Zompist Bboard Again

You don’t know me. I came to that conclusion because of repeated and significant failures on God’s part. I apologize; you did not come to mind, either as an example of the above, or as any other category's membership. @keenir, thanks for the apology; but, tbh, you don’t owe me one! I guess my remar...

masako wrote: ↑Fri Mar 22, 2024 7:33 pm Kenamoya abugida – A decorative script for Kala centered on a circular design.

Impressive so far, both esthetically, and linguistically, IMHO!

@Alice: Sorry about the myalgic encephalomyelitis That sucks.
@ManInSpace: Your acquaintance’s experience sounds like a horror story. Your interlocutor sounds like maybe she’s dedicated to #MeToo past the point of reason. (But I’m just guessing!)

well, with the exception of you (and maybe Rotting Bones), every agnostic and atheist I've ever encountered (online and IRL) has come to that conclusion from discussion with other people - sometimes with atheists and agnostics, sometimes with other religious individuals. You don’t know me. I came t...

Man in Space wrote: ↑Tue Feb 27, 2024 6:05 pm I may have destroyed one of the most important things in my life because I have to stick to my principles. I am in a very bad space right now.

Is it OK that I’d want to know more?

I read somewhere that the peak of linguistic diversity was probably around 15000BP (ie 15 KYA) and probably around 15000 languages. I never saw their methodology, so I can’t criticize nor recommend it. But 15000BP is about 13000BCE , which is about when the glaciers of the Ice Age retreated far enou...

I’ll go out on a limb and tentatively hazard a speculative guess that the title of this book might possibly bear some resemblance to "The Religion Construction Kit". please please please Oh yes, this is ongoing. Here's the intro on my Patreon page (this post is open to all). [/size] I wis...

bradrn wrote: ↑Thu Feb 15, 2024 12:01 am….
I don’t know what EDAL is.
….

Etymological Dictionary of Altaic Languages, I think.

Farscape, Babylon 5, Andromeda

(I don’t know where to post this!). I have found one or a few natural language(s) with terms for a consanguine relative’s spouse’s consanguine relative’s spouse’s consanguine relative: (for instance [sibling’s or parent’s or child’s] spouse’s [sibling’s or parent’s or child’s] spouse’s [sibling or p...

Punchkey. Stress on first syllable. (Detroit area).

Darren wrote: ↑Sun Feb 04, 2024 2:14 am

TomHChappell wrote: ↑Sat Feb 03, 2024 2:27 pm I like this!

Anything in particular you like about it?

I tried to think how to answer; but that would have been so tl;dr, that, I think I had better answer just “Everything”!
It’s complete, understandable, and interesting.

I like this!

How do you pronounce <breakfast>?
IML I (think I) pronounce it [ˈbɻek fəst] .

I was trying to write up something, but in the process I discovered this paper which looks quite comprehensive: https://doi.org/10.1080/07268602.2022.2157675 . It looks like it should answer most of your questions. (I can send you a PDF if you can’t access it.) I think this resource should be linke...

I use one kind of distinguishing for one of them, and a different kind for the other.
For instance, italicize one, but underline the other.
Other possibilities are;
* boldface one
* write one in ALL CAPS
* write one in a different color
etc.

It should have been resolved now :) Pabappa got in touch with me and another moderator, but mods don't have the right permissions to do that sort of thing, so we forwarded on the message to the two admins, and one of them has done a reset to TomHChappell' login attempts :) There were two attempts b...

keenir wrote: ↑Wed Jan 10, 2024 10:32 pm …. On the gripping hand, ….

Someone else read the Mote in God’s Eye!

Maybe I should just ditch the CBB, and become active here again instead?
But I’ve lost so much work!

I just logged in to the CBB, and everything was as usual; no captcha, no problem of any kind. I’m still locked out for too many failed attempts. Also, when I try to register a new account, every answer to the anti-spammer CAPTCHA question is “incorrect”; including the answer that was “correct” befo...