Zompist Bboard Again

I was looking for whoever left off last since I was considering posting something for this. But it doesn't seem like there's one that hasn't been answered unless I missed something, and this hasn't been added to for more than a week. I'll add a new challenge. ⟨a aa b c d dh e ee g h hh i ii j k l m ...

Ironically, in this case it's not a game bug that people were exploiting. In the game, from what I've heard, several in game insects sell for a lot. So if someone spent all their time bug hunting, the only real limit on how much money they could make would be the time it takes to catch a given bug, ...

"Fake" as a verb is the ONLY reading for me.

I'm a coffee drinker but I also enjoyed my vegetables as a child and wasn't too fond of sweets aside from chocolate. So I suppose I have more of a predisposition to enjoy things that are bitter than most people, or very definitely most Americans. I think it's interesting that while the foods we're b...

I'd think the point of the game would be to NOT google the text, since the fun is in using what you already know or answers given by the person posting to figure it out. Obviously it's not like there's any way to prove someone didn't, but what's the fun in doing so?

I know where I'm starting from for my current conlang (certain reconstructions of Old Japanese) and I know what I want things to generally sound like when I'm done (more fricatives, long consonants like Japanese later had plus /r:/, possibly an r/l distinction, more nasal sounds), but I'm having a h...

It's my (admittedly shallow) understanding that any system that requires continual growth to be successful is doomed to failure anyway. Something will come along (like a pandemic) that will stop that growth or reverse it. Instead of a system like that, we need to find a way to use the resources we h...

Apparently “coronavirus truthers” are a thing now. Trying to say that the virus is just an excuse to limit our freedoms or whatever permanently. I've heard some people worried that governments could use the virus as an excuse to limit freedoms, but not that the virus is fake or not a concern or som...

Maybe this is simplistic of me but even with an education, I'd think that if you are forced to work constantly and live paycheck to paycheck even when you have avoided any unnecessary expenses, then you are working class or even in poverty. An education might give you a means out of poverty in the c...

Raphael wrote: ↑Sun Apr 05, 2020 2:19 pm

Also, if this outbreak happened five or ten years ago, today the internet would be inundated with cries of "IT'S OVER NINE THOUSAND!!!!"

Not sure I'm following you - seems to be some in-joke I'm not in on.

Popular long running meme that came out of the anime Dragon Ball Z.

Young kids are going to ask about all sorts of odd things or comment on things they "aren't supposed to". They don't have all their social programming yet and a lot of holes in their knowledge they want to fill, so it's best to expect the unexpected. I'm not saying this as a parent, but as...

My personal experience is that I change registers more based on age, and then perceived knowledge of internet culture, if I'm not accounting for anything else. I honestly spend far more time on various internet communities than interacting irl. So if I am speaking to someone offline who is younger t...

... please ignore this question. Never! Regardless of how concessive constructions drift over time, there is another way to do what you want. The difference between the "even though" and "even if" examples you gave was one of realis and irrealis. Languages that have some overt m...

Would it be likely for a language that has two ways of forming concessive constructions to turn one into a concessive conditional? Example: A construction that meant " Even though John smokes , he's still in good health." coming to mean " Even if John smokes , he may stay in good heal...

Lol, I think this entry in Finnish Wiktionary might be a bit biased. My translation: deplorable ( plural deplorables ) 1. ( politics ) Trump supporter, Trumpist conservative who is a racist or a hater. I guess it would've been okay if they had included the main definition of deplorable , but this i...

... a third possibility is that Im wrong about it originally meaning "private" and that they just used the kanji. after all, Japanese adjectives dont normally end in -shi, as far as i know. Verb-like adjectives in Classical Japanese did end with -shi (or in some cases -shiku) and it later...

A friend of a friend knows I speak some Japanese and wanted me to read some short phrases for their podcast. I was given the English and asked to translate them. One is fairly simple, being just "Welcome to [podcast]." So "[podcast] e youkoso" obviously suffices there. No issue. ...

could develop new sibilants from raising i > ɿ > ɨ, ɿ > zɨ / V_, ɨ > 0 in various environments; u would parallel this but it's a little more complicated and the output could just merge back into u. high vowels are very unstable in Japonic. Japanese preserved i but probably had u > ɿ > ɯ Very true a...

Might mess around, might take all /s z/ in Old Japanese and turn them into /ɬ ɮ/ in most places for my cat lang. Maybe not before /u i/ though, not 100% on those.

I was able to find a PDF version of A History of the Japanese Language , and the appendix by itself has already been very helpful. I was surprised at how late certain sound changes occurred. I'm probably going to spend today and any following days needed to get it read properly, along with Old Japan...