... You don't seem to understand these two verbs the way I do. "Snap at" and "snap off" are not synonymous. "Snap at" means to speak sharply or abruptly. "He...
caeruleancentaur
caeruleancentaur@...
Sep 1, 2006 12:09 pm
142252
... If I restrict myself to sentences which seem plausible as spontaneous utterances in conversation, I can't think of one containing "which is red" in this...
Jonathan Knibb
j_knibb@...
Sep 1, 2006 12:17 pm
142253
Hi! ... It is not *me* who understands it in any way. The words together with their definition are taken without modification from the WordNet data base....
Henrik Theiling
theiling@...
Sep 1, 2006 12:34 pm
142254
Postscript to previous post: I'd be curious to know how native speakers of German feel about this. I just used the example: - The flower [which] I bought...
Jonathan Knibb
j_knibb@...
Sep 1, 2006 12:56 pm
142255
Hi! ... The participle is clearly restrictive, the relative clause can be both, and context must tell. To disambiguate, you could use the particle 'ja', which...
Henrik Theiling
theiling@...
Sep 1, 2006 3:35 pm
142256
... My gzb has both specifier and generalizer suffixes, for deriving a word for a specific kind of something and for a general class something belongs to. But...
Jim Henry
jimhenry1973@...
Sep 1, 2006 4:10 pm
142257
What verb are you using for buy? Something like <kaitoru> ? The word I learned was <kau>, I guess this is some sort of compound, like kai+toru..maybe ...
Elliott Lash
erelion12@...
Sep 1, 2006 7:04 pm
142258
Hi! ... Yes, exactly. :-) Hmm, my normal news reader does not support UTF-8 via the xterm terminal I am currently using, so I will try the web form to post...
Henrik Theiling
theiling@...
Sep 1, 2006 9:40 pm
142259
(silver) birch, Betula pendula = vêrgis werewolf = µirµêlcüøs (µirus, man + µêlcües, wolf; -øs = class of aberrant beings) save (money) =...
caeruleancentaur
caeruleancentaur@...
Sep 1, 2006 9:47 pm
142260
Hi! ... Hmm, all installed on this machine, no problem, I'm actually seeing the Kanji now, too. :-) The only thing that's missing now is support for ttf-fonts...
Henrik Theiling
theiling@...
Sep 1, 2006 10:33 pm
142261
... Well, I needed a reason to get back on here, so here goes. It helps that Suvile already has most of these words. One day, I *will* do something with the...
Michael Potter
mhpotter@...
Sep 1, 2006 10:51 pm
142262
On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 05:16:53PM -0400, Henrik Theiling wrote: [...] ... [...] I'm pleasantly surprised that I'm actually reading those characters in my...
H. S. Teoh
hsteoh@...
Sep 1, 2006 11:00 pm
142263
Thanks! ... Adam 9 Debostu averuns judidu ul regu, vaderuns in al via, ed iñi! erad vidandu sis al steja fi averuns spichudu in il ojindi, gata ad vinid ed...
Adam Walker
carrajena@...
Sep 1, 2006 11:46 pm
142264
1. forest = câtos The forest is in that direction. câtos tórþim êsa. forest thither is 2. mushroom (edible) = süômbos I like mushrooms very much! ...
caeruleancentaur
caeruleancentaur@...
Sep 2, 2006 1:04 am
142265
... [...] ... Rxvt-unicode supports XFT, which means you get free ttf support. However, finding a fixed-width TTF font that covers a significant range of...
H. S. Teoh
hsteoh@...
Sep 2, 2006 7:20 am
142266
Good morning, I'm looking for a term to describe a particular form in an a priori language I'm creating. I plan to use verb aspects only. What I'd like to do...
Scotto Hlad
scott.hlad@...
Sep 2, 2006 7:36 am
142267
Hello all, let me introduce myself to you first. My name is Rob Nierse and for some years I've been active on this list. Because of lack of time and change of ...
Rob Nierse
rob.nierse@...
Sep 2, 2006 1:30 pm
142268
... Or in more idiomatic (to me) English: *The flowers I've been buying *for* several weeks (now). ... I was also surprised at your use of "kaitoru" and...
Philip Newton
philip.newton@...
Sep 2, 2006 6:23 pm
142269
... And it reminded me of negation in Finnish, which IIRC uses an inflected-for-person auxiliary to indicate the negation followed by a ...
Philip Newton
philip.newton@...
Sep 2, 2006 6:27 pm
142270
On Sat, 2 Sep 2006 10:34:07 +0200, taliesin the storyteller ... Except that in Basque the aspectual part (perfect/continuous/prospective) is mostly expressed...
Javier BF
uaxuctum@...
Sep 2, 2006 11:28 pm
142271
Thank you, Henrik, for reviving the Vocab of the week. ... Pain ... Mormatha (evil wolf) ... Dorlithiga to hoard or save. the tarai find it synonmous...at the...
Iain E. Davis
feaelin@...
Sep 3, 2006 6:01 am
142272
From: "Henrik Theiling" <theiling@...> Sent: Friday, August 25, 2006 5:02 AM ... mehiraka (lit. "white tree" -- birches are not native to SW-Kataytania)...
... Two of the Shaquelingua's scripts are vertical: an alphabetical one and a syllabical one. So far, I have a page only for the vertical alphabet: ...
Remi Villatel
maxilys@...
Sep 3, 2006 2:35 pm
142275
... Of course, Esperanto has "kruro" for "leg." --Ph. D....
Ph.D.
phil@...
Sep 3, 2006 7:53 pm
142276
I haven't made much progress with Nimrina yet -- I sort of got sidetracked reorganizing the color chart. http://www.io.com/~hmiller/png/nimrina-colors.png ...
Herman Miller
hmiller@...
Sep 3, 2006 9:11 pm
142277
... I don't see why you should have to line up "complementary" colors opposite each other. That arrangement is based on the most unintuitive part of the way...
Javier BF
uaxuctum@...
Sep 4, 2006 1:10 am
142278
... I've occasionally wondered and only now been motivated to ask, when one counts the entries, what do you count? I'm presuming only one form of the word (in...
Feaelin Moilar
feaelin@...
Sep 4, 2006 2:26 am
142279
... As a non-Terran world, they don't line up precisely, but this is close enough. A six day week, so no real equivalent to sunday. I've not considered planets...
Feaelin Moilar
feaelin@...
Sep 4, 2006 2:28 am
142280
... For example, I was blissfully unaware of Kalusa, despite lurking on this list. No doubt presented during my very busy period where I only read small...
