Hello all. Let me preface the bulk of my by apologizing should I be going about this the wrong way. Where do I start? First of all, I'm an aspiring novelist...
John Schlembach
bachalon@...
Nov 1, 2005 9:11 am
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Hi, John, welcome to the list! Let me skip down a ways first... John wrote: << I've read interviews here and there, but information on the subject of conlangs...
David J. Peterson
dedalvs@...
Nov 1, 2005 9:49 am
134555
... It's at www.spinnoff.com/zompist if I remember the address correctly. I have it in the bar at the top of my browser so I don't need to type it. ... Forums,...
Chris Bates
chris.maths_student@...
Nov 1, 2005 10:27 am
134556
Oops! It's www.spinnoff.com/zbb , I made a mistake....
Chris Bates
chris.maths_student@...
Nov 1, 2005 10:33 am
134557
Hi! ... Welcome to the list! :-) ... Sounds interesting. I understand the 'bound words' are not just classifiers, right? And they cannot be used on their...
Henrik Theiling
theiling@...
Nov 1, 2005 12:15 pm
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Also, check out Ladekwa, which is a loglang (logical language) that uses the concept of quasi-semantic lexemes mated to explicit classifiers. For example,...
Larry Sulky
larrysulky@...
Nov 1, 2005 2:18 pm
134559
... I answer this question with quotes: ... (I assumed that the moons' orbits are fixed and thus return to the same positions every X days) [snip] ... [snip] ...
Carsten Becker
naranoieati@...
Nov 1, 2005 3:54 pm
134560
... Fair enough. :) ... Well, it's not in my dictionary either way (hence my questions; of course, this is the same dictionary that didn't have "metronym"...
Mark J. Reed
markjreed@...
Nov 1, 2005 4:04 pm
134561
... Neither. I found them in some academic papers on the Web. I'll try to give some URLs. http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/cmp-lg/pdf/9611/9611002.pdf ...
Tom Chappell
tomhchappell@...
Nov 1, 2005 8:35 pm
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Hallo! ... Some fruitful advice, such as reading Mark Rosenfelder's Language Construction Kit (which I warmly recommend, too), has been given by others here. ...
Jörg Rhiemeier
joerg_rhiemeier@...
Nov 1, 2005 8:42 pm
134563
... The most salient differences between Old Latin (which is taken to be spoken before 75 BC) and that of the Classical period are such as the following: -- no...
Thomas Wier
trwier@...
Nov 1, 2005 8:48 pm
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... Only some Jewish cultures (mostly Ashkenazic) have this custom, and it's just a strong custom/superstition, not a rule enshrined in religious law or...
Steg Belsky
draqonfayir@...
Nov 2, 2005 3:18 am
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I thought people on this list may be interested in the following paper: http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/short/102/33/11629 ...
Sanghyeon Seo
sanxiyn@...
Nov 2, 2005 4:29 am
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Hello again, Ok. The language isn't necessarily an ethnic language or a logical but is a somewhat integral part of my creatures social identity. It's difficult...
John Schlembach
bachalon@...
Nov 2, 2005 5:32 am
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Hi Tom, ... give some URLs. ... http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:NAG9r37tE4wJ:www.genome.ad.jp/manuscrip ...
Yahya Abdal-Aziz
yahya@...
Nov 2, 2005 7:43 am
134568
Tom let me know that this was supposed to go to the list. Or, rather, that it could profitably go to the list. -David ...
David J. Peterson
dedalvs@...
Nov 2, 2005 9:43 am
134569
Hi! ... Interesting, I will have to read that. ... Indeed! :-) One phrase struck me as strange: '... It has been evaluated on artificial context-free grammars...
Henrik Theiling
theiling@...
Nov 2, 2005 2:02 pm
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... q=cache:NAG9r37tE4wJ:www.genome.ad.jp/manuscripts/GIW94/Oral/GIW94O03. ps+beta-sheet+inside-outside+algorithm&hl=en ... I think I left out some important...
tomhchappell
tomhchappell@...
Nov 2, 2005 4:31 pm
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... Since this was just mentioned in my linguistics classes, I've got some material here that says that (according to Berlin & Kay who examined 98 languages),...
Daniel Asserbo
conlang@...
Nov 2, 2005 6:28 pm
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Daniel wrote: << I: white and black (none of the 98 languages didn't have these) II: I + red IIIa/b: II + yellow or green IV: II + yellow and green V: IV +...
David J. Peterson
dedalvs@...
Nov 2, 2005 6:40 pm
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... <snip> ... <snip> After reading the article (my background is comp sci so I'm pretty familiar with the techniques discussed) it looks like the same...
Gary Shannon
fiziwig@...
Nov 2, 2005 7:48 pm
134574
Ain't it great to live in an age when a new IPA symbol comes with its Unicode value preassigned? :) -- Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>...
Mark J. Reed
markjreed@...
Nov 2, 2005 9:01 pm
134575
The IPA have adopted their first new symbol in twelve years. http://www.sil.org/sil/news/2005/labiodental_flap.htm I propose /v`/ for the CXS representation,...
Paul Bennett
paul-bennett@...
Nov 2, 2005 9:44 pm
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Hi! ... That would indeed be fun! :-) ... But the algorithm is limited to finding context free rules, so some things like vowel harmony or Werner's law etc....
Henrik Theiling
theiling@...
Nov 2, 2005 10:02 pm
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... "...there is no equivalent to _blue_ in Russian - the words _goluboj_ and _sinij_ (usually translated as "light blue" and "dark blue" respectively) refer...
Jim Henry
jimhenry1973@...
Nov 2, 2005 10:03 pm
134578
On 10/29/05, Jörg Rhiemeier <joerg_rhiemeier@...> wrote: ... Hm... this reminds me of another nifty nonsense passage, this one devised as a challenge for...
Jim Henry
jimhenry1973@...
Nov 2, 2005 10:09 pm
134579
... I propose we wait until X-Sampa has a representation for it. There's no reason to be gratuitously different. If X-Sampa chooses something like /}\/, then...
Tristan Mc Leay
conlang@...
Nov 3, 2005 12:10 am
134580
Note to self: do not post to list late at night. You may muck up the headers. ... [snip love-letter] ... [snip same words re-punctuated to form hate letter] ...
Simon Clarkstone
simon.clarkstone@...
Nov 3, 2005 1:14 am
134581
... <snip> ... My reading of the paper (see, in particular, Mode A and Mode B. in the supporting text where the alogrithm is detailed) indicates that the...
Gary Shannon
fiziwig@...
Nov 3, 2005 1:28 am
134582
Hi all, What kind of music do L1 speakers of your conlang(s) make? What kinds of mathematics do they do? I'm expecting that more than a few of you will...
