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- 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?
- 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?
- 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!
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!
- 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...
- 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...)
(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...)
- 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.
- 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...
- 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.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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 &...
- 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 ...
- 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...
- 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/]
- 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...
I've still got terracing, stress and intonation to come (I've only written about 5,000 words), but it's progress...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...