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- 05 May 2011 05:38
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Mixing languages
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2644
Re: Mixing languages
What. I concur. Anyway, the other day I started on a mix between Latin and English, called Lihtin [li:tIn]. What I do is take an English word with its nearest Latin equivalent to form a Lihtin word. The consonants come from the Latin word while the vowels/diphthongs come from the English word. I've...
- 24 Apr 2011 17:52
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: See vs. Look
- Replies: 21
- Views: 4556
Re: See vs. Look
I wonder how many other English verb pairs have this exact distinction. Hear/listen Receive/take Lose/discard Fall down/sit or lie down (or, more accurately, 'fall down in a deliberate and controlled manner', like in stunt acting or martial arts) Fall asleep/go to sleep (although this distinction i...
- 06 Apr 2011 16:33
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Uralic conlangs
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3510
Re: Uralic conlangs
I've made a couple attempts but just haven't been satisfied with them.
- 03 Apr 2011 21:43
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Brilliant!
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2916
Re: Brilliant!
Many years ago I came up with the idea of using nasalization to signal stress. I never used it since I hate the sound of nasalized vowels, so I give it to you all for free.
- 27 Mar 2011 21:17
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Plural
- Replies: 28
- Views: 4322
Re: Plural
I was reading about a language (I think it was one of the Khoisan langs but I'm not sure) where every noun has an inherent number. Number is only explicitly indicated if it is not the default. This has inspired me for a conlang I'm working on called Cwbawk /tSobok/.
- 07 Mar 2011 03:02
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: The worst sounding natlang ever
- Replies: 234
- Views: 51078
Re: The worst sounding natlang ever
Khmer. OTOH the script is pretty cool.
- 23 Feb 2011 01:31
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Palatalization and Labio-Velarization
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2957
Re: Palatalization and Labio-Velarization
For what it's worth, Proto-Sino-Tibetan is reconstructed with a contrast between stop+w and labialized stop.
- 19 Feb 2011 20:53
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Your vote for most beautiful natlang writing system.
- Replies: 99
- Views: 17749
Re: Your vote for most beautiful natlang writing system.
Arabic with Hangul as a close second.
- 17 Feb 2011 18:13
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Pre-Columbus Food
- Replies: 68
- Views: 11268
Re: Pre-Columbus Food
Those scientists are wrong. Many scientists have been wrong. Genetically, if we can procreate with eachother (without technology to help, just before someone tries to use that one), we are the same race. All Humans are Human. Humans and Neanderthals were two different races. Black people and white ...
- 17 Feb 2011 08:03
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Pre-Columbus Food
- Replies: 68
- Views: 11268
- 17 Feb 2011 07:16
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Pre-Columbus Food
- Replies: 68
- Views: 11268
Re: Pre-Columbus Food
Etherman, race is a social construct and thus your use of terms like "Mongoloid" and "Austroloid" in a debate is frankly quite offensive You think that social constructs are offensive??? Are you similarly offended when people say that Barack Obama is the first black President of...
- 17 Feb 2011 07:01
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Pre-Columbus Food
- Replies: 68
- Views: 11268
Re: Pre-Columbus Food
Yačay256 wrote: Furthermore, Etherman, on an actually smaller timescale than that of the population of the Americas, starting around 3,000 or so BCE, the Bantus expanded across most of Southern and Central Africa. Yet, though they originally came from Cameroon and Nigeria, one does not call the Kal...
- 13 Feb 2011 03:31
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Pre-Columbus Food
- Replies: 68
- Views: 11268
Re: Pre-Columbus Food
That's already been demonstrated by the fact that Kennewick Man and other early skeletal remains in North America are Caucasoid and not Americoid. It's up to you to explain why the earliest fossils are not Americoid if they were here first.MrKrov wrote:You have to demonstrate that first.
- 13 Feb 2011 03:29
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Pre-Columbus Food
- Replies: 68
- Views: 11268
Re: Pre-Columbus Food
The fuck's wrong with you? Do you lack basic integrity to stand by your sources even when they disagree with you? Gloss over "recent DNA tests have not shown major genetic similarity with modern caucasian Europeans." which is übercritical to anything you've posted much? I never mentioned ...
- 13 Feb 2011 01:54
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Pre-Columbus Food
- Replies: 68
- Views: 11268
Re: Pre-Columbus Food
Furthermore, Etherman, on an actually smaller timescale than that of the population of the Americas, starting around 3,000 or so BCE, the Bantus expanded across most of Southern and Central Africa. Yet, though they originally came from Cameroon and Nigeria, one does not call the Kalanga (who made G...
- 12 Feb 2011 21:10
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Pre-Columbus Food
- Replies: 68
- Views: 11268
Re: Pre-Columbus Food
Many early investigators proposed a Caucasian ancestry,[22] although recent DNA tests have not shown major genetic similarity with modern caucasian Europeans. To further investigate the mystery of the Kennewick man and determine if the skeleton belonged to the Umatilla Native American tribe, an ext...
- 11 Feb 2011 05:06
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Pre-Columbus Food
- Replies: 68
- Views: 11268
Re: Pre-Columbus Food
@Etherman: Race really does not have anything to do with history (until the Occidentals constructed it in the 1600s ), as all human societies are equal in overall psychological capacity, of course. Besides, how could really you call Kennewick Man "Caucasian" if he lived over 5 millenia be...
- 09 Feb 2011 07:11
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Pre-Columbus Food
- Replies: 68
- Views: 11268
Re: Pre-Columbus Food
Technically Asian's discovered America they just didn't know it. Aka, the Indians. Sorry, the caucasians were here first. Specifically Jean Luc Picard. I need to know what food was present before Columbus vikings or Knight's Templar arrived. There's a hell of a lot that's edible. Acorns and other n...
- 08 Feb 2011 00:35
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Husband and Wife
- Replies: 26
- Views: 4414
Re: Husband and Wife
Would a hermaphrodite spouse be a husband or a wife?
- 07 Feb 2011 08:31
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Husband and Wife
- Replies: 26
- Views: 4414
Re: Husband and Wife
For me, "Husband" is male and "Wife" is female, with the term having no additional requirement for the other spouse's gender. If two men are married to one another then they're both each other's husband, likewise for women. Same here. 40 years old, Massachusetts. However, I have...