Zompist Bboard Again

It's not aggressive but caused by hormones, so my mum might have to be put on hormone blockers for 5-10 years. Which is gonna worsen issues she was having that she hoped to resolve with hormone therapy. Also gonna make her gain weight which she already tryna lose and is having problems with. Also I ...

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.

Anyone know Ojibwe? I am struggling with some translation.

I always wanted to do something like this but Inkscape makes it difficult. I also never really know how big or small a koppen region should be. I did my maps in GIMP; I'm teaching myself Inkscape atm which presents design challenges not present in GIMP though you do get lovely pixel-free maps out o...

I always wanted to do something like this but Inkscape makes it difficult. I also never really know how big or small a koppen region should be.

I forgot it was Nikita's birthday on March 30th. She would have been 14.

I like the idea of verbs taking the conjunct form when they act with an auxiliary verb iṣdi "he/she ate" (realis) iṣdâ "they ate" (realis) iṣaddi "he/she will eat" (irrealis) iṣaddâ "they will eat" (irrealis) īri ṣadīti "he/she did not eat" (realis) ...

I realized that the sound changes that lead to the negative verb forms wasn't quite sensible. These changes look cleaner, though I'm not a fan of medial glottal stop. tonot1.png However, I like this verb better and i think this will be the negative verb. The other one will have some other meaning to...

If consonants were to determine the quality of an epenthetic vowel, would /i/ appear after sonorants while /a/ appears after obstruents, or the other way around? I would think the other way around, as /a/ is "more sonorant" than /i/ I'd think. So /a/ after sonorants and /i/ after obstruents

If consonants were to determine the quality of an epenthetic vowel, would /i/ appear after sonorants while /a/ appears after obstruents, or the other way around?

Have to find an Ojibwe sacred story to translate into my own words and record me saying them. Problem is, at lot of example stories are summaries/not actual stories or have Ojibwe translation already (which means, as my teacher says, the work is already done)

A possible negative verb where the main verb is conjugated in the conjunct form narmaṣ "I heard" > nêr ramaṣni "I did not hear" marmaṣ "you heard" > mêr ramaṣmi "you did not hear" irmaṣ "he/she heard" > îr ramaṣti "he/she did not hear" nara...

Ahzoh, if you are at all concerned about ambiguity (e.g. of inanimates) one thing you could consider adding is inverse marking (forgive my linking to the Wiki) by which if an object is higher on some person/animacy/topicality hierarchy than the subject, you'd apply inverse marking, typically on the...

Plenty of languages alternate between V1 and V2 word orders. (I already mentioned Dinka; Mayan languages do it too, and in fact allow fronting of both constituents at once.) I couldn’t care less about what theories the Chomskyanists have come up with to contort these languages into the shape of Eng...

So if I'm reading right, this is purely a change of word order, not a different marking on fronted consitutents right? Just change of order. The fronting of constituents in an otherwise verb-first head-initial language is marker enough. Not sure I agree. For instance, this sentence could be interpr...

I like the flexibility ʾIḫūt ḳābam kapâs ʾarśēki (V-S-O-X) "The king poured water into his vessel" (neutral, default) ʾArśēki ʾiḫūt ḳābam kapâs (X-V-S-O) "into his vessel, the king poured water" Ḳābam ʾiḫūt kapâs ʾarśēki (S-V-O-X) "it was the king who poured water into his ...

xxx wrote: ↑Fri Mar 27, 2026 3:05 am do you have declensions or something to determine the function of each word...

Yes. In earlier posts here I have shown them.

I like the flexibility ʾIḫūt ḳābam kapâs ʾarśēki (V-S-O-X) "The king poured water into his vessel" (neutral, default) ʾArśēki ʾiḫūt ḳābam kapâs (X-V-S-O) "into his vessel, the king poured water" Ḳābam ʾiḫūt kapâs ʾarśēki (S-V-O-X) "it was the king who poured water into his v...

It is completely natural for languages to have 'unnecessary' redundancy, I should note. Speaking of which, it does somewhat bug me that the first and second person forms differ only in place. Perhaps it's just me, but /n/ and /m/ sound quite similar and easily confused in noisy settings. Apart from...

Trying to argue/gaslight that empathy is evil and toxic is perhaps one of the most insidious things the far right is doing. I saw once in my youtube feed some person trying to use philosophy bullshit to explain why empathy isn't always good and that it can be "toxic" and "manipulative...