Zompist Bboard Again

þeprussianfrog wrote: ↑Tue May 05, 2026 7:09 pm фать [fatʲ] - bear
урс [urs] - wolf

what are the etymologies of these ones?

Played around with a few things. https://images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca887773594c2.wixmp.com/f/368fae4f-fdc7-4cbb-b7a4-709ac40d3198/dlvd4ow-c47e66c7-216d-4203-891d-8fb3c43e7aa9.png/v1/fill/w_1024,h_727/passport_playtime__april_2026_by_requindesang_dlvd4ow-fullview.png?token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJI...

the other thing i've been mulling over is the verbs: do i want them to be influenced by russian and delete the copula? and secondarily would i also want to have the copula deletion lead to the (copulaless) past participle replacing the existing preterite like russian does? could be fun. also reinspe...

yeah i'll probably go with one of those routes (i was looking at "clearly" for yes or "not a crumb" for not but they produced words that were too long and i said fuck it i'll try again some other time and decided to sort out the road situation instead)

all right, here are the road words: so gothic has several words for road, street, path, way, etc. and it's not necessarily possible to understand the nuance in meaning between most of them given the limited corpus. the words are: gatwo, plapja, staiga, wigs, and fauradauri. on wiktionary i looked at...

that was a typo lol, that's what i get for staying up late. what i meant was that "yes" and "no" merge. which is. not exactly tenable

tried to work on negative particles in modern gothic, gave up for the time being because the sound changes mean that the gothic words for "yes" and "know" completely merge 💀 working instead on a complex of nouns related to "road", "path", "trail", et...

very cool! i'm really interested in seeing more detail!

one suggestion, however: it would be easier to read if you included a transliteration alongside the cyrillic

i didn't mean to write that much, i'm sorry. newsom just really fucking sucks and i wish people who weren't so blinded by their allegiance to the democratic party could see what everyone else who's paying attention sees

Oh boy, primary season in 2028 is going to be a blast around here. (HEAVY IRONY) Here's an example of what the GOP is doing: Kansas just invalidated the driver's licenses of almost 2000 trans people. It's part of a process of dehumanization and criminalization; the red states are trying every fash ...

gavin newsom once again throwing trans people under the bus for no reason. when 2028 comes around i better not hear any of you telling me i have any obligation to vote for this asshole

(2) I remember reading an article once that argued that modernity, industrialization, and mass production influenced languages to get/have more color terms, because there suddenly was more variety in the amount of colors that a person saw on a daily basis, and thus a need/incentive to distinguish t...

hwhatting wrote: ↑Mon Feb 02, 2026 2:06 am

Raphael wrote: ↑Fri Jan 30, 2026 4:54 am "fabulous" is stereotypically used by the English-speaking Gay Community

Is it? Do you have examples?

none from the past 20 years lol

recently read a book called the language of thieves , a family memoir based around a centuries-old thieves' cant based on german. it wasn't bad but i was hoping it would be much more about the language and less about the family stuff (like i'm sorry but i feel like "found out grandpa was a nazi...

Twin Peaks , which turns out just as great as people say it is. Often funny, at times horrifying; Cooper is one of the best, if not the best character in television. I don't really know why the soap opera angle works, but it works. Same with the music, which stays with you but in a good way. The pr...

the skinniest girl i know, who afaik has spent her entire life in coastal southern california, is as we speak in the process of moving to chicago in the middle of january. i hope she survives the winter because goddamn

Got the sound changes working for an IE lang I’ve been messing with. Now onto the hard part, the morphology... Some example words (stress always on initial syllable): xetʃe "father", me:tʃe "mother", bɯratʃa "brother", sɯwasa "sister", duktʃa "daughter&q...

"alternate pronunciation" and "dialectal variation": the best cures for "i can't decide"

ok i got version 1.0 of a font finished minutes before my highlogic trial ran out font1.png line 1 is the gothic alphabet in all caps: <ABGDEQZHÞIKLMNJUPȜRSTWFXǶOÐ> line 2 is the alphabet in all lowercase: <abgdeqzhþiklmnjupȝrstwfxƕoð>, followed by the ligatures <ja ȝa ȝ̃a> line 3 is all the individ...

good god i'm glad i live in san diego And I'm happy I don't. Hot¹ whether is awful . ¹ Over about 25°C, that is The key thing to remember is that it is much easier to get warmer than it is to get colder. being hot sucks but i'll take it over icy roads and sidewalks, exploding pipes, joint pain, and...