Zompist Bboard Again

That's no fun. It is hard to even create a reasonable Nortography out of it.

The Pragmatic Programmer - While to the experienced programmer a lot of it seems like common sense, it is an excellent book, and for people like myself it is a good reminder of all the stuff that we should be doing but are not doing enough.

To me lice is more a plurale tantum than a collective noun, in that it still behaves mostly like a plural noun, just one whose singular is missing in action, considering how infrequently louse is actually used. Would the noun "police" be a plurale tantrum? It takes plural agreement and it...

foxcatdog wrote: ↑Thu Jun 20, 2024 10:07 pm yeah but technically not a romanisation

Ich würde das Pedanterie nennen.

/p pʰ t c k kʰ ʔ/ <π φ τ ξ κ χ VV> /m n ɲ ŋ/ <μ ν νι γ(γ)> /s~ʃ h/ <σ ◌̔> /w l j/ <(ο)υ λ ι> /i ɨ u e ə o a/ <ι υ ου η ε ο/ω α> There are three tones: level, rising (acute) and falling (circumflex). /hǐpəkjoʔoŋe tajtaki wâkcɨŋme nôkcâ ŋoʔ || tə̌wnôkme henloŋʃe mɨ̌npu ʃɨkonahacâ ŋoʔ || jaə nawja joʔ...

Karch wrote: ↑Thu Jun 20, 2024 5:09 pm /i ɨ u e ə o a/ <i ö u e ü o a>

Seriously?

I am on my way from Chicago back to Wisconsin after having been in central California and then taken the train from there to Chicago, and aside from the plain people I encountered everyone spoke some variation on General American except me and my daughter. It felt weird, like... is how I'm used to s...

I have decided to adopt Suffixaufnahme for Fad'ami where dependent nouns agree with their heads in case and number. I have also decided that dependent adjectives agree with their heads in the same fashion.

• inspire, yokki
• Romanian, romana

Yokkiqamila fad'aa romanata qon?
inspire-AGT.3.S.INAN-INV-Q language-ERG Romanian-GEN-ERG DIST.S.INAN
Is that inspired by Romanian?

They then said they spoke a "mixed language" (their term). I then said it was nice meeting them and wished them a good evening, to which one of them replied with what I can best render as "ich aa", presumably cognate with StG "ich auch". This sounds very mysterious. Al...

• cool, neat, cille

Nawiqa t'a qona ma cille!
appear-DAT-AGT.3.S.INAN EMPH DIST.S.INAN 1.S neat
That seems neat!

I am on a train right now and encountered a number of plain people speaking a language other than English so out of curiosity I asked them, in German, what language they were speaking. They replied, in English, that they did not understand my question but recognized that it was in Deutsch . Then I s...

falafels (coll.), falaafil some (coll.), nuut'a dinner, leexan delicious, namza Yooridimya nuut'a falaafilit leexan eat-DAT-AGT.1.S-PAT.3.P.INAN some falafels-GEN dinner I ate some falafels for dinner. Tagu ga namzalaa COP-AGT.P.INAN PROX.P.INAN delicious-P They were delicious.

Ordinal numbers are expressed by placing the numbers in genitive case with the nouns qualified before them, in a reverse of cardinal numbers, which are expressed by placing the nouns qualified in genitive case after the numbers.

sleep (intr.), k'owwi day, faaya Madrola ha k'owwic'anroya faayam nit ut faayam cat ut faayam samit? /madrɔla xa kʼɔwːitsʼanrɔja faːjam nitʰ utʰ faːjam tsʰatʰ utʰ faːjam samitʰ/ able_to-FUT-Q COMP sleep-LOC-AGT.2.S-FUT-PAT.3.P.INAN day-P one-GEN and day-P two-GEN and day-P three-GEN Will you be abl...

Now, material for Janko... one, ni * two, ca * three, sam * four, dura * five, lise six, mik seven, yola eight, wat nine, lahi ten, tim eleven, ni * ut tim [snip] twenty, yen twenty-one, ni * ut yen [snip] thirty, tim ut yen thirty-one, ni * ut tim ut yen forty, yen ca [snip] one hundred, lodde [sn...

• gloss, galos

Gabila le nayadit ha madit'a ha yaalunya galosam mut'laa?
/ɣabila le najaditʰ xa maditʼa xa jaːlunja ɣalɔsam mutʼlaː/
exist-ABL-Q any reason-GEN COMP able_to-NEG COMP give-AGT.2.S-PAT.3.P.INAN gloss-P real-P
Is there any reason that you cannot give real glosses?

I have decided that in ditransitive clauses where the indirect object is a 1, 1+2, or 2 argument, and especially if the direct object is lengthy, the word order is liable to be swapped such that the indirect object comes before the direct object rather than after it, unlike the usual word order of d...

believe, hiib'u random, jomme stream, qaana bits (coll.), bit Yaaludinit'a mu nayad hiib'udat ha ta qo fad'a mut'. /jaːludinitʼa mu najad xiːɓudatʰ xa tʰa qʰɔ faɗa mutʼ/ give-DAT-AGT.2.S-NEG 1.P reason believe-ACTION-GEN COMP COP PROX.S.INAN language real You gave us no reason to believe that it wa...

One thing I have decided is that if a verb is intransitive, whether inherently or due to its voice (e.g. antipassive), and an applicative is attached to it, the verb agrees with the applied argument as a patient. Isn’t this simply the definition of an applicative? It’s something which promotes an i...