Zompist Bboard Again

Among the languages in the list in the first post, do you know any that has a word for "think" with these senses:
1) have thoughts
2) have an opinion

But not these:
3) believe smth
4) intend to do

Raholeun wrote: ↑Mon Jun 07, 2021 1:48 am

bradrn wrote: ↑Sun Jun 06, 2021 2:38 am I eventually went for a system where stress is fixed at the morphophonemic level, but becomes unpredictable at the surface (though always on one of the first two syllables).

I'd be interested to see how that works.

Same.

Interesting challenge — I think I’ll have a go. Not sure how much time I’ll have to do this soon, so let me pre-register my choices: A2 Fixed stress location of a type that you seldom or never use in conlangs. When affixes are added to a word, the stress moves so that it will stay on the specificly...

Hmm, okay but I'm looking for more like derivational morphemes.

But if my impression is right, the pattern requires a sonorant at the beginning, and then a geminate consonant that is one of /p t k s/, This is correct. I don't really know anything of use. But I think the reason why C 1 C 2 ː is so common in loan words is because we insert an epenthetic vowel aft...

Nortaneous wrote: ↑Sat May 15, 2021 5:52 pm consult 4chan - "-bro", "-brah", "-fag" etc.

I want to start working on a totally new language family, preferably something quite shallow so I can explore dialect variation more easily (which is one of the things I used to enjoy most about conlanging, but recently most of my projects have been very deep families where if I went into detail on...

How did you go about doing that? I've been trying to look this up in some languages I suspected might have a masculine suffix, but it's a lot of hard work and I haven't gotten any results. And I can't tell if it's because they lack such a suffix, or because it just wasn't described in the source. Th...

I decided to create a thread just for asking people short questions while I'm working on my auxlang Omni-kan. And here comes my first question. I decided to make almost all words gender neutral. There are suffixes you can use to mark something as male or female, if you really need to. I decided to m...

Today I learned the Finnish verb harrastaa , which my source glossed as "to have as a hobby". The hobby is expressed as an object in the elative case (which often translates English "from", e.g. talosta "from the house"), so I suppose it could be glossed even more lite...

Huh, I never knew that about cake.

Don’t have time to look at this properly just right now (so apologies if I’m completely misunderstanding your problem), but have you tried the menu entry ‘View → Change Interface Language’ yet? Of course. But only the built-in languages are available on that menu. I'd really appreciate it if you wa...

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Hi! I have a programming question about Lexique Pro again. In Lexique Pro you can add whatever languages you want for glossing and definitions. Separately from this, there is the language of the interface. There are a few languages you can choose from for the interface, but you can't add your own la...

Could be either way, could be /u/, could be /o/. Depends on how wide the vowel space ranges of /u/ and /o/ are. People can also be very influenced by spelling in those cases, if they know how a word is spelled in the source language. Hmm, I made this: O-o-U.png It's not very good, because for Manda...

Ii [i​] as in happ y or k i t ( not as in pr i ce). I assume both pronunciations are acceptable here? Actually [ i] is the desired pronunciation, but [ I] is acceptable. I'm not really sure what's going with those word final Y's tbh. Nn [n] as in thi n . When it is followed by a consonant, it may b...

bradrn wrote: ↑Wed Mar 17, 2021 6:46 am Schadenfreude → sa꞉dənfəluyit

You don't have d or f. Anyway, I think it might be way less recognizable than you think. At least that's what I found out when I did my survey a while ago.

While a IAL shouldn't have a overly complicated phonology, simplifying things too much delivers diminishing returns and means that the a posteriori vocabulary which forms much of a IAL's backbone will be left unrecognisable. THIS! Even with this phonology I have problems with unrecognizability. As ...

Oo [o] as in British En. th ou ght or American En. n o rth (without the following r-sound). (It is not pronounced as in g oa t). I think most linguistically-naive speakers of AmE will struggle to isolate the [ɔ] of north , and, if they have the cot-caught merger, won't understand what's supposed to...

Sad to say, no matter what you write, I suspect you’ll still get people saying e.g. /əsˈkeɹɪk/ and /ˈsetɹəɡfiː/ for ESKERIC and SETREGFE. Well, they will just have to learn it. :P It's just two letters that have different values than in English. Compare that to natlangs that tend to have more unint...