I tried six sentences of Çomyopregi, and four of Renqila. Çomyopregi came out as Portuguese (twice), Albanian, Catalan, Lithuanian, and Turkish (not too...
Andrew Gerber
rodkaromanovich@...
Sep 1, 2005 7:33 am
133386
This answer is a little belated I'm afraid ... ... It's _Peenemünde_, with the two dots over the U, making it /pe:n@."mYnd@/. Why do those anglophones always...
Carsten Becker
naranoieati@...
Sep 1, 2005 9:46 am
133387
... During the English Civil War, the Parliamentarians used Coventry as a place of internal exile for Royalist prisoners. Since the people of Coventry sided...
Peter Bleackley
Peter.Bleackley@...
Sep 1, 2005 9:55 am
133388
... Welcome to the list! Have fun and don't be too shy to ask if you don't understand something. Carsten...
Carsten Becker
naranoieati@...
Sep 1, 2005 9:56 am
133389
... <snip> ... Consider it from the perspective of a Centaur parent overhearing an Orc child asking his father ... I suppose the answer would be, "You can et...
Wesley Parish
wes.parish@...
Sep 1, 2005 12:13 pm
133390
It's Yhe Vala Lakha: Original text: Ya trau, ya shawi, ya brech! Swahili It's Nu Aves Khara-Ansha: Original text: Ro vrero, "Inu'e nusha tihipleya?" Nye vrero,...
Wesley Parish
wes.parish@...
Sep 1, 2005 12:30 pm
133391
... want >to have it without the dots, it's _Peenemuende_, since ä=ae, ö=oe, >ü=ue and ß=ss in German unfriendly environments. Off the top of my head I'd...
caeruleancentaur
caeruleancentaur@...
Sep 1, 2005 12:34 pm
133392
This makes me wonder.. Is there any language that marks nouns with person? E.g.: The man-2SG is-2SG eating. = You, the man, are eating. The president-1SG...
ruittenb@...
Sep 1, 2005 1:21 pm
133393
... that's from a website turned up via google. ... 1) they aren't part of our keyboards. 2) we forget - oft by accident (at least in my case, I remembered...
Rodlox R
rodlox@...
Sep 1, 2005 1:43 pm
133394
Hi! ... Chris Bates' long-stalled-very-slowly-developing conlang does this. :-) I am thinking about borrowing it into S11. Wrt. natlangs, I don't know. ...
Henrik Theiling
theiling@...
Sep 1, 2005 3:14 pm
133395
I'll try to duplicate my previous lost reply. It's beginning to look like I did a better job the first time (except for things I just thought of this time),...
Jeffrey Jones
jsjonesmiami@...
Sep 1, 2005 3:20 pm
133396
Hey! It's developing at a reasonable pace now, I just haven't posted much material recently. :P Currently I'm debating whether to eliminate postpositions or...
Chris Bates
chris.maths_student@...
Sep 1, 2005 3:34 pm
133397
Hi! ... I just cited you. :-) Do you happen to know whether the person marking on nouns is an anadewism? I'd also like to know. ... That's a common problem...
Henrik Theiling
theiling@...
Sep 1, 2005 3:39 pm
133398
... Indeed... I switched to using my browser's notes feature to compose things in because I kept doing similar. (Plus it's more convenient overall, keeping...
Muke Tever
hotblack@...
Sep 1, 2005 4:46 pm
133399
... I thought I'd heart of a language that did it, but when I searched a month or two ago I failed to find anything on it really. I believe several linguistic...
Chris Bates
chris.maths_student@...
Sep 1, 2005 4:53 pm
133400
Hi! ... Really? It would be interesting it see the arguments for that, since I find it quite sensible to have person marking on nouns. Some kind of...
Henrik Theiling
theiling@...
Sep 1, 2005 4:54 pm
133401
... The real oddity is that double -ee-, no? Is peen(e-) a Baltic word, perhaps? or some no-longer-used German spelling?...
Roger Mills
rfmilly@...
Sep 1, 2005 5:06 pm
133402
... English could be seen as doing this--if you take: The president's talking to you (President-3SG) (verb--not marked for person) to be an example. (One...
Muke Tever
hotblack@...
Sep 1, 2005 5:10 pm
133403
... Actually, the truly scary phrase is, "honey, I just promised Sarah a pony". Andreas...
Andreas Johansson
andjo@...
Sep 1, 2005 5:35 pm
133404
... Double vowels aren't very common in German spelling, but it's not hard to find examples: _See_, _Saal_, _Moor_, _Moos_, _leer_. Examples with high vowels...
Andreas Johansson
andjo@...
Sep 1, 2005 5:44 pm
133405
... Good one, Wesley. Also, consider this slight variant; the Centaur father is told by his mid-adolescent Centaur daughter: "Daddy, I'm going to have a pony."...
tomhchappell
tomhchappell@...
Sep 1, 2005 5:49 pm
133406
... As Paul suggested, it's important that the word does not in fact look like an English word. Therefore people give it a foreignizing pronunciation....
Thomas Wier
trwier@...
Sep 1, 2005 6:14 pm
133407
... Hi. I just finished Anna Siewierska's "Person", and I think I can summarize what that book had to say about this question in re natlangs. Person is always...
tomhchappell
tomhchappell@...
Sep 1, 2005 6:14 pm
133408
Muke Tever wrote at 2005-09-01 10:59:39 (-0600) ... Even if you were so perverse as to analyze it that way, "-s" doesn't contrast with forms in other persons,...
Tim May
butsuri@...
Sep 1, 2005 6:42 pm
133409
Hi! ... You should try to avoid that first plural since it means 'c*nt' and is feminine singular instead of neuter plural. Instead, use 'Mose'. :-) Umlauts do...
Henrik Theiling
theiling@...
Sep 1, 2005 6:44 pm
133410
On Thu, 01 Sep 2005 11:07:34 -0400, Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> ... ANADEWism: Elamite marks person on certain nouns. There are essentially two...
Paul Bennett
paul-bennett@...
Sep 1, 2005 6:46 pm
133411
Hi! ... 'Moose', of course, sorry. **Henrik...
Henrik Theiling
theiling@...
Sep 1, 2005 6:52 pm
133412
Thanks for the reply, Jeffrey. ... look like I ... of this ... reply. ... <tomhchappell@Y...> ... Matthews ... English, ... English, ... right. ... looking...
tomhchappell
tomhchappell@...
Sep 1, 2005 6:59 pm
133413
Hallo! ... I once read that such marking existed in Elamite. Greetings, Jörg....
Jörg Rhiemeier
joerg_rhiemeier@...
Sep 1, 2005 7:14 pm
133414
Hallo! ... Yes. ... I cannot recall any German word with |uu|, either. ... _Säle_, yes, but the plural of _Moos_ is _Moose_. (_Möse_ is a rude word for a...
