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Nothing, nobody, somebody etc.

lingwadeplaneta — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 08:03:03 GMT

Hao, I've found in the SASXSEK dic: NO - nothing, nobody, nowhere UO - one; somebody; something; anything Isn't that too many meanings for one word.

Re: and revisited.

cafaristeir — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 06:43:50 GMT

Sellamat prients ! Indeed, it seems to me that the Dutch never seriously sought to impose Netherlandic in Indonesia, though, of course, it was an official

Re: and revisited.

Jens Wilkinson — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 04:26:35 GMT

... And there is something else also, a historical rather than linguistic fact. In 1941, the Japanese drove the Dutch out of Indonesia, and essentially

Re: and revisited.

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:49:55 GMT

... Literacy may have been an issue at the time. I know it had something to do with convergence with Malay though they ar distinct dialects. Javanese is also

Re: and revisited.

risto@... — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:12:02 GMT

... I suppose literacy was low in Indonesia back then, so it wasn't a big deal. Also Indonesian wasn't yet as widely spoken in Indonesia at that time as it is

Re: and revisited.

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:06:04 GMT

... I do put a hook on my but don't do the line across the top of the uppercase like a lot of people do. ... That's it but realize they went toward Malay

Re: and revisited.

risto@... — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 07:44:29 GMT

... I agree. In some fonts, and at least in my handwriting, the two are almost identical: "i" is a straight line with a dot and "j" is a long straight line

Re: and revisited.

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 22:52:25 GMT

... The rules as they stand now would call for an "-r-" but I'm considering either an exception to that rule or maybe reinstating the semivowels as distincts

Re: and revisited.

Risto Kupsala — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 20:26:31 GMT

... The problems for "i" and "u" as semivowels are combinations /wi/, /ju/, /wu/, /uw/, /ji/ and /ij/. The first two sound very much like each other, and the

Re: Similar grammatical markers

lingwadeplaneta — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 20:21:47 GMT

... I guess I'll take "-de" for the past marker. The only problem with it is that sometimes it clashes with "dey" (day): "mah-hao-de" (improved) suggests "hao

Re: Similar grammatical markers

steve rice — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 19:24:21 GMT

... Would you consider -ti instead? It would still suggest -te (if that's important) but differ more from -te. Actually, on further consideration, I'd halfway

Re: Similar grammatical markers

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 16:24:08 GMT

... For S:S: the passive participle is made by combining the passive (not past) suffix "-a" with the adjectival suffix "-i" to form "-ari".

Similar grammatical markers

lingwadeplaneta — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 15:30:34 GMT

I am about to introduce a special marker for passive participle, and I'd like it to be -tey. However there is already -te (past tense marker). A couple of

Re: NP words sorted

Jens Wilkinson — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 05:17:06 GMT

... Thanks for the information! Actually I've never done it systematically, because I'm not a very systematic person, so it was nice to see. I was kind of

NP words sorted

lingwadeplaneta — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 18:53:30 GMT

Jens, if you haven't yet counted the amount of words from every language in NP, Lenadi Moucina did it in Posta_Mundi: