Zompist Bboard Again

Redistributing equity in corporations away from wealthy individuals is the stupidest idea I have ever heard. Publically-traded corporations are already subject to a lot of pressure to behave extremely shortsightedly, because stockholders win when the market price of shares in the corporation rises; ...

FDR is mostly the ultimate evil for his utter failure slash refusal to ensure proper succession. He purposefully centralized power within his own person, but by informal means, with the result that when he died the bureaucracy became autonomous and largely responsible only to congress. So really in ...

Vardelm wrote: ↑Thu Nov 11, 2021 9:35 am

bradrn wrote: ↑Thu Nov 11, 2021 7:49 am incopyfixation

Could we please get some references on that terminology?

The famous paper is this one. See page 28 for "incopyfixation"

This genre of post reminds me very strongly of the time when I was arguing with an anarchist who for the life of him could (or, more likely, would) not understand that there were ways of being opposed to anarchism that don't entail the belief that "voting for social-democratic politicians will ...

Even Karch has a seven kill stele signature in Swamp Orthography now, gotta succumb to the peer pressure So: how do you translate it to Kangshi? Kangshi syntax is known to be annoying, so this is probably like the fifth iteration of a Kangshi Qishabei I do, but maybe I'll get it to stick at some poi...

are there even any spellcheckers these days that aren't hunspell under the hood

The Aorist The aorist is the unmarked form. Its semantic value is simply the assertion of some state or action. Pragmatically, what this means depends on the inherent aspect of the verb: with perfective verbs, this means a past occurrence, whereas with imperfective verbs, it is most often a future ...

I’m seriously impressed that you managed to do this — without proper documentation! (I’ve been meaning to write some, but alas, haven’t gotten around to it just yet…) I find it extremely surprising that this was easier to build on Windows than Linux; in my experience, it’s usually the other way aro...

So I have good news and bad news. The good news is that I've managed to compile and run the brassica GUI on Linux. The bad news is that it was extremely involved to do so, largely because (til) Windows doesn't have a distinction between position-independent and position-dependent code, which lets y...

While I'm at it, I also have a bug report/feature request: Brassica doesn't apply sound changes multiple times when the direction of application is LTR.

So I have good news and bad news. The good news is that I've managed to compile and run the brassica GUI on Linux. The bad news is that it was extremely involved to do so, largely because (til) Windows doesn't have a distinction between position-independent and position-dependent code, which lets yo...

Luckily for you, I have a fair amount of things about Old Inggirian already written up, which I will be happy to post. So, let us start with Old Inggirian verbal morphology. The inflectional verbal morphology of Old Inggirian divides itself, albeit not neatly, into three sets of forms: bound forms, ...

Turns out that the whole "naturalistic conlangs" thing is extremely difficult, also I need naming languages for my tabletop setting, so I accidentally those instead of working on the Akana relay or Kangshi. Oops. I started working on these conlangs sometime in 2018, when I ran a D&D ca...

I just often reuse words that I already used for simpler meanings. Oba dis in wo dirayf mohfoloji min. Dirayf mohfoloji u dohn prefis o sofis an an, fi olta mining an/o tahn woh ya ina difa sintas katagri. But that's not what derivational morphology means. Derivational morphology is adding a prefix...

Iɲāthicīcɨzechi chathan ēmanayomp! (Niŋ micā yēꞵanaŋū.) /iˈɲaːɹiˌciːcɨzeˌɰi ɰaˈɹan ˈeːmaˌnajomp | niŋ miˈcaː ˈjeːβanaŋˌuː/ |[iɲat-ic]-icə-ɨze-kɨ chat-ən əʷ-e-maⁿ-nə-yomp! (nɨŋ mica əʷ-rəʷ-e-maⁿ-raŋu.)| I got my first vaccine! (Two days ago.) Mñwdf gmduoj nah n dbi kspwabh grah qtxi nah n iqtagdauf ...

Mñwdf gmduoj nah n dbi kspwabh grah qtxi nah n iqtagdauf qbeh, nu dkmcf dññwdf gmduoj n kxpozah ktaxqau n ikcf gdrtch n qbeh qreij. Mñwdf e n ogsxa kñdau n tazbabh n xdcduod zij n dbzwj ktxi gxpudf zurgcj ñtaxqau ikcf gdrtch n qbeh qreij e. m-ñwdf 0-gmduoj nah n dbi k-spwah=b grah qtxi nah n i-q-ta...

Mñwdf e nu dkmcf zizij kqspwah grah n kdobf qtxi qog kbkaj n qtxi qxmef qe. [mŋw̌j é nú lᵊkʰmæ̌ zizì kʰᵊqspɯ̂ə ʕɻɑ̂n kʰɗǒw ʡᵊtʰħí ʡɔ́ˤ kᵊɸkɑ̀n ʡᵊtʰħí ʡᵊħmě ʡé] m- ñwdf e n =u 0- dkmcf z- izij k- q- spwah grah n kdobf q- txi q= og k- bkaj n q- txi q- xmef q- e It is for such reasons that I only make...

I mean, the Romanian case system basically derives from exactly this construction. You can just drop the distinction between definite and indefinite nouns if you want universal morphological case marking.

Couldn’t you use the github actions Mac runner to do it?

I recommend this paper for a more in-depth treatment, including an exploration of how you can derive it diachronically.