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by Salmoneus
05 Oct 2015 00:40
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Rawàng Ata: Phonology
Replies: 7
Views: 1058

Re: Rawàng Ata: Phonology

...but I though phonologies were what people like to talk about?
by Salmoneus
02 Oct 2015 21:20
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Reconlang: Garnai (Southeast Indigenous Australian)
Replies: 3
Views: 626

Re: Reconlang: Garnai (Southeast Indigenous Australian)

So... the language is taught in schools, there are children's story books in the language, there are youtube videos in the language, there are going to be textbooks for teenagers in the language... surely your starting point would be to just learn the language as it is used currently?
by Salmoneus
02 Oct 2015 20:54
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Rawàng Ata: Phonology
Replies: 7
Views: 1058

Rawàng Ata: Phonology

Posted in the phonology thread already, but what the hell...

https://vacuouswastrel.files.wordpress. ... sketch.pdf

Sorry for the .pdf, it's just that the board will eat my formatting (as will wordpress).

Comments, questions, complaints, all welcome!
by Salmoneus
02 Oct 2015 12:06
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2019]
Replies: 7086
Views: 1317642

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

I'm looking for info on Possession. Specifically, different types of possession and how they work. I'm most interested at the moment in Austronesian possession. There are at least three significant Austronesian possession systems. The first is alienable/inalienable. The key here is not so much that...
by Salmoneus
02 Oct 2015 03:16
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread [2011–2018]
Replies: 5100
Views: 1035644

Re: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread

https://vacuouswastrel.files.wordpress. ... sketch.pdf

(throwing up a pdf because the board ignores formatting and it's so useful to be able to use bold and italics and whatnot without having to go through and switch everything...)
by Salmoneus
30 Sep 2015 23:25
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: English Modal Particles?
Replies: 20
Views: 3426

Re: English Modal Particles?

E.g. your hypothesis that non-romlang conlangs lack gender systems.
by Salmoneus
28 Sep 2015 23:23
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: English Modal Particles?
Replies: 20
Views: 3426

Re: English Modal Particles?

You are confusing modality with pragmatics. In "I am too going"... you are going. In "clothes are just expensive", clothes are expensive. By contrast, in "I am potentially going", we cannot say that you are actually going. In "clothes would be expensive", we c...
by Salmoneus
28 Sep 2015 23:14
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: Difficulties with [ji] and [wu]
Replies: 4
Views: 1607

Re: Difficulties with [ji] and [wu]

The weird realisations of /i/ and /u/ are just that English has weird realisations of /i/ and /u/ in most situations.
by Salmoneus
28 Sep 2015 22:37
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Gender in conlangs
Replies: 121
Views: 21145

Re: Grammatical Gender

I already mentioned third genders. I'll repeat: my understanding is that these are still regarded as a) discrete categories, and b) socially-defined. Of course, it's possible that there have been one or two societies where one or both of these has not been the case? But that's my general understandi...
by Salmoneus
27 Sep 2015 12:25
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Gender in conlangs
Replies: 121
Views: 21145

Re: Grammatical Gender

To be fair, there have probably been "borderline cases" - people who don't identify easily as either males of females even in pre-modern times. I'm not sure that there have been, no. I think the concept of "identification" in this sense is largely a very modern invention. Histor...
by Salmoneus
21 Sep 2015 17:38
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: What did you accomplish today? [2011–2019]
Replies: 11462
Views: 1631473

Re: What did you accomplish today?

Much like the now famous lead chamber of Zandalf the Halfbearded (an artificer of Pylicundas some years ago). Famous for his fear of dying, he built a perfectly sealed lead walled chamber and, having done all the death-warding charms he knew of, closed himself in it. I believe his last words were &...
by Salmoneus
21 Sep 2015 00:14
Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
Topic: Tales From the Divine Plane
Replies: 76
Views: 13665

Re: Tales From the Divine Plane

I have never read any of these folks's works and actually looked up this Terry Goodkind, just to see what you mean. Wow. [O.O] Please tell me if I write that way! a bit late, but While they had been together after being married, exalting in their love, something had been outside the door, exalting ...
by Salmoneus
20 Sep 2015 20:10
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: SO vs OS word order frequency
Replies: 2
Views: 781

Re: SO vs OS word order frequency

It appears fundamental to want to put the topic of discussion first, and then the comment on that topic last. If you think about it, this makes sense: the topic lets us open our filing system to the right place, and then the comment gives us something to put in the file. The other way around, we get...
by Salmoneus
17 Sep 2015 12:43
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: Misremembered spelling/pronunciation
Replies: 73
Views: 9822

Re: Misremembered spelling/pronunciation

Huh. I say ["kwasQ~] with a short [a], and slight rhoticisation of the /w/. Is that not people normally say it? [I do sometimes hear it with final /t/]
by Salmoneus
16 Sep 2015 23:51
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: What did you accomplish today? [2011–2019]
Replies: 11462
Views: 1631473

Re: What did you accomplish today?

I really feel I'm getting somewhere in making this phonology.

I've still got terracing, stress and intonation to come (I've only written about 5,000 words), but it's progress...
by Salmoneus
16 Sep 2015 16:14
Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
Topic: (C&C) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 1938
Views: 656103

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

OK, so maybe it's not the same language if you replace all the words, but at what point does it stop being the same language then? I gave an answer to that already! The "Anglish Spamthread" and "Romanglic File" are in the Other Languages section here, so maybe they count as othe...
by Salmoneus
16 Sep 2015 14:10
Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
Topic: (C&C) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 1938
Views: 656103

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

In my personal opinion, the vocabulary is an intrinsic part of language. It feels nonsensical to me to say that grammar is what makes a language what it is. Sorry guys. A language is a complex whole: grammar, semantic fields, the whole shebang. Yes, this is what the word normally means. Elemtilas a...
by Salmoneus
16 Sep 2015 02:03
Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
Topic: (C&C) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 1938
Views: 656103

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

IIRC there are/were a few languages in that list with more loan-words than native words. Would those languages count as "mixed"? Or would they merely have "mixed" vocabularies? I don't think so. I can replace every English word in a sentence with Spanish or Latin words, but abse...
by Salmoneus
15 Sep 2015 23:39
Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
Topic: Give your conculture a sentence
Replies: 19
Views: 3014

Re: Give your conculture a sentence

And the Greeks indeed had steam engines , to some degree. The problem is that their knowledge was largely forgotten until the Arabs and the Renaissance rediscovered it, due to the effective "cataclysm" of knowledge created by the decline of the Roman Empire. Of course, it's all hypothetic...
by Salmoneus
15 Sep 2015 17:16
Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
Topic: Give your conculture a sentence
Replies: 19
Views: 3014

Re: Give your conculture a sentence

No, it wasn't the absence of knowledge, per se, I don't think. After all, it was a long time from the renaissance to the industrial revolution. And indeed, mediaeval europe had more impressive industrialisation than the greeks - some of their watermills had a remarkable degree of roboticisation, for...