Zompist Bboard Again

aa masako ta blog hahaayo ti taa mihaa skaako toonka
Masako's blog demonstrates that he loves making new words.

Yey! Mi finis fehs draf a cata 3 a Obit ya (im a smol cata). Dis min olda woh tahn, oba it a olip pah-dem dem won a tencion. Yay! I finished the first draft of chapter 3 of The Hobbit (it's a small chapter). This means all the words are translated, but there's a lot of parts that are in need of att...

quinterbeck wrote: ↑Wed Mar 18, 2020 6:26 am This is very nice, did you handwrite the lettering?

I do a lot of watercolor, but this was done with the regular brush tool in photoshop.

Here's a page of Peter Rabbit in Saava's native script.

Not sure if someone has already pointed this one out, but there is a dialect in Borneo called "Highland Kenyah."

Breaking news! William Annis, of Conlangery Podcast fame, has published a pdf of the Kilta Reference Grammar. I especially like his use of auxiliaries and particles. https://www.dropbox.com/s/4ug1d8h4e5lf4kp/kilta.pdf?dl=0 It looks like a new version---but earlier ones have been available (and this...

Breaking news! William Annis, of Conlangery Podcast fame, has published a pdf of the Kilta Reference Grammar. I especially like his use of auxiliaries and particles. https://www.dropbox.com/s/4ug1d8h4e5lf4 ... a.pdf?dl=0

This video is supposedly in Ixil, and by golly it really does seem like the only long vowels are front vowels or aa. I can definitely hear short back vowels, but I'm not 100% certain that all the front vowels are long. Some of them sound phonetically short to me, but that may not be their underlyin...

bradrn wrote: ↑Thu Mar 12, 2020 7:19 pm (I’ve really got to think of a better name for this than ‘my language’…)

"aa uroo vohi ʒ" sano ya?
How about "Oops All ʒ?"

pants, trousers

*htihe ta kahsoo* (literally "the robes that a squid would wear." You can tell they don't care for trousers)

Next: incense

Saava si "na" natira, vohi hihuu kviraa hinakee.
In Saava I say "na," but only on verbs.

tó yuna návi
I was wrong, then.

pairasa aro namáta pá
I guess I worry too much about the virus.

deluge, flood

se aro ota (literally "a lot of water runs out")

Next: disappointment

I've always enjoyed the "in character" Cadhinorian grammar. It's slightly infuriating to use, but the arrogance of the author is just so much fun. I especially appreciate the obligatory section at the beginning where phonemes are explained with obtuse descriptions like "an odd sigh.&q...

... please ignore this question. Never! Regardless of how concessive constructions drift over time, there is another way to do what you want. The difference between the "even though" and "even if" examples you gave was one of realis and irrealis. Languages that have some overt m...

fortress, fortification

hina kteku (literally "They are loyal inside")

Next: Covid-19

bradrn wrote: ↑Tue Mar 10, 2020 2:28 am This map of Yap has lots of names which sound like they’re from a bad fantasy novel: Thileer, Fongoch, Musgow, Gachpar, Feeching, Kanifay, Teanfaar, Qeng, Qawoch, Luweech, Bulwol…

Do you think that on this map, in Maap, at Maap School, there is a map of Maap on Yap?

hasoo flu napaa
cataph-old flu 1st-see
Seems like regular flu to me. (literally: I see the old flu)

Nortaneous wrote: ↑Sun Mar 08, 2020 6:45 pm the DB is backed up on Zenodo, so it'd be possible to make a new site for it.

That's the site Qwynegold found earlier. The problem is, without column headings, it's just a random number generator.

office, planning room

hkoni ta taho (literally a house for meeting/facing one another)

Next: eye sand/crust