Zompist Bboard Again

In general, Star Trek is creepy as hell. Routine suicide followed by usurpation by a copy (but don't forget cloning is icky!), holoprograms where you can fuck your coworkers (but make room for gay panic!), and of course, the fact that at any time another you could show up and yoink your girl out fr...

Niiiice!!!

That's not all that surprising if you consider that the metric system was introduced by Napoleon, alongside the ten-day week. To be precise, it was introduced during the French revolution. Napoleon himself was quite reluctant to adopt the system, and in fact slowed down its adoption. alice is enlig...

In real life, I am a staunch defender of the metric system. But even I have to admit that it sounds out of place in a heroic fantasy setting. When I'm the GM in a Dungeons & Dragons game, I'm a bit iffy about using metric units, at least when speaking in-character as an NPC. That's not all that...

Raphael wrote: ↑Sun Jul 16, 2023 12:48 pmAren't 500 g already an "unofficial metric pound", in France, in Germany, and in some other places as well?

I used to buy "een pond" of things in Belgium forty years ago.

Data transfer over my TCP implementation (part of zeptoIP, for zeptoforth on the Raspberry Pi Pico W) is just starting to become reliable, finally! Your progress with zeptoforth both warms ny heart and makes me envious that I am no longer able to pursue my hobby electronics. It's really too bad tha...

Travis B. wrote: ↑Fri Jul 14, 2023 11:23 pm Data transfer over my TCP implementation (part of zeptoIP, for zeptoforth on the Raspberry Pi Pico W) is just starting to become reliable, finally!

Your progress with zeptoforth both warms ny heart and makes me envious that I am no longer able to pursue my hobby electronics.

What do you guys think of my vowel Sandhi system? By the way, I have a typical five-vowel system plus phonemic length plus the diphthongs /eu/, /au/ and /ai/. (etc) I’m particularly worried about rules 3-5, so comments are appreciated. No need to worry; I do that kind of thing all the time. It migh...

I have very little patience for the people who are ideologically or philosophically opposed to them. If they don't want to use them, that's their choice, but asserting that it's somehow universally bad or wrong to take them? Your fucking philosophical musings are pretty weak tea compared to the raw...

One of the topics on the ZBB.

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