Zompist Bboard Again

hjaċivaje
[ça.ɬi.ˈβa.je]
'Ankylosaurus magniventris'

hj > ç

sbalalhpu
[ˈswa.ɬɪf]
“to resemble a human in some way”

ɸ > f

sijvle
[ɕiʝˈvʎɛ]
‘(of lines) to go up’

Alveolar sibilants before front vowels become alveolopalatal.

You do see expatriate communities of rich Westerners living in relatively poor countries such as Thailand or your example of Mexico -- it just is that in the present tense there either generally is not enough expatriates to displace the native population or the settler colonialism has already taken ...

does that apply to all things that function more or less independently of substrate? for example, doom, which can run on -in principle- a computer made out of anything? is there a Doom that exists independently of material reality? now if we found a Doom that can run on no material substrate, then ...

ċijvalē
[ciʝvɐˈɭɛj]
‘(of a flying animal, vehicle, &c.) to take off; (of people) to get rich’

ɛ: > ɛj

sbalalhpu
[ˈsblɐɬ.pʰʊ]
“to resemble a human in some way”

Stressed ə > ɐ

It should be noted, though, that typically immigration controls are used to 'protect' rich people from poor people, and not vice versa, and these rich people certainly do not need protecting.

I'm not convinced of that. settler colonialism does not amount to foreigners coming to live here [wherever here is], it also involves a regime of social and legal superiority of the settler group over the natives, as was the case in the past in colonial latin america, or north america, or africa, o...

That's just a special case of what we've been saying all along! what is, the "since pi is the same for circles of any materiality, there must be a Pi that exists independently of material reality" or the "pi is what is it because of some feature of spacetime or of what we mean by pi ...

Also i'm not beating other theories with sticks that may or may not exist: dualism and idealism are interesting theories which, i mean, i don't buy, but they're not dumb either: you'll remember this started as travis going "i'm not dualistic, i just believe in real mathematical objects", ...

Nachtswalbe wrote: ↑Wed May 06, 2026 7:53 am Something like a World Passport

While I have defended the idea that people be treated as citizens of whatever lands in which they live, such logic could be used to defend settler colonialism.

ċiyufala
[ciʝvɐˈɭa:]
‘(of a flying animal, vehicle, &c.) to take off; (of people) to get rich’

Tensing of long vowels

sbabalalhpu
[ˈspa.bləɬ.pʰʊ]
“(of anthropomorphic animals) to have human dna”

Deletion of schwas in immediate post-tonic syllables

So if -en isn’t a morpheme, then what is it? A syllable, part of a single morpheme. I don't see much difference between "sleep" / "slept" or "go" / "went" on the one hand, and "write" / "written" on the other, with regards to phonemic anal...

Ahzoh wrote: ↑Tue May 05, 2026 8:31 am Well, it looks like my mum has (early stage) breast cancer. It seems there is not a year where misfortune does not befall those I love.

Sorry to hear that. At least it was caught early, if that's anything.

zeptoforth 1.16.2 is out!

Just to underscore one impact of the war, gas prices around here have surged from less than three dollars before the war to nearly four and half dollars today. Admittedly gas is undoubtedly cheaper here than in many other parts of the country and expensive gas is hardly the worst impact of this war...

/b d̪ d dz dʒ/ <b dh d dz j> /pʰ t̪ʰ tʰ tsʰ tʃʰ cʰ kʰ qʰ/ <p th t ts ch ky k q> /t̪ʼ tʼ tsʼ tʃʼ cʼ kʼ qʼ/ < th' t' ts' ch' k'y k' q'> (Emphasis mine) Just as a note, dental stops are far more common than alveolar stops, which only occur when dental stops in the protolanguage were palatalized and al...

A morpheme is an idemtifiable element of a word that changes the meaning driven without the -(e)n would be the base form, not a past participle. Bad example. Without the -en, it’s just /drɪv/. The vowel is altered exactly like write > written. It’s just not shown orthographically because v is tradi...

ćyfažra
[ciʝuhaˈʐɻa]
‘(of a flying animal, vehicle, &c.) to take off; (of people) to get rich’

j > ʝ

Also nice!

this is exactly what i mean when i say dualism depends on an inversion: math is a thing people do, and does change: what doesn't change is what math is describing, namely the motions of planets etcetera etcetera, that is to say, reality qua such. the planets don't move around the way they do becaus...

this is exactly what i mean when i say dualism depends on an inversion: math is a thing people do, and does change: what doesn't change is what math is describing, namely the motions of planets etcetera etcetera, that is to say, reality qua such. the planets don't move around the way they do becaus...