... I, too, "suffered" from not knowing how to improve my glyphs; every time I tried to make a script for a conlang, it somehow looked the same. It got better...
Rene Uittenbogaard
ruittenb@...
Jan 1, 2005 6:33 pm
126314
... Also used for Christmas, though -- "¡Felices Pascuas!" at that time would be understood as an abbreviation of the more complete "¡Felices Pascuas de...
Philip Newton
philip.newton@...
Jan 1, 2005 6:40 pm
126315
... These look a lot like the German words: nah - near näher - nearer nächst - nearest _or_ next It is curious to see that these superlatives have...
Rene Uittenbogaard
ruittenb@...
Jan 1, 2005 6:50 pm
126316
... It takes more than emails to get me offended. Maybe a knife to the face, but little else will. Don't worry about me! I'm just here, man. ===== -The Sock ...
bob thornton
arcanesock@...
Jan 1, 2005 6:51 pm
126317
... Your posts about how you, in the old spelling, could tell whether a word should have an eszett or a double s based on syllable borders make no sense at all...
Andreas Johansson
andjo@...
Jan 1, 2005 7:13 pm
126318
... I'm sorry, it was me who had the idea when I was relating your variety of standard German to Swiss German, since both feature short /&/, which is definitly...
J. 'Mach' Wust
j_mach_wust@...
Jan 1, 2005 7:26 pm
126319
MT= Muke Tever MT> And "nigh" itself is just the positive of a series of familiar adjectives: I said that. :) RU = Rene Uittenbogaard RU> These look a lot like...
Mark J. Reed
markjreed@...
Jan 1, 2005 7:27 pm
126320
MJR = Mark J. Reed MJR> I think "pascua" is Easter/Passover PN = Philip Newton PN> Also used for Christmas, though -- "¡Felices Pascuas!" at that time PN>...
Mark J. Reed
markjreed@...
Jan 1, 2005 7:38 pm
126321
I think it helps a lot if you practice a little bit with the tools the writing system is intented to be written with, e.g. with a broad ink pen or with a...
J. 'Mach' Wust
j_mach_wust@...
Jan 1, 2005 7:43 pm
126322
Hallo, and a happy new year! On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 12:13:34 -0800, ... Hey, that's quite a lot of `to be' verbs! Old Albic has three verbs that can be translated...
Jörg Rhiemeier
joerg_rhiemeier@...
Jan 1, 2005 8:27 pm
126323
... In Suvile: Tadoylud jiran dova le! (/tadojlud dZI4an dova: le/) (Lit: "May your new year be happy!") -- Michael...
Michael Potter
mhpotter@...
Jan 1, 2005 9:41 pm
126324
... I read your announcement with the same pang of grief others have felt. The grief partly the grief one feels at the passing of an era, and partly at the...
And Rosta
a.rosta@...
Jan 2, 2005 1:17 am
126325
... (what ... languages ... Among conlangs, Guaspi uses tone solely to mark syntactic structure. And in Livagian, marked tones occur only in closed-class...
And Rosta
a.rosta@...
Jan 2, 2005 1:17 am
126326
... In Asha'ille: Chéjh ne geduna! /tSEZ nE gE'dunA/ che- éjhillev ne geduna OPT enjoy OBJ year "May you enjoy the year." If you really want to specify the...
Arthaey Angosii
arthaey@...
Jan 2, 2005 1:36 am
126327
On Sat, 01 Jan 2005 04:28:57 -0500, # 1 <salut_vous_autre@...> ... I started off wanting to write Old Thagojian in the cuneiform syllabary[*]. I didn't...
Paul Bennett
paul-bennett@...
Jan 2, 2005 1:51 am
126328
... pedantry aside... Actually, ocean waves are caused by the winds. The tides are caused by the rising and falling of the ocean due to the moon's influence. ...
B. Garcia
madyaas@...
Jan 2, 2005 2:00 am
126329
... Sylvia is also way busy, and will point you to some Kelen webpages rather than write out an explanation. A short intro: http://www.terjemar.net/kelen.php ...
Sylvia Sotomayor
kelen@...
Jan 2, 2005 2:52 am
126330
as much as you know, what is the natlang using the most little number of phonemes? I've heard about languages with only 4 wovels (nahuatl?) but wich one has...
(no author)
(no email address)
Jan 2, 2005 3:49 am
126331
... I guess there's really only one verb, the rest are particles or suffixes. ... This would use the descriptive verb ëa-, in Silindion ëasi o i marvi ...
Elliott Lash
erelion12@...
Jan 2, 2005 3:54 am
126332
... The link to the program[1] gives a 404. But hey, it's New Year's Day :). The program looks quite handy, though. [1] http://fiziwig.com/glyphmaker.zip s. --...
Stephen Mulraney
ataltanie@...
Jan 2, 2005 4:30 am
126333
I tought about having in my conlang, all the state verbs derived from the same root I could derive - to be (or maybe devided it in "ser" and "estar") - to...
On Sat, 1 Jan 2005 20:49:50 +0100, taliesin the storyteller ... I disagree; please explain why this is so. For that matter, I also believe that the server...
Philip Newton
philip.newton@...
Jan 2, 2005 6:45 am
126336
... The answer used to be Rotokas (6 consonants + 5 vowels = 11 phonemes) until Pirahã (7 consonants + 3 vowels = 10 phonemes) became more widely known. ... ...
Philip Newton
philip.newton@...
Jan 2, 2005 6:50 am
126337
... Veldan: Aiti mathas i saulcuartas stévio. May-it-be[1] good the year for-you. [1] Optative stem of 'to be' with a continuitive sense...
Cian Ross
cian@...
Jan 2, 2005 8:06 am
126338
... Sorry. I had a typo in the file name. Now fixed. --gary...
Gary Shannon
fiziwig@...
Jan 2, 2005 8:24 am
126339
Regiu Ona Bi McGuffey Poa Mutande Palu http://fiziwig.com/mutande.html...
Gary Shannon
fiziwig@...
Jan 2, 2005 8:38 am
126340
... Japanses actually uses three distinct nonalphabetic systems*: kanji (Chinese characters), and katakana and hiragana (both syllabic). These latter two are...
Thomas R. Wier
trwier@...
Jan 2, 2005 12:28 pm
126341
... Nahuatl indeed has four vowel qualities (not counting /u/~/u:/ borrowed from Spanish), but each of these also has a phonemically long counterpart, thus...
Thomas R. Wier
trwier@...
Jan 2, 2005 12:53 pm
126342
... While _I_ on the other hand find tengwar pretty, but not nearly as beautiful as the many forms of Arabic, or grass script Chinese. I also tend to prefer...
