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Hanam, a mixed language (2014-04-20 02:49:48) :
The frequency table is reset after every row.
It's Markov-ey in a way but with a different... "frequencization".
Right, here's how the algorithm works.
See the number above each columns? That's the "weight" of each language. For the default it's set at equal 10. In Lojban the weight for each number is adjusted by the number of speakers.
Let's take the first row for example. First the engine concatenates each member of each column and give them a value by multiplyi...
owned by Yaali Annar, last edited 2014-04-20 02:51:22.
Forumworld (2014-04-20 02:48:09) :
I'd like to join up and make That City On The Island You Keep Talking About.
owned by Matrix, last edited 2014-04-20 02:48:09.
Sound Change Applier: Features and Planning (2014-04-20 01:29:25) :
[b]A[/b]nthological [b]L[/b]anguage [b]T[/b]ransforminator [b]E[/b]nlightenedly [b]R[/b]edesigning [b]I[/b]nnovations [b]N[/b]ear [b]G[/b]rammar, [b]F[/b]lexibly [b]O[/b]perating [b]R[/b]adicals, [b]Y[/b]our [b]O[/b]utput [b]U[/b]nlimited.
owned by Nessari, last edited 2014-04-20 01:43:00.
Rhebus Volume 5: More EZ-mode [3/10 + key] :
[h1]1.[/h1] solved by Hallow XIII
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[h1]2.[/h1]
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[h1]3.[/h1] solved by Slereah on IRC
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[h1]4.[/h1]
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[h1]5.[/h1]
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[h1]6.[/h1] solved by Radius
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owned by Cev, last edited 2014-04-20 00:46:43.
Rhebus Volume 5: More EZ-mode [3/10] (2014-04-20 00:46:22) :
Answers:
1. [spoiler]Chinook Jargon[/spoiler]
2. [spoiler]Hakka[/spoiler]
3. [spoiler]Greek Sign Language[/spoiler]
4. [spoiler]Faroese[/spoiler]
5. [spoiler]Old French[/spoiler]
6. [spoiler]Portuguese[/spoiler]
7. [spoiler]General American[/spoiler]
8. [spoiler]Big Nambas[/spoiler]
9. [spoiler]Zulu[/spoiler]
10. [spoiler]Russian & Hurrian[/spoiler]
owned by Cev, last edited 2014-04-20 00:46:22.
Advice sought (2014-04-19 17:07:48) :
1) One last plea: why not have both? Merge the syntax and morphology sections, then have an appendix of tables. After all, it works for teaching grammars.
6) That sounds promising. Above all else, include lots of examples.
8) My real issue is that I feel you set out a lot of vague descriptive categories without providing a concrete justification—e.g. a grammar of a Bantu language can justly get away with vaguely summarizing what each noun class [i]tends[/i] to include without b...
owned by Rhetorica, last edited 2014-04-19 17:07:48.
Advice sought (2014-04-19 16:22:32) :
Thank you! That is extremely helpful feedback of exactly the type I am looking for, and I really appreciate your taking the time to look through the grammar well enough to spot these things.
A few comments on some points:
1) The logic on splitting morphology from syntax is that the latter deals with all the grammatical machinery, while the former is meant to be something like a set of morphology tables gathered together in one place for easy reference so you don't have them spr...
owned by Radius, last edited 2014-04-19 16:22:32.
Sound Change Applier: Features and Planning (2014-04-19 14:44:03) :
I've recently fixed support for [tt]break[/tt] in Octavia, so it should get a lot easier to return to working on this. (Previously it couldn't be used from within a nested block, e.g. an [tt]if() {}[/tt] statement inside of a [tt]while() {}[/tt].)
owned by Rhetorica, last edited 2014-04-19 14:44:16.
Hanam, a mixed language (2014-04-19 14:41:53) :
Second-order Markov chain. That's all you had to say!
Looks neat, though! Definitely has potential for koineization. I see you're using syllable structure from the whole dataset but restricting composition to the same row—how are you doing that without modifying the transition frequency table? Do you just throw out hits to bad characters, or are you rewriting the frequency table to exclude them afterwards?
owned by Rhetorica, last edited 2014-04-19 14:41:53.
Advice sought (2014-04-19 14:35:16) :
As mentioned elsewhere:
1. It seems really, really weird to me to break up morphology and syntax so deeply. I realise that there are other grammars that do this, and that it may be marginally more convenient for an expert who only occasionally needs to look up a few inflections or syntax rules [i]but not both[/i], but it's definitely anti-didactic, and for a conlang's grammar I think it's a lot more useful to assume the reader knows little or nothing about how the language works.
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owned by Rhetorica, last edited 2014-04-19 14:35:16.
Hanam, a mixed language :
Here's a secret: I have never invented a word personally. It was always a product of an programmed engine.
My latest toy is something that literally mix words together. It was written as an attempt to automate lojban root from its sources.
The algorithm is...
well...
I'm too lazy to explain it, study the algorithm yourself by looking at the javascript: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5517255/JS%20Tests/Mixer.html
Anyway, my first experiment is combining Ja...
owned by Yaali Annar, last edited 2014-04-19 11:18:51.
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