Zompist Bboard Again

Sorry for the newbie question, but why does the consonant grid have different labels than the ones used in the LCK? The LCK has the levels of obstruction as labial, labiodental, dental, alveolar, palato-alveolar, palatal, velar, uvular, and glottal, while phono has them as labial, dental, retroflex,...

A plausibility question: Would it be plausible to have "all-except-sky" as the etymological derivation for my conplanet's name? Why not "land(-and-sea)"? I don't really want to use "land-and-sea", because IIRC that's already the etymological derivation for "Almea&...

A plausibility question: Would it be plausible to have "all-except-sky" as the etymological derivation for my conplanet's name?

Ok, I've now reduced the number of would-be surviving slave languages from seven to four. I think four slave languages can be justified - there was a significant number of first- second- and third- generation slaves at the time of liberation. I've also introduced some would-be linguistic family stru...

This is a really weird thing to say on a conlang-centered board whose members basically have all been conlanging for a while, but, well, I think I might start to do some conlanging myself. Well, if it helps you feel any better, I've never made a conlang in the usual sense of the word, just Mountain...

Do you really need that many languages? Even a history of the real world probably wouldn't feature names from more than a dozen or so languages, I should think. [also, don't forget that in a realistic settting, a lot of the languages in your history will be descendents of earlier languages in your ...

*Loooong sigh* This is a really weird thing to say on a conlang-centered board whose members basically have all been conlanging for a while, but, well, I think I might start to do some conlanging myself. (In case you're wondering, I'm here mainly as a kind of legacy from the original Virtual Verdur...

See here: http://www.verduria.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=177 (It's a dumb term-- "Standard Average European". One of the links in that thread suggest the more intriguing "Charlemagne Sprachbund". It mostly seems to come down to French + German and their varying influence on nei...

mèþru wrote: ↑Fri Jan 04, 2019 6:50 am "toponymic surname"

Thank you!

Thank you for your replies, everyone!

Is there a linguistic technical term for a name or part of a name derived from a place, as in "Sarah From-Sacramento"?

It seems pretty strange to forget that this board has some pretty high demands on conlangs-- mostly coming down to linguistic knowledge, with a side order of not-being-SAE. I seem to remember you bringing up in another thread that you'd created a test for how SAE a phonology is. Consistency, comple...

Mi vidis Johanaregon Johanumantajn Johane. "I saw a large group of Johanns Johanning around Johannically." This reminds of my pet idea that the distinction between nouns, verbs, and adjectives seems to be gradually disappearing in 21st Century English. For instance, someone who doesn't li...

Somewhat related: there are languages that traditionally put the surname first. And then there are languages that don't have surnames at all, and use patronymics or matronymics instead. But - are there any languages that combine these two things? That is, languages with matronymics or patronymics th...

A while ago, I read a German history book about 17th- and 18th century European royalty and aristocrats, Das Europa der Könige: Macht und Spiel an den Höfen des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts [something like The Europe of Kings: Power and Games at the Courts of the 17th and 18th Century ], by Leonhard Hor...

*Loooong sigh* This is a really weird thing to say on a conlang-centered board whose members basically have all been conlanging for a while, but, well, I think I might start to do some conlanging myself. (In case you're wondering, I'm here mainly as a kind of legacy from the original Virtual Verduri...

From the Guardian:

"Teenager charged after knife found by Old Bailey security staff "

Congratulations!

Another book I'm currently reading is The Earth After Us: What Legacy Will Humans Leave in the Rocks? , by Jan Zalasiewicz, about what traces of human activity alien explorers might find in 100 million years. Parts of it also serve nicely as an introduction to some basic ideas of geology. Interesti...

Another book I'm currently reading is The Earth After Us: What Legacy Will Humans Leave in the Rocks?, by Jan Zalasiewicz, about what traces of human activity alien explorers might find in 100 million years. Parts of it also serve nicely as an introduction to some basic ideas of geology.

@Vardelm: Nice and interesting paper! Your occasional comments on the history of the board made me think that it would be nice if someone could put together a full history sometime, possibly (if they were feeling particularly ambitious) in the context of a history of the internet conlanging communit...