Hi! It seems as though most on the list prefer "adjectivaliser", which, as Carsten pointed out, parallels "nominaliser", "verbaliser" and "adverbialiser". He...
Eugene Oh
un.doing@...
May 1, 2007 10:55 am
146061
In a message dated 4/30/2007 11:00:50 AM Central Daylight Time, ... I was pretty sure that "gracias" is not the Portuguese word for 'thank you', but treated it...
MorphemeAddict@...
May 1, 2007 12:53 pm
146062
In a message dated 5/1/2007 7:50:36 AM Central Daylight Time, ... It's Metrópolis. stevo </HTML>...
MorphemeAddict@...
May 1, 2007 1:02 pm
146063
Isn't Metropolis stressed on the antepenult too? Or is it just the proper name that isn't? Eugene...
Eugene Oh
un.doing@...
May 1, 2007 1:14 pm
146064
... No, it's stressed on the antepenult. It was just another example of an -opolis city, since Roger was looking for a list. It wasnt an example of one...
Mark J. Reed
markjreed@...
May 1, 2007 1:55 pm
146065
... Still stressed on the antepenult tho :) -- Tristan....
T. A. McLeay
conlang@...
May 1, 2007 2:10 pm
146066
Is the list dead, the server down or what? /BP...
Benct Philip Jonsson
conlang@...
May 2, 2007 8:06 am
146067
... No no, 'e's not dead, 'e's, 'e's restin! (I thought the list was a little slow today, but I got a few emails this morning just fine, so maybe the problem,...
T. A. McLeay
conlang@...
May 2, 2007 8:07 am
146068
... I'da thunk the American Heritage Dictionary was a major English dictionary. In any case, it does give _politicly_ as the adverb to _politic_. However,...
Andreas Johansson
andjo@...
May 2, 2007 11:09 am
146069
The HAD is certainly major, although its reputation is not uncheckered among serious students of English. I think that it's really a simple situation: there...
Mark J. Reed
markjreed@...
May 2, 2007 12:22 pm
146070
... What are the criteria for being a serious student of English? Can you refer me to any sources that discuss the uncheckered reputation of AHD? Charlie...
caeruleancentaur
caeruleancentaur@...
May 2, 2007 1:29 pm
146071
... In my case, what I really meant was people who write/edit for a living. ... I only have anecdotal evidence from personal acquaintances - professional novel...
Mark J. Reed
markjreed@...
May 2, 2007 1:55 pm
146072
... Some modern dictionaries are taken to task for erring too much on the side of _usage_ versus _prescriptive correctness_ (thus abandoning the older practice...
Roger Mills
rfmilly@...
May 2, 2007 5:20 pm
146073
In a message dated 5/2/2007 12:30:33 PM Central Daylight Time, ... What is the intended meaning of this modern misuse? stevo </HTML>...
MorphemeAddict@...
May 2, 2007 5:47 pm
146074
... "Begging the question" is an error in logical reasoning, meaning that one's reasoning has circled around to now include the original premise he was trying...
Ph.D.
phil@...
May 2, 2007 6:28 pm
146075
... Aha. I think that's a more accurate version than what I gave, and captures better the sense of the Latin "petitio principii" (seeking/begging the ...
Roger Mills
rfmilly@...
May 2, 2007 6:50 pm
146076
... It's being used to mean "raise ~bring up the question"-- perhaps via "beg the question" ==> beg for the question??? Whereas in fact it's a rhetorical ...
Roger Mills
rfmilly@...
May 2, 2007 6:51 pm
146077
... I learned it slightly differently. Begging the question is responding to a question with an assertion that just changes the context of the original...
Mark J. Reed
markjreed@...
May 2, 2007 6:53 pm
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Hi! Interesting discussion about 'begging the question'! For the modern usage I would have used 'to raise the question'. (For the older usage (if you can...
Henrik Theiling
theiling@...
May 2, 2007 11:51 pm
146079
On Wed, 2 May 2007 10:02:14 +0200, Benct Philip Jonsson ... Just about all the activity has been in USAGE:...
Jeffrey Jones
jsjonesmiami@...
May 3, 2007 2:13 am
146080
On Wed, 2 May 2007 22:11:00 -0400, Jeffrey Jones ... Which happens sometimes. If I had something to post on-topical, I would, but there is nothing right now,...
Carsten Becker
carbeck@...
May 3, 2007 12:55 pm
146081
Hi! The Yahoo special topic conlang spin-off lists were initially created due to very high traffic on this list (we hit 100 mails a day back then). Would you...
Henrik Theiling
theiling@...
May 3, 2007 1:08 pm
146082
special-topic spinoffs? You mean romlang, relay . . . what else? ... -- Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>...
Mark J. Reed
markjreed@...
May 3, 2007 1:15 pm
146083
Hi! ... I mean only those for specific language families, etc., where the main focus is conlanging as such. I think keeping separate relay, conculture, and...
Henrik Theiling
theiling@...
May 3, 2007 1:46 pm
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... The ones I know of, or were in Isaac Pensev’s 23rd workshop review (8.06.2003), are: * amerindconlangs, * concreole, * celticonlang, * eastasianconlang, ...
T. A. McLeay
conlang@...
May 3, 2007 2:01 pm
146085
Hi, remember when we talked about Graeca sine flexione back in February 2006 (goodness, is it really that long ago)? I decided to take the idea, which had been...
Philip Newton
philip.newton@...
May 3, 2007 2:25 pm
146086
Hi! ... Very nice! Will need more time to devour everything, though. What's funny is that it seems in the era of Unicode and nice fonts that have uniform...
Henrik Theiling
theiling@...
May 3, 2007 2:41 pm
146087
Hi, ... In fact I've just now realized that my mail went to you privately ... it *should* have gone to the list instead. Anyway, this is my fault, not Gmail's,...
Carsten Becker
carbeck@...
May 3, 2007 3:27 pm
146088
On Thu, 03 May 2007 10:41:40 -0400, Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> ... I could not agree more, on both counts. The orthography makes my brain hurt a...
Paul Bennett
paul.w.bennett@...
May 3, 2007 9:02 pm
146089
Hi! ... I had the same feeling, too. It was quite confusing to read 'uranos' in Greek GSF because the 'ou' is replaced by simple 'y'. In the same way, 'to...
