http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/conlang/ Constructed Languages Sat, 04 Jul 2009 18:56:47 GMT Andreas Johansson http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/conlang/message/162306 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/conlang/message/162306 ... Bah, missed lenition on the verb root, it should be: Guthuo magelo rathul guth! -- Andreas Johansson Why can't you be a non-conformist just like everybody Sat, 04 Jul 2009 17:59:29 GMT Roger Mills http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/conlang/message/162305 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/conlang/message/162305 ... ===================== Prevli has three "moods"-- realis (=indicative), irrealis (many uses, ~~subjunctive), and of course imperative.  There are also Sat, 04 Jul 2009 17:42:06 GMT J. Burke http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/conlang/message/162304 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/conlang/message/162304 ... I remember the context was a study done on how people deal with foreign languages. The result was that most people seem to memorize the form of foreign Sat, 04 Jul 2009 17:31:13 GMT <deinx nxtxr> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/conlang/message/162303 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/conlang/message/162303 ... That may be, I haven't looked that closely. SASXSEK has no digraphs or unique characters anyway. Sat, 04 Jul 2009 17:26:19 GMT Sylvia Sotomayor http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/conlang/message/162302 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/conlang/message/162302 ... That's not fair. :-) Lovecraft was trying for unpronounceable. -S -- Sylvia Sotomayor "I've a grand memory for forgetting." - Robert Louis Stevenson Sat, 04 Jul 2009 17:23:22 GMT Paul Hartzer http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/conlang/message/162301 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/conlang/message/162301 ... This makes it an anecdote, or at least no more reliable than one. For instance, I was told in a psych class many years ago that Eskimos have 100 words for Sat, 04 Jul 2009 17:15:11 GMT Andreas Johansson http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/conlang/message/162300 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/conlang/message/162300 ... Very well, but my own contribution, which was what I was refering to, is nevertheless anecdotal. -- Andreas Johansson Why can't you be a non-conformist Sat, 04 Jul 2009 17:13:06 GMT caeruleancentaur http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/conlang/message/162299 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/conlang/message/162299 ... Senjecas has four moods: indicative, subjunctive, imperative and dubitive which are formed by changing the ending to the verb. There are also eleven Sat, 04 Jul 2009 17:08:28 GMT J. Burke http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/conlang/message/162298 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/conlang/message/162298 ... It's not just anecdote; I remember being told that in a psych class many years ago. Sat, 04 Jul 2009 16:48:39 GMT David McCann http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/conlang/message/162297 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/conlang/message/162297 ... Good places to start, with plenty of links, are http://web.archive.org/web/20010406212242/www.hut.fi/~vesanto/world.build.html Sat, 04 Jul 2009 16:41:56 GMT Jörg Rhiemeier http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/conlang/message/162296 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/conlang/message/162296 Hallo! ... Old Albic has the indicative and subjunctive moods; the latter is also used to express the imperative: most 2nd person present subjunctives have Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:39:43 GMT Paul Hartzer http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/conlang/message/162295 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/conlang/message/162295 ... I make an attempt to pronounce it, but if I'm reading a book that has too many similar foreign names, especially long ones*, I'll easily get frustrated. Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:26:11 GMT Paul Hartzer http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/conlang/message/162294 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/conlang/message/162294 ... "Correctly" is key; I think typical readers do assign a pronunciation to odd names, but it may not be the one the author intended. Even so, I think the Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:08:34 GMT Andreas Johansson http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/conlang/message/162293 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/conlang/message/162293 I used to be like your wife in this regard, but conlanging has made me more like you. Judging from people I know, the former is indeed the commoner behaviour, Sat, 04 Jul 2009 14:55:31 GMT Lee http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/conlang/message/162292 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/conlang/message/162292 ... My wife and I will look up an unfamiliar English word. Otherwise, any "too" unpronounceable names and foreign words get little more than some like of