Zompist Bboard Again

Do you have that kind of folk healers in Germany? I'd expect you do -- the cultural gap is not that great. Here in my corner of "culturally German" France, we have Schlofer ('sleepers') as the name for sorcerers folk healers. They're still a thing in rural settings, especially in the moun...

Coupeurs de feu are folks that can supposedly cure burns. In France, people wholeheartedly believe in them, even otherwise rational people. That includes medical professionals. (I personally don't. People will judge you for not calling one if you get burned!) Yeah, two family members treated for ca...

Torch sent to bradrn.

What do the three supplementary forms of hecūsih correspond to? Can that verb be used intransitively as is?

I did, as an optional subject in le lycée and then college. Though it wasn't for conlanging purposes. There are some languages I got an interest in because my artistic tastes ran their way, but serious study for the purpose of communication/comprehension was not the point.

If you're not particularly in a hurry, neither will I. I still have to translate parts of the grammar and lexicon of Dri Mreatt from French to English.

Got it, should be ready by next week, weather permitting.

If there's still a spot, I'd like to participate with Dri Mreatt.

Over in France, results have been so good for Le Pen and so bad for Macron that Macron has called a snap election for Parliament. I don't know enough about the French constitution to know what exactly that means. It means that the President will have to chose a Prime Minister from the new majority ...

Non-academia conlangers are invited to present posters about their own creations. Are you involved in planning this conference too? I got the impression that it’s specifically for research about conlangs and conlanging, rather than presenting the conlangs themselves (which, after all, would be of l...

Non-academia conlangers are invited to present posters about their own creations.

(I am crafting two proposals, will see what sticks).

Beginning to add the Iroquoian changes from Julian's A History of the Iroquoian languages (University of Manitoba 2010), they were already collected in the old Index but it shouldn't hurt to compile them again from the source . On page 13 Julian says "my model of subgrouping, in particular my p...

No, I don't see them, only your fix for langinfo.yaml.

So far, I've added a whole chapter on sound changes from Common Bantu (a theoretical construct not exactly 1:1 with Proto-Bantu) to Otjiherero, from Möhlig, W. J. G., A Reference grammar of Herero , Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 2008. Transcribing that, I came into the issue of representing tonal change on ...

Being relatively new at git and not using Brassica at all, I had some difficulties, but I hope the process will become a second habit to me.

It would be good to document explicitly how many stars to award to the "consensus", "detail", etc. features.

A bit embarrassed that no native speaker of English went after my torch to 'clear up' that somewhat stiff translation. A new relay would be grand! I thought the original text had to do with The Wizard of Oz , I really thought I recognised phonetically adapted forms of 'Dorothy (from) Kansas' and 'Mu...

zompist wrote: ↑Fri Sep 30, 2022 4:17 pmtactical nukes are possible, but also far easier to track and stop remotely.

We may not become direct targets of nuclear attacks, but we Europeans are downwind of any possible explosion. At the very least it can ruin future mushroom-picking seasons.

Something about the manner with which you present this conlang caught my eye since the days of the old ZBB. I'm still not sure exactly what. But I love it. By the way, here and on the wordbook, there's a misordering of the first two words of the last line of this gloss: ❓ Ateva hat mu, deu hi me? --...

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