Results
Previous
Old Oxic (2014-06-20 12:36:14) :
[quote Rhetorica]This is a placeholder post for reminding you to make a frickin' wiki.[/quote]
Yeah, I'm gonna do that.
[quote Rhetorica]This is a placeholder post for reminding you to make a frickin' wiki.[/quote]
Yeah, I'm gonna do that.
owned by dhok, last edited 2014-06-20 12:36:14.
Old Oxic (2014-06-20 10:55:59) :
This is a placeholder post for the verbs- right now I have redone a small vowel sound change with Consequences for the lexicon. Please hold.
This is a placeholder post for the verbs- right now I have redone a small vowel sound change with Consequences for the lexicon. Please hold.
owned by dhok, last edited 2014-06-20 10:55:59.
Old Oxic (2014-06-19 11:32:46) :
Yeah, there's some Greek inspiration. I'm tempted to push the first palatalization onto the plain velars so as not to appear too derivative (except then it would be derivative of Phrygian- so who cares, really?). IIRC, though, Greek only differentiated the laryngeals when they were word-initial before a consonant.
I also don't like the vowel shift too much. I'm going to give it a rework this afternoon. I like the look of the language, though- it doesn't look much like Greek or Latin....
Yeah, there's some Greek inspiration. I'm tempted to push the first palatalization onto the plain velars so as not to appear too derivative (except then it would be derivative of Phrygian- so who cares, really?). IIRC, though, Greek only differentiated the laryngeals when they were word-initial before a consonant.
I also don't like the vowel shift too much. I'm going to give it a rework this afternoon. I like the look of the language, though- it doesn't look much like Greek or Latin....
owned by dhok, last edited 2014-06-19 13:33:23.
Diplomacy- Summer Edition (2014-06-16 14:09:35) :
There are 6-player variants we could try if we wanted.
There are 6-player variants we could try if we wanted.
owned by dhok, last edited 2014-06-16 14:09:35.
Diplomacy- Summer Edition (2014-06-13 11:15:19) :
Miekko is in, and Hallow XIII/Moon has graciously offered to host.
That gives us the following player list:
dhok
KathAveara
Yaali
Hálian
Pthagnar
Meficat
miekko
Miekko is in, and Hallow XIII/Moon has graciously offered to host.
That gives us the following player list:
dhok
KathAveara
Yaali
Hálian
Pthagnar
Meficat
miekko
owned by dhok, last edited 2014-06-13 11:16:19.
Fiction recommendations (2014-06-10 15:10:00) :
Read [i]Brideshead Revisited[/i] or you haven't lived.
Read [i]Brideshead Revisited[/i] or you haven't lived.
owned by dhok, last edited 2014-06-10 15:10:00.
Your battle stations (big images) (2014-05-09 22:52:02) :
I've got a friend who fished a working Commodore 64 out of a trash heap.
I've got a friend who fished a working Commodore 64 out of a trash heap.
owned by dhok, last edited 2014-05-09 22:52:02.
Maps (2014-05-03 23:20:10) :
Oklahoma really doesn't fit in with Iowa or the Dakotas. It's just the South on Midwestern soil: mostly Baptist, very conservative, lots of guns and sweet tea and pickup trucks. It's flat, sure- but so is Arkansas.
You may be better off splitting the Midwest into a northern and a southern portion. This is most apparent in politics (the northern Midwest voted for Obama in the last two elections, which is unimaginable in Kansas or Oklahoma), but is more far-reaching than that.
A...
Oklahoma really doesn't fit in with Iowa or the Dakotas. It's just the South on Midwestern soil: mostly Baptist, very conservative, lots of guns and sweet tea and pickup trucks. It's flat, sure- but so is Arkansas.
You may be better off splitting the Midwest into a northern and a southern portion. This is most apparent in politics (the northern Midwest voted for Obama in the last two elections, which is unimaginable in Kansas or Oklahoma), but is more far-reaching than that.
A...
owned by dhok, last edited 2014-05-04 00:57:01.
happiness thread (2014-05-02 12:51:38) :
The infamous God's Not Dead movie that came out a few months ago is spawning [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiRGdJ2uPwk]even more hilarious imitators[/url].
The infamous God's Not Dead movie that came out a few months ago is spawning [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiRGdJ2uPwk]even more hilarious imitators[/url].
owned by dhok, last edited 2014-05-02 12:51:38.
Middle English for Conversational Proficiency :
Since Middle English prose, especially later Middle English, is (aside from a few syntactic oddities and obsolete vocabulary) fairly transparent to the modern reader, most books on Middle English I have seen tend to be concerned mostly with helping people read texts with a lot of dialectal or lexical errata. I have not found much on being able to speak Middle English, probably because it's an exercise in pointlessness. There are a few guides to pronounciation on the Net, but little on grammar or...
