The New ZBB Quote Thread

[Man in Space]

In reference to a movie plot idea being fed to an AI:

"Egyptian gods are running a pyramid scheme"

[bradrn]

Vowels have been in n-infix reconstructions as far back as I can remember*.

* I should have specified: I am extraordinarily old, so this is a meaningful thing to say.

[Raphael]

Here's a rule of thumb, malloc: whenever you say "surely" you're about to say something completely uninformed.

[Raphael]

I suspect even the higher versions are laxer (or more centralised, or whatever "laxer" means exactly) than your FACE.

I put that here because of the "than your FACE" ending. It gave me a mental image of an enraged opponent responding with "No, YOUR face is laxer!"

[Raphael]

Incidentally, it occurs to me that the Maya glyph for /ni/ looks like Nietzsche in profile.

When you look Long Count into the abyss, the abyss looks Long Count into you.

[Raphael]

To me "cazhmere" is like a pretend-posh way of saying it, like "Targé" for Target.

[Raphael]

Shrug. There's some theoretical difference between admiring Trump, and simply declaring him invincible, unopposable, and omnipotent, but the effect is the same.

[Man in Space]

one of my recent airports ended up looking like this, I I kind of doubt this would be a good idea in real life:

probablynotsuchagoodidea.png

I should note that in Sim City 2000, you can't just built airports however you want. Instead, you zone a certain amount of land for airport use, and if it's the right size and shape, the game will sooner or later built a runway and other airport-related things on it.

Oh, and in my current game, two out of my three neighboring cities are named "Jenna":

surroundedbyjennas.png

[Man in Space]

The biggest criterion for 'tense' versus 'lax' is that tense vowels can exist in hiatus and morpheme-finally whereas lax vowels must be followed by a consonant aside from in certain interjections.

That's a better criterion than mine. The only words I can think of that break this rule are the interjections YEAH, BAH, MEH, UH, and DUH.

Edit: And NEAH, and HUH.

bruh

[Lērisama]

malloc sees the T, but not the rump.

The wordplay made me laugh, so I'm quoting.

[Raphael]

I have a writing system written in a cursive calligraphic style, but I never much considered the conworld history and mechanism of the writing tools and materials used to write it.

I never used a real pen (no money), all I have is inkscape, but it's an inferior simulator.

Well, all you need is a piece of bamboo (or reed) and a sharp knife…

[Raphael]

At one point, our cat brought home two mice or shrews a day. It's more like she didn't quite know what to do with them once she caught them; it took her a few months to figure out she could eat them.

[Lērisama]

Amd without the context, you'd thinknthis refers to …?

Looks to me more like a bear trying to rip a tin can open while playing in one of those astronaut-training zero-gravity things.

[Zju]

Seriously, if I encounter one more document that starts with "The Ektarian A is similar to a southwest Hounslow A, but less coruscating and more reminiscent of a fall evening," I am going to throw a lamp.

me too, Glass Half Baked, me too

[Raphael]

[k͡xɛβ̞̃ɛnæ̃ĩ̯xeðe]
khaimainaïxeðe

Denasalization of nasal vowels before nasal consonants excluding nasal glides.

Why are you holding back with the nasal stuff? Why not go all in on it?

[Raphael]

A VIP party contains customers at many different price ranges. At every level, the customers justify their spending by saying they work hard and play hard, but the people in the price ranges above them are dumb money ruining the scene.

[Starbeam]

[k͡xɛβ̞̃ɛnæ̃ĩ̯xeðe]
khaimainaïxeðe

Denasalization of nasal vowels before nasal consonants excluding nasal glides.

Why are you holding back with the nasal stuff? Why not go all in on it?

The first conlang spoken by Bob Dylan.

[Raphael]

Is there anyone left in non-far-right parties who even wants the job at this point?

It would take an enormous ego and very little sense to even want the job. That description fits most of our political figures, so I think there are probably still volunteers.

[Raphael]

I'm a big fan of language, use it all day long, but it's full of pitfalls if you use only it when trying to explain things.

[Raphael]

"operating theatre", as a plain "theatre" might be confused with live performances or war, although some might argue that's what it is on some level .