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Zacharý

01:44

So, @user6726, according to the people of this chat, you're some kind of Jon Snow who knows everything.

Am I right, @WavesWashSands, or am I confusing him with someone else?

WavesWashSands

Yeah, you're right haha

Zacharý

You know everything, @user6726

end-jon-snow-meme

On a related note, do you know of Jon Skeet?

WavesWashSands

Nope, I don't go to Stack Overflow :P

Zacharý

... then you do know of him, he's about to hit 1 million rep

If only that happened in Ling SO or PPCG or something, the closest thing

WavesWashSands

02:00

Heh, we'd need activity for that

And if we had that kind of activity, we wouldn't be in beta any more...

Zacharý

Not even PPCG has that,

The closest thing we have is Dennis\

Linguistics in general needs that kind of attention, especially for younger ages.

WavesWashSands

But we're fortunate enough to have at least one famous linguist (John Lawler) here

(I keep thinking user6726 is also a famous linguist too :P)

Zacharý

02:17

Well ... my reaction to that is ... LAWL

Holy crap, user6726 is a rep-god here! The gap is unreal!

user6726

Why are my ears warm?

Zacharý

I dunno.

How do you have such a rep lead on everyone else?

WavesWashSands

02:32

Whoa, you actually managed to attract him to chat :O

Zacharý

Well, he was previously in chat, thus I pinged him. He left as soon as i pinged him. I wouldn't' have pinged him if he wasn't in chat recently)

WiccanKarnak

Since you are here, who are you @user6726

@WavesWashSands can you explain Zachary that it's not easy to make a conlang

Definitely not with a mix of everything

@user6726 the people of the world are intrigued with your godly knowledge and reputation, please be kind enough and tell us who are you

*you are

And he's gone

@WavesWashSands I didn't realise that @jlawler that just made me check out UofM

user6726

02:52

Well, these things are usually not highly active. Something went across my radar, stuck my nose in, then went about the usual.

WiccanKarnak

Are you talking about the notification?

Zacharý

They're all incomplete conlangs

That are never going to be completed

WiccanKarnak

Oh ok

Right that's better

WavesWashSands

Well yeah, I haven't done conlanging myself, but the more you look at NLs, the more you find that there are intricacies that would be hard to come up with when you're making a conlang

WiccanKarnak

Exactly what I was trying to say @WavesWashSands

user6726

02:55

Anyhow, I guess I assumed that the thing about a Bantu phonologist with experience in Lushootseed and Saami was a give-away, though Lushootseed is a bit of an obscure stretch. Anyhow, Odden's the name, linguistics is the game

Zacharý

Yep, we doxed him/he doxed himself

WavesWashSands

Ooh cool! Do you know Suki? She's a PhD student at my school who's going to Ohio State and UBC on a scholarship

WiccanKarnak

Wooooah it's out!

Where did you mention Lushotseed though @user6726

WavesWashSands

google.com.hk/…

Some of the posts are by jlawler though

Zacharý

Two famous linguists on the site

Dang

WavesWashSands

03:12

user6726 is the author of the Cambridge intro to phonology too :O

Zacharý

So ... the basically Jon Skeet of this site

Oh, and on the earlier topic of conlangs, one I designed is a modification of Esperanto, just placing acute accents over morpheme boundaries: esperanto => esperántó = esper + ánt + ó. The other one is just a creole of English and French (which I mainly just make to have something to do when I'm bored). I'm lazy like that.

WavesWashSands

Lol, so it's not a conlang in its own right, but just a modification of the orthography?

Zacharý

The former, yes and no. There are some very minor changes, like mi => mió

WavesWashSands

I see, heh

Zacharý

And numerals are VERY different. 1 (acting as noun) = unuó, 1 (acting as adjective) = unuá, and first = unuátá

The article is declined like an adjective

WiccanKarnak

03:21

Are Elvish, Klingon, Dothraki and Na'vi real languages? - John McWhorter

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Just was pumped up to post this

Zacharý

I'm trying to create a programming language out of it. Also, copulas use the accusative. "Ĉu ĝi estas la naskiĝtago de Zamenhofo" would be "Ĉu ĝió estás lán naskiĝótagón de Zamenhofó"

WavesWashSands

03:36

What was supposed to be the antecedent of 'it'?

Zacharý

Crap ... it would just be "estas la ..."/"estás lán..." wouldn't it

My Esperanto is dodgy at best

WavesWashSands

(Actually I was asking what you were referring to when you said you're trying to make a programming language out it 'it' ><)

Zacharý

The esperántídó

Not Frẽnglîch (the creole)

WavesWashSands

Well, a programming language made from French words would be odd enough - imagine si statements instead of if statements, pour and pendant loops instead of for and while loops

Zacharý

03:51

"Lá faktorió de entjeró estós entjerón" would be a type statement

WiccanKarnak

04:13

woah is it ok to lol?

becaue "In chat, pretty much anything is okay as long as it keeps this room from dying ;)" ~lemontree doesn't seem right now

and because that coding language would be so quirky

Zacharý

I got the idea from a language called Tampio (github.com/fergusq/tampio), which is based on Finnish

At least it's not lojban :p

WiccanKarnak

04:55

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WiccanKarnak

10:29

She will have the leftovers eaten (by someone). how does one active-ize/ passive-ize this sentence?

Zacharý

That sentence is nonsense

(the by someone portion

Someone will eat the leftovers (preposition) her ?

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WiccanKarnak