Zompist Bboard Again

My boss revealed a secret to me that part of his job duties involve cleaning deer ears, so I secretly followed him out to Nara Park, where he went around swabbing out deer ears with Q-tips, to observe whether this practice was ethical.

My boss and two coworkers are positive. The company is trying to cover it up so they don't have to shut down one of their top three performing locations. I'm trying to blow the whistle but nobody is listening. It's a fucking mess.

edit: lol I missed the dot on the last word

I'd like to, but I'm starting a new part time job and my schedule is going to be all over the place. Not sure I'll have the time. Going to try for a much more reasonable goal of 20,000 words, I think.

https://linguisticmaps.tumblr.com/tagged/linguistic-maps - several maps showing the occurrence of various linguistic features. Some of the data seems questionable—e.g. Malagasy is listed as a language that doesn't mark tense, but it definitely does (on its verbs as well as its demonstratives!). The...

I'm curious if any more progress has been made on this or if I should start dropping more hints.

After looking at this a bit more, I'm inclined to say that w is "the" (and likely the phoneme /ð/) and that u is "a", for the reasons Qwynegold mentioned—I agree with the logic that it's probably a vowel carrier, although I wouldn't go so far as to say it has an inherent /a/. I t...

Hmm, I checked and E does not occur word-finally unless it is preceded by T. What suffix is really common in English? I was thinking -ed, but I was assuming E stands for a consonant. Maybe vowels aren't always diacritics? The suffix -ing. The suffix -ed would be unlikely already, given that there's...

Just found what may be the single densest sentence I've ever encountered in an academic paper: However, if we accept the fact that the conventionalized construction with formulaic evaluative expression corresponding to the insubordinate construction is already mono-clausal, we can label it as a 'pse...

Oh nice, I was partway through a similar analysis but didn't have the time. Thanks for sharing your work so far! I almost immediately spotted the same suffix Qwynegold's marked as TE . There are a couple of words that occur both with and without this suffix: ÉʌTE - Éʌ (3) ȷ̈ıʌTE -- ȷ̈ıʌ (2) There ar...

Sorry for not helping out with this one more, even though I commented earlier. This is way too difficult for me to make anything out of. Maybe someday there will be the Risla Codex that scholars will baffle over while nobody is able to figure it out. :mrgreen: The vaguest of hints: if I were you, I...

All the things you marked as handwriting variants and new series are just that. Re: handwriting variants, this is more like how I usually write them when I'm not being super careful. For the new series, I'm sure you've already made note of the fact that they fit neatly into the gaps in your previous...

Oh hey, this is cool! Glad to inspire. I'll take a whack at it soon.

Answer mostly provided in code:



All consonants are marked, aside (again) from some idiosyncracies surrounding a bare handful of function morphemes.

It is indeed more or less phonemic, albeit with some quirks. Every English phoneme can be represented in the script. In the example text given, there are no examples of /ʒ/. However, not all phonemes are represented in all contexts, particularly when they are recoverable based on knowledge of Englis...

Seven.

It's been about a week—any progress? I've got a bit of a hint, and a peculiarity. People have already observed that words in the code tend to have much fewer characters than English text. Here's the most extreme example of this that I've found: https://i.imgur.com/8PsRSfS.jpg This word is, in Englis...

What the hell is going on with the Google reviews of this random volcano on an uninhabited island in the Arctic Ocean? I found this a while ago and am baffled every time I think of it.

I speak American English, and am notably cot/caught unmerged (they're very close though, and sometimes ambiguous).

And the answer to your question:

Oh doh, it is a word! I guess I was primed by a different word (at the beginning of line eight) and read one character as another. Sorry for the brain fart! :oops: It's interesting to me how bad I am at actually reading my own code, despite the fact that I can write it fluently. The only texts I hav...