#conlangers — Public Fediverse posts

@ergative hi!
I'd be happy to lend my voice & rec some #highValyrian (#Dothraki only has a handful of #words) for them! Do you happen to have any info as to how they intend to care for the sensitivity of the data?

#conlangers also #Navi*

@ergative hi!
I'd be happy to lend my voice & rec some #highValyrian (#Dothraki only has a handful of #words) for them! Do you happen to have any info as to how they intend to care for the sensitivity of the data?

#conlangers also #Navi*

@ergative hi!
I'd be happy to lend my voice & rec some #highValyrian (#Dothraki only has a handful of #words) for them! Do you happen to have any info as to how they intend to care for the sensitivity of the data?

#conlangers also #Navi*

@ergative hi!
I'd be happy to lend my voice & rec some #highValyrian (#Dothraki only has a handful of #words) for them! Do you happen to have any info as to how they intend to care for the sensitivity of the data?

#conlangers also #Navi*

@ergative hi!
I'd be happy to lend my voice & rec some #highValyrian (#Dothraki only has a handful of #words) for them! Do you happen to have any info as to how they intend to care for the sensitivity of the data?

#conlangers also #Navi*

#conlangers and other peeps who like #linguistics might enjoy this article about how various languages deal with translating the Relative Clauses in the Description of the Basilisk in Harry Potter bk 2 (the languages are Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese & Mongolian)

It's interesting especially because it points out that sometimes a direct translation to an equivalent structure in another language is unwieldly or loses the effect

http://www.cjvlang.com/Hpotter/unicode/basilisrelcl.html

LB: you laugh but this is called backformation and is a form of analogy. It's also precisely how we got the verbs donate, automate and resurrect in English.

As the suffix -tion is one way we turn verbs into nouns when the nouns donation, automation and resurrection turned up people assumed they came from verbs and so the verbs came to be. But no such verbs previously existed

Something for #conlangers to be aware of when aging their languages

#RandomLanguageFacts

Here's something my fellow #conlangers might find interesting (and want to bear in mind when evolving their languages)

Today I learned that the words kill and quell are a doublet. That is they derive from the same etymological root while having different phonological forms.

The root in this case being Old English Cwellan (which meant kill) but quell now means stop, subdue or even calm depending on the context while kill still means kill.

Language is weird, isn't it?