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- 08 May 2024 20:25
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
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Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
I guess that from a 'semantic' point of view, you could look at logical operators. In particular, if you consider the operation of implication in different logics, and the inverses ('given that', etc), it'll give you possibilities. It's probably more useful to think about pragmatics, though - about ...
- 07 May 2024 03:19
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: The Sixth Conversation Thread
- Replies: 804
- Views: 202116
Re: The Sixth Conversation Thread
Any recommendations for what TV series to watch? Some guidelines: - I like Serious Prestige Dramas (The Americans, The Wire, Halt and Catch Fire, Better Call Saul, etc), but I perhaps even more like good, clever, enjoyable shows that aren't so ponderous and heavy (Fringe, The Boys, Teenage Bounty Hu...
- 26 Apr 2024 23:54
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1761
- Views: 369272
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
A few questions about Measure Words: Can a language without measure words borrow a limited amount of MWs wholesale, instead of developing its own MWs from its own vocabulary? I don't see why that wouldn't be possible? lots of measure-y words in English are loanwords, from words for small quantities...
- 26 Apr 2024 17:35
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1761
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Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Specifically, the way you can tell if something is only an allophone or actually a distinct phoneme is, usually, through a so-called "minimal pair" test. If your language contains two words with different meanings that are exactly the same in pronunciation EXCEPT that one has [ɣ] and one h...
- 26 Apr 2024 02:14
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1761
- Views: 369272
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
[ɣ] ─ or, as you're describing, possibly something like [ɣʲ] or [ɣ͡ʝ]? I'm not a phoneticist ─ is not a phoneme, but it is a phone that occurs, and an allophone of /xʼ/. So it depends whether you want to have a chart of your phonemes or of all of the phones that occur in the language. I'd recommend...
- 26 Apr 2024 01:19
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: False friends and other unfortunate coincidences
- Replies: 892
- Views: 282007
Re: False friends and other unfortunate coincidences
:lat: Latin NUNC "now" :esp: Spanish nunca "never" < NUMQUAM It's nunc or nunca ... Venī strictē mē tentum :wat: Google Translate suggests that this is Latvian? Goes to show how much it knows; I am sure it is Latin. Yet is this a pun of some sort that I am not getting? I have lo...
- 19 Apr 2024 14:00
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1761
- Views: 369272
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
ETAONRISHDLFCMUGYPWBVKJXQZ Traditionally, it's considered to be ETAOIN SHRDLU CMFWY PVBG KQJXZ (the letters of a linotype keyboard). Wikipedia also gives the orders (putting the trad version next to them for easier comparison): ETAOIN SHRDLU CMFWY PVBG KQJXZ (trad) ETAOIN SRHDLU CMFYW GPBV KXQJZ ET...
- 19 Apr 2024 13:09
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1761
- Views: 369272
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Using a word gen, having troubles deciding what order of frequency my phonemes should be in. Learned that phoneme distributions tend to follow a Yule-Simon distribution pattern. So I have a bunch of questions whose answers i think will give me insight on what to do: 1) Would sonorants/resonants be ...
- 14 Apr 2024 21:41
- Forum: Language Learning & Non-English
- Topic: Latin questions (Lingua latina)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 246
Re: Latin questions (Lingua latina)
That's not a fallacy, though. That's all totally logical. It leaves one premise (the reason to not want something to happen in a certain place) unexpressed, but the argument itself is logical. Premise 1: some people don't like it when other people kiss in public [kind of implied by the very fact of ...
- 12 Apr 2024 20:44
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: The Sixth Conversation Thread
- Replies: 804
- Views: 202116
Re: The Sixth Conversation Thread
I tend to slightly overcook everything - due to a combination of laziness, poor timekeeping, and paranoia (it's better to slightly overcook and be disappointed than undercook and be vomiting!) - and unfortunately quinoa does not respond well to being overcooked. But properly-cooked quinoa bought fro...
- 10 Apr 2024 23:04
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Whale Linguistics
- Replies: 7
- Views: 336
Re: Whale Linguistics
This seems rather over-egged. Playing a noise game - which you can do with a cat or a dog - is not the same as having a conversation. Even if whales can speak, they wouldn't necessarily use speech when playing a turn-taking noise game. I don't have any resources off-hand but you can search for them ...
- 09 Apr 2024 00:25
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1761
- Views: 369272
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
I think you're kind of coming from the wrong direction and getting trapped as a result. Languages don't work on the principle of "here's a cool label a linguist invented - I guess I'd better work out where it most logically applies!" They work on the principle of "this is what we do, ...
- 05 Apr 2024 00:39
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1761
- Views: 369272
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Voiced codas can lengthen vowels, but I wonder if long vowels can voice codas? In my conlang, Middle Wenthish, a Germanic language, I voice consonants after long vowels - and, since this isn't something that comes naturally to me or that I've done in any other language, I presume I had a good reaso...
- 03 Apr 2024 19:07
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: False cognates
- Replies: 910
- Views: 335389
Re: False cognates
Another odd thing about having a language from an entirely different biome is stuff like "ribbit". There are no frogs that sound anything like that here, just "gronk gronk gronk", "reeeeeeeeee", "wark" and "ree-kit-kit" ... some that just make a lou...
- 03 Apr 2024 18:23
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1761
- Views: 369272
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Do the triggers also have to be back?
- 30 Mar 2024 02:09
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: The Great Exposition of Ruykkarraber
- Replies: 32
- Views: 2043
Re: The Great Exposition of Ruykkarraber
Please don't use the word "experiencer" for 'intransitive subject'. It's WRONG . Rather, "experiencer" is a semantic role that may or may not be an intransitive subject. Many, in fact, most intransitive subjects aren't experiencers. [:x] [:$] [>_<] Thank you; I've looked it up, ...
- 30 Mar 2024 01:29
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1761
- Views: 369272
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Does anyone have any advice about how to make a reference grammar of a conlang in the style of a real reference grammar? (Aside from reading a lot of real reference grammars.) How should it be organized? What should it include? It should include whatever is necessary to fully describe the language,...
- 30 Mar 2024 01:26
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1761
- Views: 369272
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
What do you think of this vowel harmony system? Is it plausible? It's /a e i ɤ o ɯ u/ /o u/ are rounded /ɤ ɯ/ are unrounded /a e i/ are neutral /a/ is usually unrounded/back in rounding/backness harmony systems and paired (or re-paired) with a back rounded or front unrounded vowel. Are there any ot...
- 29 Mar 2024 23:29
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1137
- Views: 299235
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
I don't think anything and everything is the correct answer. I know of no language that uses only word order to distinguish person, number, tense, aspect, modality, or evidentiality. But I might be wrong of course. I can't name any, but I'd be surprised if there are no languages that at least secon...
- 29 Mar 2024 02:14
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: Web 1.0 nostalgia
- Replies: 12
- Views: 898