Since Middle English prose, especially later Middle English, is (aside from a few syntactic oddities and obsolete vocabulary) fairly transparent to the modern reader, most books on Middle English I have seen tend to be concerned mostly with helping people read texts with a lot of dialectal or lexical errata. I have not found much on being able to speak Middle English, probably because it's an exercise in pointlessness. There are a few guides to pronounciation on the Net, but little on grammar or...
owned by dhok, last edited 2014-05-02 04:08:55.
Anthologica Book Club :
So, I've got a large reading list to get through, but I can't always be assed to actually get much reading done, because I have lots of schoolwork, and when I'm not doing schoolwork I feel more like relaxing with a nice game of Minecraft. I've resolved to change this, but thought it might be fun to start a book club. Would anybody be interested? We'd rotate who chooses each month's book (perhaps we'd have two people choose books, to give people a choice), then read and discuss them.
So, I've got a large reading list to get through, but I can't always be assed to actually get much reading done, because I have lots of schoolwork, and when I'm not doing schoolwork I feel more like relaxing with a nice game of Minecraft. I've resolved to change this, but thought it might be fun to start a book club. Would anybody be interested? We'd rotate who chooses each month's book (perhaps we'd have two people choose books, to give people a choice), then read and discuss them.
owned by dhok, last edited 2014-04-28 02:44:40.
Angry Rant Thread :
This is a thread for angry or sad rants and complaining.
My angry rant is learning Sanskrit a-stems, half of whose forms look the same:
[image:http://i.imgur.com/ZFTjrBv.jpg]
[i]And[/i] the book expects me to learn these all in one go, but can't be assed to provide enough exercises to use more than half of them. Grumble.
This is a thread for angry or sad rants and complaining.
My angry rant is learning Sanskrit a-stems, half of whose forms look the same:
[image:http://i.imgur.com/ZFTjrBv.jpg]
[i]And[/i] the book expects me to learn these all in one go, but can't be assed to provide enough exercises to use more than half of them. Grumble.
owned by dhok, last edited 2014-04-26 23:49:06.
Oh my Dawkins (I'm Atheist, deal with it) (2014-04-20 20:06:25) :
[image:http://www.quickmeme.com/img/f3/f3d74335897d932c0d83b96ac79d2046cd9b18d8f140d86c29959c0ae8c4c802.jpg]
[image:http://www.quickmeme.com/img/f3/f3d74335897d932c0d83b96ac79d2046cd9b18d8f140d86c29959c0ae8c4c802.jpg]
owned by dhok, last edited 2014-04-20 20:06:25.
Sanskrit corpus help needed. (2014-04-17 21:41:05) :
[quote Rhetorica]I think you may like [http://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/lrc/eieol/vedol-EI-X.html|this]. The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit only lets you list words from a given text or one at a time, and their sole downloadable, the FrameNet XML, is pretty much useless outside of a very limited range of computational linguistic analyses. (If that's the Sanskrit equivalent of Perseus, the field is doooomed.) It's not [i]impossible[/i] to get the information you want from them, but it would require...
[quote Rhetorica]I think you may like [http://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/lrc/eieol/vedol-EI-X.html|this]. The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit only lets you list words from a given text or one at a time, and their sole downloadable, the FrameNet XML, is pretty much useless outside of a very limited range of computational linguistic analyses. (If that's the Sanskrit equivalent of Perseus, the field is doooomed.) It's not [i]impossible[/i] to get the information you want from them, but it would require...
owned by dhok, last edited 2014-04-17 21:41:05.
Sanskrit corpus help needed. :
It's probably a long shot posting this here, but I'm asking on the off chance that somebody might have some pointers.
On my desk is a booklet entitled [i]Basic Greek Vocabulary[/i], which is an alphabetical list of the most common thousand or so Ancient Greek words. I would be delighted if a list like this existed for Sanskrit, but so far I can't find one. What I have found is the [http://kjc-fs-cluster.kjc.uni-heidelberg.de/dcs/index.php|Digital Corpus of Sanskrit], but never having wo...
It's probably a long shot posting this here, but I'm asking on the off chance that somebody might have some pointers.
On my desk is a booklet entitled [i]Basic Greek Vocabulary[/i], which is an alphabetical list of the most common thousand or so Ancient Greek words. I would be delighted if a list like this existed for Sanskrit, but so far I can't find one. What I have found is the [http://kjc-fs-cluster.kjc.uni-heidelberg.de/dcs/index.php|Digital Corpus of Sanskrit], but never having wo...
owned by dhok, last edited 2014-04-17 02:11:12.
Previous
235 results.