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- 29 Jun 2020 15:50
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: What if Aztlan and Atlantis were cognate names?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 9549
Re: What if Aztlan and Atlantis were cognate names?
Location wise, if "beyond the Pillars of Hercules" means "right beyond the Pillars of Hercules", then it's Tartessos, which has been trading with Phoenicians since 8th century BC.
- 11 Nov 2019 07:04
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: RE: Making a Computer that runs on Magic
- Replies: 16
- Views: 4422
Re: RE: Making a Computer that runs on Magic
The first application comes to mind is:
4. A magical basic unit of information which is more than the binary 0 or 1.
4. A magical basic unit of information which is more than the binary 0 or 1.
- 29 Oct 2019 08:22
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: The Txabao language
- Replies: 54
- Views: 12662
Re: The Txabao language
That is a good point . . . I've marveled over the strange evolution of allophony in Japanese myself a number of times. (Also: I really can't stand the Wikipedia article on Japanese phonology: it maintains that /ɕ/ is an allophone of /s/ and /tɕ/ is an allophone of /t/. That can't be -- there are mi...
- 25 Oct 2019 12:40
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: English Orthography Reform
- Replies: 402
- Views: 198854
Re: English Orthography Reform
Well, the "iur (your)" there is second person plural. That spelling is basically IPA with <sh ng ...> and <r> for both schwa and rhotic and not distinguishing semivowels from vowels. And what it transcribed is heavy mandarin accent minus epenthetic vowels, tones, and coda consonant droppi...
- 24 Oct 2019 13:25
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: English Orthography Reform
- Replies: 402
- Views: 198854
Re: English Orthography Reform
Hir aim gouing tu teint iur ais uiz lis uosoguafi rifuom. Hau du iu laik it? Ai fink lis is srpuaisingli plisrnt (fuo uat it is) tu lr ais, lou it saunds rili sili.
- 30 Sep 2019 12:10
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Classifying a creature
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2913
Re: Classifying a creature
They'll got their own classification after we've got enough information, no need to classify before that.
- 27 Jun 2018 10:57
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Surprising cognates
- Replies: 158
- Views: 110182
Re: Surprising cognates
巫 and 母 in oracle bone script look nothing alike though.
- 23 May 2018 09:54
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Tukiri: The Aggressively Optimistic Post-Apocalypse
- Replies: 15
- Views: 6411
Re: Tukiri: The Aggressively Optimistic Post-Apocalypse
I think the rivers are not "fantastic" enough to get away from being judged by real world standard.
Maybe pouring them into the sky instead of the sea will do.
- 27 Nov 2017 06:55
- Forum: Language Learning & Non-English
- Topic: Last word you learned in a foreign language
- Replies: 117
- Views: 116215
Re: Last word you learned in a foreign language
"ameliorate"
- 14 Aug 2017 10:06
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2020]
- Replies: 11605
- Views: 2089989
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Anyway, I guess what I was asking was, if anyone had any thoughts on what one could do to spice things up a bit and make it look less like it was kit-bashed and also end up resulting in characters that wouldn't immediately be mistaken for just... "wrong Tangut." Stroke shapes of Tangut se...
- 19 May 2017 08:30
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Sharing space with other species
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4600
Re: Sharing space with other species
Maybe something like the Goa'uld?
- 12 May 2017 06:35
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Diagram "Two plus two equals four"?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 11330
Re: Diagram "Two plus two equals four"?
"+" and "=" in 2+2=4 are verbs in Chinese and in Chinese grammar the sentence is fine.
- 13 Feb 2017 08:05
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2019]
- Replies: 7086
- Views: 1340973
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
1. How do you say "to take sth."? I'm not sure if 带 is the right choice. 2. Can you use 跟 as instrumentalis too? I got from many examples that it means "I with him", but I'm not sure if it also means "I with the ball". 3. Is it possible to express an oblique "it&q...
- 09 Dec 2015 04:21
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: The Accent Thing
- Replies: 19
- Views: 5325
Re: The Accent Thing
Mandarin speakers probably have trouble with Voicing, gemination and vowel length.
- 14 May 2015 05:07
- Forum: Language Learning & Non-English
- Topic: 中文 | Mandarin Conversation Thread
- Replies: 219
- Views: 347499
Re: 这练习中文
“公路”和“马路”是一样的意思吧? “公路”和“街道”是一样的意思吗? For me, 公路 and 馬路 are roads you can drive cars on while 街道 you may or may not. 公路 are more likely to refer to roads connecting cities than roads in cities and 公路(public road) are not private owned while 馬路 could be private owned. 街道 generally refer to smaller roa...
- 07 May 2015 07:04
- Forum: Language Learning & Non-English
- Topic: Language practice thread
- Replies: 6104
- Views: 1026621
Re: Language practice thread
我也得睡九个钟头。 要是睡不足觉,很累了。 I also need to sleep nine hours. If I sleep less than enough, I get quite tired. 我以为“sleep”的中文单词是“睡觉”,不是“睡”。 Wǒ yǐwéi "sleep" de zhōngwén dāncí shì "shuìjiào", bù shì "shuì". I thought that the Chinese word for "sleep" was "睡觉"...
- 25 Mar 2015 06:43
- Forum: Teach & Share
- Topic: 日本語を学ぼう Learn Japanese
- Replies: 116
- Views: 52365
Re: 日本語を学ぼう Learn Japanese
林檎shimobaatar wrote:Why is りんご written in hiragana? Is there no kanji for it?
青年 少年 ショタ...shimobaatar wrote:Also, is 男の子 the only word/term for boy? I feel like I've heard another word translated as boy somewhere, but I could be wrong.
- 25 Mar 2015 06:21
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Unique and/or odd distinctions
- Replies: 185
- Views: 30816
Re: Unique and/or odd distinctions
cow, bull, ox, buffalo, bovine, cattle, bison, ...
- 06 Mar 2015 10:52
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Māngsià: Tonal Conlang
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2612
Re: Māngsià: Tonal Conlang
*Actually, I'm not sure about Minnan. There is a mechanism that to me feels like neutral tone, but I speak Minnan badly, and can't really say for sure. Theoretically there's no neutral tone in Taiwanese Minnan, but neutral tone of Mandarin here is pronunced like it's an entering tone (with mid pitc...
- 02 Mar 2015 08:17
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Sounds like Japanese
- Replies: 27
- Views: 4612
Re: Sounds like Japanese
That's probably the case, all I said is about two different vowel in CVV syllable structure.shimobaatar wrote:I'm also starting to think we might be talking about different things.