Re: New Polysynthetic (?) Language
| From: | David J. Peterson <dedalvs@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, June 2, 2007, 8:27 |
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Joseph F. wrote:
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Anyone here interested in polysynthetic languages? I've been working
on something like one for a bit and have just finished translating
the North Wind and the Sun: http://www.geocities.com/altyaltynalma/
northwindandsun_dinew.html
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I'm sorry for the slightly tangential reply, but this has *really*
been bugging for a long time.
When I follow Joseph's link, I get a question mark surrounded
by a diamond for every accented character. This is ridiculous.
I have every Unicode font under the sun; there's *no* reason
why this should be happening; I use Unicode *everywhere* on
my site; and yet...
Does this have something to do with the fact that I use a Mac?
Both Safari and Firefox display question marks. If I view the
source I get question marks. Am I doing something wrong?
Has anyone had a similar experience?
Regarding the language, according to wikipedia...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polysynthetic_languages
...your language counts as polysynthetic. I find it troubling
that the entire definition depends on the notion of the morpheme.
I wonder how much of linguistics would be left if you remove
the notion of the morpheme, or treated it as nothing more than
a sociological byproduct of the field...?
-David
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