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by clawgrip
25 Aug 2020 02:38
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: WI: Latin ISOTed to Japan
Replies: 14
Views: 3874

Re: WI: Latin ISOTed to Japan

It's interesting to imagine Japan under the influence of a mini Roman Empire rather than China, but unless the Romans conquered Japan, it would be a mix of Roman and Chinese at most. I wonder if the Romans would become tributaries of China.
by clawgrip
24 Aug 2020 00:19
Forum: Beginners' Corner
Topic: On making a conscript that doesn't suck.
Replies: 114
Views: 51617

Re: On making a conscript that doesn't suck.

Bob wrote: 01 Aug 2020 05:08 ...
I'm still hoping to see some concrete answers to the questions I posed above, while keeping in mind the advice given by sangi39 and Salmoneus elsewhere on the board.
by clawgrip
23 Aug 2020 06:07
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: WI: Latin ISOTed to Japan
Replies: 14
Views: 3874

Re: WI: Latin ISOTed to Japan

Keep in mind that the oldest attested form of the Japanese language comes form the 8th century. Its phonology, particularly the vowels, are not fully determined. The language may or may not have vowel harmony. It would be hard to determine how this would influence Latin. Old Japanese also had a very...
by clawgrip
20 Aug 2020 05:50
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: Today I learned ...
Replies: 120
Views: 99929

Re: Today I learned ...

A line on a vowel marked what is written with n not even a nasal vowel in some old orthographies. Maybe this is rather what I suppose. I must check again. Yes, this was the case in various orthographies around the 13th century. You definitely see this in Old Spanish and Old French, e.g. OSp /ˈantes...
by clawgrip
15 Aug 2020 15:05
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: Funny three-initial mismatches
Replies: 48
Views: 21785

Re: Funny three-initial mismatches

There's always GTA, which bothered me at first when it was applied to Grand Theft Auto...because for me, it always meant Greater Toronto Area. "The GTA" still does, anyway.
by clawgrip
11 Aug 2020 08:33
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Star Trek Ferengi Languages by 1995 Timothy Miller, David Salo, and 1995-2017 TV Show Writers and Kim Douglas
Replies: 59
Views: 10676

Re: Star Trek Ferengi Language by Timothy Miller and David Salo from 1995

Since you say that you're not that much into Star Trek conlangs, I find it curious that you have run a Facebook group for the past two years dedicated to the Okrand languages, the most famous and well-developed of which is obviously Klingon. What motivates you to run a group centered on a language y...
by clawgrip
01 Aug 2020 11:44
Forum: Beginners' Corner
Topic: On making a conscript that doesn't suck.
Replies: 114
Views: 51617

Re: On making a conscript that doesn't suck.

But a lot of things that I look for in logographic writing systems, I discovered within the past 15 years. It's all these little things that nobody even knows to look for. The point of my reply is that I specialize in conscripts and logographic writing systems and that most people really just scrat...
by clawgrip
22 Dec 2019 06:43
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: Forum News discussion/feedback thread
Replies: 898
Views: 431716

Re: Forum News discussion/feedback thread

Thanks for the reply. Good luck with the process.
by clawgrip
21 Nov 2019 12:35
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: Forum News discussion/feedback thread
Replies: 898
Views: 431716

Re: Forum News discussion/feedback thread

It would be nice. I noticed that almost all the posts of my Khmer script thread are gone. All the posts with lessons anyway. And my Learn Japanese thread starts at lesson 11 now. I hope there is some chance for these to be recovered.
by clawgrip
29 Sep 2019 11:57
Forum: Beginners' Corner
Topic: On making a conscript that doesn't suck.
Replies: 114
Views: 51617

Re: On making a conscript that doesn't suck.

Measuring from the latest post makes sense. I suspected as much, I just misunderstood your post above.
by clawgrip
29 Sep 2019 02:36
Forum: Beginners' Corner
Topic: On making a conscript that doesn't suck.
Replies: 114
Views: 51617

Re: On making a conscript that doesn't suck.

Threads were deleted based on first post date, rather than last?
by clawgrip
07 Aug 2019 15:04
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Con-Script Development Centre
Replies: 1180
Views: 253844

Re: Con-Script Development Centre

Is this script related to the previous one, or is it a new one?
by clawgrip
20 Jul 2019 16:10
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2020]
Replies: 11605
Views: 2043841

Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

I'm just trying to see if fixed stress can coexist with pitch accent and how so, if it can. If you are asking, if fixed stress and pitch accent can coappear, absolutely yes. I have been, at last, learning Swedish pitch accents. It's a very simple example https://learningswedish.se/courses/1/pages/2...
by clawgrip
21 Jun 2019 15:18
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2020]
Replies: 11605
Views: 2043841

Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

I mean, in English we can just say 'three four-hundredths' for 3/400. So if you wanted 1/27, you could say 'one twenty-and-seventh' or simply 'one twenty-seventh'. No, because one twenty seventh or "seventh ten two (one)" would be interpreted as 20/7. However, I'm not entirely sure I've u...
by clawgrip
18 Jun 2019 14:40
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Yay or Nay?
Replies: 215
Views: 47771

Re: Yay or Nay?

I have two language families that occupy the same geographical area in a conworld. Although they are not related, for some reason or another they both form the passive voice through reduplication of the initial syllable of the stem. This was not actually planned, as I think I unconsciously reused t...
by clawgrip
13 Jun 2019 15:45
Forum: Beginners' Corner
Topic: Some Miscellaneous Realism Questions
Replies: 6
Views: 3884

Re: Some Miscellaneous Realism Questions

4. What would classifiers come from? They would come from regular words. Think of phrases like one sheet of paper, one stick of butter; it's not a major jump to get from there to phrases like one sheet of towel, one stick of pencil...and once you're there, it's only one more small jump to phrases l...
by clawgrip
10 Jun 2019 00:43
Forum: Teach & Share
Topic: Lesson/Guide Requests
Replies: 322
Views: 344064

Re: Lesson/Guide Requests

Use lots of rebus writing, to the point where there may be as many phonetic signs as logographic signs. Don't merge multiple signs into single compound characters like Chinese does; leave them independent and string them together. It's not really a guide, but I have made a language with a sort of Eg...
by clawgrip
09 Jun 2019 16:35
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Yay or Nay?
Replies: 215
Views: 47771

Re: Yay or Nay?

Looks like it's a go, then.

I have been away from here too long. It's nice to see responses from familiar names. Thanks, everyone.
by clawgrip
09 Jun 2019 14:14
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Yay or Nay?
Replies: 215
Views: 47771

Re: Yay or Nay?

I have two language families that occupy the same geographical area in a conworld. Although they are not related, for some reason or another they both form the passive voice through reduplication of the initial syllable of the stem. This was not actually planned, as I think I unconsciously reused th...