Zompist Bboard Again

I’ve gotten pretty much all of the CT logosyllabic canon mapped out in my notebook. Now I can work on new symbols to supplement what I have so far.

All right, creator of Yidiny, a constraint requiring an even number of syllables in a surface word is creative, I’ll give you that, and actually pretty cool. But it’s totally unnaturalistic.

Kálhinkúlitłi: "Áge r höge hae teðe łn ðéku hé ĝöl saman itü r hae łn."

Kálhinkúlitłi

Calvin.Coolidge

áge

COP

r

NEG

höge

possible

hae

SUB

teðe

punish

łn

2SG

ðéku

1PL

hé

3SG

ĝöl

because.of

saman

speak

itü

CONT.PERF

r

NEG

hae

REL

łn

2SG

"They can't get you for what you didn't say." – Calvin Coolidge

"Time is sight, gravity is desire", the Stellaris quote, in CT cuneiform:

Technically over the weekend, but CT now has (much of) an unwieldy cuneiform writing system.

I would like to research the specific effects of ramming an asteroid the size of FirstEnergy Stadium in Cleveland into an Earth-like planet. (Assume it is nontrivially hollowed out but still of appreciable heft.) There are a few things I’m after: - What are the effects of a land versus a sea impact?...

Polish – Because heritage.
Latin – Because altum videtur.
Arabic – Originally because I wanted to know what star names meant, but it’s just really cool. I like the emphatic/pharyngeal consonants and the root-and-pattern morphology.

I like the idea of the Red Death reckoning! I love all the work you've put into timekeeping! I've tried this myself before, but never to this level of detail. Thank you both! Is there a similar backstory for the St Vengeance one? Not really. The guy who invented the system just happened to be a dev...

Timekeeping on Ítöð The two most important ways of reckoning time on Ítöð are the way the Tim Ar do it and the way international diplomacy does it. The Tim Ar The Tim Ar reckon years using the Count of Yar Yereu (CYY). In this scheme, there's one special, independent day ( Tékða m Hëkî Éakar ü ) at...

I did a lot of writing about how they keep time and mark calendars on Ítöð.

For the first time in my life, I have a girlfriend.

I got my officially-licensed tri-dimensional chess set yesterday. It looks super cool.

Quick note on CT: Might make a small Northern branch too with the dentals shifting to /x/. -------- Because it's about time I tackle this: Täptäg. I want to get to this: /m m̥ n n̥ ɲ ɲ̊/ /p pʲ pʰ pʲʰ b bʲ b̥ b̥ʲ t tʲ tʰ tʲʰ d dʲ d̥ d̥ʲ c cʰ ɟ ɟ̊ k kʰ g g̊/ /s z ʃ ʒ/ /w j/ /u o ɑ æ e i/ Let's see if ...

I have been made aware of a band called “King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard”. I’d heard only one of their songs before, to wit “Rattlesnake”, but they have some really great stuff. And they sound phenomenal in a live setting if the KEXP sessions are anything to go by.

A live rendition of “Billabong Valley” by King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. Starts at about 9:41. (It sounds weird because it’s microtonal.)

I just had a very refreshing and weighty conversation with an old friend.

Think I did some good changes to Proto-Southern Tim Ar… m̩ n̩ ŋ̩ ɹ̩ l̩ → mə nə ŋə ɹə lə m n ŋ → b d g k g → tʃ dʒ / _E V{x,ɣ,h} → Vː h → j / #_ {θ,ð} → n VːV → Vː, tone retracts to previous syllable C → [+ vc] / V_V ɣ → j b d g → β ɹ j / V_V ə → i / CC_# ə → Ø æ → jo j → Ø / {tʃ,dʒ}_ ɯ ɤ → ə a / a…_...

Whoa, they both became totally unrecognizable. Yay! But how come you chose a romlang spelling for Central Tim Ar? My guess was because it looks nice. That would be why. Just preference. Thumbs up! (To the defense of romlang orthographies, they do give pretty good hints on how words are supposed to ...

Wrote sound changes to Proto-Western Tim Ar. Then scrapped them. Rinse and repeat a few times.

Let's try some changes to Eastern Tim Ar, shall we? [- cons + hi] → Ø / #_ V → Ø / [+ same V](C)_# (tone not important for this rule) ŋ k g x ɣ → m p b f v / _{y,ø,u,o} y ø ɯ ɤ → i e u o æ → e {θ,ð} → j ʕ → Ø / V_ ʕ → j VjV → Vj for same V, with contour assimilation VV → V for same V, with contour a...