Zompist Bboard Again

It's incredible how much variation there used to be. Even now English has enough vowels dancing around to make one dialect sound crazy compared to another, but it clearly used to be much harder to slot things consistently into TRAP, BATH, LOT, etc.

jal wrote: ↑Tue Jan 21, 2025 3:09 pm

äreo wrote: ↑Tue Jan 21, 2025 1:49 pmIt snowed last night! This is a rare sight here.

Wo pah de "ya"?
Where is "here"?


JAL

Hýstoni cittossis.
Near Houston.

Gamelectis borro naelenea! Ictassis líret lírettidme.
last-night-DAT.SG snow fall.PAST here-long.time-DAT.SG see-PASSP.SG see.PASS-NEG
It snowed last night! This is a rare sight here.

I wonder if any languages preserve titles, add a particle or affix indicating verbatim quotation, and then append case markers. Japanese maybe?

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Lexember 13-15: Y - yard narrea [ˈnarja~ˈnaʒːa] yard, garden, place where something is done ; related to narros raw via an earlier meaning of fresh, green W - welfare raemés [ˈraːmjɛs~ˈraːmɲɛs] welfare, well-being, good fortune ; from rae life + més harmony, agreement R - relative éméac [ˈjɛmɛːk] r...

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Travis B. wrote: ↑Thu Dec 05, 2024 11:07 am That is like if Latin-script Vietnamese and Hangul loved each other very much...

Yeah, plus an ornate Brahmic feel. Seriously cool.

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