... 489 is the Dewey Decimal Code for "Other Hellenic languages" And since this _is_ conlang, here's the entire 400's (Language): 400 Language 401 Philosophy &...
Jefferson Wilson
jeffwilson63@...
Jan 1, 2006 9:36 am
135802
... And since I'm actually more of Library of Congress person, here's the Library of Congress codes: CLASS P - LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE P Philology. Linguistics...
Jefferson Wilson
jeffwilson63@...
Jan 1, 2006 10:10 am
135803
... Quelle langue est le dernier? Eh bien, j'utilise 12 comme base*. Ainsi, on a 1 x 12^3 = 1728 1 x 12^2 = 144 11 x 12^1 = 132 2 x 12^0 = 2 ... =...
Carsten Becker
naranoieati@...
Jan 1, 2006 1:55 pm
135804
I didn't receive any linguistics books directly, but I was given a gift certificate with which I shall likely be purchasing "Describing Morphosyntax" and...
Aaron Morse
artlangs@...
Jan 1, 2006 1:56 pm
135805
... "Languages of Asia and the Pacific: A Travellers' Phrasebook", by Charles Hamblin, 1984. My wife found a copy via the Amazon used book service. Hardbound...
Larry Sulky
larrysulky@...
Jan 1, 2006 2:44 pm
135806
... Yes - tho I guess a formal grammar could be derived to describe this and thus it would qualify as a 'formal language', i.e. a language generated by a...
R A Brown
ray@...
Jan 1, 2006 2:45 pm
135807
... I suppose someone out there has already noted that the full capability for the full set of human phonemes didn't have to arise all at once. Once one has...
Cian Ross
cian@...
Jan 1, 2006 3:37 pm
135808
... I received a gift certificate for Barnes & Noble. A preliminary investigation tells me I'll need to take more time to find the right book. Charlie ...
caeruleancentaur
caeruleancentaur@...
Jan 1, 2006 3:43 pm
135809
Is it OK with replacing the dark colour of the tower and earth with purple instead or does it ruin the flag? Someone complained it was too dark and heavy. µ....
Taka Tunu
takatunu@...
Jan 1, 2006 4:17 pm
135810
Hi all, I've seen the terms X-Bar and LFG sometimes, but I don't know what they mean, or rather, which idea is behind them. I only know that they're used to...
Carsten Becker
naranoieati@...
Jan 1, 2006 5:35 pm
135811
From my nephew the Doctor: _Constructing a Language_ by Michael Tomasello. Harvard University Press ISBN 0674017641. 388 pages. And it's subtitled: "A ...
Gary Shannon
fiziwig@...
Jan 1, 2006 5:45 pm
135812
... I got a Swedish-Latin-Swedish dictionary. Andreas...
Andreas Johansson
andjo@...
Jan 1, 2006 5:47 pm
135813
... Making individual sounds is the easy part - the tricky one is controling breathing so precisely you can chop an outbreath into a long sequence of phonemes....
Andreas Johansson
andjo@...
Jan 1, 2006 6:09 pm
135814
Le dernier c'est l'Esperanto de quelqu'un qui ne le parle pas :). Quelqu'un du liste m'a de/ja\ dit ce que je dois correcter la\. Aussi, je crois que nous ne...
veritosproject@...
Jan 1, 2006 6:23 pm
135815
On Sun, 01 Jan 2006 05:00:30 -0500, Jefferson Wilson ... That's a word with which I ought to be familiar, but I'm not. My brain keeps insisting it means either...
Paul Bennett
paul-bennett@...
Jan 1, 2006 6:46 pm
135816
Hi! Happy new year to y'all! **Henrik...
Henrik Theiling
theiling@...
Jan 1, 2006 6:50 pm
135817
... The Hyperboreans, according to ancient geographers, were a people living in the far north, so your last interpretation is probably correct. Andreas...
Andreas Johansson
andjo@...
Jan 1, 2006 6:50 pm
135818
Paul Bennett wrote: (with snips) ... _slimmish_ I suspect. _Slimish_ books are what I found in my damp basement... My presents to myself this year were:...
Roger Mills
rfmilly@...
Jan 1, 2006 6:53 pm
135819
In Ricadh: KuVeci ro va aycod'i ewran!...
Chris Peters
beta_leonis@...
Jan 1, 2006 7:26 pm
135820
I had a nice linguistic Xmas haul as well - thank you, Amazon.com wish lists. :) I got Mallory's _In Search of the Indo-Europeans: Language, Archaeology, and...
Mark J. Reed
markjreed@...
Jan 1, 2006 7:27 pm
135821
... I think that in order to qualify as a language comparable to "natural" human languages, at the very minimum you need to have words that express what one...
Herman Miller
hmiller@...
Jan 1, 2006 8:08 pm
135822
... I'm selling a number of my books on Amazon. I sold the Mallory book several months ago. I hope it's not too self-serving to mention that I do have one...
caeruleancentaur
caeruleancentaur@...
Jan 1, 2006 8:24 pm
135823
Hey! I'd just like to point out InCoCreMo (http://incocremo.wordpress.com) to people on this list. "InCoCreMo = The International Conlang Creation Month. This...
Aaron Morse
artlangs@...
Jan 1, 2006 8:26 pm
135824
... I agree. ... Unique to human language, but not to humans. Chimps and Gorillas have enough language facility to learn sign language. I think they have ...
Paul Bennett
paul-bennett@...
Jan 1, 2006 8:33 pm
135825
... <snip> ... Interesting coincidence. Since retiring from computer programming, I support myself selling books on Amazon. Other interesting coincidnece: I...
Gary Shannon
fiziwig@...
Jan 1, 2006 10:20 pm
135826
Neat Idea! Here are a couple of my 3 or 4 one-day languages: http://fiziwig.com/soaloa/mut01.html http://fiziwig.com/soaloa/twostep.txt And here's a one-hour...
Gary Shannon
fiziwig@...
Jan 1, 2006 10:24 pm
135827
Here's the response re format: AI EPS PDF JPEG SVG 300dpi jpeg (for 4'x5') So looks like he can in fact take the SVG, yay. - Sai...
Sai Emrys
sai@...
Jan 2, 2006 12:07 am
135828
... I knew a company cat named Mz. Jinx. I would meow at her. Try to talk cat. I swear she would correct me just like a matronly teacher would. I guess my cat...
Hanuman Zhang
zhang@...
Jan 2, 2006 12:09 am
135829
... In French: Bonne et heureuse année 2006 à tous! In Shaquelingua (with Umläute instead of macrons): /be vure rozöçä rata vae-11'B2i sjikö tlivë !/ ...
Remi Villatel
maxilys@...
Jan 2, 2006 1:58 am
135830
... Most current palaeoanthropology I've read recently regards human language as a form of grooming. A form that could groom over a distance, furthermore. It...
