... Strange; I thought it would be /Q/ only (which is my vowel in "what", for example, which presumably influenced my expectation -- something like "/w/ + |a|...
Philip Newton
philip.newton@...
Jul 1, 2006 7:07 am
140958
... [snip] ... I understand this only too well. My own briefscript project has been labored over since the late 1950s! At last - Jan. 2205 - it has started to...
R A Brown
ray@...
Jul 1, 2006 7:22 am
140959
believe me i've tried. i wish i knew how. it's kind of irritating to get 100 new e-mails every day. if you find out how to be removed from the list, please...
youngayatollah
youngtollah@...
Jul 1, 2006 12:36 pm
140960
... Have you tried sending this message: SIGNOFF CONLANG to this address: listserv@......
Ph.D.
phil@...
Jul 1, 2006 12:42 pm
140961
... what = /wVt/ [w3t] (rhymes with but=butt, cut, gut, hut, jut, nut, rut, Tut...) whack = /w&k/ [w&k] (rhymes with back, gack, hack, jack, lack, Mack,...
Mark J. Reed
markjreed@...
Jul 1, 2006 2:50 pm
140962
... Wattle and daub is a building material humans all around the world have been using for a few millennia at this point. Wattle consists of a woven lattice of...
Keith Gaughan
kmgaughan@...
Jul 1, 2006 3:17 pm
140963
... You pronounce "wattle" correctly --- I don't know about "WATCOM" or "Wapping", but I would've said them the same too. (I have no idea what "wattle and...
Tristan Alexander McL...
conlang@...
Jul 1, 2006 3:24 pm
140964
... The word "wattle" is also an anatomical term, referring to the bit of loose skin that hangs over the beak on a turkey, or below the chin on your older...
Mark J. Reed
markjreed@...
Jul 1, 2006 4:18 pm
140965
... [snip] ... Yep - but Tristan's an Ozzie, not a Brit :) But I am am a Brit and in view of the fuss over this little word, I thought I'd consult my...
R A Brown
ray@...
Jul 1, 2006 4:34 pm
140966
1. Go the the Yahoo groups page. 2. sign on. 3. On the "my groups" page click on "manage." 4. On the "manage" page click on "edit my groups." 5. On the "edit...
caeruleancentaur
caeruleancentaur@...
Jul 1, 2006 4:35 pm
140967
... My dia/idiolect: Agree with all those. ... These also rhyme with the word in question with (my) [A] /a/: squat, squash, squab, squabble, waddle, twaddle,...
Roger Mills
rfmilly@...
Jul 1, 2006 4:45 pm
140968
... Not exactly. In general we do not call them "bloodhounds." "Bloodhound" is the name of a specific breed. There are many other breeds that hunt by scent,...
caeruleancentaur
caeruleancentaur@...
Jul 1, 2006 5:08 pm
140969
... I specifically sent this message off list. I clicked on his e-mail address & saw the address appear in the "send to" box. Does anyone know why the...
caeruleancentaur
caeruleancentaur@...
Jul 1, 2006 6:58 pm
140970
... " ... The latest issue of Speculative Grammarian ("SpecGram") includes a grammatical sketch of Chickenese. See: ...
Paul Joseph Schleitwi...
pjschleitwilerfcm@...
Jul 1, 2006 7:34 pm
140971
... I'm afraid something about NLF2DWSs would be neither within the context of generative grammar, nor brief to even get the idea across. - Sai...
Sai Emrys
sai@...
Jul 1, 2006 8:45 pm
140972
On Fri, 30 Jun 2006 11:37:15 +0100, R A Brown <ray@...> ... very ... of ... I didn't know that. Rephrase my comment with "interpunct" instead...
Eldin Raigmore
eldin_raigmore@...
Jul 1, 2006 10:16 pm
140973
Hi! ... Hehe. Very nice! I had hoped to hear it with this particular pronunciation once. Now I have. :-) Hmm, what would this language be called? Let's...
Henrik Theiling
theiling@...
Jul 1, 2006 11:17 pm
140974
Or sent an email to LISTSERVE@... in the text area alone. put unsubscribe Conlang ... Or for a yahoogroup, you send an email to ...
Michael Adams
abrigon@...
Jul 2, 2006 12:34 am
140975
Hi! ... NO!! Go here: http://listserv.brown.edu/conlang.html The Yahoo interface is *not* supported anymore since no-one has an admin password. **Henrik PS: I...
Henrik Theiling
theiling@...
Jul 2, 2006 2:16 am
140976
On Sunday 02 July 2006 07:01, Paul Joseph Schleitwiler, FCM wrote: I note the author is Damon Lord. He is sometimes active in the shared world project Ill...
andrew
hobbit@...
Jul 2, 2006 3:00 am
140977
... [snip] ... Yes, of course - I had forgotten about sign languages. Sorry. AFAIK most (all?) are natlangs ... They won't consist of phones - but signs...
R A Brown
ray@...
Jul 2, 2006 7:16 am
140978
... [...] ... That sounds like Jonathan's ("T4"?). In parts it also sounds very similar to Livagian, but in Livagian there is (for purposes of concision)...
And Rosta
and.rosta@...
Jul 2, 2006 1:04 pm
140979
Howdy! ... They most certainly are. ... When discussing sign languages, the terms "phone" and "phoneme" are used, although they - of course - don't refer to...
Kalle Bergman
seppu_kong@...
Jul 2, 2006 3:55 pm
140980
Hi Ray, ... Ray, Thanks for the trip down Memory Lane. My parents thought "Eagle" a suitable comic for a growing lad; to them, "Beano" and "Dandy" were just...
Yahya Abdal-Aziz
yahya@...
Jul 2, 2006 4:13 pm
140981
... [snip] ... Right - thanks for naming Jonathan's language. I've tracked it down now :) To sum extent - but I find in Jonathan's description (2003): "This...
R A Brown
ray@...
Jul 2, 2006 4:16 pm
140982
Hi! ... This is the design principle of Tyl Sjok. However, there is a wide range of possibilities for a concrete design. I sincerely doubt that Tyl Sjok's...
Henrik Theiling
theiling@...
Jul 2, 2006 5:33 pm
140983
... Specifically, I have been told by people less ignorant than me that in no language is there rightwards wh-movement (i.e. the sort of process that moves an...
And Rosta
and.rosta@...
Jul 2, 2006 5:47 pm
140984
Eldin wrote: << Do Sign Languages constist of phones? Are Sign Languages natlangs? ... Yes and most definitely yes. There's been lots of work done (fairly)...
David J. Peterson
dedalvs@...
Jul 2, 2006 7:24 pm
140985
From: "Henrik Theiling" <theiling@...> Sent: Sunday, July 02, 2006 4:01 AM ... Yep. And they refuse to give out the password for some reason. It's not...
Carsten Becker
carbeck@...
Jul 2, 2006 7:25 pm
140986
... My interest in natlangs other than English (which is the focus of the entire research component of my professional life) is only of the most casual and...
