Zompist Bboard Again

I have nothing specific I can say, other than wow, this is fascinating and impressive! I feel like I’ve simultaneously read a paper about an interesting obscure natlang and watched a Jodorowsky space opera. Really interesting work and I look forward to reading / seeing more. A small complaint: in yo...

oops. tho is supposed to be written as tlo , so it'd be Tsa mëli hu këngu tlo hle la . "He sees the person and the animal sitting on the big rock.". Ah, I see! here is a reworked version of the manuscript detailing the coming of Avdëtha(again, please note that all of the below applies onl...

Travis B. wrote: ↑Tue Feb 18, 2025 4:55 pm

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Man in Space wrote: ↑Tue Feb 18, 2025 3:49 pm My colonoscopy came back clear!

Congratulations!

Seconded!

That’s great news.

Even after nearly two decades of learning about linguistics, I still struggle to hear the difference between /A/ and /O/ (and /a/ and /Q/ that other dialects have). How non-COT-CAUGHT mergerers do it on a daily basis still sorta baffles me. It sort of comforts me that /ɑ/ and /ɔ/ still sound near i...

Syntax markers [/b] Some rather strange lexemes, which may be joined later by a few others, to specify the unmarked word order of the following passage: katac - prefixes predominate, SOV order takac - prefixes predominate, OSV order kacat - subject prefixes and object suffixes, SVO order tacak - ob...

You seem to have missed out /θ/ from your phonemic inventory. the reason you see /θ/ used in /avdəθa/ and not in the consonant inventory for Proto-Ohufëi is, well, there really is no reason. but if I had to come up with something on the spot, I'd probably say something along the lines of the fact t...

1. Normalise not bothering with them, using verbal operators as serial verbs, and dealing with resultant ambiguitues. I have Very Much to say about serial verb constructions, which I’ll (with difficulty) restrain myself from doing. Suffice it to mention that I’ve never seen one translated with a re...

I have a question about yod-coalescence. In dialects with yod-coalescence, "sure" and "sugar" are pronounced with an SH sound. But "super" is not. I have run through every reason for this I can think of, and have come up with nothing. 1. Could it be because super is a ...

Consider a sentence like "The head of 'the dog's head' is 'head'". How is the genitive of the quoted phrase expressed in languages where the genitive is otherwise always expressed with an inflection of some sort (i.e. synthetically) and never with a preposition or similar? Necroposting (i...

Relative clauses [/u] How do you purposefully kitchen sink relative clauses? Some ideas: 1. Normalise not bothering with them, using verbal operators as serial verbs, and dealing with resultant ambiguitues. limix - v. hide ak garah xo set domoh noroh limix. 3.NOM antelope PAST near house run hide A...

Nice! And good tableage ;) You seem to have missed out /θ/ from your phonemic inventory. Long ago, in a time before time and when the universe was still young, two wills emerged from the nothingness that was reality: Sheva, the will to serve others before the self, and Maron, the will to serve the s...

I swear, I look away for... well I suppose it's been two days, but still ! this concept of kitchen sinking (kitchen sinking??) a language with too many options and not enough rules sounds like the best kind of headache. I would love to see more of this conlang. Thank you for the positive feedback! ...

Looking forward to seeing more of this. I particularly like what you’ve done with *č and the hardening / weakening. Plus the overall aesthetic. I’m curious as to what leads certain suffixes, and not others, to trigger the mutations, if not phonology? I know these things happen, but I’ve never been f...

Thank you, /nɒtɛndəduːd/, that’s really kind.

Good luck, Man In Space. I hit a depression after the initial shock of losing my friend. This is fine and natural and I’m ok. But I’m so unfocused. My brother came to stay and I could barely think what to say to him. It’s easy to just want time to float away in whatever fashion it most easily can, v...

One thing I remember is that some languages classify all nouns into sets, with each set requiring a different classificatory locative verb — this is found in such exotic languages as Yélî Dnye and Dutch. (Though not German or English, curiously enough, except as an optional stylistic choice: ‘the b...

I personally like phonologies that have unusual/unexpected "gaps", since this happens in natural language all the time. It also gives you the opportunity to do some historical conlinguistics if you want, to figure out what kind of splits and mergers could create the gaps found in modern A...

/nɒtɛndəduːd/ wrote: ↑Sat Feb 15, 2025 12:54 pm

Lērisama wrote: ↑Sat Feb 15, 2025 12:49 pm ¹ /scɔnz/, and anyone who says otherwise is wrong

I typically pronounce it as /skɔnz/, but I love the use of /c/

That certainly brings a whole other dimension to the old how do you pronounce ‘scone’ question.

Predicative relationals Relational nouns may appear in full form, often supporting a predicative reading: xihim - mountain Garah teles xihim. antelope crown mountain There is an antelope on the mountain. The antelope is on the mountain. (Here, context alone is disambiguating from the reading ‘the m...

[…] this leaves a role for grammaticalised reduced nouns, which now can modify other nouns to provide positional info (common adjectives may also frequently appear in reduced form). More commonly known as ‘relational nouns’. As in your list, they often derive from body parts or geographical terms. ...