Zompist Bboard Again

Since Irish has an inflected future, it's generally stricter than English about not defaulting to present/non-past forms when speaking of future time. One way around that is the copula (which has only past and non-past forms), but unfortunately there's no copular construction for "love". ...

Your death was not in vain. ní raibh do bhás ar neamhní If ar neamhní (lit. "on nothing") is an idiom, I'm not familiar with it. The usual way of saying "for nothing" in either the sense of "for free" or "in vain" is in aisce . If you're worried about the amb...

I'd say just ask here. I know we have members who would be interested in learning a bit more about Irish. (After you reply, I'll move the thread to the Languages forum.) So for a story I'm working on, one of the characters will be making a keen. It's raw emotion, baring of the soul; but I would rea...

Is anyone here reasonably / near native level competent with Gaelic? Old Irish is fine; Gaelic ... well, not so much! I'm looking for some help with a few google translate sentences. My Irish is conversational. I also know some fluent (native and near-native) speakers I could ask for help. Excellen...

Is anyone here reasonably / near native level competent with Gaelic?

Old Irish is fine; Gaelic ... well, not so much!

I'm looking for some help with a few google translate sentences.

Raphael wrote: ↑Tue Oct 13, 2020 10:48 am The uniform of the employee in the classic Edward Hopper painting Nighthawks looks a bit too modern for 1942 to me.

Curious. This caught my eye. What makes it seem too modern? Standard white shirt & cap of the mid century soda jerk.

Feel free to disregard my grumpy old lady attitude, but I think a list of metadata is pretty pointless. If I want to learn about a language, its date of creation isn't what I'm looking for. The dilemma is simply this: if you link to personal websites with more information, then you're just making a...

Gnoli designation What’s that? The Gnoli Triangle, a spacial way of describing invented languages. Essentially a three-point continuum between Artistic, Engineered, and Auxiliary Languages. source type, lexico-semantics And what exactly are these supposed to mean? Those are basically how relatively...

Is this "database" a list of links, or will the data itself be stored on the LCS website? If it's the former, then why isn't this just a wikipedia page called "list of conlangs?" At least there it might get enough attention to prevent it from going to ruin like every other conla...

bradrn wrote: ↑Sun Sep 13, 2020 8:05 pm I clicked on the invite link, and got a message: ‘Invite invalid’. Can you double-check if that link is correct?

Link corrected in OP.

Hi. A group of us are starting a new Conlang Database , to be housed on the Language Creation Society's web space. We will progressively add basic data about the world's invented languages to a database which will be publicly searchable and able to produce reports involving stats or lists according ...

For Queranarran, which actually has this sound, I romanise it {hsh}.

It's also got a bidental clack, which I romanise {dq}.

zompist wrote: ↑Wed Jul 22, 2020 6:34 pm Just in case in helps anyone else's social anxiety: Bob was banned for his threatening/abusive behavior, not for being weird.

Well, thank goodness! You've have to ban everyone, then!

Anyway, water under the bridge. Best thing said in a while. Since Larry isn't here to either defend himself or reveal private health information, I think the armchair diagnosis ought to be left to the professionals. I don't think wild speculation furthers the discussion either, and quite possibly o...

At least these days, the anger is turning into paranoia and lashing-out. I think it's a form of deflection: he can't accept that there's something wrong with how he behaves, so he thinks there's a conspiracy against him. And I seem to be the ringleader! That seems to be one reason he was trying to ...

All water under the bridge, friends. As I think back on it, there's nothing you can do to change either him or his style, as I think the cause is much deeper than anything we help with. He was like this 14 years ago when I first met him, and nothing about his style of posting or presentation has cha...

I continue to be enamoured of this, in particular the history and geopoetry!

zompist wrote: ↑Mon Jul 20, 2020 6:34 pm Bob talked himself into a permaban.

Didn't take long. We'll see how he does in the Other Place.

One thing that's really neat about this religion, Raphael, is how very similar it is, in certain respects, to the 19th century autodidact movement. A very popular kind of book back then was a volume very much like the How-To , teaching adults (and presumably youths as well) how to do & make a wi...

The How-To seems to be fairly comprehensive, for all that it doesn't teach people how to live. So, how big is it? One volume? Multi volumes? Illustrated & diagrammed? About size, Raphael said: If the How-To would be translated into English and published as an average-sized modern paper book wit...