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- 23 Apr 2024 18:55
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Today I learned ...
- Replies: 121
- Views: 101895
Re: Today I learned ...
This week I found out tangerines are named after Tangiers!
- 21 Apr 2024 19:54
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Twin Aster (Man in Space’s conworld megathread)
- Replies: 144
- Views: 101539
Re: Twin Aster (Man in Space’s conworld megathread)
Some Easter eggs for CBB'ers who've been supportive of me. Not a comprehensive list, and some who have presence on the ZBB have been acknowledged there; if you object, please so state. …. eldin more (eldin raigmore) …. I just now noticed this Easter egg! … BTW I thought several of the other Easter ...
- 09 Apr 2024 17:16
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: River Skasti (new grammar)
- Replies: 63
- Views: 13694
Re: River Skasti (new grammar)
I have been meaning to ask this for a while but wasn't sure if I ever would: has there ever been any attested language that has exhibited a tripartite plural system like I use? I have never seen one. Look here https://books.google.com/books/about/Number.html?id=7jc-pgAFcE0C . Something similar to y...
- 29 Mar 2024 12:15
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: Quick question
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1119
Re: Quick question
When you find out, I want to know too!
- 14 Mar 2024 19:43
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: A Sketch of a New Language
- Replies: 3
- Views: 304
Re: A Sketch of a New Language
@Accept Knot:
This was fun to read!
And, you have some features of your proposed new conlang, that I’d really like to see developed!
I intend to follow this!
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@Solarius: I also want to see the answer to your question! Thanks for posting it!
This was fun to read!
And, you have some features of your proposed new conlang, that I’d really like to see developed!
I intend to follow this!
….
@Solarius: I also want to see the answer to your question! Thanks for posting it!
- 10 Mar 2024 23:47
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Does anyone else try and actually speak or pronounce their conlang or is it all on paper?
- Replies: 53
- Views: 13306
Re: Does anyone else try and actually speak or pronounce their conlang or is it all on paper?
When I come up with a new word, I usually try to pronounce it the way my con-speakers would; but I don’t practice it enough.
- 25 Feb 2024 20:41
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Project Stubby-Holder
- Replies: 6
- Views: 569
Re: Project Stubby-Holder
@VaptuantaDoi:
I really like this so far!
I think (maybe) most first-phonology-posts don’t tell enough detail to be this interesting!
I really like this so far!
I think (maybe) most first-phonology-posts don’t tell enough detail to be this interesting!
- 18 Feb 2024 22:44
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Random ideas: Morphosyntax
- Replies: 900
- Views: 213739
Re: Random ideas: Morphosyntax
I understand that African-American Vernacular English sometimes(?) drops the copula*, depending on the aspect. Does that count as verb-dropping? In English the copula is a verb. (In several other languages, it’s not a verb.) *(The only example that comes to mind involves telling the addressee where ...
- 18 Feb 2024 22:39
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: The Sixth Conversation Thread
- Replies: 789
- Views: 199976
Re: The Sixth Conversation Thread
Like Rorschach from The Watchmen ?“vampireshark” wrote:Wearable technology! I'll be spinning responsive fibers with liquid crystals (and other things) and look to incorporate them into garments.
- 15 Feb 2024 01:21
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1133
- Views: 294638
Re: Why does God need a name?
…. Okay, are you asking "why does a singular entity need a name, beyond simply a word saying what type of entity it is?" ... or are you asking "why do humans give a name(s) to a singular entity, beyond simply a word saying what type of entity it is?" …. Both of those. I think th...
- 14 Feb 2024 15:11
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1133
- Views: 294638
Why does God need a name?
(I posted this here instead of C&C Quick Questions because I’m asking about RL monotheisms.) In a monotheistic religion, where it’s believed only one god exists at all (rather that only one is served or worshipped, as in monolatry or henotheism), why does such a god need a name? (Especially in t...
- 14 Feb 2024 05:03
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1133
- Views: 294638
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
I have found one or a few natural language(s) with terms for a consanguine relative’s spouse’s consanguine relative’s spouse’s consanguine relative: (for instance [sibling’s or parent’s or child’s] spouse’s [sibling’s or parent’s or child’s] spouse’s [sibling or parent or child]); (or even more spec...
- 13 Feb 2024 15:44
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: How do your languages treat (in)definiteness?
- Replies: 28
- Views: 1535
Re: How do your languages treat (in)definiteness?
Take the following six examples divided into pairs. The english translations could be the same but in Amarin they would encode for specificity which is whether you well have a specific one in mind. These are demonstratives so are not as often used as articles but can still be used frequently. Also ...
- 13 Feb 2024 03:42
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Naming Practices
- Replies: 54
- Views: 35106
Re: Naming Practices
Thanks! I read it; it’s an interesting resource!
- 13 Feb 2024 03:32
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: What does “natlang” mean?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1325
- 13 Feb 2024 03:13
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: English Dialects
- Replies: 79
- Views: 45552
Re: English Dialects
3. Southron is definitely in use in the U.S., especially throughout the South, and is attested certainly in the Civil War period. That your southern / Texan grandmother unironically uses the term indicates a strong continuity of tradition. The other term, northron, doesn't seem to have been as comm...
- 13 Feb 2024 02:39
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Naming Practices
- Replies: 54
- Views: 35106
Re: Naming Practices
One Jewish group in the US of America has a custom that a child must be given a name that matches* the given name of a deceased relative. *(First letter only is OK; the rest of the name may or may not match.) [citation needed, but I don’t have one!] and can’t be the name of a living relative! I was ...
- 10 Feb 2024 18:00
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: English Dialects
- Replies: 79
- Views: 45552
Re: English Dialects
In which English dialects, and/or at what times and/or places, were the terms Northron, Southron, Eastron, Westron, used instead of the terms Northern, Southern, Eastern, Western? …. I can remember my mother’s mother, and others of her generation in East Texas, using Southron (and IIANM Northron). T...
- 10 Feb 2024 17:44
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: The Lonely Galaxy Megathread (comments encouraged)
- Replies: 270
- Views: 33151
- 10 Feb 2024 17:27
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: What does “natlang” mean?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1325