Zompist Bboard Again

As far as "the firewood was made to be chopped by me" goes, I agree it's totally grammatical to me, but not with the semantics you're looking at (< ~"Someone caused me to chop the firewood"). Rather, it clearly means "This firewood came into existence for the sole purpose of...

My take on this is that the pleasure — the only pleasure — is in teasing one's memory, and secondarily the reward of realizing someone else out there has read about the same obscure language you have. If it's not something I recognize even broadly, then I just sit back and wait for the next one. &qu...

I'd think the point of the game would be to NOT google the text, since the fun is in using what you already know or answers given by the person posting to figure it out. Obviously it's not like there's any way to prove someone didn't, but what's the fun in doing so? Well, for a lot of folks, the fu...

Wow, clearly we're bored and need more stimulation here! :D Okay .... Im guessing the hardest part of this thread is going to be finding a sample text that someone cant just google and find the answer immediately. could you give us advice on that? Books and articles, basically. Older materials are l...

I thought I'd try reviving the 'guess the mystery language' thread that used to run here. If it's run its course and doesn't get picked up, that's cool too. The basic idea is, one at a time, a poster presents a paragraph or so of text in some language; readers reply with their identifications/guesse...