Zompist Bboard Again

This comes to my mind here.

I have collected what I have written about Rihalle Kaafi into the beginnings of a basic grammar . Wouldn’t it make better sense to have palatalized allophones before close vowels, instead of before front vowels ? I don't think so. Palatalization before front vowels is very much a thing; I don't kno...

Nice stuff, looks promising.

I have decided that the Old Albic future tense is formed with the suffix -í- between the stem and the personal ending. The ancient Elven grammarians already connected this to the verb í- 'want' < Early PIE *yeh₁-; thus it is cognate to the Late PIE optative suffix *-yeh₁-/-ih₁-.

Sure but how do you plan on countering the massive advantage that the AfD has in propaganda? Apparently Elon Musk is throwing his weight behind it. There are many people in Germany who object to the AfD. The opinion polls predict the AfD to win about 20% of the seats in the upcoming election, which...

nobody 'expects' you to accept it - there are a lot of things you could do...join an organization that works on a grassroots (or higher) level to combat attempts to kill/maim liberal democracy, you could write a book, you could paint, you could redouble work on a conlang...so many more options than...

The problem with calling it a 'nominative' case is then that the typical object is 'nominative', which goes against the very idea that the nominative is a subject case. Calling it 'direct' avoids this by emphasizing that an argument is unmarked as opposed to being either a marked subject or a marke...

Maybe it is specifically recent French loans versus words based on the set of words of Latinate derivation common to western Europe? This would definitely explain the difference in stress pattern. Maybe. But Politik is not the only -ik noun with final stress, Mathematik , Physik , Kritik and a few ...

Actually, the day before yesterday, but I somehow failed to post: A word for a central part of Old Albic social thinking. The word is yrgidrámamintih 'circular process thinking' (German Kreislaufdenken ). It is a compound of: - yrgih 'wheel, circle' < PIE *Hwrgis - drámah 'track, course' < PIE *dró...

Emily wrote: ↑Mon Jan 13, 2025 3:12 pm sometimes nouns ending with -ik stress the final syllable (e.g. Politik) and sometimes they don't (e.g. Grammatik). is there a way to tell which way a word is going to work? or an overall pattern with a list of specific exceptions?

I'm at least not aware of any such rule.

I'd say that tonogenesis plays a possible role.Iiuic, in Asian languages with a lot of tones, there's been a lot of erosion going on, with distinction of no-longer-present consonants being transfered to different or more complex tones. Yes. For instance, the "entering tones" in various Ch...

I'd say that tonogenesis plays a possible role.Iiuic, in Asian languages with a lot of tones, there's been a lot of erosion going on, with distinction of no-longer-present consonants being transfered to different or more complex tones. Yes. For instance, the "entering tones" in various Ch...

Actually, the day before yesterday, but I somehow failed to post: A word for a central part of Old Albic social thinking. The word is yrgidrámamintih 'circular process thinking' (German Kreislaufdenken ). It is a compound of: - yrgih 'wheel, circle' < PIE *Hwrgis - drámah 'track, course' < PIE *dróm...

Interesting. I notice many strokes that are drawn from bottom to top, a direction that seems to be rare in the world's writing system, but feels strangely natural to me. It felt natural for the Caber too. They’ve Druids, after all, and one of their pervasive conceptual metaphors is GOOD IS DOWN (an...

Interesting. I notice many strokes that are drawn from bottom to top, a direction that seems to be rare in the world's writing system, but feels strangely natural to me.

Rock'n'roll.

Für uns Deutsche ist Englisch leichter als Fraanzösisch, weil es eine germanische Sprache ist. Aber wenn man Englisch kann, ist Französisch leichter, weil man viele französische Wörter bereits aus dem Englischen kennt. For us Germans, English is easier than French because it is a Germanic language....

Early last year I posted on the CONLANG list the idea that the much-discussed "Caucasian" substratum in Proto-Indo-European was related to Semitic: https://listserv.brown.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind2402a&L=CONLANG&P=5567 However, I have since grown doubt against my own idea. The Transcau...

Nice stuff! Also, I like that old-fashioned typography which look as if it was printed 100 years ago.

Just found this (someone in a German-language worldbuilding forum posted it). Enjoy!