Quote from: Miestrâ Schiva, UrN on May 08, 2020, 01:12:13 AM

Quote from: Ián S.G. Txaglh on May 07, 2020, 05:04:43 AM
uttermost important argument - schematic auxlangs are no fun :P seriously, first, there are thirteen of them in a dozen. so, why esperanto? why not ido, etc etc etc

Because Esperanto has a global speaker base in the hundreds of thousands, and you get to talk to people who're other than hard-core conlag oddballs.

The biggest problem with Talossan right now is that we have just finished 13 years healing a deep schism about the spelling of the language, and we still don't have a single official grammar (there are two older grammars which are both "good enough" but contradict each other). These things take up far much more work than joining la monda Esperantistaro.

yes, the esperantists are the loudest and biggest club, true. but is it worth joining it? just asking, i never find it attractive. and i seriously doubt the numbers they gave about how many people speaks it and suchs. there is a lack of out-of-sandbox research done on different topics in interlinguistics including the real state of L2 and L1 speakers, cos majority of the work is done from inside and is scientifically dubious, at least.

i cannot promise anything, although you may try rack and thumbscrew, but i would very much like to be involved in contribution to the new edition of ün guizua compläts àl glheth talossan.

Quote from: Nick on May 07, 2020, 04:51:42 PM

Quote from: Ian Plätschisch on May 07, 2020, 04:01:39 PM
Azul! What esports does you play?

Azul! I play csgo at very well level, I even played at local state tournaments. It was my main purpose some years, but now it's in the past. Also I play dota 2, osu!, Sid Meier's civilization 5/6 and Valorant. And what games do you prefer?

civ 5 was quite a good game, though i never really fell for civ 6. the change of game mechanics was too far for me.

recently, me, fan of strategic games, have discovered ANNO 1404, nice piece, surely recommendable.

Quote from: Miestrâ Schiva, UrN on May 07, 2020, 03:47:17 AM

Quote from: Ián S.G. Txaglh on May 07, 2020, 02:42:23 AM
what important talossan texts already *are* translated. is the info available smwhr?

yes, we have a whole library

méirci! i would for the texts in the english written history section or the berber project. long texts, but a worth cultural heritage.

Quote from: Miestrâ Schiva, UrN on May 07, 2020, 03:45:20 AM

Quote from: Ián S.G. Txaglh on May 06, 2020, 10:16:46 AM
would i be able to recognise kiwi accent (american accents are cos of series and movies more recognisable)? ok, no (thnx YT), but it is funny, some kiwi vowels (according to the videos) differ from standard as do those in brno dialect comparing to standard czech, especially [e].

Australians think New Zealanders say "fush and chups" (short i -> schwa), New Zealanders think Australians say "feesh and cheeps" (short i -> [i:])

;D in prague, the word "he regretted" politoval [polɪtoval] sound more like [polætovɑl] (very close to "he flew around"), in brno [poliˑtovɑl]. otoh, word "dog" pes [pɛs], sounds in brno very much like [pis], but in prague [pæs].

Quote from: Miestrâ Schiva, UrN on May 07, 2020, 03:45:20 AM

Quotei do not see much activity right now (and it's high proly cos of virus)

Certainly part of it, but i think it's more active than when you quit these many years ago because you told us Talossa was obviously doomed :D

pshsht, i still think that talossa (and ark, etc) is doomed ;) but even a slump ride to hell may be a lot of fun. what's important to me, once you, guys, are here, i want to be here too.

Quote from: Miestrâ Schiva, UrN on May 07, 2020, 03:45:20 AM

Quotedaph as talossan PM? congrats 8)

The culmination of a 10 year plan ;) Incidentally, my daughter (4 years old this September) loves the Krtek DVD you sent me lo these many years ago

10-year plan, that is an innovation! bolsheviks never made it past 5-year plans... that has to be, why they failed.

oops, i really missed a lot. daughter! and more congrats are on their way!

btw, krtek rulez, quite a lot generations fell in love with him. i still have my book about how krtek get his blue jeans and kids of my friends watch the story on tablets and phones... krtek was in space, krtek was used by our esteemed mr. president to get attention of chairman xí. americans may have micky, russians zayats, but we, we have krtek  ;D ;D ;D

