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Re: CHAT: "USA" in other languages (was Re: OT: need help from an L1

Tony Harris — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:44:46 GMT

Hmpf. The Russian was supposed to come out, but this is coming off a Windows box and there's some oddity I bet. That'll teach me to just expect Unicode to be

Re: CHAT: "USA" in other languages (was Re: OT: need help from an L1

Tony Harris — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:36:17 GMT

In Alurhsa it would be D'SA for "Dwevsa' Sera'nya'r A"meri"ka'ya'". I haven't seen anyone mention it, but in Russian it's ??? pronounced /Sa/ I believe.

Re: CHAT: "USA" in other languages (was Re: OT: need help from an L1

Michael Poxon — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:16:05 GMT

"SS" is still used here for "Saints" especially with regard to church dedications. The church in the next village to me is "SS Gervase & Protase" which always

Re: Conlang Names

Michael Poxon — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:08:35 GMT

Isn't the runic alphabet itself derived from Greek? So actually it's a re-import! Mike

Re: Inflecting foreign proper nouns

Tony Harris — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:53:58 GMT

In Alurhsa I find myself using a dash (sometimes more like a tilde) in the native script, especially after abbreviations. So, a software package I support

CHAT: "USA" in other languages (was Re: OT: need help from an L1-Gre

Charlie — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:29:44 GMT

... mss = manuscripts; pss = psalms. Charlie

Re: TECH: Mono end of file character (was Re: Reintroduction and sof

Eric Christopherson — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:54:08 GMT

I used the package at

Re: Concultural (or just conlang) Card Exchange

Carsten Becker — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:42:16 GMT

... Since Amanda mentions it on the registration websites, international letters <= 20g (that's about 4 pages of 80 g/m² A4 paper) are 1,70 € here. As for

Re: Conlang Names

R A Brown — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:34:27 GMT

... [snip] ... As a separate word it can only be he dative singular of neuter word 'frigus' (gen: frigoris /'fri:goris/ or possibly of the late Latin masculine

TECH: OT: FAT mess

Benct Philip Jonsson — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:04:43 GMT

Hi, I got this message about problems with the boot sectors on my FAT32 disks at startup of Ubuntu. I Googled around a bit to find a solution and seem to have

Re: Inflecting foreign proper nouns

Eric Christopherson — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:07:23 GMT

... Finnish (and, I just learned, Swedish) use a colon for this. There was a member of a programming mailing list I used to be on who would use a colon at the

Registration for Conlang/Concultural Card Exchange

Amanda Babcock Furrow — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:41:57 GMT

Ok, we are ready to register everyone's preferences for the exchange. To make this easier if it catches on as a multi-year thing, we're going to do it by

Re: Conlang Names

Eric Christopherson — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:32:49 GMT

... What is FRIGORI, anyway?

Re: The passing of Ian Catford

Roger Mills — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:49:14 GMT

He was a lovely gentleman. Back in the 70s, I sat in on his course on Caucasian languages, and it was a tour-de-force to hear him pronounce some of those

Re: CHAT: "USA" in other languages (was Re: OT: need help from an L1

Larry Sulky — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:32:57 GMT

In Qakwan: ya Statei Quntoi wa Amerika w "S.Q.A"