Zompist Bboard Again

Lērisama wrote: ↑Thu Oct 30, 2025 6:04 pm

Nortaneous wrote: ↑Thu Oct 30, 2025 4:34 pmҁ

???

The Wiki wrote: Koppa (Cyrillic) […] is an archaic numeral character of the Cyrillic script

I see. Koppa had some extra fun before falling into disuse.

---

Nort wrote:ꞓ

???‽‽

The Wiki wrote: C with bar […] was used in the Unified Northern Alphabet […] to denote the sound [t͡ʃ]

Of course

---

Nort wrote:ꝇ

‽‽‽‽‽

The Wiki wrote: In Old Icelandic, the broken L ligature appears in some instances [for [t͡ɬ], if I read the preceding section correctly], such as vꜹꝇum (field) and oꝇo (all)

I see.

---

Nort wrote:ꝝ

‽‽‽‽‽

Man in Space wrote: ↑Sun Nov 02, 2025 3:25 pm

zompist wrote: ↑Sat Nov 01, 2025 5:26 pmI'm an architect at heart.

Duplex Construction Kit when?

Glass Half Baked wrote: ↑Sun Nov 02, 2025 9:05 pm

Travis B. wrote: ↑Sat Nov 01, 2025 11:11 am I get the impression from this thread that Brits are much more intent on maintaining the Frenchiness of French loans than Americans, with the exception that in most cases (gratin is an exception) Americans are more likely to place the stress on the final syllable than Brits.

The general rule is that every time your dialect is closer to the original French, the other dialect is brutish and unsophisticated, and every time your dialect is farther from the original French, the other dialect is pretentious and cloying.

Ketsuban wrote: ↑Sun Nov 02, 2025 11:17 pm There is a longstanding war in English between those who would prefer to pronounce the H in words like herb and hospital, but not words like hour and honour; and those who would drop the H in words like herb and hospital, but not the name Herb. Both sides accuse the other of inconsistency, which is why the war is so contentious—they're both right.

zompist wrote: ↑Wed Nov 05, 2025 3:31 pm I am not telepathic (thank God, it'd be horrible)

Richard W wrote: ↑Thu Nov 06, 2025 1:19 pm

jcb wrote: ↑Thu Nov 06, 2025 11:20 am I suppose that it's not as transparent as a word like "blackbird", but it's still made up of two common english words, and is more transparent than a word like "cranberry".

But I don't consider pancakes to be cakes.

Man in Space wrote: ↑Sun Nov 09, 2025 2:26 pm

Travis B. wrote: ↑Sun Nov 09, 2025 1:19 pm

malloc wrote: ↑Sun Nov 09, 2025 11:44 am

What's getting you down today? Or is this about something else besides doomerism?

I think Raphael is suffering from heap fragmentation.

Would guru meditation do anything here?

zompist wrote: ↑Sat Nov 15, 2025 7:09 pm"What the hell is Chu Chin Chow?"

zompist wrote: ↑Sat Nov 15, 2025 7:09 pmIt turns out to be a musical from 1916, also made into a movie as late as 1934. It sounds pretty silly.

rotting bones wrote: ↑Mon Nov 17, 2025 11:27 pm Personally, I agree that voters are idiots. That's why I think they should have all the power.

Lērisama wrote: ↑Tue Nov 18, 2025 4:58 amNo spell check, I mean neither December nor Luxembourg

zompist wrote: ↑Thu Nov 20, 2025 3:54 pmBut really, the best response to LOTR is to write your own fantasy epic.

rotting bones wrote: ↑Tue Nov 25, 2025 5:45 pm

Raphael wrote: ↑Tue Nov 25, 2025 4:45 pm

rotting bones wrote: ↑Tue Nov 25, 2025 4:43 pm Books I've read a bit of and am planning to get back to a soon as I find more time:

Mordew
Metallic Realms
A Most Agreeable Murder

This is a silly comment, but why so big on the "M"s now?

It's a mystery.

Ares Land wrote: ↑Fri Nov 28, 2025 4:34 am I don't know if AI makes sense in conworlding. Isn't creating things in the most painstaking manner imaginable part of the appeal?

äreo wrote: ↑Thu Dec 04, 2025 12:05 am
Also, I just popped in on the conlanging subreddit and saw Janko asking someone for numbers. It was like seeing an old friend in a new town. Couldn't keep myself from smiling.

zompist wrote: ↑Fri Dec 05, 2025 11:47 am

To put it another way, the laws of man may not apply to Musk, but the laws of physics do.

zompist wrote: ↑Fri Dec 05, 2025 1:17 pm
Leaks can be tricky to fix, especially as plumbers are optimists ("this thing I did will fix the problem!"). Believe me, I know because it's happened to me, more than once.

Raphael wrote: ↑Sat Dec 06, 2025 12:51 pm

WeepingElf wrote: ↑Sat Dec 06, 2025 12:46 pm People don't like to live in cold, dark and wet places;

Aren't you and me both from the northern half of Germany?

malloc wrote: ↑Thu Dec 11, 2025 9:58 am Unfortunately my attempts to research this business keep turning up meditation, not mediation,