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Featured Articles (Nominations, etc.) (2014-07-19 08:43:36) :
I did write what's probably the second- or third-most complete description of the history of Phrygian on the Net. (That should tell you something about what we know of Phrygian...)
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The Sound Change Thread (2014-07-19 08:15:21) :
Yeah, tone is another thing that varies depending on dialect. I've mostly avoided tying down a description of the language to any specific dialect, because Quazian is only beginning to experience dialect levelling, its writing system has a large number of logograms and is outdated even in its phonetic component. You can talk about the dialect of the capital city, but this isn't the "standard dialect" the way we think of them.

I'm actually planning on making an isogloss map for the langu...
owned by dhok, last edited 2014-07-19 08:15:21.
The Sound Change Thread :
In Classical Quazian, which I am working on right now, the stop system has a six-POA /p t ʈ tʃ k q/ distinction, with voiced counterparts and prenasalized versions of both voiced and voiceless stops, giving 24 stop plosives. In addition to this, there are four nasals /m n ɲ ŋ/, four fricatives /s ʂ ʃ χ/ and a handful of sonorants /w l ɭ j ʀ/.

a. Prenasalized stops become something else, depending on dialect. Popular options are:
*ⁿT ⁿD -> D N
*ⁿT ⁿD -> N̥ N
*ⁿCV -> ...
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Absences (2014-07-15 19:24:16) :
why do you hate freedom
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happiness thread (2014-07-15 09:00:42) :
As recommended by Nortaneous, I've gotten in on the "putting political bumper stickers on your laptop" fad:

[img]http://nuldi.com/media/2009/12/26/1962-plymouth-valiant-with-bonus-1972-nixon-bumper-sticker-1-189928.jpg[/img]

It was $5 on eBay, and a real vintage sticker from '72!
owned by dhok, last edited 2014-07-15 09:00:42.
Diplomacy- Obscene Edition :
Earlier this year, back at the Zeeb, I hosted a game of Diplomacy which the canny and talented Radius won with gusto. Now that it's summer and many of us are operating on lower-stress schedules, it's a great time to start another game.

I would love to play, if I can, and I know miekko was shortlisted as a possible host for the next game at the time; but I'm willing to host again if nobody else volunteers.

Is anybody interested?
owned by dhok, last edited 2014-07-15 08:46:10.
These language textbooks don't dick you around. (2014-07-15 07:58:43) :
Yeah, the first decent language textbook I ever looked at was Wheelock's. Unfortunately, the demands of textbook publishers are such that Wheelock's gets filled with more and more superfluous nonsense with every passing edition, but it's second to none if you know what to ignore. Now, what I wouldn't give to have [i]Wheelock's Sanskrit[/i]...

(Maybe I'll write one someday...)
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What are you listening to? (2014-07-10 12:22:08) :
[youtube:QzXGdy8Et30]
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These language textbooks don't dick you around. (2014-07-01 16:21:09) :
I think that's pretty self-evident, Matrix.
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These language textbooks don't dick you around. (2014-07-01 14:26:12) :
I'd like to add:

[b]Ancient Greek[/b]: Try [i]Alpha to Omega[/i] by Anne H. Groton. It dicks you around much less than [i]Greek: an Intensive Course[/i] by Hansen and Quinn, which lives up to its name a little too much.

[b]Finnish[/b]: I am using the old Teach Yourself Finnish (available for pretty cheap used on Amazon). It dicks you around a [i]little[/i] bit on the grammar-to-vocabulary ratio (in the opposite direction than [i]Greek: an Intensive Course[/i] did), but you [i]w...
owned by dhok, last edited 2014-07-01 14:29:34.
Diplomacy- Summer Edition (2014-06-30 16:21:33) :
I would like to move Ionia to Tunis, at least, yes.
owned by dhok, last edited 2014-06-30 16:21:50.
Diplomacy- Summer Edition (2014-06-30 12:30:04) :
Um, hello? I only failed to send in orders because I thought we were waiting until we could find a replacement Germany!
owned by dhok, last edited 2014-06-30 12:30:04.
Forumworld (2014-06-29 16:08:47) :
How can I get in on this?
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Old Oxic :
The lexicon is [url=https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RFST_e4qftCOoLPG3F9boIyhVkvU7ULEY8v-s0FPUAY/edit?usp=sharing]here[/url].

Nearly a year ago, I started work on Lusitanic, a third branch of Italo-Celtic that was my first serious foray into Indo-European conlanging. It was imperfect, but I'm rather proud of it: it had a lexicon of about 400 words, a host of sample sentences and a fleshed-out syntax section. However, a year later, I'm feeling the IE bug biting again, and I'm unde...
owned by dhok, last edited 2014-06-29 15:08:32.
Old Oxic (2014-06-19 19:21:22) :
Moving onto the grammar. We'll take the nouns first. They've lost some cases from PIE (they are now reduced to a nominative, accusative, locative, and "oblique" derived from the genitive in the singular and dual and the dative/ablative in the plural), but have kept the dual and all three genders.

Here's the declension of the a-stem feminines. There are two subdeclensions of a-stems, those that were formerly accented on their stem (example [i]ekā, ekās[/i] "mare"), and those that were fo...
owned by dhok, last edited 2014-06-29 15:02:24.
Old Oxic (2014-06-19 23:01:56) :
Time to move on to the other noun declensions. We'll start with the u-stems. These may be either masculine or neuter, and do not have stem-accent and ending-accent subdeclensions; our model masculine (male model?) is [i]kretus, kretus[/i] "step".

[table]
    [tr]
        [th][/th]
        [th]Singular[/th]
        [th]Dual[/th]
        [th]Plural[/th]
    [/tr]
...
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Old Oxic (2014-06-25 13:03:27) :
The verb system is still happening. Just slowly.
owned by dhok, last edited 2014-06-25 13:03:27.
happiness thread (2014-06-21 11:45:30) :
salmiak and vodka
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Old Oxic (2014-06-20 14:28:05) :
[quote meficat][quote]Yeah, my first plan was to pull a Sanskrit, collapse everything but the high vowels, [/quote]
Hasn't Sanskrit already (partly) done that? ;)[/quote]

Sanskrit merged PIE *e o ē ō, even in diphthings, to a ā. Most of its vowels are a or ā, which makes memorizing endings difficult (they all look the same).
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Old Oxic (2014-06-20 13:15:14) :
[quote Morrígan]I like the loss of nasals with compensatory lengthening before aspirates, that's kind of a cool touch. As is the behavior of syllabic nasals with respect to stress.

Not much to say about the vowels; I'm never happy with my vowel systems or changes, they always feel wildly derivative, or boring. I need to get back to work on Kuma-Koban in the future; it's literally been like 3 years.[/quote]

Yeah, my first plan was to pull a Sanskrit, collapse everything but the ...
owned by dhok, last edited 2014-06-20 13:18:49.

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