http://groups.yahoo.com/group/romconlang/ Romconlang Mon, 18 Feb 2013 15:57:35 GMT Ben Karnell http://groups.yahoo.com/group/romconlang/message/2816 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/romconlang/message/2816 ... Indeed, and I know that Romance-based numerals persisted in certain London street cants for many years. Lingua Franca was spotty and inconsistent by Mon, 11 Feb 2013 19:18:40 GMT BPJ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/romconlang/message/2815 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/romconlang/message/2815 ... That's funny as people in Algeria and Tunisia nowadays tend to use French numerals in their Arabic! /bpj Sun, 10 Feb 2013 22:27:55 GMT Ben Karnell http://groups.yahoo.com/group/romconlang/message/2814 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/romconlang/message/2814 ... For vocabulary, I have not done a count, but skimming the glossary it looks like a majority of words are from a Romance/LF base. I have enjoyed, however, Fri, 08 Feb 2013 20:16:15 GMT thomasruhm http://groups.yahoo.com/group/romconlang/message/2813 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/romconlang/message/2813 You are right, it does look French. Today I did compare it with the word 'voyage', which has a glide too and there is a 'v' in 'sauvage'. Old consonants seem Fri, 08 Feb 2013 12:51:19 GMT Padraic Brown http://groups.yahoo.com/group/romconlang/message/2812 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/romconlang/message/2812 ... I suppose you can either go back in the language's history and determine that whatever leads to hiatus (in this case, loss of medial consonants) will not Thu, 07 Feb 2013 20:46:23 GMT thomasruhm http://groups.yahoo.com/group/romconlang/message/2811 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/romconlang/message/2811 The word 'aquatique' could be similar to '*eauage', but I don't know what to do to avoid hiatus. It would sound good with a v-gilde, but that would make the Thu, 07 Feb 2013 20:34:02 GMT thomasruhm http://groups.yahoo.com/group/romconlang/message/2810 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/romconlang/message/2810 Which parts of Parra are from Lingua Franca? Did you have a Lingua Franca word list, to develop parts of you vocabulary from? Sun, 03 Feb 2013 23:01:22 GMT Ben Karnell http://groups.yahoo.com/group/romconlang/message/2809 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/romconlang/message/2809 ... Yes, it is. Just when I was reading about medieval Lingua Franca, I found a setting in Ill Bethisad, a very polyglot Crimea, where it could take root and Sun, 03 Feb 2013 20:07:32 GMT thomasruhm http://groups.yahoo.com/group/romconlang/message/2808 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/romconlang/message/2808 You wrote much more than what I could understand and remember at once. Is Parra based on real world's Lingua Franca? Sun, 03 Feb 2013 16:38:32 GMT Ben Karnell http://groups.yahoo.com/group/romconlang/message/2807 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/romconlang/message/2807 ... Since we're now discussing my conlang in some detail, I think I shall switch to English. One certainly can talk about scholarly things in Parra (plenty of Sat, 02 Feb 2013 16:33:25 GMT Padraic Brown http://groups.yahoo.com/group/romconlang/message/2806 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/romconlang/message/2806 ... That I don't know, but wouldn't be surprised if there wasn't a lòt of such interchange. ... Better safe than sorry? ;) ... Verily! Philologers used to Sat, 02 Feb 2013 12:37:59 GMT BPJ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/romconlang/message/2805 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/romconlang/message/2805 ... Indeed. I'd be out of work if it were so. ... layers of inherited words and loans and re-loans from other Romance languages, not to mention dialect mixture Fri, 01 Feb 2013 22:58:34 GMT Padraic Brown http://groups.yahoo.com/group/romconlang/message/2804 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/romconlang/message/2804 ... Okay. I guess I don't understand why this is a problem. Especially if what you write at first is not precisely what you had wanted to say! Why not change Fri, 01 Feb 2013 22:14:38 GMT thomasruhm http://groups.yahoo.com/group/romconlang/message/2803 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/romconlang/message/2803 A changed post would just not be what I wanted to write at first. People who read it changed would probably think, I did not change it at all. 'Frèrne' was my Fri, 01 Feb 2013 21:34:59 GMT Padraic Brown http://groups.yahoo.com/group/romconlang/message/2802 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/romconlang/message/2802 ... That I don't understand. What makes a changed / corrected post inauthentic? ... Possibly. Or possibly not. French etymology makes wandering in king Minos's