenshots of a spreadsheet or word-proces...
by CinnamonTrees
17 May 2014 21:19
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: Phonotactics in onset-clusters and coda-clusters.
Replies: 20
Views: 5402

Re: Phonotactics in onset-clusters and coda-clusters.

What about sm-? Are there any English words that end in -ms? I can't think of any. I believe /-ms/ always gets pronounced /-mz/ in English. Interestingly, the same isn't true for /ns/. For example: prince /prɪns/. Although this may have slight affrication for many speakers, myself included, I'm pre...
by CinnamonTrees
17 May 2014 20:34
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: Phonotactics in onset-clusters and coda-clusters.
Replies: 20
Views: 5402

Re: Phonotactics in onset-clusters and coda-clusters.

But that would be at best controversial: orthodox syllabification puts the syllable-boundary where the morpheme-boundary is. That's interesting. I guess syllables actually are lexical units then, in some way (as opposed to phonetic units). I wonder if this would hold true for a language like French...
by CinnamonTrees
16 May 2014 06:33
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2020]
Replies: 11605
Views: 2043816

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

@Teddy Hmm, thanks for the answer. The way you put it definitely makes sense, but I'm afraid my examples were rather poor. I believe I understand it better now. So the distinction is really more between finite/completeable and non-finite/non-completeable (finite as in the general sense, not the gram...
by CinnamonTrees
16 May 2014 04:33
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2020]
Replies: 11605
Views: 2043816

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

So, if I'm understanding telicity correctly (which is highly unlikely), telic verbs (or constructions) are those which are “conceptualized as having endpoints” (ripping from Wikipedia here), while atelic verbs are conceptualized as not having endpoints. My question is, are these endpoints in a telic...
by CinnamonTrees
15 May 2014 02:34
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Reverse CBB Lexicon Building [2011–2019]
Replies: 4357
Views: 577878

Re: Reverse CBB Lexicon Building

AndivahXevos wrote:Next: berrasha [bəˈʀaʃa] a verb or noun
noun Date (fruit)

Next: iua /ˈiwa/ noun an animal (mammal, reptile, etc., but not a bird)
by CinnamonTrees
15 May 2014 01:40
Forum: Teach & Share
Topic: How to Add/Insert/Type Special Characters
Replies: 39
Views: 128517

Re: How to Add/Insert/Type Special Characters

Hey Ossicone, I've got a bit of an update for you. For Mac users, beginning with OS X 10.9, you can access the Character Viewer by pressing Command-Control-Space from any application. By default, this will be an Emoji viewer, but if you click the button in the upper right corner (looks like a tiny w...
by CinnamonTrees
15 May 2014 00:46
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Reverse CBB Lexicon Building [2011–2019]
Replies: 4357
Views: 577878

Re: Reverse CBB Lexicon Building

Znex wrote:Next: tysl /tɯɬ/ verb stem
to climb (maybe specifically rock climbing/mountain climbing)

Next naqa /ˈnɑʔɑ/ demonstrative, interrogative, or relative pronoun
by CinnamonTrees
14 May 2014 19:59
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2019]
Replies: 7086
Views: 1317703

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

Thanks very much for the info, Micamo!
by CinnamonTrees
14 May 2014 05:27
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2020]
Replies: 11605
Views: 2043816

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

shimobaatar wrote:I don't know much about computers, so I'm not sure what my resolution is. Sorry.
Oh, that's no problem, I was just curious. [:D]

And in fact, even if the image were larger, I probably wouldn't be able to judge the naturalistic-ness of the verb forms; but I thought I'd give it a try.
by CinnamonTrees
14 May 2014 05:17
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2020]
Replies: 11605
Views: 2043816

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

is there anything not naturalistic about my verb forms: http://s8.postimg.org/ej9ylboh1/Verbal_Pillars.png Ahzoh, that picture is very small. Could we see a larger version? It shows up pretty large for me, I just don't know enough about the subject to answer. Hmm. What's your screen resolution? Min...