Zompist Bboard Again

Jonlang, would you care to share those plain language sound changes here? We're no AI, but some of us could translate that into formatted input for our favourite SCAs. I'd like the challenge, using Lexurgy . I’d be interested in this too! They're just my own changes that I wrote on paper (originall...

So I've come back to my conlangs after a while off. I've discovered Grok - xAI's AI assistant (specifically Grok 3 - 1 and 2 completely passed me by). Out of curiosity I uploaded a document of sound changes, written in plain language, not the notation used by SCA and the like. And, with only a coup...

Isn't that the nazi AI? No more than the Beetle is a Nazi car or Hugo Boss is a Nazi designer. Or maybe we should stop drinking Fanta because it's a Nazi drink? Or not buy Ford cars because Henry Ford was also a Nazi? IBM provided punch-card "computers" to the Nazis, so we can't use IBM a...

Isn't that the nazi AI? No more than the Beetle is a Nazi car or Hugo Boss is a Nazi designer. Or maybe we should stop drinking Fanta because it's a Nazi drink? Or not buy Ford cars because Henry Ford was also a Nazi? IBM provided punch-card "computers" to the Nazis, so we can't use IBM a...

So I've come back to my conlangs after a while off. I've discovered Grok - xAI's AI assistant (specifically Grok 3 - 1 and 2 completely passed me by). Out of curiosity I uploaded a document of sound changes, written in plain language, not the notation used by SCA and the like. And, with only a coupl...

I've noticed a phenomenon in American speakers of English (it may well apply to Canadians too): for a lot of people I see on TV or YouTube or wherever, they seem to pronounce /s/ slightly more forward, almost dentally - almost . Now, I'm not sure if this really is what's happening or if these people...

This seems like something that is bound to have been discussed at some point, but basically: is there a language out there where there are different types of 'and'? In my mind I keep using terms like 'inclusive and' and 'exclusive and' , but they're probably not very good descriptors. Sometimes and...

Here's another example: "Jag ska köpa mjölk, ost och bröd samt ett par strumpor." (I'm going to buy milk, cheese and bread, and a pair of socks.) The English part there is as if (or to me reads as if) the milk, bread, and cheese were either expected to be bought or at least there be no su...

This seems like something that is bound to have been discussed at some point, but basically: is there a language out there where there are different types of 'and'? In my mind I keep using terms like 'inclusive and' and 'exclusive and' , but they're probably not very good descriptors. Sometimes and ...

Perfect passive*: the man having been watched, the house having been painted Agent: the house painted by the man (more literally 'the painted-by-the-man house') the agent (man) is placed in the genitive.. How do these two differ in usage? Honestly, I copy-and-pasted that before I had reassessed it ...

I... I think I may have just finished the verb paradigms for my L conlang, which have turned out to be quite complex, but not unwieldy. Unless something unforeseen crops up, I may have just finally achieved something that I'm happy with.

So today I've had a bit of spare time to myself. I started looking at a Finnish grammar I bought ages ago (when I planned to use it to study the noun cases) and I came across the Finnish participles.... :o Guess what is getting incorporated into a conlang! :lol: Don’t leave us hanging! What’s so gr...

So today I've had a bit of spare time to myself. I started looking at a Finnish grammar I bought ages ago (when I planned to use it to study the noun cases) and I came across the Finnish participles.... Guess what is getting incorporated into a conlang!

"Thinking is difficult: that's why most people judge." - Carl Jung. You have been making no sense at all in this thread. And I am not the only person to come to that conclusion. Why is it my responsibility to anticipate ahead of time what makes sense and what doesn't? I'm not a mind-reade...

The PM and the Cabinet are still the Government during this period, but the House of Commons is basically closed and no more bills can be passed. The day-to-day of Government goes on as normal. The only time that there really is no Government is the half an hour or so between the outgoing PM goes t...

This could be a "strictly speaking, but", but the MP in my constituency announced, on the day the election was called, that parliament has been suspended, and that, within the confines of the law, he was only an "acting", MP, not an actual Member of Parliament, meaning that, for...

Many in Wales are celebrating the fact that we no longer have any Tory seats in Wales, which is true of Westminster, but not of Cardiff. The Senedd still has 8 Conservative seats for at least two more years. Saying that, Welsh Labour have been abysmal in Cardiff and though you may think having a Lab...

Is there a name for what's going on in English the structure subject + be + infinitive when talking about intent or even firm future events, e.g.I am to go next week; David was to see it for the first time. And do any other languages do a similar thing?

I just posted this on Reddit so I may as well put it here too: Is there a natlang precedence for the sound change /ɸ/ > /u/? Changes of velars like /x ɣ/ > /i/ seem well attested so why not a labial > rounded vowel, particularly in the environment VɸC? It seems like a good way of making new diphtho...

I just posted this on Reddit so I may as well put it here too: Is there a natlang precedence for the sound change /ɸ/ > /u/? Changes of velars like /x ɣ/ > /i/ seem well attested so why not a labial > rounded vowel, particularly in the environment VɸC? It seems like a good way of making new diphthon...