Zompist Bboard Again

Basics
Username: Starbeam
Name: Marty Z.
Other nicknames (including good stories, if you have any): Ghost Mall, Uriel Machine
Birthplace: Maryland, United States (Washington D.C. metro area)
Place of residence: Maryland, United States (Washington D.C. metro area)
Any particular reason you live there now? I didn't move.
Occupation: Unemployed
Pets: Daisy (12 year old doggo), Lucy (7 year old catte)


Identity
Gender: Non-binary
Sexuality: Yes
Relationship: No
Nationality: American
Ethnicity: Ashkenazi Jewish (father)/ Irish, French (mother; her family is Hiberno-Norman apparently)
Religion: Atheist

Measurements
Age and date of birth: 22; June 2, 1997
Height: 6 feet/ 183 cm
Weight: 210 pounds/ 95 kilograms
Shoe size: 12
Blood type: B+
Handedness: Right

Languages
Native language(s): English
Other languages: Hebrew, Spanish (both sub-medioker but not horrible); I also know some Japanese and can parse little bits of languages like Dutch and Frisian, which are kinda close to English.
Your conlangs: Gimme a minute will ya? I'm almost done.
Natlangs or conlangs you have interest in but have never actually learned any of aside from maybe reading a paper on it once: Thieves' Cant, Sabir, Chinook Jargon, Michif, Irish, Scottish, Scots, Manx, Cornish, Welsh, Breton, Gothic, Old English, Old French, French, Swedish, Kabyle, Chaldean Aramaic, Lebanese Arabic, Khaliji Arabic, Mongolian, Etruscan, Cajun Creole, Low Saxon, Palatinate German, Mapuche, Garifuna

Favourites
Favourite language: Kobaïan
Favourite colour: Indigo
Favourite food: Half-done pickled cucumbers
Favourite drink: Milk
Favourite animal: Cats
Favourite sport: Dodgeball (does that count? if not, put in like roller skating or tennis or something)
Favourite book: Tokyo on Foot (not that i read many books)
Favourite movie: Kung Fury
Favourite video game: El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron
Favourite non-video game: Fluxx (not that i play many non-video games)

Extra Credit
1) Link to the funniest picture you know of on the internet that isn't goatse or in the same spirit. Your move
2) What's the most interesting place you've ever been to? Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

I've made enough posts by now to justify filling one of these out...

Basics
Username: Yalensky
Birthplace: California
Place of residence: Chicago, IL
Any particular reason you live there now? Came for grad school and haven’t left

Identity
Gender: male
Sexuality: gay
Relationship: many boyfriends across the world, none alas at home
Nationality: USA
Ethnicity: white (western Europe)
Religion: none/atheist, Catholic roots in the sense that I celebrate Christmas and know my saints
Politics: pretty much a commie, and getting lefter every year

Measurements
Age and date of birth: late 20s
Height: short
Weight: slender
Shoe size: 7
Blood type: no idea
Handedness: right

Languages (including level of fluency!)
Native language(s): American English
Other languages: Russian (fairly good, better at speaking), Spanish (used to be good, now rusty), Latin (rusty), French (reading), Esperanto (bad)
Your conlangs: Keševan, Mejaguese, Calintese are the three major ones, each belonging to a different family. They’re in the diachronic naturalistic vein typical of the ZBB.
Natlangs or conlangs you have interest in but have never actually learned any of aside from maybe reading a paper on it once: Greek, Sanskrit, Hawaiian (completed Duolingo at least), German (did a "German for Reading" course, promptly forgotten), Italian, Lushootseed, Chinese, Quenya, Verdurian, Xurnese, Toki Pona, Ithkuil

Favorites
Favorite language: I’ve really fallen in love with Russian since I started learning it
Favorite color: a dark blue with a touch of grey, also fond of dark greens
Favorite food: my mom’s oatmeal raisin cookies
Favorite drink: coffee, or a slightly fizzy wheat beer
Favorite animal: cat. Still don't have one though, I keep putting it off.
Favorite sport: running (to do. And I don’t really watch any sports.)
Favorite book: Borges, Pushkin, Notes from Underground by Dostoevsky
Favorite movie: Children of Men at the moment. I don't watch that many movies, and my taste is completely underdeveloped.
Favorite video game: er...Stardew Valley? Witcher 3? Those are pretty much all I play. When I was younger I played a lot of games in the empire-building genre, like Age of Empires II.
Favorite non-video game: Any quick-paced card game with friends.

