Zompist Bboard Again

You’re conflating two quite different kinds of constructions here Very true, but it was deliberate: jonlang was talking about 'stacking verbs together', and that can mean many things: i wanted to illustrate some of the ways SOVs stack verbs together. (This is what Assamese has — I’m not sure where ...

these last couple years or so I've become interested in the engineering and history of rail transport: this has to do in part with local political and historical considerations, but also with the fact that they're just cool. This has brought me to the reflection that, in conworlding, we rarely pay a...

✗ ¿Qué? It's actually a Swedish song, thatI don't expect anyone to know lmao. the padre nuestro thing is commonly used to test drive conlangs and, well, it was in verse. it was worth a shot, huh? :lol: edit: wait, can i put a more inside of another more ? turns out yes (and they keep stacking) I th...

initally, solid zero after a bit, in text 3 i feel as if i can guess a few things, maybe up to a 1 or 2... are we talking about alcoholic drinks and rice in japan? gohan and sake suggests so. nihogistan is japan? wino is wine? is is is ? tami is word? patan is rice? nono, tami has to be rice, thus &...

I stupidly decided that I would make one of my conlangs SOV for no reason other than "it's different to the others" my brother in arms you are my first instinct, being currently working on a rather isolating SOVlang, is to string the verbs together with particles. this is probably no good...

ah, i see what bradrn was saying. oh well.

Scale? Legend? I'm still trying to figure out where's the chartreuse. but subversively, why not say it means dominant alignment of the native population? blue is lawful good, dark green is neutral good, sandy-green or whatever the dominant colour of the equator is be chaotic good, pinkish central be...

how about... lava ? it'd be pretty D&D

we must call in adventurers to help!

total disagree: p is a square, t is a circle, and i don't have strong opinions about k. it could be triangle, it could be some sort of star.

https://i.imgur.com/QnG97gq.png National and ethnic divisions in the world. Light Blue: Original worshippers of the goddess of fire and perhaps slightly elven they rule a noble mageocracy (due to their goddesses affinity) Light Red: Adoptees of the goddess of fire. They speak a distinct branch of t...

you know what? why not. i'm game. since there's no rules i'll assume there are no rules, which is my favourite ruleset. I'm taking over this bit. evil_isles.JPG and calling it "the evil isles". what? we're playing D&D here, so evil is an actual, tangible, metaphysical reality. so why n...

Travis B. wrote: ↑Fri Jun 02, 2023 9:58 am

Moose-tache wrote: ↑Sat May 27, 2023 6:44 pm When you kill someone, you absorb their life force.

By that count, Hitler, Stalin, and Mao ought to have gained immortality or close to.

maybe it doesn't work unless you kill them personally?

in times of war and in the hands of power all kinds of silly arguments just *work* though. "terrorism" in particular seems to be an infinite source of casus belli... casi belli ? casūs? anyway. remember the WMDs that bush was going to find while defeating the concept of terrorism and bring...

didn't tolks use actual earth languages for the vibes like all the time? I get the details mixed up but for example rohan was painted, so to speak, using the colors of... was it mercian old english? to make it sound more heroic and viking or something like that... eorlingas! (the sons of eorls) rohi...

then again, retaliatory action by ukraine/nato can be used by the kremlin as a justification for full mobilization, and makes russia's position more sympathetic in the eyes of its very important international allies and... neutrals? you know, like India, who refuses to stop trading with them even th...

my first reaction is to prune-and-archive, but tbh I don't know how big the DB is.

I'm not saying it's russia and/or china: but if I was russia and/or china I'd sure fund antivaxers and various other conspiratards.

as so often happens, there's a python library for that. though i don't know what I'd do with it and it only supports a couple of formats.

Like, I *want* to be totally against the antivax, but honestly the bodily autonomy thing I can't get past.