Zompist Bboard Again

Ooh, a map! I have to take a better look at it when I'm on my computer, because I can't seem to zoom in properly on my phone.

One thing you need to explain though: there's no natural geological activity?! Wouldn't that like, have huge consequences for the planet? How does this work?

Note that they are ambitransitive, where a stimulus can be simply omitted to indicate a mental state for an experiencer without any stimulus. Examples include: "like" myoka "be.angered" eraka "be.annoyed" satyora "admire" kanto "be.offended" kisutuk...

Earlier I compiled data to find out which order of genitive and noun was most common, based on number of speakers. This included all languages with over 50 million speakers, plus a few others with over 10 million speakers. The results of that weren't very conclusive. But now I did the same with adje...

KathTheDragon wrote: ↑Tue Feb 02, 2021 3:35 amIt's still only exponential.

Oh, I thought it's exponential only if it's multiplied two exactly.

Ryuuji: That's an interesting idea too.

EDIT: The survey is now closed. Thank you everyone who participated! Comments and the right answers will follow at the end of the thread. I want to investigate if people can understand some types of words that have been assimilated to the phonology of my IAL, so I would like to ask you to take this ...

I've been trying to follow that news story on YouTube, but it's like no one tells the whole story from beginning to end, they don't tell how the stock market functions wrt this, they don't tell what the motivations are for the people involved, and they don't tell what the significance of all this is...

It's a really interesting idea. But the problem is that if each soul splits into two, you'd need an exponential population growth. If a soul can split into more than two, you'd need more than exponential growth. I'm thinking the one soul with massive energy would be a god, while all the tiny weak so...

Vardelm wrote: ↑Mon Feb 01, 2021 8:33 pm

GreenBowtie wrote: ↑Mon Feb 01, 2021 6:13 pm stuff

Props & respect. Apologies aren't easy.

+1

GreenBowtie wrote: ↑Mon Feb 01, 2021 6:14 pm (also for the record i'm not a "he")

Ah, sorry for assuming.

I posted the fourth scene/installment of my serialized story on Patreon. Not conlanging but I've basically been worldbuilding on the fly as I write it so it's been fun for that. The hardest part has been not talking about it elsewhere. That's impressive. I've been wanting to write a novel for many ...

Very small things, but I dug up a short reference grammar for a language I started and shelved two years ago. I had some fragments preserved in the story outline, but now I have some record of what I wanted to do with it. Therefore it is time to stay up far too late on a work night reorganizing and...

Note that Qwynegold actually complemented you on having put in a good amount of work in writing the grammar. Apparently, he thought it might be something that people appreciate, and he was actually trying to help you get more views. It's obviously not that he was turned off by your lack of capitali...

I was "translating" some text yesterday, and realized that my current ideas about word order are not working. The problem was that I had head final order in compounds and head first order in mostly everything else. It turns out there isn't actually much difference between compounds and wor...

The general rule is that the most animate participant gets assigned to A. Ah, that makes sense. Another approach, possibly more suitable for an IAL, is to get rid of transitivity altogether and simply case-mark each NP based on its semantic role — ‘agent’, ‘undergoer’, ‘experiencer’, ‘recipient’ et...

As it happens, for an ‘About’ page, you don’t need to know much HTML at all . This template should be complete enough for your purposes: But tables would be an absolute nightmare to do. Hmm, can you insert tabs in the text? Hmm… what OS are you using? On Windows at least, you have to manually selec...

Ryuuji: Thanks for the suggestion. I'll have to think about if I want to use a construction of that sort instead of a simple verb. That is, verbs like ‘like’ are far more common than verbs like ‘please’. OMG :shock: I didn't think there would actually be an answer that clear. This really makes me wa...

Has anyone else been under the impression that what is written in Rōmaji as ⟨ei⟩, e.g. in sensei , corresponded to /ei/ rather than to /eː/? When I studied Japanese back in school (which I have forgotten much of, and I was never good at it) I would pronounce sensei as [sɜ̃ntsej] (a complete butcher...

Just a quick little thing I've been thinking about... Like in "I like it" and please in "it pleases me" mean the same thing, they just have different syntax. Which of these two verbs do you think is more common world wide, if you understand what I mean?

Hmm, are you sure you should be thinking that way? You've done so much effort developing the conlang and typing a well written grammar. It would be a shame if you missed views because the entry page doesn't do it justice.

Thanks for the replies! About writing HTML yourself: I'm really, really programming handicapped so I will not attempt that. I had a programming course once, it was such a nightmare. And I had to give up some formatting ideas on FrathWiki because I just can't get the wiki code to work. I've also look...

I have an HTML problem, and I was wondering if anyone is able to help. You see, Lexique Pro has an option to load an HTML document, so that when you're viewing the dictionary, there's a button called "About <conlang name>". When you click it you're supposed to get information about the lan...