Zompist Bboard Again

Not actually a headline (Pharmac is a government org in NZ):

Pharmac review faults cost focus

Ā, I kitea ngā āhuatanga tini o te kupu reo Shilluk ‘acama’ i te rauemi a SIL, i pōhēhētia te reo Dinka. Ahakoa e mōhio tonu ana au kia rite te reo Dinka; he reo kupu kōmitimiti nui me te wetereo ‘Austronesian trigger’, nē? Ah, I saw the table of forms of the Shilluk ‘acama’ in the SIL resource and...

Auē! Tino uaua tēnā reo! He pota hoki ngā rauemi, kāore koe ka haea!
Wow, Dinka looks hard! There also aren’t many resources, I don’t envy you!

Nō ēhea rauemi āu ako o te reo Dinka?
What resources are you using to learn Dinka?

He aha te tikanga o te kupu 'ɣɛn' e toru te whakaputanga i ia rerenga? Ko 'au', ko 'haere' rānei?
What does ɣɛn mean that shows up in all three sentences? Is it 'I' or 'go'?

This is why I think we'd need not just one, but several protolanguages for the IE family. Okay... and what are they? If you’re going to say the mainstream is wrong, then say why the mainstream is wrong. If you’re going to say there’s an alternative, then say what the alternative is . How many lexic...

A small one - the phrase 'birthday suit' is attested from the 1730s.

Āe, hei tā tēnei pukapuka, he nui atu te tau o te kupu mino i te toru manu.
Yes, according to this book there are more than 3000 loanwords.

That's an impressive transformation of the original word! Haha, kei te ngākaurua au ki te tika o te kupu. Nō te whakatakotoranga kūoro pākaha o te reo Māori, nō te kōpaka o ngā orokati hihī , he ngahau ētahi kupu mino - ina koa te kupu hāhi . Haha, I’m not actually sure if that word is correct. Due...

この夏、サンスクリット語を勉強し始めている。 I've started learning Sanskrit this summer. Ki a au, he tino whēuaua te reo Hanahikiriti ! Kei te ako au i te reo Pāniora - he ngāwari atu te reo nei mō ngā tāngata e kōrero te reo Ingarihi. It seems to me that Sanskrit is a very difficult language. I'm learning Spanish, whic...

I can’t remember exactly, but I believe Kortland mentions in passing that he follows a similar theory except that the mobility of accent is the conditioning factor, due to the fact that mobile stems more often have breathy voiced consonants (apparently). Either I think there is at least some merit t...

I managed to migrate the old board data to phpBB 3.3.0! It should be fine now to upload the files and now-migrated database to Dreamhost, as they should now work with the latest version of PHP. The only things that aren’t working are user avatars and attachments. Zompist, if you PM me I’ll send you...

Wouldn't it just be easier at this point to dump the data into a new version of phpBB, rather than trying to re-engineer everything? Even just into this one as a read-only forum (assuming you can do that)? Or is there some major structural changes to phpBB that make this unfeasible?

Moose-tache wrote: ↑Fri Mar 13, 2020 4:16 pm I contacted Nerulent about filling in for Yiuel. Working on the assumption that sending him the Team 2 text causes him to cease to exist [...]

I can confirm I still exist although the translation will have to wait at least a day or two for the weekend.

He ʻōlelo pāʻani ʻo kitamu . He hoʻohawaiʻi ʻana o ka ʻōlelo haole "item" ʻo ʻikamu . ʻAʻohe huaʻōlelo pili ma ka ʻōlelo Māoli. Kitamu is a joke. ʻIkamu is a Hawaiʻianisation of the English word "item". There is no Māori cognate. I te mōhio au, ka tūmanako ki te kite i te māorit...

He keu ā ka hoihoi! I'm enjoying this too much! I hoʻomākau au ʻi ka hoʻomāoli āu lelena Māoli kipakipa, enali ʻāore au e mōhio i ēkahi ʻupu ʻei kitamu . I whakamātau au ki te whakamāori āu rerenga Māori tipatipa, engari kāore au e mōhio i ētahi kupu kei kitamu . I tried translating your phony Māor...

English as Vietnamese Consonants: /m n ŋ/ <m n ng/ngh> /p t tʃ k/ <p t ch c/k/q> /b d dʒ ɡ/ <b đ gi g/gh> /f θ s ʃ h/ <ph th x s h> /v ð z ʒ/ <v d x gi> /l ɹ j w/ <l r i/y o/u> Vowels: /æ e~ɛ ɪ ɐ~ʌ ɒ~ɔ ʊ ə/ <ă e i/y ơ o u â> /ɑː iː ɔː uː~ʉː/ <a ây ô âu> (also /jʉː/ <iêu/yêu>) /a͡i~ɑ͡i e͡i ɔ͡i a͡ʊ ə...

Whiti mai iaku i a au / i ahau ? te tātau i n g ā kitamu āpau ma k ōrero Māori whakapiripiri! Now I can write all my entries in counterfeit Māori! Ka mutu koe! Kei te ōrite rawa tēnei i te reo Māori! Very neat! It definitely looks like Māori! Iāianā ka taea e au te tuhi ngā karere ki te reo Māori t...

Linguoboy wrote: ↑Wed Mar 04, 2020 4:13 pm Auē, ka syniad welewele!
Oh, what an awful idea!

Ke casáu nei au!
I hate it!

Kei te whakapāhitia au
That makes me sad

Linguoboy wrote: ↑Tue Mar 03, 2020 4:10 pm Or have Nerulent try to translate my Hawai'ian on the basis of their Māori (or vice versa).

Oh dear, I can only recognise a handful of words in your posts in the fluency thread!

And I'm pretty much in the "objective case except solo adjoining a finite verb" camp. (This is why me and him's marriage will never work!) Oo, now that's a juicy one! I'm unsure between using "me and him's" and "mine and his". Mine and Bob's wedding - me and Bob's wedd...