Aw - I disappear for a few days to south Wales and return to find 164 emails waiting. I eagerly download them, hoping to read lots of stuff about conlanging &...
R A Brown
ray@...
Jun 1, 2006 7:22 am
140038
... It's an addiction, isn't it?! ... -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish ... Mau ki ana, he aha te mea nui? You ask, "What is the...
Wesley Parish
wes.parish@...
Jun 1, 2006 10:11 am
140039
Well, I know you have "village" talk, which is what happenes when you have people whose primary language is not English, be it Yupik "eskimo", but its not all...
Michael Adams
abrigon@...
Jun 1, 2006 1:31 pm
140040
... I guess I'm partly to blame. IIRC it was I was among those who explicitly brought up the subject of spelling reform. ... Nothing wrong with that, as long...
Benct Philip Jonsson
bpj@...
Jun 1, 2006 1:32 pm
140041
... Are you sure we're reading the same mailing list? Because I've been around for lots and lots of YAEPT's, actively participating in most of them, and I...
Mark J. Reed
markjreed@...
Jun 1, 2006 1:33 pm
140042
From: "Carsten Becker" <carbeck@...> Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 8:56 PM ... I apologize in case anyone feels offended -- I did not intend to make...
Carsten Becker
carbeck@...
Jun 1, 2006 1:40 pm
140043
Well my email server returned some email so I've been away for a bit. I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one who buys language books for his collection. And...
Scotto Hlad
scott.hlad@...
Jun 1, 2006 1:43 pm
140044
... Spelling reform proposals were the inspiration for htwvitbveuotkvwvahfi (stribography). Anyone wishing to know more about this, search the listserve...
Peter Bleackley
Peter.Bleackley@...
Jun 1, 2006 1:48 pm
140045
... Hey, 'perverse' is a value judgment... ... They don't rime because they _kvart_ is /kvartt/ and _fart_ is /fart/. More precisely: 1) An rC cluster (other...
Benct Philip Jonsson
bpj@...
Jun 1, 2006 2:03 pm
140046
... I'm not sure if I agree with the later statement, but in any case one of the strongest tendencies of the post-medieval West is one towards increased ...
Andreas Johansson
andjo@...
Jun 1, 2006 2:17 pm
140047
Hi! ... Welcome back! :-) I collect dictionaries, too. The thicker, the better. The weirder, the better. Currently I'm waiting for quite a normal book: a...
Henrik Theiling
theiling@...
Jun 1, 2006 2:23 pm
140048
... Amazon just shipped my copy of Aronson's Georgian grammar. :) I would love a Romance Etymological Dictionary, though. I don't suppose the one you're...
Mark J. Reed
markjreed@...
Jun 1, 2006 2:44 pm
140049
... If native intuition isn't an argument, why don't we consider /h/ and /N/ the same phoneme? Well, I suppose one can take two, at least, approaches to...
Andreas Johansson
andjo@...
Jun 1, 2006 2:57 pm
140050
Hi! ... Hmmmm! :-) After the promotional posts about Lithuanian, I almost bought a grammar immediately. It's a very good feeling when good books arive. :-) ...
Henrik Theiling
theiling@...
Jun 1, 2006 3:05 pm
140051
... It is something like, but not *quite* the same. My /i/ allophone is alveopalatal [z\=:], while the true Viby-i is alveo-postdental or alveolar [z=:] (Note...
Benct Philip Jonsson
bpj@...
Jun 1, 2006 3:10 pm
140052
Hallo! ... This is one of the reasons why I have remained set NOMAIL for long, and do not consider changing that. And while I take a daily look at the ...
Jörg Rhiemeier
joerg_rhiemeier@...
Jun 1, 2006 3:40 pm
140053
I can hardly call this "No rants!", seeing how I'm in rant mode today. I maintain that ranting for a good cause is permissible, however! :-) ... Well, agreed,...
Benct Philip Jonsson
bpj@...
Jun 1, 2006 4:09 pm
140054
... What the hell? Why do you all find the YAEPTs (or YA?PTs for other values of ?) so damn offensive? Who cares? If you don't want to read them, don't read...
Mark J. Reed
markjreed@...
Jun 1, 2006 4:20 pm
140055
Hi! ... Off-topic discussions have always been part of Conlang. That's no problem, I think, as they can be filtered. My own part of the game will be to...
Henrik Theiling
theiling@...
Jun 1, 2006 4:43 pm
140056
... When you said "new letters" I, rather understandably I would think, assumed you were talking about actual new letters, not old one with diacritics....
Andreas Johansson
andjo@...
Jun 1, 2006 4:56 pm
140057
... Note that you cannot play a tritone with just the white notes on a piano. ... Well, IIRC, notes are considered discordant depending on how close they and...
Simon Clarkstone
simon.clarkstone@...
Jun 1, 2006 5:45 pm
140058
On Thu, 1 Jun 2006 18:18:08 +0100, "Simon Clarkstone" ... Um, yes you can. B-F. James W....
James W.
emindahken@...
Jun 1, 2006 6:17 pm
140059
Carsten wrote: << I apologize in case anyone feels offended -- I did not intend to make fun of David, but I actually just wanted to point out that white text...
David J. Peterson
dedalvs@...
Jun 1, 2006 7:30 pm
140060
Carsten: you can probably override that with a GreaseMonkey script....
veritosproject@...
Jun 1, 2006 8:02 pm
140061
... Es gibt viele antiquarische Exemplare die vermutlich auch billiger sind. Suche bei <www.bookfinder.com> unter "German books". Inzwischen kannst du ja mir...
Benct Philip Jonsson
bpj@...
Jun 1, 2006 10:11 pm
140062
I walked through a flea market and found a romanian-english dictionary. It was 5$ but I was beyond broke. I hope to get back there soon. I'd love to have that....
Scotto Hlad
scott.hlad@...
Jun 1, 2006 11:43 pm
140063
That would be great too see. I have always loved the Georgian alphabet. ... From: Constructed Languages List [mailto:CONLANG@...]On Behalf Of...
Scotto Hlad
scott.hlad@...
Jun 2, 2006 12:07 am
140064
... This though unfortunate, is your choice: And your loss. ... I think the difference between the spelling reforms proposed on this list and the German one is...
Tristan Alexander McL...
conlang@...
Jun 2, 2006 7:34 am
140065
... [snip] ... May be - but to me it seems the folly of youth ;) [snip] ... I know - but Orrm's efforts sadly led nowhere. and there was a flare-up ... Yep -...
R A Brown
ray@...
Jun 2, 2006 7:55 am
140066
Sorry, this should have gone to Henrik privately of course! So now everybody has got a sample of my horrid German... That's what happens if you learn a...
