Yeah. I pretty much viewed this post as a, "I memorized a dictionary, and I want to descriminate". Language does change, but how long is it going to take for the prescriptivists to notice? I bet the same person who wrote this post would use contact as a verb, something which was not standard practice in English a while back, as I understand it. If you are going to say some changes are bad, when do you draw the line?;)
And, cheers on the linguistics-- I'm presently working on a degree in it. It's quite... intoxicating.
I think it looks like he's simplifying words so they go better with whatever his first language was. Not a lot of languages like having words end on -ä, and not a lot of people can deal with y (though, it does say he speaks french).
Like I say, whenever anyone wants to make a language they have to immediately go raid Finnish or something related for anything interesting.
Bet his language decided not to include õ for some odd reason;)
Its interesting that right once someone wants to make a language, they go root through Finnish for something, instead of trying to do something original.
I can see that this guy is horribly intelligent, in mathematical aspects, but I just think they play up the aspect of language too much: "Oh my god, he speaks so many languages and is making his own!" How many geeks who aren't savants have made their own languages? I mean, come on. Really.
Plus, it looks like he just ditched the sounds that don't go with english, i.e., final -ä, and -y.;)
Anyway, as a linguistics student, I frequently get billed as the kid who speaks 10 languages. Really, it all depeneds on how you define "speak".
Like you say though on exploring word relationships, often when learning a feature in a language that is something I'm not used to, I'll immediately freak out and construct a language that has it, and then forget it once I learn the feature. I guess perhaps what he's doing is getting used to these funky new Balto-Finnic languages, since according to what he already speaks, he's only got indo-european down.
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The famed OLED display that this device has is deafeningly absent from the pictures. Maybe its so small that I can't see it?
Lucky hungarians. You guys get the best URL ever (at least when pronounced in finnish) http://hu.hu/ 'hoo hoo', I guess. or IPA [huhu]
Yeah. I pretty much viewed this post as a, "I memorized a dictionary, and I want to descriminate". Language does change, but how long is it going to take for the prescriptivists to notice? I bet the same person who wrote this post would use contact as a verb, something which was not standard practice in English a while back, as I understand it. If you are going to say some changes are bad, when do you draw the line? ;)
And, cheers on the linguistics-- I'm presently working on a degree in it. It's quite... intoxicating.
The truth has been spoken.
Yeah. Where the heck does he find guys who appreciate uniqueness? Dang gayboys. ;)
I think it looks like he's simplifying words so they go better with whatever his first language was. Not a lot of languages like having words end on -ä, and not a lot of people can deal with y (though, it does say he speaks french). Like I say, whenever anyone wants to make a language they have to immediately go raid Finnish or something related for anything interesting. Bet his language decided not to include õ for some odd reason ;)
Its interesting that right once someone wants to make a language, they go root through Finnish for something, instead of trying to do something original.
;)
I can see that this guy is horribly intelligent, in mathematical aspects, but I just think they play up the aspect of language too much: "Oh my god, he speaks so many languages and is making his own!" How many geeks who aren't savants have made their own languages? I mean, come on. Really.
Plus, it looks like he just ditched the sounds that don't go with english, i.e., final -ä, and -y.
Anyway, as a linguistics student, I frequently get billed as the kid who speaks 10 languages. Really, it all depeneds on how you define "speak".
Like you say though on exploring word relationships, often when learning a feature in a language that is something I'm not used to, I'll immediately freak out and construct a language that has it, and then forget it once I learn the feature. I guess perhaps what he's doing is getting used to these funky new Balto-Finnic languages, since according to what he already speaks, he's only got indo-european down.