Zompist Bboard Again

This was interesting! Have you seen Worldbuilding Notes on YouTube?

Ah, that's straight forward.

How would you say "2/3 of the food"?

I don't have anything to add, except that don't forget the ya, yu, yo stuff in Cyrillic.

Note to self: I've read until: tsan naa qaŋeth thaŋ siwe lamaq thaŋ ŋandi mandaŋ phuum.

I should also do some work about onomatopoeia.

The stuff about subordinators and fractions could've used some example sentences, but the rest looks good.

Oh, I vaguely remember hearing someone advise against translating these sorts of standardised texts, rather than translating a text from within the relevant culture. (The other texts with that reputation are the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Tower of Babel story; all three have been...

The first text I’d like to present is a translation of ‘The North Wind and The Sun’. OK, I know I’m not supposed to translate that, Why? The clitic =mu expresses past tense; it is non-obligatory, being most common in introductions and conclusions. That's interesting. 👍 Another SVC: here, the direct...

For /ŋ/, the vowel that comes most readily to me is something like [ə~ʌ], so /i/ isn't necessarily what I would've expected either, but I thought it worth noting that it is attested; Yeah, but that one was conditioned by surrounding vowels, whereas in OP's conlang it would happen in any environment...

Where did you see this claim? Bhat (2004) confirms it, but it’s hardly ‘most languages’: ‘That study [sampling 255 languages from WALS] indicated that two-person languages [i.e. ‘that’=‘it’] slightly outnumber three-person languages [i.e. ‘that’≠‘it’]: It appears to be possible to regard 126 of the...

Does it make sense to distinguish between "that" and "it"? Most languages don't seem to make the distinction. But I'm worrying about the massive use of "that" that this conlang will have.

It's actually precedented — Middle Chinese */ʃˠæŋ/ > Japanese /seː/, by way of /sei~sej/, which the Kana orthography still reflects; Reflexes of Middle Chinese terminal */ŋ/ in Old and Middle Japanese will usually be */u~w/ or */i~j/, usually conditioned by the preceding vowel. I could see a syllab...

If you want some critique: m̩ n̩ ŋ̩ ɹ̩ l̩ → u a i e o You're turning a velar consonant into /i/?? n t d s z ɬ ɮ ɹ l → ɲ tʲ dʲ ʃ ʒ ɬʲ ɮʲ j ʎ / _{e,i} I would expect these sound changes to also happen at _{y, ø}. Also, I noticed that your syllabic consonants don't carry tone. How come? You've managed ...

Thanks for all the answers so far. I'm hoping I could get four more people to take the survey. That would be perfect because of reasons...

Rounin Ryuuji wrote: ↑Fri Feb 05, 2021 9:42 amI bought it to play it, not for the collector's value, and it wasn't half the price of an overinflated Gamestop stock).

Wait, are you saying that you bought a SNES game cheaply? Was it a crap game?

Thanks for the replies for my question about HTML btw. I have been testing this, and it doesn't quite work... If viewing the file in my browser, everything looks as expected. But in Lexique Pro two problems arise. One is that tabs don't work inside pre tags. Using spaces instead of tabs works though...

Hmm, it seems to work after all. It must've been a fluke. Well, now I just need a few more odd ones.

flicky wrote: ↑Thu Feb 04, 2021 3:46 pm I was flicky1991. I joined in 2008 and posted on and off for years.

And uhhh sorry for taking so long to respond.

Oh wait, yeah. Now I remember that name!

but to some extend, I've got the impression that the whole modern Golden Age of TV Series has mostly given us shows where every character is a complete scumbag, and they spend all their time treating each other like dirt, and the critics go all "oooooh" and "aaaaah" about the gr...

Whoa, they both became totally unrecognizable. But how come you chose a romlang spelling for Central Tim Ar?