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Posted On Tuesday 17 January 2012 by Murray Colpman (Muzer)

You know that thing that Wikipedia is doing, to protest against SOPA/PIPA?

We are too, though I assume not many will care, it's still FUN



The only thing that will stay up is the machine-readable (plain) Timlan dictionary. Only the website will be affected; everything else hosted on the server will stay up (so IRC, mail, and some external sites, etc.).

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Posted On Sunday 8 January 2012 by Murray Colpman (Muzer)

CATS WILL BE USED IN THE EXAMPLES. IF YOU HAVE AN AVERSION TO CATS, LOOK AWAY NOW.


OK. Comparing things to other things. We've sort of had vague ideas on having this construct for years but none of us have actually sat down and worked it out...

We've added a new verb, compar, which is always used in a relative clause. We have also tightened definitions of the two mores (which are both now determiners):

erom = to a greater extent:

"Cat is more good compared to dog"
(Cats and dogs in general due to lack of determiner)

vintitia = additional; more in quantity:

"I have additional/more cats compared to you"


So you can sort of see the syntax from that... ANY QUESTIONS NON-EXISTANT READERS????

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Posted On Sunday 8 January 2012 by Murray Colpman (Muzer)

We have realised that determiners exist, and aren't the same as adjectives (which are nouns)

And we've also realised LEese ARe NoT In MaLtA Now.

And we've also realised that some of our existing words are determiners, and so are cardinal numbers.

So it stands to reason to use the cardinal postfix for all determiners. These are words like all (ayik), this (selux), etc. that are like adjectives that instead of describing attributes of a noun, describe information about a noun that might be valid only in that context.

So

seluxeta hat~s

= this pasta

etc.

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Posted On Saturday 7 January 2012 by Freddie Nash (FredFace)

Its Change Vocab with respect to Time again, and todays topic is Mathematics.

To clarify, that is Mathematics, not Programming, so no distinct assignment and comparision operators.

This also comes with a lush syntax for handeling maths, which we've spent most of the last 2 days working on. Hopefully the time has paid off, in a !commercial sense.

Now some vocab... This first list of verbs will all always take the 'elem' (general) tense, as maths doesn't change of time like the Timlan vocab.

pad - Add
sub - Subtract
mul - Multiply
div - Divide
mod - Modulate
var - Variable
cost - Constant
ras - Raise to the Power
eq - equals

These words are used for making maths work in-line.

solute - Solve
eval - Evaluate

Now the fun parts that have NOTHING to do with vocab.

How to build expressions

Timlan having a VOS syntax, this is fairly evident.

In common SVO notation nonsense, you might write:

(4 + 2) / 2 = 3

In Timlan, using symbols this would be:

= 3 / 2 + 2 4

Or...

eqelem f- divelem d- padelem d- g-

Which is probably a bit hard to follow, if you don't know Timlan numbers (see http://tim32.org/blog/post.php?id=56).

And to compliment this...

A new Marker!!

/#Expression#/

The # is pronounced as the Timlan 'm', for maths, or something else that starts with 'm', doesn't not matter.

Inside these Lush expression markers, symbols can be used inplace of lengthy verbs with postfixes (but verbs can be used also, and must be used properly). Here are the symbols we allow:

add +
sub -
mul *
div /
mod %

Expression markers also allow decimal numbers (0 to 9), which means that this is valid:

= 3 / 2 + 2 4

If it seems familiar, it should be (its the example above all this).

Note that the clear spacing is ESSENTIAL (especialy between numbers when they are written).

Do not say decimal numbers; this is all a bit hap-hazard ATM, so some kind of meaningful information regarding this may be released at some point in the future.

Following on...

Variables

Variables must be preceeded by $ (pronouned as the 'u' in 'put').

This applies to text inside and out of expression markers.

Nor much more to say about these...

Some Samples

tokosoluteaht /# = ^ 2 x -1 #/ sui
iqelem wuhilot padelem c- l-
evaleht divelem b- c- ei

tokouhaht setuh sui

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