Zompist Bboard Again

I just remembered another funny innovative usage. Well, maybe it's not that funny for you. We were staying in this family cottage, dressing up to go to a funeral. My sister asked if there's any mirror here. To which my aunt replied: Vaan tollanen tirsutin. Ei kokovartalopeiliä. just that.kind.of squ...

Why do I feel guilty or ashamed for doing this, instead of doing 'real' conlanging? Like, what's going on in my head that illustrating an imaginary lexicon is silly, but fleshing out the ways to construct conditional clauses in an imaginary language is serious work ? Gahhhhh.... Lol, I know this so...

I made a silent bet that I could beat the Baader-Meinhof bias and that I would not see this term used at all for three months, since I didn't recall ever coming across this in nearly 15 years. After which I'd triumphantly return to this thread and announce "hah! I didn't see psyche/sike at all...

Considering making a "reverse Japanese" conlang for the main non-human species in the space fantasy I'm writing. That's interesting. I've had an idea for a reverse Japanese, but I was only thinking about phonology and not grammar. Too bad I can't find my notes, because I can't remember th...

Linguoboy wrote: ↑Thu Aug 04, 2022 4:25 pm Can our Nordic-speakers confirm that pride in their respective languages refers specifically to LGBTQ pride?

You mean the English word pride? Yes for Swedish.

はー。明日友達とストックホルムプライドを見に行く予定があったが、今は「会いたいが元気じゃないけどプライドに行きたくない」と言ってる。健康の具合は仕方がないが、泥縄式予定をこう取り消すのは初めてじゃない。 Haa. Ashita tomodachi to Sutokkuhorumu Puraido wo mi ni iku yotei ga atta ga, ima wa "aitai ga genki ja nai kedo Puraido ni ikitakunai" to itte ru. Kenkō no guai wa shikata ga nai ga, doro...

Oh, I have an example from Swedish for this thread. There's a podcast I listen to, and they frequently make words of the type ADJ+ma, to mean an excess amount of something. I have not heard this anywhere else. The -ma ending comes from fetma*, meaning obesity. Here are few examples: våtma - wetesity...

Anyhow, I think in this situation the flaw does not lay in the language itself, but in the journalist's typing of that sentence. It should be common sense to not use that compound in a headline, because knowledge of the circumstances is necessary to understand the compound, and when reading a headli...

So in Swedish, you can create compound words that are only connected adverbially? Operakollaps can equally mean "the collapse of an opera" or "an unrelated collapse during an opera?" I haven't been studying Swedish word creation enough to be able to answer that properly, but I b...

I'm not sure if I remember the wording correctly, but it was something along these lines: Dirigent dog i operakollaps Conductor died in opera collapse Because of the compound word "operakollaps", I was lead to believe that the opera house collapsed, killing the conductor. But it was in fac...

It used to be psyche, as in "to psych someone" (to disturb them so that they perform badly in a game). Back then I would mostly encounter it in speech rather than writing. But then people started using it online, and I guess they didn't know anymore where it came from, so they just pronun...

Probably not a recent development, just one I only noticed recently – and an interesting case of the Baader–Meinhof phenomenon. Last week, I read some online rant, which said at one point: "And then this thing happened. SIKE! No, actually, the opposite happened." A comment mentionned that...

azhong wrote: ↑Thu Jul 14, 2022 11:54 pmHaben ihr in diesen Nächten den Vollmond am Himmel bemerkt?
(Have you noticed the full moon in the sky these nights?

あぅ、私は気づいたよ。大きい！スーパー月だそうだ。
Ah, watashi wa kizuita yo. Ōkii! Suupaa-tsuki da sō da.
Ah, I have noticed. It's big! They call it a super moon.

If you're interested in knowing, the Swedish translation calls them the "light elves of Gondolin" (light as in light color).

Det hade dräpt hundratals vättar på sin tid, när Gondolins ljusa alver jagade dem bland kullarna eller utkämpade strider utanför deras murar.

Moose-tachetime=1639490488 wrote:

lolololol I can't even!

Moose-tachetime=1639490488 wrote:Most of the city's residents have expressed strong opposition to the change, with Friends of the Flag committees popping up in every neighborhood.

This is so bonkers, but so realistic at the same time.

It's kind of sad that Moose is being celebrated for over-the-top strawmanning. I guess "refuting" made-up shit that no one ever said is a great way to appear clever. I'm sorry I put that quote here. I'm not taking anyone's side; I don't understand much of the replicator discussion and hav...

People have been arguing about food replicators for many, many pages in the random thread. 😮 One thing I know for sure, the human tongue is not equipped to detect the level of saltiness of people in this thread when you suggest that they aren't capable of tasting both the position and velocity of in...

Chuma wrote: ↑Thu Nov 25, 2021 6:21 am One of the few languages that have a specific masculine suffix would be Swedish (-e), but I guess you know that...

Hmm, that's very rarely used on nouns, isn't it? Ideally the suffix should be CV or CVC.

Vardelm wrote: ↑Wed Nov 24, 2021 9:58 am Coin flip, really. How much of a distinction do you want the language to make between agents & instruments? If you want them the same, go with instrumental. If you want them different, go with ablative.

Aha, thanks for the input. I'll go with the ablative.

I haven't used anything myself, but have you had a look at worldanvil.com? Or how about just a simple wiki like frathwiki.com?