Zompist Bboard Again

I posted this elsewhere already, so some of you might have seen it, but it didn't gain much traction. I figured the audience here may be more receptive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hGhva_N2S8

To change the subject completely: Wiktionary lists many different alternatives for various forms of the verb quethen ( link ). I assume the variation is at least partly scribal and partly dialectal. Does anyone know which set of forms would have been used in the East Midlands dialect? Especially reg...

Also, Kuchigakatai's post reminded me: does anyone know of anything like LLPSI for Sanskrit? LLPSI is ultimately just a glorified* graded reader. Aren't there graded readers, or just readers, for Sanskrit? There should be... * due to being monolingual in spite of being in a non-modern language. lol...

And I really notice this "time exposing yourself to language" thing when people have very unbalanced oral or written skills, being much better at the oral language than the written one, or viceversa. Yeah, this is basically my problem with Japanese. At my university all the language class...

Vijay wrote: ↑Thu Apr 29, 2021 5:49 pm UniLang

I just checked that place out, and it seems like a potentially useful resource. Is it any good?

I've ended up using a fellow ZBBer's advice (not originally intended for language learning in particular but still seems to apply; not sure whether the ZBBer in question wants to be acknowledged by name): "Read. Read a lot. Then read some more." This is probably good advice, but unfortuna...

Well, I've been out of school for over a year now, and it's become very apparent to me that I have no idea how to study a language effectively without the aid of a formal classroom environment. I've tried flashcards (both physical and digital), textbooks, and so on, but nothing seems to click. My un...

the chair that i was sitting in with you guys : seems a bit odd to me, even if the chair has armrests, etc, and mostly encircles the body. but still grammatical. Interesting, I only accept 'in' for chairs. "I'll sit down in this chair" - grammatical. "I'll sit down on this chair"...

Kuchigakatai wrote: ↑Tue Apr 27, 2021 5:22 pm

dɮ the phoneme wrote: ↑Tue Apr 27, 2021 4:07 pmor "one that I was sitting on with you guys in"

That is also weird though... Although maybe you forgot to remove the "on"...

I did forget, yes

Not sure if this is actually innovative, but I often find myself ellipting portions of subordinate clauses in natural speech that after the fact strike me as odd or dubiously grammatical. I recently recently responded to the question "which chair" with "the one that I was sitting wit...

Not sure if this is actually innovative, but I often find myself ellipting portions of subordinate clauses in natural speech that after the fact strike me as odd or dubiously grammatical. I recently recently responded to the question "which chair" with "the one that I was sitting with...

Just realized I sometimes have [k'] for unstressed 'because'.

This is fantastic. Seeing the floating tones made me especially happy, as they're one of my favorite features but I so rarely see conlangers make use of them. Can't wait to see more of this!

I’m assuming it’s because (ke.de) = (L.L) fits into an iambic moraic foot, whereas *(boq.te) = (H.L) doesn’t, so /te/ must remain unfooted. Yes, this is why Possibly your best bet is to do what I’ve done for my current set of sound changes: manually add a special character after the stressed vowel ...

Ok, I've gotten a lot of very helpful advice so far that I'm definitely going to keep in mind, so, thank you everybody! I'm still having some difficulties though, so I'm gonna try to describe my specific problem in more detail. In several of the languages I'm working on, metrical structure plays a b...

Japanese has several ways of handling conditionals, none of which obligatorily use the word for 'if' ( moshi ), which is essentially just an ordinary adverb. In my experience, moshi is used to emphasize the counterfactual nature of an antecedent, but it's frequently omitted. One of the conditionals ...

I've never really used SCAs, my lexicons have always been so underdeveloped that I can just apply sound changes by hand. But I've been adding a lot of new items to a couple of my lexicons recently, and at this point I really need to start automating things. I've been trying to use Zompist's sca2, an...

Nortaneous wrote: ↑Tue Apr 06, 2021 5:57 pm

bradrn wrote: ↑Wed Apr 07, 2021 5:05 am

pabenkaptuɟeɟaɻso soʈanʈaɻle tukefafatumboq

pa-0-ben-kaptu-ɟeɟa-ɻ-s-o
1sg.A-3sg.INAN.P-should-cut-meat-APPL-ACT-PST

so-ʈanʈa-ɻle
INAN-knife-ADESS

tuke-fa-fatu-mb-oq
3sg.INAN.A-REDUP-be.sharp-INTRANS-ATTR

"I should have cut the meat with a sharper knife"

I agree, Janko, that's one of the things that makes this hobby so endlessly engrossing

I think I asked about this once on the old board, but does any language have unconditional f > p?