Zompist Bboard Again

I notice you use the word "god" for both male and female deities... of the nine, how many are male and how many are female? Can they appear as both? What happened to the creator god? Is she gone forever or will she be reborn? If so, will she be more powerful than the nine when she returns?...

I think another thing to avoid is badly mixed conlangs. If you like French and Japanese, that's great, and if you want to make a language like French and a language like Japanese, that's great too, but try not to make a language that's about half of each unless you really know what you're doing. Esp...

I handle this by running everything through an intermediary language that doesnt have tones or exotic consonants, and which occasionally mishears the words being transliterated. So for example the hideous-looking Gʷidiʕìləs can become "Vidīlas" and ʕʷĕle becomes "Wele". This is ...

There are so many case names like elative, illative, allative, and ablative that sound alike so we need to put initial stress on to make sure people are hearing the important part. OTOH, I don't know about adessive&abessive, do people pronounce those with initial stress too ?

Japanese , but they may have borrowed it from Chinese

I do, but I think when the N is highly important it can preserve its full articulation.

Back in 1994 i did a language that was entirely nonconcatenative for derivation ... see http://www.frathwiki.com/Minor_language ... ne_grammar . The inflections were agglutinative, but their internal etymology was nonconcatenative as well.

I was in a large gymnasium browsing files on a computer. I looked up some people I had talked to more than 20 years ago and found their real names and details of the conversations we had. So this computer had more information than any real computer would. In the corner of the gym, there were some sm...

all Star Wars movies and games have ghastly alien "languages", but I still like them plenty) Im a purist, and I think this might be part of the reason why. I remember working in a toy store and seeing Star Wars action figure names like "Malakili" with translations on, and thinki...

Don't make a conlang you don't like! Even that has a caveat though - it can kind of be fun or funny to make something deliberately awful. But you're still getting enjoyment from it somehow. Yeah, I've actually been doing that since my very beginning. Every language that I liked had a foil where the...

I dont have the book either, but from the brief synopsis it looks like she's adding consonants to the vowel-initial words to make them line up better with PIE. I'd be more apt to believe in it if there were at least some examples of internal correspondence. e.g. if there was a word in Basque that sh...

Guy I was living with pointed out to me that another guy we were living with, who had just been involved with the police, had written a scientific paper entitled 1-inch-long Wire has been Reported to have a Non-Stimulated Fungus ______________ A separate dream involved political commentator Cenk Uyg...

- Infinitives had the form CVVCVC, for example teozik "to have", pronounced /so.zaik/ (don't ask). - The present tense was formed with the personal pronoun followed by some or all of the letters (not phonemes; I didn't have a full linguistic education at that age) of the infinitive taken ...

As an a priori purist, I appreciate the new polished look of every conlang I make. I think doing an a posteriori language is actually harder in general, and appreciate the hard work people put into them. Definitely more difficult than loading up a word generator and sifting through a few thousand ro...

Pabappa forms diminutives by shifting voiced stops to nasals. This arose from generalization of a contrast that was originally of the form /nd ~ d/, shifting to /nn ~ d/, where the morpheme that caused the diminutive ended in /n/. Thus, when this morpheme was removed, the contrast remained. The Afri...

We didn't invent Standard Average European .... we just started applying it to languages that were wholly unlike all others and realized it could use a few new criteria.

I actually used <f> for /θ/ for a while for the same reason ... though I wasnt against digraphs so much as against odd-looking characters. I ended up changing it to ṣ (s-underdot if it doesnt show). i usually reserve stop + <h> for aspiration.

I dont have any evidential morphemes in any of my conlangs currently, but Poswa is in a state where it could easily develop some. RIght now there are chained verbs that stack onto the present tense of other verbs, so for example pappabe means "you swallow" and pappabevo means "I see t...

Scandinavian "find oneself" marks reflexives, I think.

Yes, I do, but with the glide into the /r/ the actual audible vowel isn't far off of /I/ or even / E/.