Call me a bit odd, but it seems to me that sign language might be a good candidate for Proto-World. If you come up with a language, your friends are going to...
Campbell Nilsen
cactus95@...
May 1, 2008 1:22 pm
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Hi, ... Gentium looks pretty nice, though for some reason I have problems with it when converting a document into PDF with OO's PDF function. It works when I ...
Carsten Becker
carbeck@...
May 1, 2008 1:35 pm
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... MVSL was NOT ASL. It was a likely source of some of the features of ASL that differ from LSF, but MVSL was a different language, though I've found little ...
Adam Walker
carrajena@...
May 1, 2008 1:50 pm
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... You're not odd. This has been proposed before. Before we started using signals that needed learning instead of intuitive signals that are understandable to...
Lars Finsen
lars.finsen@...
May 1, 2008 2:09 pm
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On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:11:57 -0500, Eric Christopherson ... < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Athabascan_grammar\ #Classificatory_Verbs > That's a really...
Eldin Raigmore
eldin_raigmore@...
May 1, 2008 3:50 pm
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... Strange, I have been using Gmail ever since I subscribed to CONLANG and there has never been a problem with my reply-to. Eugene...
Eugene Oh
un.doing@...
May 1, 2008 4:11 pm
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Myself, I have been able to I suspect to understand people speaking Russian, I do have some minor exposure to it, but just going on Gestures Body Position Tone...
Abrigon Gusiq
abrigon@...
May 1, 2008 4:27 pm
152519
... Do you have any examples? Cheers, -- Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>...
Philip Newton
philip.newton@...
May 1, 2008 7:52 pm
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How about Fr. "pas"? It's moved from bound (though not clitic) word to independent. ... From: Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> To:...
Aidan Grey
taalenmaple@...
May 1, 2008 8:01 pm
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P. Newt: << On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 5:49 PM, Eldin Raigmore ... Do you have any examples? ... "Ish" (from "brownish", "shortish", "outlandish", etc.). I've...
David J. Peterson
dedalvs@...
May 1, 2008 8:08 pm
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... Yikes! Figures y'all would catch that slip... - Sai...
Sai Emrys
sai@...
May 1, 2008 9:30 pm
152523
... I have plans to make a gestured version of Sasxsek to complement the spoken and written forms. Currently there is only a manual alphabet, but I expect to...
li_sasxsek@...
May 1, 2008 10:09 pm
152524
In a message dated 5/1/2008 15:12:18 PM Central Daylight Time, ... Could you rephrase that? stevo </HTML>...
MorphemeAddict@...
May 1, 2008 10:36 pm
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... I suspect he meant conversations like: A: So does it start at five? B: Ish. A: Would you say that car is purple? B: Ish. A: We'll start five-ish? B: Ish?...
Adam Walker
carrajena@...
May 1, 2008 10:50 pm
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... No. (Tempted to leave it at that.) The relative clause comes at the end. Certainly English can do that, can't it? Moro does it. -David ...
David J. Peterson
dedalvs@...
May 1, 2008 10:53 pm
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In a message dated 5/1/2008 17:52:56 PM Central Daylight Time, ... Those examples are how I've heard it used, even used it myself. stevo </HTML>...
MorphemeAddict@...
May 1, 2008 10:57 pm
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... But it's misplaced and uses the wrong relativizer, if I've correctly understood your intended meaning. "As a word that didn't know each other" is...
Adam Walker
carrajena@...
May 1, 2008 11:01 pm
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Adam: << But it's misplaced and uses the wrong relativizer, if I've correctly understood your intended meaning. "As a word that didn't know each other" is...
David J. Peterson
dedalvs@...
May 1, 2008 11:09 pm
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In a message dated 5/1/2008 17:55:21 PM Central Daylight Time, ... "... a word that didn't communicate with each other ... " makes no sense to me. If "didn't...
MorphemeAddict@...
May 1, 2008 11:11 pm
152531
It is possible to shunt the relative clause to the end in English, as David did (now there's the start of a nursery rhyme). "The students were punished who...
Eugene Oh
un.doing@...
May 2, 2008 1:44 am
152532
In a message dated 5/1/2008 20:47:21 PM Central Daylight Time, ... Granted, but there's not usually an intervening noun that the relative clause can be applied...
MorphemeAddict@...
May 2, 2008 1:56 am
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Adam Walker <carrajena@...> wrote: ... That's fine for a one-word elliptical response, but how would you use it in a complete sentence? Is "ish" an adjective...
caeruleancentaur
caeruleancentaur@...
May 2, 2008 6:11 pm
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Are you sure you don't mean Doulos SIL, which is a Times lookalike? FWIW MS Word has a 'feature' so that if you first change the whole doc to one font (scil....
Benct Philip Jonsson
melroch@...
May 2, 2008 6:19 pm
152535
... I assume "scil." means "for example", but what does it stand for?...
Eric Christopherson
rakko@...
May 2, 2008 6:41 pm
152536
... I'm a little confused. What do you use FreePDF XP for? I thought Ghostscript could output PDF directly....
Eric Christopherson
rakko@...
May 2, 2008 6:45 pm
152537
... Presumably "scilicet" ( http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=scilicet ) which is more "that is" or "namely" than "for example". (And which I usually...
Philip Newton
philip.newton@...
May 2, 2008 7:31 pm
152538
... That was in the example you cut out. "Ish is about as good as it gets with this group." ADam Ed ņavisud in junu suņu pera nun regrediri ad ul Erodu,...
Adam Walker
carrajena@...
May 2, 2008 8:07 pm
152539
In a message dated 5/2/2008 14:35:06 PM Central Daylight Time, ... This is a new one for me. I've only seen "viz." (videlicet) for this meaning. stevo...
MorphemeAddict@...
May 2, 2008 9:02 pm
152540
... The trouble for me is that I have no idea what that sentence means. What synonym would I use for "ish" in that sentence? Charlie...
caeruleancentaur
caeruleancentaur@...
May 2, 2008 11:10 pm
152541
... Let's go back to the original post: A: We'll start five-ish? B: Ish? Can't you be more specific? A: Well I could, but with this group ish is about as good...
