Zompist Bboard Again

On the other hand, police is pretty much universally monosyllabic for me, which I thought was normal until people assured me it wasn't. You pronounce it like "please"? "Please" has /z/, not /s/. As a USAmerican raised Catholic, trisyllabic "Catholic" sounds as affected...

I only learned a few years ago that "Catholic", in the English language, is effectively a two-syllable word. Before that, I thought the "o" was pronounced instead of silent. I do say it as a three syllable word in isolation and when not speaking quickly. It's one of those words ...

I've been reading up on changes to ejective consonants across the world's languages, and I think it's quite interesting how stable they seem to be - in Semitic the original ejective series have become pharyngealised (also probably in Berber?), and in other Afroasiatic languages there appears to a ch...

Just for some context, the maps that are being referred to are part of conworkshop's 'Sahar' collaborative conworld. As Kat mentioned, the blank spaces are unclaimed territories (that are assumed to be countries that just don't exist yet.) Furthermore, the user is referring to some of their old coun...