Zompist Bboard Again

I hold basically no right-wing policy views, and I despise Trump and think he's the worst president in modern American history, but I have to say I'm really getting tired of constantly seeing shit like this: Because as right-wingers, they naturally believe that constantly losing any semblance of se...

Not sure what your point is. That mean civil servants made poor Donald Trump explode in response to a softball question? That mean civil servants made poor Donald Trump spend weeks pretending it was no big deal? Or, on the contrary, that mean civil servants tried to make poor Donald Trump act like ...

i once again encourage everybody who is getting upset about the Big Cheese of any western democracy to use this time to watch Yes, Minister

What do you mean by ‘semantically nominative-accusative’? I’ve never heard of such a thing. I can't remember exactly, but I think it was that if the S argument is typically an agent, but has absolutive case, then it's morphologically ergative but semantically nominative-accusative. :? Are you sure ...

It seems fruitful to me to posit that the Western tradition of profanity is a specifically Christian thing, descended from the prohibition not to take the Lord's name in vain via more generalized religious oaths down to today, where the religious beliefs that originally drove the tradition are large...

The one exception is when somebody else is using your language to write texts.

This, by the way, is highly recommended as a way of generating decisions on how things should work.

The former, yes. When Nort joined in with Yng and myself, we decided that it made the most sense to graft what we had onto his conworld, because from a conworlding perspective, it was the most complete -- although "complete" is of course a strong word. The name is older than that, and orig...

just don't use SAE pragmatics. IIRC you're a native speaker of a non-IE language, yes? If you're maximally lazy and just adapt your native language's pragmatics you'll clear that particular bar very easily

Would you like some conlang stuff? Here is some conlang stuff. This one is a Kànnow (you remember Kànnow, right?) translation of a Hlu fragment of the Zzyxwqnp epic that tells of the founding of Zzxzzyx. Very likely an anachronism, but it was nonetheless a handy text. Pvpchqpye Vtsznxmqpye Zzxzzyx Ř...

sour:
ŋlɔɔ̀ uʔɛ́záa, "sharp tongue" (Ubghuu)

Next:
spine, backbone

For what it's worth, the Swiss army works exactly like this. But then it's also a very different beast from the imperial guard US Army. As I understand it, Swiss comissioned officer candidates are still diverted into officer cadet school after basic training, and do not have to pass through the NCO...

For what it's worth, the Swiss army works exactly like this. But then it's also a very different beast from the imperial guard US Army.

Let's say I have a language where vowels are not allowed to be next to each other (is there a technical term for that?); that is, no diphthongs or hiatuses. However, there is a glottal stop, so e.g. /gaʔen/ is allowed. If glottal stops are lost intervocalically (which seems fairly reasonable), what...

BTW, last time I checked, mèþru didn't live in New York, so what do you mean with your "people from New York" remark? I think we both know what you mean, but I wonder if you have the guts to say it openly. New York jews, yes. You see, I had somehow gotten the idea that methru lived in Isr...

I'm rethinking using the label Zionist. People hear that term and assume all sorts of things that I'm not, which is part of why I don't use any other political labels. It is especially problematic as many of the tenets of my personal Zionism go against what is considered the orthodoxy of most popul...

I'm going to assume that this question is about egophoricity; please correct me if I've misinterpreted your terminology. Anyway, the answer is, it's neither, at least under definitions of modality which consider evidentiality distinct from mood. It's not a mood because it doesn't express a speaker's...

The problem here is that this is precisely the sort of thing the roman republic had the office of dictator for, which may applied for, but she did it in a manner so offensive to the senate parliament that she was refused. So now they're stuck in diplomacy-by-committee, where the members of the commi...

Sal, it might be sufficient if you just post more examples for the time being. If you can wait until tonight I'll gladly post some requests for context...

Okay, let's see what I can make out of this. Kath is clearly right; the rounded vowels /ʏ ʉ ø/ have exactly the same correspondences as /ɪ ɨ e/ and only occur either adjacent to labial consonants or in words with other non-back rounded vowels, apparently a rightward-spreading form of rounding harmon...

Nice. I'll use this opportunity to draw up a table of vowel correspondences as well. No. B A Ex. 1 æ ɑ æd~ʔɑ 2a æɪ aː æɪð~ʔaː 2b æjɛ aː βæjɛläd~vaːlæ 2c æːɪ aː βæːɪ~ɸaː 2d æːʏ aː tæːʏz~þaː 3 ä æ wäd~wæ 4a ɑ aː mɑnɪ~maːnɑː 4b* ɑ a ɑdɪː~ʔaheː 4c* ɑ aː βɑʒɪteɾjɪː~vaːðɛːɾæ 4d ɑ ɑ sɑð~sɑ 5 ɑʊ ɑː ɑʊɾ~ɑːɾ ...