Zompist Bboard Again

Can you send the organizers a message explaining your situation? Orléans is quite close to Paris; if you're actually interested in the conference it seems a bit strange not to at least try to go... (Of course I can also understand not wanting to commit to something extra if you're already feeling ov...

This is a neat idea. 15 years?! Of course I wouldn’t really know, but I got the impression it started around 2010. I think it was 2006? I have some vivid memories of working on deriving a daughterlang from Gezoro during Thanksgiving 2007, and I think the relay had been going on for about a year at t...

View of San Francisco, a bit before noon today: https://twitter.com/mathewkiang/status/1303757476395773953 It's pretty haunting. Yeah, that's approximately what I woke up to yesterday. Very surreal. It gradually got lighter over the course of the afternoon, and today it's more like an erie warm glo...

TIL that Columbus, Ohio lies at the confluence of the Scioto and Olentangy rivers. I got the pronunciation of "Scioto" right on my second guess (my natural urge is to pronounce it as if it were Italian) but I munged "Olentangy". Let's see how the rest of you do! I'd expect "...

There are actually lots of possibilities here; the familiar European type of auxiliary verb construction is just one among many found in natural languages, and it's certainly possible for the lexical verb to be inflected while the auxiliary is not. I recommend this Conlangery episode for an eye-open...