Zompist Bboard Again

On Instagram sometimes people will post #furnitureporn etc with double entendres like "she's got a nice backside" but mostly it's just pictures presented directly as pictures. See also #troutporn and probably a hundred others. With the ones that are animals, I doubt anybody would play up t...

I can't think of any exceptions for bi- (which--English being English--probably means I'm just not thinking hard enough) Bigamy? this may well be the only one. Good catch. I suspect any other examples will be of the same type ... 3 syllables with stress on the prefix. Possibly more if it's e.g. &qu...

I saw Colquhoun or some other name with the <quh> cluster on a mailbox in Vermont. So those names appear here occasionally. It was in Caledonia County, so perhaps a high proportion of the population was of Scottish descent, but I never really noticed. Regarding "Fanshaw", the syncretism th...

Im a little confused. you dont specify that Sataw is a conlang, but I assume it is because it's what youre asking about .... it looks like a very specific and well thought-out conlang, given how closely its vocabulary tracks those of the other Austronesian languages, and how it has a word for teleph...

I don't think that there is such a thing as a meat-based language, unless if you mean that the speakers are made out of either meat or machines. humans are made of meat.... mountain lions are also made of meat. (Or is that what you meant?) If the OP returns maybe they'll explain what this is all ab...

Cnidocyst and a bunch of others with that root, but I dunno if scientific animal names should count, since everyone just says "stinger" , "jellyfish", etc.

Harukkun (local Egallukkun “farthest west”)is the largest of the Three Tundras, and the one most written about by foreign peoples. This is in large part because the foreign peoples in question are the Irthironians, who established a colony there about a hundred years ago and are still trying to get...

Sure, I'd like to see more. The tones of Goblin remind me of a language I made once, but assigned to apes after realizing the phonology was out of bounds of human speech production. This was pre-Internet, so I didnt really know better. There were 15 tones on every syllable, 5 for the beginning of th...

Ok thanks that's more helpful but why must you still mix in more deliberate misreading? I already know how Russian works, and it'd be nice if you'd assume that instead of trying to embarrass me. The familiarity system makes sense. Still curious if any natlang has a straightforward gender distinction...

I'm curious where the line is drawn between animals that have genders and those that do not.. e g in Russian all rabbits are a male and all mice are females, What is a крольчиха then? Or a мышонок? If you deliberately misread what I said, sure, it looks like a dumb question. You do this a lot. But ...

I'm curious where the line is drawn between animals that have genders and those that do not.. e g in Russian all rabbits are a male and all mice are females, but in spanish the gender distinction persists down to animals like these. Are there languages which mark gender on parasitic nematode worms?

I would've assumed that to be Richard Florida, the only person with that surname I know of who knows politics. But it seems as of right now he's not even living in America.

Good one I didnt get it right.

Next: reveal more information from a written text (turn a page, unroll a scroll, swipe a Kindle/Kobo/etc.) This one's tough, thanks ... I need more words like this. I don't think Poswobs would use a single word as their most common word for all of these actions, but nonetheless, a cover term should...

Antifa for me has /i/ because it looks Spanish. Anti, as a word by itself, and when part of a hyphenated word, has /ai/. E.g. "an anti-inflammatory agent" is with /ai/ . Wiktionary has /ˈæn.tə.dot/ for <antidote> (marked as US, British is not given). Is this an anomaly for just that word, ...

Spoiler tag is the "more" button now.

Pwabwop.... bappamatobo rabaešop tampupumentivas poppupatšabo, wonder-1p<CAUS>-ACC star-see-tool-PL-1p black.hole-ACC ray-LOC-year-PL-LOC-across-3p-GEN resolve.in.sky-CAP-TR-1p, I wonder ... since our telescopes can find a black hole light years away, Vepos bontšom pwuppapo poppupumbapabo? reason-O...

Does semic have LB for ❤ or is it LBB?

Some of my early conlangs do this, so I can attest that it causes no major problems with writing basic sentences. However my conlangs marked the noun class of the patient on the verb, not just person, so it was a much wider category than in those natlang examples .... e.g. "to carry a baby"...

Rabaešiavi
tube-hole-planet-ACC-see-1p.PAST
I saw the black hole