Zompist Bboard Again

That's a very interesting idea; I hadn't considered it before, but it makes a great deal of sense.

Acoustically, I like /c/.

English has a few that are very old (and which are now largely nativised): Both cloak and clock are loans from a variety of Norman, originally meaning "bell" (Parisian cloche ). Some words for meats, pork , beef , mutton , and I believe also poultry come from the Norman names of animals (P...

I pretty much agree with the above. I arrived at democratic socialism from the opposite direction. In the past I was a communist anarchist, but came to the conclusion that the communist anarchists' workers' councils in practice constituted a state anyways, that enterprises needed regulation by such...

Oh, my. I hope he understands she might be dangerous...

Over the course of the "Ifsumé" period, the language would not, of course, remain static. We start with the following inventory: (Note: Some curly brackets used because putting i in square ones seems to be triggering lots of italicisation.) Nasal: /m n (ɴ)/ "m, n, n" Notes: [ɴ] a...

Very good of you to fix it.

I have also produced a thing about verbs that goes into more depth. I'm not sure if making PDFs or typing out changes and things more directly is the better approach, however I'm finding things easier to structure in documents like this, however, and the fonts to which I have access can make all tho...

Sometimes, doing nothing is positively glorious.

Send him some virtual hugs from an Internet stranger. Perhaps the relationship can be salvaged at some point in the future, but should he not choose to pursue that route (and I wouldn't blame him — sometimes, you have to let people go), peace will come with time, though it will probably hurt a great...

Qwynegold wrote: ↑Sat Dec 26, 2020 3:58 pm Oh, okay. So it had mostly to do with semantic drift of that one word. Maybe...

That certainly influenced it, but there are elements of the fiction in play that I don't feel ready to reveal.

Trying to compile everything into a comprehensible format, I have a list of "lemmas" (I might be using the word overliberally) here, updated to match the revised sound changes.

this may have been done to distinguish between real plants and portrayals of them (this is culturally significant). I'd like to know more about this. :o Flowers (and a few other natural motifs) are extremely prevalent in the associated traditional art, though the distinction between "sa" ...

Oh, well. Maybe post a few (and also give the language a name)?

. I do not really know even where to start to rework its morphology, and to be honest, I like its complexity, even though it is only realistic that it would be reanalyzed in later forms. Complexity can be resilient in some cases (I understand Welsh to be extremely fond of it); Spanish comes to mind...

Do you have complicated, messy naturalistic etymologies for any of this? I love it when an inflection or a lemma has a story to tell if we only know where to look.

Travis B. wrote: ↑Fri Dec 25, 2020 5:38 pm Qãte íźąde árrəri lázre herróri go!
/ˈqãtʰe ˈʔiʑãde ˈʔarːəɾi ˈlazɾe herˈroɾi ɡo/
happy-S.F winter-DEF.S.F holiday-3SF 2PM=DAT wish.IPFV-SUBJ.1S-OBJ.3SF EGO
Merry Christmas! (lit. I wish you a happy winter holiday!)

爾往人
Tomyori to!
[t̪o̞ᵝ.mᶣi̯ó̞ˑ.ɽɪ̀ t̪ó̞ᵝ]
You, too!

I haven't quite gotten my thoughts and notes into a form tidy enough to move on, but, given some discoveries I've made since the start, I've updated the initial post (all the original text is still there, simply some of it with strikethrough), and included a document for what I think might be more p...

Perhaps, but I was going on what I could see.

Also Happy Christmas.