Zompist Bboard Again

"y'all" is also AAVE. And as such, some people would claim (I've seen this online) that the use of white people outside the South might be seen as cultural appropriation (since outside the South, only black people would use it). JAL There is a certain sort of racist who hides their discom...

It's always been "green bell pepper", "red bell pepper" and so on to me, ever since I accompanied my parents on grocery trips as a kid. And back then my family hardly ever cooked with any other peppers, so it had no disambiguating function. We did use chili powder of course, but...

bradrn wrote: ↑Thu Jan 23, 2025 10:55 pm I don’t know what ‘chili con carne’ is.

Tex-Mex stew traditionally of just beef, chilis, and tomatoes; within Texas itself there is fierce debate over whether including kidney beans is appropriate, while up north there's usually also macaroni involved.

Are your guys' English dialects like mine where 'green pepper' exclusively refers to a green bell pepper, while the term 'bell pepper' is practically never used unless one is being a pedant and wants to make clear that, yes, the green pepper is a bell pepper (even though there is no ambiguity, beca...

Well, this isn't actually a non-Latin script, so mea culpa if this is the wrong thread for it, but I thought this Latin-script Vietnamese forced into blocks to look vaguely like Han script was pretty neat: https://preview.redd.it/what-script-and-language-is-this-v0-9tlb38pxcszd1.jpeg?auto=webp&s...

a conlang is not a communication system, for me it's more an experiment in philosophy of language... But is what you're doing a conlang at all? Or is it just you typing random character sequences? I don't think xxx is just keysmashing. If you look at his postings in the conlang fluency thread, thou...

Man in Space wrote: ↑Thu Jul 04, 2024 9:04 pm

salem wrote: ↑Thu Jul 04, 2024 7:43 pm "I will be run" sounds a bit strange if it's a person saying it

“At this rate, I will be run out of business in a matter of weeks!”
“He said I will be run out of town if word gets out.”
“I will be run ragged by the end of this.”

Actually very true, you got me there.

granted its not productive *i will be runned is incorrect That's because runned is incorrect, of course? "I will be run" sounds a bit strange if it's a person saying it, but "the program will be run" is perfectly fine. "I will be walked" and "I am walked" are...

foxcatdog wrote: ↑Thu Jul 04, 2024 6:39 pm

"I will be walked" and "I am walked" are correct English, and mean the same as "I will be taken for a walk" and "I am taken for a walk".

Does anyone know anything about the variant /æt/ of that ? I have it and I have heard my daughter use it. And it clearly is not a variant of it to me; it feels like an allomorph of that rather than an independent word. I’m not quite sure what you mean by this question… surely /ðæt/ is the standard ...

I know, that's because I'm working with quite the clunky Wikipedia clone. Here's the finished (more or less, it's still a very basic overview of the language) page: https://iiwiki.us/wiki/Lemobrogian_language By "the words of the gloss don't actually seem to line up with the Lemobrogian",...

You could instead model the word off of German Jahrhundert 'century' and its cognates, including rare English yearhundred, and call your ten-day weeks daytens (probably pronounced more like Dayton(, Ohio) than like uncompounded day ten). Otherwise I'd also endorse tennight.

/p t tʲ tʃ k/ p t ť c k (invariable) /ɸ ɬ s sʲ ʃ x/ f j s š x h /w l ɾ j/ w l r y /m n nʲ ɲ/ m n ň g /i y u e ø o a/ i ü u e ö o a All diphthongs (and apparent long vowels) are represented with vowel letter sequences ( aa ai ia etc); hiatus, where it occurs, is marked with ʼ . /kola uosxa asi naasi ...

Travis B. wrote: ↑Wed Aug 30, 2023 12:45 pm

salem wrote: ↑Wed Aug 30, 2023 10:47 am esoteric Catholic Maoism

Is that a political ideology, a religion, or both?

Yes

Tract to my reckoning has a broader meaning than that: full-sized books, posts online and webpages, and speeches could all be called tracts if they're sufficiently opinionated. The line between tract and rant is generally that rants are off-the-cuff and informal while tracts are in some way prepare...

Not a native speaker, so just to be sure - for me, brochure is independent of content, while pamphlet implies some kind of ideological (religious, political) content, or at least some kind of opinion-piece / rant. Or am I just carrying that implication over from German? I'd say yes to the latter. B...

I think its a nice idea whats described. Granted, it sounds to me like when NativLang described how a tenseless Mayan language tells how a sequence of events occurred. Oh? (I haven't seen this video.) my bad; meant to provide a link in my prior post; sorry. https://youtu.be/ttq0S4cuIHA That's a goo...

keenir wrote: ↑Thu Aug 17, 2023 9:22 pm

foxcatdog wrote: ↑Thu Aug 17, 2023 7:55 pmSalem's idea scares me

I think its a nice idea whats described.
Granted, it sounds to me like when NativLang described how a tenseless Mayan language tells how a sequence of events occurred.

Oh? (I haven't seen this video.)

I've had an idea for a language's tense system to be torn to shreds by its speakers' unusual cultural perception of time, with the metaphor TIME IS AGE: older things and people are considered to be further into the future than their younger counterparts, as if everything shares a single timeline tha...

An idea for a conlang numeral system (higher numbers) based on East Asian languages and traditional European year counting. hundred=100 ten hundred=1,000 myriad= 10,000 ten myriads= 100,000 hundred myriads= 1,000,000 ten hundred myriads= 10,000,000 myriad myriad=byriad= 100,000,000 ten byriad=1,000...