... The Sassanian kings of Iran officially styled themselves _Shah i Iran u Aniran_ "King of Iran and Not-Iran". Another nice quote in the sam vein: at the...
Benct Philip Jonsson
bpj@...
Mar 1, 2005 9:19 am
129233
Many years ago I enjoyed Frank Herbert's "Dune." I saw a movie version of it yesterday afternoon for the umpteenth time on AMC. I was always impressed by the...
caeruleancentaur
caeruleancentaur@...
Mar 1, 2005 12:14 pm
129234
(Watch Reply-To!) Now I am working on compiling wordlists for various conlangs (one word per line, UTF-8 encoded), and formalizing their letter-to-sound rules ...
Sanghyeon Seo
sanxiyn@...
Mar 1, 2005 1:45 pm
129235
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 12:02:31 +0200, "Shaul Vardi" <vardi@...> ... Straight, married. On Mark's scale of handedness (0-Right, 3-Ambi, 6-Left) I would...
James W.
emindahken@...
Mar 1, 2005 2:08 pm
129236
... (Watch Reply-To!) ... If the homonyms are from a posteriori languages, I would be interested in knowing how the words were derived. I was browsing the...
caeruleancentaur
caeruleancentaur@...
Mar 1, 2005 2:29 pm
129237
I would find it interesting to know the psychological types of conlangers. I'm talking about the Meyers-Briggs personality type and the enneagram personality....
caeruleancentaur
caeruleancentaur@...
Mar 1, 2005 2:32 pm
129238
My MB is rather chaotic, with 3 of the 4 characteristics being borderline. My dominant of them is ENFJ, but the only one which wasn't borderline was F. I'm...
Patrick Jarrett
pjarrett@...
Mar 1, 2005 2:37 pm
129239
... Well I'm a straight, fairly ambidextrous (on the scale, am probably 2.7). I write right (though left is quite legible) and I eat left, I brush teeth right...
Patrick Jarrett
pjarrett@...
Mar 1, 2005 2:42 pm
129240
... So it's indeed an anadewism. Ayeri has "mangasaha" and "mangasara" to reduce ambiguity in "come" and "go" constructions. My lang *has* seperate words for...
Carsten Becker
naranoieati@...
Mar 1, 2005 2:51 pm
129241
Haven't we had that just a year ago? Straight, non-bearded, right-handed, non-Lithuanian (i.e. German) ... Carsten...
Carsten Becker
naranoieati@...
Mar 1, 2005 3:01 pm
129242
... When I took the M-B test a couple of years ago, I was INTJ (strengths 11% 33% 33% 33%). I don't know of the enneagram. Andreas...
Andreas Johansson
andjo@...
Mar 1, 2005 3:08 pm
129243
From: Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> ... Indeed. ... And still is. Actually, it is possible to reach my site by googling for it -- I only closed...
Thomas Wier
trwier@...
Mar 1, 2005 3:31 pm
129244
... Yeah, but in testing for superiority effects we want to avoid echo questions like this. ... I'll second Roger on this. I'm much younger than him, and I...
Thomas Wier
trwier@...
Mar 1, 2005 3:32 pm
129245
... It's nothing personal; archive.org is the Internet Archive and they archive anything they can get their hands on (i.e. where they're not turned away by...
Philip Newton
philip.newton@...
Mar 1, 2005 3:55 pm
129246
... From: "Sanghyeon Seo" <sanxiyn@...> ... Totally, Sanghyeon! While I don't believe that phonology reveals meaning, one might see if there are...
Sally Caves
scaves@...
Mar 1, 2005 4:03 pm
129247
... This is not true for me... I've never been exposed to that kind of mindset. Well, yes, I want to be "taken seriously as a professional" etc, but it has ...
JC
jcolrich-dreams@...
Mar 1, 2005 4:26 pm
129248
In Senyecan the names of virtually all the animals are epicene. To specify the male of the species, "øs-" is prefixed; for the female, "ii-," e.g.,...
caeruleancentaur
caeruleancentaur@...
Mar 1, 2005 4:49 pm
129249
Hi Carsten-- (re HL FCP) ... I'm very bad at converting currencies-- have to ponder long whether to multiply or divide...... But when FCP cost US$40/50, the...
Roger Mills
rfmilly@...
Mar 1, 2005 5:01 pm
129250
... Yes indeed! Although in your short list, only Kash _aran_ 'name' matches ... I'm rather surprised, given Kash predominant CVCV(C) structure. ... Indeed. ...
Roger Mills
rfmilly@...
Mar 1, 2005 5:24 pm
129251
... I'm an INTP, I think....
Joe
joe@...
Mar 1, 2005 5:29 pm
129252
... In Kejeb, the protolanguage of the Sohlob dialects there are by design no homonyms, though there probably must arise some in the daughters due to the sound...
Benct Philip Jonsson
bpj@...
Mar 1, 2005 5:49 pm
129253
Hallo! On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 02:20:42 +0100, ... Thank you! ... That's what I thought, too. Originally, I had only i- and u-umlaut, but then I decided to add...
Jörg Rhiemeier
joerg_rhiemeier@...
Mar 1, 2005 5:58 pm
129254
... Kontaxta "time". ... Kontaxta "curve". Of the others, only aldea, mura and pula are possible native words. I like "aldea", I'm noting it down as "nice...
Ivan Baines
kinetic_wab@...
Mar 1, 2005 5:59 pm
129255
Damn. My face is red. Apologies, Carsten....
Roger Mills
rfmilly@...
Mar 1, 2005 6:01 pm
129256
I too have found great enjoyment in Frank Herbert's Dune, and so I decided to use this passage as a translation exercise for my newest language. I apologize...
Patrick Jarrett
pjarrett@...
Mar 1, 2005 6:06 pm
129257
Hey! Yesterday, we talked about the "Gaeltacht" and the Irish language, which is according to our teacher "very difficult to learn as for pronounciation....
Carsten Becker
naranoieati@...
Mar 1, 2005 6:33 pm
129258
... Ooh, had to do a difficult archive search to find this (from June 02, in the thread "Re: CHAT: The Fabulous Personalities of Conlang", which probably ...
Roger Mills
rfmilly@...
Mar 1, 2005 6:37 pm
129259
... Well, because it's dying. Dying languages desperately need learners. The pronunciation isn't hard as long as you unlearn things. Unlearning is the most...
Joe
joe@...
Mar 1, 2005 6:40 pm
129260
... But introversion was normal. And there are a significant number more Ns than in most....
Joe
joe@...
Mar 1, 2005 6:46 pm
129261
... Tairezazh has, AFAIK, no homonymous stems, but there is considerable amounts in derived or inflected forms, either of the same stem - eg, from _dák_...
