Zompist Bboard Again

I wrote one a while ago. It's actually pretty straightforward to understand the basics, which I'll explain here if you want. I'm pretty programming-illiterate, but I'd still be interested in hearing it, see if I could figure it out. OK. To generate a random night sky with characteristics similar to...

alice wrote: ↑Mon Oct 22, 2018 5:47 am

Zaarin wrote: ↑Sun Oct 21, 2018 10:39 amas well as if a program exists to create fictional skies.

I wrote one a while ago. It's actually pretty straightforward to understand the basics, which I'll explain here if you want.

I'm pretty programming-illiterate, but I'd still be interested in hearing it, see if I could figure it out.

I would be interested in this as well, as well as if a program exists to create fictional skies.

(For 3D star maps I use Astrosynthesis, but it doesn't generate sky maps.)

Never heard of "rough sleepers" in American English Yeah, so is there any way in it to distinguish between people without a formal residence and people actually sleeping in the street? My instinct would be to say that the American term "homeless" is equivalent to the British ter...

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A couple of my Queranarran favourites: elendelasuruein — watch the stars wheel overhead; rejoice in the changing seasons and years; recollect the past with nostalgia and grief intermingled; recount the years and ages of the world via mythistorical narrative or song (Mind you, it's getting cold here...

Does anyone happen to know what the Carthaginians called Spain? I'm familiar with the putative Punic etymology of Hispania , but I personally find it unconvincing. The Punic would be something like ʾī saponīm , which looks considerably less like Hispania than Hebrew ʾī šᵉfanīm . Jews took to callin...

Does anyone happen to know what the Carthaginians called Spain? I'm familiar with the putative Punic etymology of Hispania , but I personally find it unconvincing. The Punic would be something like ʾī saponīm , which looks considerably less like Hispania than Hebrew ʾī šᵉfanīm . Jews took to calling...

Ah, that makes sense.

Pabappa wrote: ↑Sun Oct 14, 2018 6:18 pmžannaba to hug a snake

...In what context would this come up?

Gleb really loves its labiovelars and bizarre improbable semivowels, doesn't it?

JT the Ninja wrote: ↑Sun Oct 14, 2018 1:59 pm Which syllable do you stress when saying "TV"? I personally always stress the second syllable, but I've heard a lot of people stress the first.

I stress first or second in free variation, but I'd see initial stress is more typical for me.

It's pretty typical of the Great Basin region of North America, extending (I believe) into southern California. (Also your Nahuatl example is backwards: Nahuatl /s/ was perceived as similar to Spanish /s̪/, hence being written <z ce> rather than <s>.)

Being able to sort words by etymology or semantic category would be a great boon. What do you mean by "sort words by etymology"? I.e., sorting by source language, so native vocabulary versus loanwords from Language X, from Language Y, etc. Also versus neologisms. I color code my vocabular...

I use Word for both grammars and lexicons, but I'd like a better solution for lexicons. I'd love to have a program that supports metadata and makes it more convenient to list out all forms of a word (which quickly becomes too cumbersome in Word). Being able to sort words by etymology or semantic cat...

Go full Coach Z on it? /ʤɑb/ > /ʤijɛɪ̯ɔːːʊ̯wɹ̩b/ would be an impressive set of sound changes. For lengthening words, epenthetic vowels between consonant clusters would be one option. Prothetic or paragogic vowels would also extend words. Combing prothesis and/or paragoge with excrescent consonants ...

Can he read at all? No comment on the stops, but the pronunciation of "bird" jumped right out at me. All accents that I know of have just a syllabic R there, but it sounds like he's trying to give a vowel + R. Most kids don't learn to read until much later, but maybe he's been watching ed...

I was listening to a little kid talk. He was probably around two, and his parents spoke GenAm with maybe a hint of Southern influence. Most of his speech was what you'd expect from a child still acquiring language (/l/ [w] in all positions, so elephant [ɛwfn̩ʔ], and /r/ [ɹ~l~w~ɰ] in free variation, ...

internet [ˈɪnɹ̩ˌnɛʔ~ˈɪnʔɹ̩ˌnɛʔ] in casual speech, [ˈɪntɹ̩ˌnɛʔ] in careful speech

In one of my languages I eventually gave in and added /v/ and /z/ to the phonological inventory, because it seemed improbable that there was a p/b, t/d, k/g distinction but not f/v and s/z. In retrospect, I could have justified it by saying there were no voiced fricatives, but whatever...helped me ...