Zompist Bboard Again

GreenBowtie wrote: ↑Sat Jan 30, 2021 12:11 am http://anthologi.ca/?id=264164

Oh, that looks really well developed! I would just advise to use proper capitalization at the front page, because people might refrain from clicking any of the links, assuming the rest of the text is poorly written.

Try giving an overview of it and see what people say.

*thumbs up* In my experience here in Sweden, when Arabs get to a conversational level of Swedish they can produce at least five different vowels.

Rounin Ryuuji wrote: ↑Thu Jan 28, 2021 5:30 pm How is Yttes pronounced? I'm mentally waffling between [iːts] and ['ɪt.tiːz] presently.

I'm like it's French! So [yts] or something?

That way I'll interesting. Are you going to write a novel or short story? What kind of creatures are the Yttesians? What is the gravity on Yttes?

The World Lexicon of Grammaticalisation ? I quite like that, as it happens. The trick is to realise that hidden away in Appendix 2 is a ‘Target–Source List’ which gives a list of sources for each category. (e.g. it says PAST can come from GET, PASS, PERFECT, YESTERDAY.) Of course, the book’s not pe...

イイイイ語は覚えてるよ。誰かぬすんだ？でもうーヴィルっては分からない。
Iiii-go wa oboete ru yo. Dareka nusunda? Demo uuvirutte wa wakaranai.
I remember Eeeeish. Someone stole it? But I don't know about oovil.

I downloaded the World something-or-other of grammaticalization a while ago, and the past few days I have been scouring it for words and ideas I could steal for my IAL. People have been praising this publication so much, but I was a little disappointed. I thought it would contain a lot more than it ...

Yeah, I've lived here since I was 6.

I have also thought about this thing, and would like to add that some languages have very different systems of allophony, which can really muddle things. Cf. e.g. Korean.

Ooh, citations!

Man in Space wrote: ↑Tue Jan 26, 2021 6:46 pmHere’s another, but I cannot read Swedish.

That's one odd book. It doesn't seem to be about linguistics at all, but about writing advise. I can't make sense of it, it has so many different topics.

Man in Space wrote: ↑Mon Jan 25, 2021 12:55 amThanks! What's more, these are all consequences of sound laws and sandhi historically in the language.

Oh, that's nice!

Now I'm curious to know what all these beasts are.

In one of the older boards a piece of software was once mentioned, that could look through your words and tell you which minimal pairs you have. Does anyone know what it was called and if it's available anywhere?

Rounin Ryuuji wrote: ↑Fri Jan 22, 2021 7:16 pm Is writing a tiny fragment of poetry in something an accomplishment?

Well, the initial post states that there is no minimum limit for what's an accomplishment. Also, isn't it harder to write poetry than normal text?

Does anyone else have the impression that the Gulf of Mexico looks like the head of some strange kind of creature? Hmm, if the face is on the right, then I think it's some kind of alien head. If instead the mouth is to the left, then it's Yoshi's head. Also, now it's looking to me as if Australia w...

Some notes on verbal stuff. These might change a bit. Tense No tense marking is used. Tense can be implied through time references, e.g. “yesterday”, “next month”, “in 1990”, “when I start school”, “every evening”, or “that time”, which refers to some point in time already mentioned earlier. “Now” c...

but the lack of structure feels very liberating to me, and frees the mind to just do the thing. Well, that's good. But they're really awful for writing sentences in. You instinctively want to click at the end of a sentence, but nope! You have to click the cell where it starts. And then you have to ...

yup, that one... the only one I've touched in a bunch of years. wanna see the messy notes? OMG spreadsheets are not for writing that kind of stuff! :shock: Today I started working on the dictionary of Omni-kan, although I should probably have waited until I've finalized a bunch of other stuff. The ...

So then you use an anaphor in the latter clause, whichever that is. Maybe this could work: If it refers to the subject of the previous clause, use a pronoun. If it refers to anything else, use that , or a repetition of that noun, or a repetition of that noun with that . I'll have to try some senten...