Zompist Bboard Again

as promised, verb updates: middle gothic ("phase 1", noted below as "MG") verbs are described in an earlier post . that writeup is mostly correct, save a couple of updates and corrections (the 3pl past tense forms should end in /n/, not /m/; i keep going back and forth on whether...

anyway! although i don't have it in a ready enough state for the relay game, i have made progress and updates: i got rid of the second palatalization. i was never really satisfied with it and i finally decided to just axe it. in its place i put an inconsistent sound change dropping /r/ in unstressed...

dictionary index part two: time andawit "sentence (especially imprisonment)" → odwid "long wait, delay" → odwids "a while" dags* "day" → dahs* "day" → dahs* "day" fauradags* "yesterday" → forlewz* "yesterday" → forlews*...

dictionary index post got too big. splitting it and putting it here dictionary index part one: people harjais "army" → azjes "violent mob, bandit gang" → ařes "gang, group of criminals" aipiskaupaus "bishop" → episkubus "bishop" → episkubus "bis...

slow, sorry, life has gotten pretty busy and i haven't had the time to do the development i need on gothic to get it to a point where i can translate this text. it might be best to just skip me unfortunately :/

looks like it will be a few more days, sorry, weekend ended up being busier than expected

i have the torch deciphered, trying to figure out the balance between fidelity to the text i got and having an end product that makes any sense. still shooting for the end of the weekend as noted above (should be getting internet set up at the new apt in the next couple of days, which will help)

Moose-tache wrote: ↑Tue Sep 15, 2026 9:18 pm Yay! Modern Gothic! I've been waiting for this.

going to have to do a lot of quick and dirty conlanging for it to be ready for primetime

aiming for the end of the weekend for this. (will be translating it into modern gothic, if we want to update the first post!) had fun creating a couple of new figures of speech for this

Morkai5 wrote: ↑Tue Sep 08, 2026 5:25 am Finally, we're on strike at work today, and I was able to do it. I sent the torch to Emily.

good luck on the strike! i got the torch. i just moved and don't have internet set up at the new place yet but i'll do what i can on lunch breaks etc, shooting for a week

lease application for a 1br got approved, i'll finally be able to move out from the shithole dungeon i live in and into an apartment with windows in the bedroom

i will do that then, thank you!

i'm having an issue i haven't been able to troubleshoot with sca2. with the categories C=mnpbtdɟkgþfvszðɣhljrwʦʣxçʧʤʃʒɲʝŋcɟʎ R=tdnrszl and the rule n/l/#(C)(C)(C)R_ i expect the word zna to turn into zla , but instead it's remaining zna . the only way i can get it to work is if i remove all the opti...

Zju wrote: ↑Mon Aug 03, 2026 2:18 pm Know what? Sign me up at the last spot.

i already called it

got at least a draft of a plan for which languages to borrow place names into gothic from, although i need to look a bit closer at medieval trade routes

Man in Space wrote: ↑Thu Jul 16, 2026 3:56 am Now that I’m actually able to view the topic without getting logged out...

Can we do the following:

- Send Emily the torch
- Move Lerisama to after Emily
- Push Moose-tache a little later as per her first post

Any objections?

I had asked to be last.

chicago manual of style, 13th edition, section 5.45: Separate two or more adjectives by commas if each modifies the noun alone: Shelley had proved a faithful, sincere friend. Rocco had said that it was going to be a long, hot summer. If the first adjective modifies the idea expressed by the combinat...

Why is it then that every time I see it a little voice in my head says "There's a comma missing there!"? Bad education? because another use of a comma is to indicate an inserted phrase or clause, in which case it goes on both sides of the insert to offset it: The banker, who had only rece...

under "nominal sentences", i believe that it is also possible, and common, for sentences to have no noun at all should say have no verb at all instead, based on the example sentences