Zompist Bboard Again

It was online rather than published, but I remember a Sumerian-Malay dictionary. Since it was based on old files of Halloran's for the Sumerian, you could call it a conlang dictionary, I guess This was nearly twenty years ago, though.

If you'd asked a few years back, "anokiaphobia" would have been an obvious contender...

I use LexiquePro for dictionaries. The bad thing about it is that you end up redoing a lot of stuff because you change your mind about how information should be organized. But I guess you'd have that same problem with any software. On their website, SIL should still have some stand-alone tools to h...

You're definitely a conlanger after my own heart, and I'm really pleased to see all your work & plans here! Unfortunately... I've become a big IE-dodger, took my Sanskrit degree and lit out for greener pastures. So I seriously doubt I'll understand, let alone fully appreciate, and far less likel...

I keep a lot of notes and do a lot of doodling on paper, but for the 'master document' stuff -- lexicon and texts with interlinearization, at least -- I use SIL software: Toolbox or Language Explorer. Grammar descriptions proper, I just write out in plain old flat text. Toolbox is probably my prefer...

I definitely use both. Agree that there's a register issue here: in formal speech or writing I'd only use "somewhere". Casually though, there is a weak functional difference, I think (for myself anyway): "Somewhere" is likely to be both indefinite and nonspecific, as in neither I...

Originally I meant Pseudo-Misihase to have a relatively modest lexicon, for con-sociolinguistic reasons. But I've come to realize I'm unwilling to dispense with so many fussy semantic distinctions. Like, "pale": kaibama "pale, faded from exposure" (e.g. wood or fabric left outdoo...

I'm basically an inactive conlanger and even more inactive member of this list, but maybe if I put my hat down at the (re)start here I'll somehow get all fired up and re-activated. Basics Username: Kuroda Birthplace: Uncertain. (No, really.) Place of residence: Cthulhu's Nursery, the Pacific Northwe...