Quote from: Miestrâ Schiva, UrN on May 07, 2020, 03:56:01 AM

Quote from: Ián S.G. Txaglh on May 07, 2020, 03:09:33 AM
ci ne lernu esperanton, ci lernu talossaes lingvon ;) el glheth talossán isch pü miglhôr!

uttermost important argument - schematic auxlangs are no fun :P seriously, first, there are thirteen of them in a dozen. so, why esperanto? why not ido, mundolinco, why not even volapük, latino sine flexione, interlingua, interlingue et cetera ad infinitum nauseamque ;) second, (tldr;) no one really needs esperanto.

since i have been lecturing interlinguistics and submerged myself into the world of linguistics of language contact, i have serious doubts that besides personal affections to it, any auxlang is of any good. people are often seduced by the idealism, apparent purity, neutrality and easiness, but do they ever get those? esperantists et al. seem more and more like cultists to me - always talking how good the esperanto is, but why do people not really listen? why people do not enthusiastically jump on the wagon and get the ride? there are certain psycho- and sociolinguistic factors which prevent that from ever happening (namely absence of real L1 speakers).  if not pushed by force, none such project will ever be successful on its own, because you have to be lang freak to give it any value; common people do not give a heck. otoh, talossan is connected to more or less natural community, it has high potential, if talossa keeps moving on, to become a lang people will use to think about stuff. that why not both :)

Quote from: Eiric S. Bornatfiglheu on May 05, 2020, 08:14:46 AM
Welcome Back Ian!

yay, thnx :) so, i see, the PNW is still alive. once fully in, i would like to join it again. i only may confirm, that ageing makes me more and more peculiar. it has to do smth with the brain being burned as a resistor in the ReaLLife(TM) storm or what. it has to be a glowing singing giraffe to take my attention, glowing chatty mouse i already saw.

azul! привет, ник! добро пожаловать в талоссу (я не уверен насчёт склонением)!

ci ne lernu esperanton, ci lernu talossaes lingvon ;) el glheth talossán isch pü miglhôr!

Quote from: Miestrâ Schiva, UrN on May 06, 2020, 07:27:36 PM
I'll make this brief but bold.

Any suggestions as to what important Talossan text needs to be translated into our national language first?

not only for uninformed ignorants, such as me, it would be helpful to know what important talossan texts already *are* translated. is the info available smwhr?

Quote from: Miestrâ Schiva, UrN on May 05, 2020, 11:24:30 PM

Quote from: ián s. g. txaglh on May 05, 2020, 01:33:53 AM

díky :) gúgl nebo tvé skvělé jazykové vlohy? ;)

I tried learning Czech once and I never got past the important phrase Nejsem Američanka.

heh, i also tried learning english (though not just once) and never got past ... many things. ha, would i be able to recognise kiwi accent (american accents are cos of series and movies more recognisable)? ok, no (thnx YT), but it is funny, some kiwi vowels (according to the videos) differ from standard as do those in brno dialect comparing to standard czech, especially [e].

gee, i just realised (when i reminded me-self how you mocked my english in 1997), that i know you guys for almost half of my life :o

anyway, how is talossa doing? i do not see much activity right now (and it's high proly cos of virus), e.g. the non-hereditary talossa sounds appealing.

how many fiôvâns are there? i saw eiric b. (hi!!!!), but even in older messages not so many good ol'faces.

and now for smth completely different, you are the singing profi, so how did you get d'accord with sound of your voice? i have to record the lecturing in one course into the ppt files, not only it is extremely dull not to speak to vivid faces (even of sleeping or bored students), but i HATE the sound of my voice. usually, students give me very good feedback to my lecturing, but until now i haven't realised, how do i sound. i knew from before, that your voice sounds creepy on record, but shouting hard-core lyrics makes it less ... annoying.

oh, and daph as talossan PM? congrats 8)

Quote from: Miestrâ Schiva, UrN on May 03, 2020, 06:25:35 PM
Vítejte zpět, příteli, na show, která nikdy nekončí!

díky :) gúgl nebo tvé skvělé jazykové vlohy? ;)

ich melde gehorsam', revenant txaglh is back in the service to the empire.

vivedretz la talossa, ocsà fiôvâ!