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143888
sexe jālni to jīstū jatāelle cī; May the new year [bring|give] you(pl) smiles. -S ... -- Sylvia Sotomayor terjemar@... www.terjemar.net...
Sylvia Sotomayor
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Jan 1, 2007
8:17 am
143889
O vum vule unu an,u prusedu I you wish a year prosperous. Scotto ... From: Constructed Languages List [mailto:CONLANG@...] On Behalf Of Sylvia...
Scotto Hlad
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Jan 1, 2007
8:27 am
143890
Manisu, Hello, Yam hanuayang enyain meperikyanley ahiro aban! I wish everyone a good new year! Krisyn Carsten -- Monday, January 01, 2007, 12:00 Bahis...
Carsten Becker
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Jan 1, 2007
11:27 am
143891
... I originally thought, when opening the message, "Oh good, an exercise in Spanish." Then I saw the length of the translation! My next thought was, "I have...
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Jan 1, 2007
4:43 pm
143892
... LOL ... Well as Sally pointed out even the translation needs translation LOL -- Hanuman Zhang, MangaLanger "Some Languages Are Crushed to Powder but Rise...
Hanuman Zhang
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Jan 1, 2007
5:37 pm
143893
Anno Nova Felixo -- Hanuman Zhang "One thing foreigners, computers, and poets have in common is that they make unexpected linguistic associations." --- Jasia...
Hanuman Zhang
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Jan 1, 2007
5:44 pm
143894
... I got: Pronouns by Bhat The Noun Phrase by Rijkhoff Intransitive Predication by Stassen The Changing Languages of Europe by Heine and Kuteva Agreement by...
Christopher Bates
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Jan 1, 2007
6:43 pm
143895
... This makes me curious. I'd like a very brief outline, please. I know some people have screwed-up ideas about the origin of language. Is he one of them? Or...
Lars Finsen
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Jan 2, 2007
12:18 am
143896
... Ok, I will attempt it... His first premise: that there existed a stage where language consisted of 2 or 3 word sentences, where the words were simple...
Amanda Babcock Furrow
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Jan 2, 2007
5:00 am
143897
... Sounds like the "language" my daughter (2y 4m) speaks... "Baby - bed" and "baby - sleep" are both likely sentences, for example. The first looks like...
Philip Newton
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Jan 2, 2007
7:36 am
143898
... I got The Unfolding of Language (Guy Deutscher, 2005, Metropolitan Books, NY) for Christmas [...] It gave me a feeling that I should be doing a great deal...
Jonathan Knibb
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Jan 2, 2007
11:47 am
143899
... Whoa, that was a *long* outline. But thanks! ... I think attributive words must have come in very early, to divide objects and events into categories like...
Lars Finsen
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Jan 2, 2007
3:16 pm
143900
... I read _OEaICR_ years ago and remember enjoying it greatly. Adam 9 Debostu averuns judidu ul regu, vaderuns in al via, ed ii! erad vidandu sis al steja...
Adam Walker
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Jan 2, 2007
5:24 pm
143901
... Nifty! I think Klingon might be more famous than Quenya at this point, btw. And possibly moreso than Esperanto. :) -- Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>...
Mark J. Reed
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Jan 2, 2007
9:17 pm
143902
Hi! ... Very nice! I like your conlang flag list bullets. :-)) And the New Year's wish in rjtrunn: Bon n nn! Lit. 'good new year' (all in n.acc.sg.) ...
Henrik Theiling
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Jan 2, 2007
9:22 pm
143903
... I am pondering on the pronunciation of the rhoticised yod used as a menu gateway. Perhaps it indicates that this website should be read in a Dallas...
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Jan 2, 2007
9:36 pm
143904
Hi! ... Which reminds me: How British does John Hillerman as 'Higgins' from 'Magnum p.i.' sound to native British ears? He is Texan, and since Texan is (to...
Henrik Theiling
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Jan 2, 2007
10:20 pm
143905
Going the other direction, Hugh Laurie on "House" does a nearly flawless job of sounding American to my native Leftpondian ears. Henrik: Texan is definitely a...
Mark J. Reed
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Jan 2, 2007
10:44 pm
143906
... I'm not sure what you're referring to, but Dallas is not nearlly so strongly rhotic as regions east or west. Ft. Worth is much more a part of the Texas ...
Adam Walker
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Jan 2, 2007
10:45 pm
143907
It's been ages since I've seen Magnum, but as far as I can remember he's not bad, though there's a little giveaway in almost every sentence. Americans usually...
daniel prohaska
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Jan 2, 2007
11:02 pm
143908
Hi! ... More simply because I sometimes have a hard time understanding it. (There are more scary variants, it's not that Texan is the most scary English for...
Henrik Theiling
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Jan 2, 2007
11:25 pm
143909
... I read it just before Christmas. It was recommended to me first by a member of the "linguists" community on Livejournal, when I asked there if anyone had...
Eric Christopherson
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Jan 2, 2007
11:59 pm
143910
My putative book has gone on hold temporarily, due to migrating to a new PC (a Christmas gift). For the technologically-inclined: Intel Core2 Duo E6300 Windows...
Paul Bennett
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Jan 3, 2007
1:18 am
143911
No 'p' of 'f' in an IE lang for 'father'?...
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Jan 3, 2007
3:34 am
143912
... The icon I refer to on the front page of his website has his initials combined into one letter, a J with the hook of a lower-case R. I can't recall if it...
andrew
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Jan 3, 2007
4:03 am
143913
So, as I understand, your major misgiving about the book's "Me, Tarzan" phase is the fact that he uses the mammoth story and not a more politically correct ...
Donald Boozer
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Jan 3, 2007
4:47 am
143914
... I tried them as a list first, using your asterisks, and it shot out (converting Cyrillic for those who can't read it): "* * Peter Norton nabokov 50mb * * *...
Eric Christopherson
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Jan 3, 2007
6:24 am
143915
... ISTR a long time ago seeing John Hillerman on a talk show explaining that his fake accent was used because he figured that his Texan speech would keep him...
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Jan 3, 2007
6:24 am
143916
... This reminds me -- does anyone on this list do translation for money? What are your experiences with it? I would somewhat like to do English/Spanish...
Eric Christopherson
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Jan 3, 2007
6:34 am
143917
... Oops -- it turns out that when I tried each word/phrase by itself, I capitalized them -- without capitalizing them, I still got "50mb" for "usa" and...
Eric Christopherson
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Jan 3, 2007
6:41 am
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