Zompist Bboard Again

I meant the first u. "Oovular", I only saw it because it was written "an uvular stop". Probably he got the second u still correct. Are you sure the person wasn't British? British style uses "an" before /h/ and words written with a vowel but pronounced with /j/. As far ...

Ælfwine wrote: ↑Wed Nov 07, 2018 9:12 pm It seems like -ena is a productive morphological suffix.

Funny that...

(although I guess it isn't - I guess it's two suffixes, -e- and -na, the former being a thematic vowel, found in all vowels except the Class C verbs like foreuānnōna)

Well, Old Wenthish is up to 507 verbs now, with a few more to come. It's astonishing/disheartening to realise what a tiny fraction of the necessary vocabulary of a language this still is... It is, however, almost certainly the largest vocabulary any of my conlangs has had at a single time. [i tend t...

The EU is very unpopular already, and even more unpopular now that it's seen as sabotaging British sovereignty by refusing to give us stuff for free. I'm sure there are some people, instinctively Leave, but who voted Remain because they thought the EU was at least tolerable and the economic conseque...

Anyway, I am indeed now reading Commyne's memoirs. They're... fascinating. In a frustrating way. Everyone betrays everyone else approximately every three pages or so. Oh! I definitely have to read these. The betrayals are hardly surprising, I suppose. Charles the Bod and Louis XI went down in histo...

I thought that before I moved on to carefully get right the transition from Old to Middle Wenthish, I'd get a few words of vocabulary sorted out, so that I can see how the words and paradigms develop. I did some nouns, but I've always had trouble with verbs in this situation because it's harder for ...

OK, when you said "boink" I initially thought you must just have typed the wrong word, or not be aware of what that word means. But... now you're trying to set people up in hotel rooms together?

Is this a conlang conference you're advertising, or something less legal!?

Anyway, I am indeed now reading Commyne's memoirs. They're... fascinating. In a frustrating way. Everyone betrays everyone else approximately every three pages or so. I'm also working my way through Legends , the legendary 1998 epic fantasy short story anthology, since despite having been a fantasy ...

mèþru wrote: ↑Fri Nov 02, 2018 7:14 am I must join NaNoWritMo next year then!

You've only missed two days. Why not start now? If you only get 48,000 words of your grammar done, I'm sure people won't be too critical...

mèþru wrote: ↑Thu Nov 01, 2018 6:03 pm Conlang grammars count for NaNoWriMo?

If you can write 50,000 words of one, why not?

Also: solder. Pronounced it with GOAT and an l. Which is indeed correct! [allowing that GOAT isn't quite the same before /l/]. Although you do also hear people with /Q/ in it.] LB: you do hear Dukas with no /s/ quite often, even from people who should know better. Berlioz with no /z/, though, isn't...

those pronuncs are just for the shoe company, right ? A bit odd since Niké the goddess is pronounced with two full vowels. I guess it's a hyperforeignism that stuck. The town of Nice is named after Nike, btw. ÷÷÷÷÷÷÷ I made the same mistake with "albeit", and I think it's easy to understa...

Not-really-charted waters. Traditionally, when the Chancellor has been from the CDU, that person was also CDU chairperson - or at least as far as I know; I might be wrong. There are three exceptions, all early on. Adenauer technically wasn't elected leader of the CDU until a year after he became Ch...

I'm not so sure about some of this. What's wrong with 4% inflation? [/quote] It's higher than 2%. It hurts the middle-class and in particular it hurts savings, so it increases the cost to the state of the welfare state, particularly (in the long term) as regards pensions. But more importantly, as I...

He'll have a fun choice. If we leave with no deal then the immediate impact of a sharp cut in demand for our exports will likely be a big drop in the value of the pound, a recession, falling tax revenues, and a rapidly increasing government deficit. Given the deficit fetishism of the Conservatives ...

All results for asyndeton are about the literary technique. ... I didn't say 'asyndeton'. And I certainly didn't say that 'asyndetophobia' was a word people actually use. If you want a word the elements of which aren't already in use for other things, you'll have to avoid Greek (and Latin, and Engl...

As with all terms, 'libertarian' is used on the ground in many different ways. Originally, it meant anyone opposed to authoritarianism; later it came to be associated particularly with the right, so some people use it to mean just 'right-wing but not authoritarian'. In America, there's the added com...

It should be noted that Milton Friedman wasn't a true libertarian either. He was a neoliberal on consequentialist grounds: he believed that laissez faire economics was empirically the best way to improve everyone's lives. Accordingly, he supported redistributive taxation to support the poor, governm...

And the Irish ended the constitutional ban on blasphemy, too. Indeed, although it's a symbolic gesture only at this point, since blasphemy wasn't actually banned in Ireland. The constitution requires a 'blasphemy' ban, but actually banning blasphemy was ruled unconstitutional a few decades ago (and...

In more positive news (less positively: Bolsonaro has promised the greatest purge ever seen of the 'outlaw' left, imprisoning party leaders and banishing anyone else associated with leftwingism, designating worker's movements as a form of terrorism and ensuring that 'not one centimetre' of land will...