Zompist Bboard Again

I dreamt I found a bottle of e-cig juice in the snacks tray in one of our kitchen cupboards.

Treble!

Tired: Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Wired: Dumic and Xšalad at Akana

It would seem that you've taken a bit more influence from Eurasia for the majority of your land mass than I'd like the taste of, but there's nothing wrong with that, and that's a me problem. If you like it, then I've no room to judge. How do you mean? well, just now comparing the map to a legitimat...

Thanks all! I'm not sure how I feel about the "mostly Pangaea" model It's partially an intentional choice: Instead of multiple continents like we have, what if everyone were stuck (primarily) on a single, huge landmass? (Also, back in the day, I used worldengine to generate a map for the p...

How does this look?

Is TRAP in "yeah" a widespread AmEng thing? It sound weird to me Yeah, it is. I find any other realization weird-sounding. Speaking of…I am confusing myself because I realized I seem to have a height distinction in reduced vowels, but I can’t quite pin down what it is. I mean I contrast s...

It may be quite random what grabs a particular student. Absolutely. I believe I’ve spoken of it before, but my high-school French class once had Glenn and Linnea Boese, a missionary couple who worked with speakers of Nyarafolo in Côte d’Ivoire, especially around “Ferke” (Ferkessedougou). They expla...

Raphael wrote: ↑Tue May 06, 2025 10:12 am Hm, as non-real-world-related as your education may have been, budgeting is arguably more real-world relevant than most of what I was taught in school.

We also had a speech class, for which mock job interviews were part of the course.

Preschool and grade 1 – 12 1 taught me a lot that was both practical and retained. Particularly strong in my mind is that we had to do budgeting 2 and got some knowledge of French. What it didn’t prepare me for was the Real World experience. I already had the drawback of social ostracism but being i...

Do you guys analyze your varieties of English as having a phonemic contrast between /aɪ/ and /əɪ/? I do. I have partial Canadian raising that applies before intervocalic alveolar flapping; rider and writer differ only in the diphthong for me. I also distinguish Spyder (as in the automaker) and spid...

A few bits and bobs before I forget… ---------------- síǵna sá hún sá ki ⅁ sá. . . síǵna sá hún sá ki ⅁ sá. . . síǵna sá hún sá ki ⅁ sá. . . Yeah, OK. /ŋ x ʕ/ ⅁ g ǵ . I kinda like that aesthetic. Weird but still kind of understandable/intuitive to figure out (at least I should hope so). ǵ g ⅁ g ǵ --...

My thought from this is that the CBB was compromised and that it was compromised was covered up by making it look like a 'mere' DDoS. I would not trust the CBB at this point, and any passwords used with the CBB if shared with other sites should be assumed to be known (as even if the password was no...

lurker says: https://i.imgur.com/eg5YnPb.png Here's what I saw from the outside. According to my scraper script, the attack started between 05:35 and 05:40 CDT yesterday, when the user count jumped from 387 to 909. The attack lasted until around 16:05 CDT (4 PM), when the user count dropped from 787...

Site’s back up and I am able to log in. It does appear to have been a DDoS at this point.

I tried to log in, and this time it asked me for the name of the diacritic on <š> - which unfortunately has many names, with even more spelling variants, rendering the question unanswerable. Well, I am not into escape room games with teenage conlanger wanabees, anyway. So it is time to definitely s...

I am glad I backed up the thread on Caber.

Courtesy of WTHR-13, Indianapolis, as I am in a traffic jam outside of there and haven’t moved for over an hour:

Woman killed dog, pointed gun at officers they shot her, Lawrence police say

Yes, that is the unedited original.

I greatly appreciate your explication of the ideophones in Proto-Savanna (especially in light of the contents of several of the talks at the LCC). I need to sit down and do some work on these concepts for (more than) a few of my conlangs…

I have had the singular privilege of being featured on masako’s livestream (it starts around 32’25”).