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Anthologica Diplomacy -- Winter Edition (2014-11-30 17:13:42) :
'Tis not so wide as a church-door, nor so deep as a well, but 'tis enough, 'twill serve.
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Grrr Thread (2014-11-27 16:19:59) :
Having a god-awful cold on one of the few days per year that I actually get to interact with my extended family.
owned by twabs, last edited 2014-11-27 16:19:59.
God forbid... :
God forbid (that) [noun] [verb].

Is the verb in the indicative or subjunctive? Or would you use an auxiliary? Is "that" necessary or can it be elided?

In my case, I'd usually use the auxiliary "should":

[i]God forbid that that should ever happen.[/i]
[i]God forbid he should go to Russia.[/i]
[i]God forbid it should start raining.[/i]

Yes, it's a dated phrase anyway, but I'm curious if you have a grammatical preference.
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Bugs, Requests, and Changes (2014-11-26 15:05:57) :
Search is returning everything in anthologica, regardless of search terms or restrictions.
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What to do with this morpheme (2014-11-25 14:57:38) :
[quote Rhetorica, Illúbequía: Dis, Major Belt 1]How about... a [i]normalizer[/i]? Like an intensifier, but underscoring the idea of average, normal, or typicalness, whereas an unqualified noun would encompass a broader range of possibilities.[/quote]

Definitely an interesting idea... but this would become a second set of inflections, ideally, although it *could* be interpreted as a different degree of definiteness, and hmm.
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What to do with this morpheme (2014-11-25 10:11:49) :
[quote hwhatting, Disinterest][quote Tsar Нють, Function]Something like gender or another noun class seems to me unlikely to be marked with a suffix on that much of the vocabulary; [/quote]
Why do you think so?[/quote]
Small reference frame? But yeah, I'll give a greater consideration to that. Although... I do kinda like the idea of having three ways to mark definiteness (the third is a sort-of-definiteness distinction on the verb in the third plural.)
[quote Hallow XIII, Monsignor ...
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Anthologica Diplomacy -- Winter Edition (2014-11-24 16:23:21) :
<chorusline>
[i]Greece is the word (is the word, is the word, is the word!)[/i]
</chorusline>
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What to do with this morpheme :
I originally had a sound change suffixing /s/ onto the end of most words ending in a stop. Then I realized that I liked having both forms in -s and forms without it. Hence, the ancestor language has a suffix -tɑ that ends up becoming an -s tacked onto, ideally, 50±20% of (at least) nominals, which is probably then either a noun class or another set of inflections.

The question then becomes: what did it mean in the parent, and what does it mean in the daughter? Something like gender or a...
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Grrr Thread (2014-11-24 14:28:05) :
NEWT PRESENTS

A GUIDE TO MY MENTAL STATE BASED ON THE QUALITY OF MY GREETING

/gʊd "moɻnɪŋ/ -- Rather chipper.
/gm̩"moɻnɪŋ/ -- Usual state
/gm̩"oɻɪŋ/ -- Tired
/moɻŋ/ -- Exhausted
/mɻ̩͡ŋ/ -- Did you get [i]any[/i] sleep?
/əʷ/ -- My current state.
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Quote Thread (2014-11-23 13:20:36) :
<Legion> looking at the grammar of French in a historical perspective, it gives the impression of a system desperatedly trying to catch up with way too enthusiastic sound changes...
<Legion> "okay so we just lost all final vowels except -a? ok, ok, I can fix this, there, we'll use -s to mark 1sg, yeah, that's nice, and maybe rework the subjunctive, merge the copulas, ok, we can work this out"
<Legion> *all final consonants are lost*
<Legion> "DAMMIT"
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Anthologica Diplomacy -- Winter Edition (2014-11-22 21:01:52) :
[quote Russian Njus']Having recovered smuggled vodka, drunk Sevastopol navy fails to notice invading Turkish fleet

Furious tsar mysteriously loses voice, English ambassador Yozhikov takes over representing Russia

Rumanian economy shattered, populace weakened; Russian government official statement: "suck it up"

BREAKING: "Moose and squirrel" apprehended by KGB[/quote]
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Interesting features thread (2014-11-21 14:24:36) :
I'm not sure if this is interesting enough to merit a post on this thread, but one thing I was planning to do with what will probably be called Maotic is a unique way of marking inflection on noun phrases: when a noun is modified by an adjective (or noun in what would normally be a genitive), said adjective is inflected for the case of the noun, but the case of the noun is a constant case which I don't have a name for (if anyone does know, please tell me.) Examples:

[g 1SG.NOM]Há[/g] [g...
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Anthologica Diplomacy -- Winter Edition (2014-11-19 16:28:14) :
[quote Russian Njus']"Greatest anachronism of the new century": Russian advance into Kiev compared to 21st century president Putin

Njut's response: " Vladimir Putin is only takink dminuitiv Crimea. I em takink all of Ukranian Territory! Long live Glorious Russiya!"

Turkey runs afowl: Shocking scandal shows Sultana's secret shenanigans

Large shipment of Moskovskaya vodka stolen, furious tsar demands naval action against "subversiv Portuguiyan homosexuel terrorists"[/quo...
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Quote Thread (2014-11-19 10:49:05) :
[08:20] <Legion> H24 is a very unstable isotope of hydrogen

And the Understatement of the Year award goes to Legion.
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Anthologica Diplomacy -- Winter Edition (2014-11-18 14:25:27) :
[i]Tsar Njut' appears in front of a large flag bearing his face. It's hard to understand what he's saying, due to the Russian national anthem blasting at an unreasonable volume.[/i]

Subjugated serfs of glorious Russiyan Moderlend! Is me, your Fearless Leader!

[i]A chorus of trumpets clashes horribly with the background-er, foreground-music.[/i]

You may hearink reports of bombink of Glorious Russiyan Protecterate of Latviya! But are false rumors! Is dangerous propogenda...
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Anthologica Diplomacy -- Winter Edition (2014-11-18 10:43:16) :
Is never vinnink Svitzerlend! Is foolish of you! Go instead vith Glorious Russiya!

All hailink Tsar Njut'!
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Anthologica Diplomacy -- Winter Edition (2014-11-17 15:58:02) :
End I vould sayink theophorus.int, but dat es just me.
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Anthologica Diplomacy -- Winter Edition (2014-11-17 15:00:10) :
Aaand the image doesn't get through my school's firewall. Which country am I?
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Frickin' dang it to heck! (2014-11-17 12:30:07) :
Sorry, I should be more clear. I'm looking for weak expletives or minced oaths, like "shoot" or "darn" or even "fiddlesticks", not strong ones.
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Frickin' dang it to heck! :
Every good conlang has a repository of strong expletives. But what minced oaths and mild curses does your language have?
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