Zompist Bboard Again

I am back from my self-impose exile, born of shame at totally failing to deliver anything at all for the relay. Yknow, I could say I've had lot going on in life, which is true but it's also always true so... Anyway, I'll presumably try to finish my language anyway, even if uh, the date of relevancy...

This, from an AML Intelligence write-up : ANALYSIS: Inside the people smuggling gangs laundering tens of millions every month – and Germany’s role as centre of the complex web extending from China and Middle East to the UK First, even the “ANALYSIS:” raises the question: Is the article an analysis o...

I hope this is eligible for this thread, because it amuses me considerably:

Talking about Cyrus’ conquest of Egypt in the MECK, zompist wrote:The pharaoh Amasis helped [Cyrus] by dying just before the war.

Redoing CT cuneiform yet again, based on zompist’s explanation in the MECK. I’m debating whether to write them in hieroglyphics instead, but at least I have some preliminary studies based on CK monumental script.

I just got a vowel inventory of /ɨ ɨː ɘ ɘː a aː ɤ ɤː o oː/ with seed 1070494456.

Congrats, bradrn!

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!

Wow, that nearly-useless American history course I went through in college finally pays off! As I understand it, it has a lot to do with the fact that the New World was kind of a blank slate where any of society's rejects could ply their trade and make a name for themselves. Couldn't hack it in the ...

Éukaĝ n sl. Hïḫkl. Uám ar? Aĝłíl hé łn? Áge n łn hé, tehar, áín uarák—mmmmmm—árus láus mêḫ łn! Lamp oil. Rope. Bombs? You want it? It's yours , my friend, provided you have enough—mmm—rupees! – Morshu, Link and the Faces of Evil éukaĝ n sl hïḫkl uám ar aĝłíl hé łn áge n łn hé tehar áín uarák mmmmm ...

zompist wrote: ↑Sun Nov 21, 2021 8:00 amAre people forgetting that zompist.com exists, as well as zompist.wordpress.com?

In my case—yes. It honestly didn't cross my mind to check there, but then again, normally about 80% of my browsing is confined to here, the Other Place, schlaugh, Reddit, and the august Dr. Wik E. Pedia.

FWIW, I approved the proof yesterday night, so they're frighteningly efficient these days. Earlier, with the LCK, it would take days or weeks for the foreign versions of amazon to get the book. Oh, I missed this news! I've been looking forward to its release. I apologize if this has been asked else...

I just got tickets to see King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard in May!

I have taken, and passed, the CAMS certification exam.

I'm thinking I'm going to redo the romanization of some of my conlangs due to technical limitations—my font family of choice, TT Marxiana, has a disappointingly limited character set. The main changes: Classical Ĝare n Tim Ar : /m n ŋ/ m n ĝ /θ s x h/ ð s ḫ h /ɬ/ ł /ɹ ʕ/ r g /l/ l Vowels stay the sa...

IIUC, maybe Egyptian Arabic is what you are looking for? Probably although since I'm not an Arabophone I don't know how much modern culture is produced in it Egypt is the TV capital of the Arab world. Everyone from Morocco to Muscat can probably name a half-dozen Egyptian soap operas. I couldn't te...

Moose-tache wrote: ↑Mon Oct 18, 2021 7:37 pm My favorite is the guy who looks like a cross between Stephen King and Wayne's World.

The guy on the 20? If so, that’s me!

Thanks for having me featured, doctor shark!

It’s for the same syllable though. The first three examples were all coronals in the onset; the last three were the peripherals.

I particularly miss Whimemsz. He was knowledgable on North American languages and diachronics. Then he blanked a bunch of his posts and left. Unfortunate.

Nachtswalbe wrote: ↑Tue Oct 12, 2021 3:56 pm One of my mom’s favorite lines to say when confronted with her behavior is:”There are worse people/families than me/ours”

Nachtswalbe, I am asking this in 100% seriousness based on this and the other thread: Are you in any imminent danger to your person?

Out of interest I attempted to program this on my synthesiser, only to find some discrepancies: If the chromatic is an eighteenth of the fifth, I’d expect it to be 38.998 cents, but your listed value of 77.995 cents is double that The ‘diatonic’ scale appears to have 2+3+1+2+2+3+1+2=16 steps, but i...

Some languages allow bare adjectives to stand substantively. English usually doesn’t; however, it can indicate a mass or plural referent: The fallen, the brave, the blue, the vaccinated…

How did this develop in English?