Zompist Bboard Again

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...

Kenya, Tanzania, and Somalia all use shillings as their main currency like this in real life, and all legally divided into cents (though inflation has made it so cents are no longer used in practice). Uganda did the same until 2013, when it legally abolished cents.

Travis B. wrote: ↑Tue Aug 01, 2023 3:58 pm How do you pronounce hundred when you're not paying attention (i.e. not the careful, formal pronunciation) or, in particular, if you are saying something like two hundred and fifty six?

Something like [ˈhɐnd͡ʒɹ̠ˠɘd̚], [ˈtʰɨː‿ɐ̯nd͡ʒɹ̠ˠɘdⁿ‿n̩ ˈfɘfti ˈsɘks].

I tend to wrap the sentences-as-modifiers in quotes, eg: "you can only fit it on a truck"-sized desk vs "you can disassemble it and stuff it into a Prius"-sized desk. Because yeah, I agree that putting hyphens between every word is annoying to type and annoying to read.

I found this on Mastodon: https://universeodon.com/@LadyDragonfly/110651349255529296 Midwest Guide to Yes and No Yeah = yes No = no Yeah, no = no No yeah, yeah = yes Yeah, no yeah! = very yes No, yeah no = very no Welp = yes My question is, how accurate is that? That is pretty accurate. Note that a...

Nràupam kmôims palm céaksicop.
/ŋɾáùpam kmúíms paɾm ʃìáksiʃup/
[ˈŋɾæu̯˦˨pɐm km̥oi̯mz˥ pɐlm ˈʃɛɑ̯˨˥ksɪʃop]

nràup-

dog-

am

THM

kmòi-

new-

^ms

REL.THM

palm

2SG.POS.THM

céaksi-

sad-

co-

1SG.SUB-

p

2SG.OBJ

I'm sorry about your new dog.