Zompist Bboard Again

I coined two new Msérsca words for the first time in months: pindir to press, apply, anoint, especially with the thumb; and stellar to choose.

Looks cool so far. Interested to see more.

There's a similar discrepancy between state and national descriptors for goods. In American English (unlike British English from what I've seen and heard), we typically don't say "Floridian oranges" but rather "Florida oranges"; "Texas brisket" and not "Texan brisk...

Japan, jafan very, strongly, deeply, soole Nawiziye fad'anaa fad'a jafanit wiib'aja soole. appear-AGT.3.S.INAN-PRES language-POSS.2.S-ERG language Japan-GEN mutate-ADJ.PAT very Your language looks like a deeply mutated Japonic language. ほっい、有り゙。 ほっい、あり゙。 [xʷó̞ᵝˑ.i | ɐ̞́ˑ.ɾ̪ʲì] Hoi, ari. Yes, it is ...

This definitely sounds like a cool idea.

The biggest sort of interdialectal influence through the media I have noticed is increased familiarity with other dialects' vocabulary; e.g. in my dad's generation it was common for the name Randall to be shortened to "Randy", but in my generation people know what "randy" means ...

I'm tempted to say the collapse of global telecommunications, or else a future where all of it occurrs by text, something like that.... then again, I wonder if the different big dialects of english (you know, brit, american, australian... not so much norfolk vs suffolk) have grown more or less inte...

As a pagan and Platonist I have mulled this over a lot. I don't think "Christianity replaced paganism; the latter did not survive" is a satisfactory summary of what happened, especially if we understand "paganism" to include not just civic religion but all already existing "...

next: to sprout Msérsca: wruccur - to sprout; (playfully) to be built (of some structure), to become erect (of a penis) From wrýr , usually to be green but originally to grow + diminutive -ucc- . frissir - to bubble, fizz, pop up; to sprout, to bloom (esp. of many plants at once) Next: challenge or...

Msérscas íx tereuri, bómi, ýri orri vaneam, mine ceppe thulle ost staneadme. Ea sdo (thýl) tereberro.
Msérsca had words for pine, palm, and oak, but not for trees in general. I just made one (thýl).

I think the following gives you a good wide range without being unwieldy from the point of view of speakers of the most commonly spoken languages in the world: /p b t d k g/ /f v s z ʃ ʒ h/ /m n l r/ Perhaps allow medial geminates (limiting this to sonorants, voiceless stops, and voiceless fricative...

I've heard the lowering in pillow as well.

Msérsca: Víxadmesco sáca vaxadme. be.real*-NEG-SUBJ.PART** thing exist*-NEG.PRES "Any unreal thing exists not." Nothing unreal exists. *I'm pretty sure víxor to be real and vaxar to exist come from var to be + íx here and áx there , respectively. So we're kind of saying "Anything not ...

This is impressive. I don't have much else to say, but yeah. Playing the long game pays off.

Why are we conlangers and not conlangists ? In my mind - ists seem to be more high-brow than - ers ; I'd like to be an - ist . Conlangist sounds odd to me; as you say, -ist sounds rather posh and high-brow (which to me is rather a reason to avoid it), while conlang is an informal slang term (origin...

This may not be super helpful but I'd say it could be fun (and more naturalistic) to introduce a bit of ambiguity. If you're feeling things are a bit too regular, try thinking about distinctions Vrkhazhian speakers could do without. As a random example, the genitive singular ending for feminine noun...

I first encountered "healthful" in a textbook in elementary school and it rubbed me the wrong way.

If you were reading a speculative fiction story, and came upon the noun <chonday> how would you pronounce it in your head and what would be your immediate associations or thoughts about it, just from spelling. What would be different if the word was <tonday> instead? If you're curious, I'm thinking...

Lexember 31: dexir [ˈdɛksɪɾ] to carry on, inherit, keep a tradition cádir [ˈkoːðɪɾ] to hand something down, start a tradition, intend for a purpose These two words have overlapping meanings but from opposite directions. The passive participles dexit and cádit (especially with prás custom ) can both ...

Week 3 (Obviously a little late but i didn't feel like it) *lasi “coffee as a drink” from sun elven *late from *lat- “to pour” *oi lasi “blue coffee” coffee from a young bean which is prized for its bitter flavour *ono lasi “red coffee” coffee with milk sometimes known as lasi mimba “brown coffee” ...