Zompist Bboard Again

conlangernoob wrote: ↑Wed Jul 12, 2023 1:00 pm Does this system for my verbs work? Did I get everything? Is it naturalistic?

It looks suspiciously like several of mine

Raphael wrote: ↑Mon Jul 10, 2023 3:02 pm Any comments on Elon Musk actually proposing a literal penis length measuring contest with Mark Zuckerberg?

"I can measure more literal penises than you so clearly I am superior to you by any imaginable measure".

I have Internet again after three long hours without it! (Yes, I have my smartphone, but I would prefer to not stare at my phone's small screen if I can help it or use up megabytes of cell phone data.) Young people today, honestly! When I was young we had to go 24 hours each day without the Interne...

Personally, hardly ever, although I keep some around in case I need it. I'm a little bit older than you, and I don't think I remember ever seeing anyone use checks. We call them "cheques" round here, and my wife still gets them from her clients, many of whom are elderly and haven't yet mig...

I have Internet again after three long hours without it! (Yes, I have my smartphone, but I would prefer to not stare at my phone's small screen if I can help it or use up megabytes of cell phone data.) Young people today, honestly! When I was young we had to go 24 hours each day without the Interne...

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The tendency towards aspiration in Germanic is of course easily explained by the fact that it has typically been spoken in relatively cold ciimates.
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hwhatting wrote: ↑Thu Jun 15, 2023 8:37 am

More: show

Text 2 looks like it's the beginning of the "Hobbit"; hopit is the giveaway, and then things I expected come along, like the repetition of "hole". Continuing to guess would have felt like cheating because I know the text.

I noticed a strange thing near where I live: a concrete lamp-post had fallen over into the street. The street simply isn't long enough for a vehicle to build up enough speed to knock it over, and if it had, it would have fallen the other way. And since it's right next to a house, it's unlikely it wo...

Ahzoh wrote: ↑Sun Jun 11, 2023 9:18 am

Jonlang wrote: ↑Tue Jun 06, 2023 3:57 pm I'm going to bring back the word fax as in head-hair, animal mane. It's a travesty that this word was allowed to die.

So that's why Gandalf's horse is named Shadowfax...

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fax

I was idly thinking about a featural conscript which used the simplest shapes - circle, triangle, and square - to represent /p t k/, and began to wonder which would be which. Then it occurred to me: why not ask the ZBB? So, what do you think? Which shape fits which phoneme, and why? Obviously there'...

WeepingElf wrote: ↑Wed May 24, 2023 6:37 am me is an experiencer.

"I am an experiencer", surely? (runs and hides)

Zju wrote: ↑Tue May 23, 2023 12:49 pm

zompist wrote: ↑Mon May 22, 2023 6:32 pm I did get rid of some Bob threads.

Oh no! Now we won't be able to gawk in awe at the World Famous Dinosaur Conlang Pakuni and Atlantean, Sister Language to Clingon TV Show Series Mark Orcand's Mythical Conlang!

I agree that the board is somehow indefinably diminished by their absence.

My wife is a gardener; I'll ask her to recommend some good pruning shears.

This happened to me yesterday too, if that's of any help.

bradrn wrote: ↑Wed May 10, 2023 3:21 am

alice wrote: ↑Wed May 10, 2023 2:47 am bradm

…and the keming monster strikes again!

... must use fixed width font on ZBB ...

What bradm said; knowing your enemy is half the battle, as I can personally testify.

The thing is what term do we have to refer to the likes of Biden and Merkel if we have decided that "centrist" really refers not to people at the general center of the political spectrum but to crypto-fascists? "Logical" centrists versus "physical" centrists", or ...

What's wrong with "Mold"? If it was "Mould", I would understand. It's not that American upsilonophobia again, is it?

The trouble with the term centrism is the same as with a lot of political terms: it looks like it should logically mean something, but it actually turns out to mean something quite different with pejorative connotations. This makes actually using it fraught with Danger, Peril, and Unintended Consequ...

Imagine what would have happened if the Victorians had worked out how to use the telegraph to transmit porn. That would have been the major paradigm shift.