Zompist Bboard Again

Do I get this right that "baron" is, in some contexts, kind of the prototypical English language noble title? That is, I've got the impression that, when people talk about how, in the old days, countries used to be ruled by kings and nobles, this is usually phrased as "kings and baro...

I guess it boils down to they can and they want to and believe on some level nothing bad can happen to them.

If you just mean the term Hobbit for humanoid beings of short stature but not dwarves, then yes that was an innovation of Tolkien's. If you mean the concept generally, then I suppose there are plenty of terms you could use for those beings.

I will start by saying I don't have an answer myself, I'm not an economist. But I do think starting off with "Maybe we should throw out the logic of the current system" and then going on to suggest the start of a new system and then dismiss it based on the current logic, maybe you need to ...

I will give it a try when I have some time. My writing community is having a holiday event this weekend.

Just got the notice to renew my lease and my new rent is notably higher than before. Over the past four years, my rent has crept from $700 to $900 which represents a nearly 30% increase. Obviously that still represents quite a bargain compared to the rest of the US where rents usually exceed a thou...

How much could wanting to avoid certain sounds in words with certain meanings affect sound changes within a language or just a specific dialect of a given language? Or would that be more relegated to word choice or coining new terms? I always used to hear that thats what helped give rise to the she...

How much could wanting to avoid certain sounds in words with certain meanings affect sound changes within a language or just a specific dialect of a given language? Or would that be more relegated to word choice or coining new terms?

I think I just made a script(s) based on your idea...what do you think? https://www.verduria.org/viewtopic.php?p=76831#p76831 mind, just because I attempted it, doesn't mean you can't also do it. I'd like to see yours, please. I'll get on working on this as well, I think this is a good start on an ...

As the name implies, "Classical Japanese: A Grammar" is more concerned with the grammar of Classical Japanese, however H. Shirane does mention some onbin sound changes, including when they first took place. Table 3 on page 497 titled sound changes gives the following: Verbs i-sound change:...

What would be the internal explanation of a system that writes every word twice? Honestly I hadn't thought that out. Though maybe it could start as a type of reading guide that became widespread, then turned into a normal part of writing. Might even be a comparatively short step between the origina...

This reminds me, back when I was a very weird teenager on my way to becoming a very weird adult, I experimented a couple of times with eating sauerkraut with chopsticks. That makes sense to me, especially if you eat it directly from the jar. (I generally sauté or braise my sauerkraut before eating....

I'm catching up on some papers I downloaded but hadn't had time/mental energy to read, including topics like the evidence for Proto-Korean having a distinction between /r/ and /l/, and grammatical constructs found in Ainu. Trying to get outside Japonic linguistics but still in a nearby field.

Has anyone considered, let alone made, a conscript similar to or based on Hanzi that gets used for a secondary language (think a borrowing like Korean or Japanese in the case of Hanzi) where words are written with a symbol designated to give the meaning, and a smaller subset of symbols is used to gi...

I've been a bit busy and focused on other hobbies when I've had time, but I finally went back to the original post to add the consonant inventory Martin was working from. I'll try to add some info from "Classical Japanese: A Grammar" by Haruo Shirane in the near future, as my schedule and ...

Solresol of cuisine: All ingredients make sounds and are limited to 7

Oddly, everyone's been saying you have to clear caches and whatnot because Youtube keeps updating, even with uBlock, but I have Firefox (not even the most uptodate version) and uBlock origin, and I haven't had any trouble with Youtube forcing ads on me or needing to clear things. So if you want to g...

Humans are actually pretty robust in some ways. Many animals go into shock and die fairly quickly if they break a bone, and many others simply will die long term from inability to get food or evade predators. However, while humans sometimes go into shock in a manner that needs immediate attention to...

Personally I have elected to have an ongoing midlife crisis as I do not know when I will die. This is however overshadowed by my ongoing and lifelong existential crisis.

I've seen that post on tumblr.

And on the subject of dear, I think it's pretty much Deer Were Not Made Around Cars, So they Don't Understand What To Do.