I’ve been here for long enough now (3000 posts!) that I should probably fill out one of these, at least to the extent possible:

Basics
Username: bradrn
Name: prefer not to say
Other nicknames (including good stories, if you have any): none
Birthplace: Vancouver, Canada
Place of residence: Sydney, Australia
Any particular reason you live there now? Parents moved here when I was 4
Occupation: Student (third year undergrad, majoring in physics and chemistry)
Pets (+5 extra credit if you provide photographic evidence): One dog and one cat. (The cat chases the dog.)

Identity
Gender: Male
Nationality: Australian
Ethnicity: I dunno, does Ashkenazi Jewish count? My family’s from Europe (Lithuania, Belgium etc.)
Religion: Jewish

Measurements
Age and date of birth: prefer not to say
Height, Weight, Shoe size, Blood type: not sure
Handedness: right

Languages (including level of fluency!)
Native language(s): English (native)
Other languages: Hebrew (can speak basic sentences, really want to learn more), Mandarin (can count to 99 and say ‘I love my mother’)
Your conlangs: Yazhgigzhoomnem, Hlʉ̂, Wēchizaŋkəŋ, plus a bunch of less presentable older ones
Natlangs or conlangs you have interest in but have never actually learned any of aside from maybe reading a paper on it once: See here for a somewhat complete listing

Favourites
Favourite language: Kalam, probably
Favourite colour: ???
Favourite food: ???
Favourite drink: ???
Favourite animal: ???
Favourite sport: ???
Favourite book: I’ve read too many good ones to decide
Favourite movie: I don’t like most movies
Favourite video game: I don’t play video games
Favourite non-video game: Pentago

Extra Credit
2) What's the most interesting place you've ever been to?
Well, ‘interesting’ is an ambiguous term, and ‘most interesting’ even more so — I can think of many interesting places I’ve been, each in their own way. (Is a science museum more or less interesting than a game reserve? What about Parliament House?) But, attempting to be specific, I could nominate the northern end of State Cr, Canberra, which has one of the best outcrops of faulted and folded sediments in the world (Street View), and which also happens to be right next to Parliament House, Old Parliament House, and several more interesting places.

bradrn wrote: ↑Mon Sep 13, 2021 9:55 am (Is a science museum more or less interesting than a game reserve? What about Parliament House?)

Less.

Basics
Username: Titus Flavius
Birthplace: Warsaw
Place of residence: Poland

Identity
Gender: male
Sexuality: straight
Nationality: polish
Ethnicity: polish
Religion: Roman Catholic

Languages (including level of fluency!)
Native language(s): Polish
Other languages: English, Spanish (both, I think, B2)
Your conlangs: many

Favourites
Favourite language: I like Latin and also Middle English phonaesthetically.
Favourite colour: blue?
Favourite animal: cat
Favourite sport: I don't like sport
Favourite book: I don't know, I like Asimov's Foundation
Favourite movie: idk
Favourite video game: I don't play video games

Basics
Username: Foolster41
Birthplace: Chicago, IL
Place of residence: Washington State

Identity
Gender: Male
Sexuality: Hetro
Religion: Christian

Measurements
Age and date of birth: April 1st, 1981
Height: 5'10"

Languages (including level of fluency!)
Native language(s): English
Other languages: None. I've tried to learn Japanese, Spanish and Tagalog, but never stuck with it.
Your conlangs: Karathnai (Knowing words)

Favourites
Favourite language:
Favourite colour: Maroon
Favourite food: Sushi, Curry or Balgolgi BBQ.
Favourite drink: Black Tea, a good craft Hard Cider
Favourite animal:Raccoon (I had a raccoon stuffed toy as a kid)
Favourite sport: I've never been a big sports person. I remember somewhat liking playing baseball, soccer and basketball in high school, but I wasn't good at any of them.
Favourite book: Les Miserable by Victor Hugo
Favourite movie: Princess Bride. (More obscure one, Metropolis, (2001) )
Favourite video game: Hitman 3 (World of Assassination Trilogy)
Favourite non-video game: Aquire

Extra Credit
What's the most interesting place you've ever been to?
Fiji and Vanuatu (two places, but one trip). Beautiful place, I went to on a vacation as a kid. Went to a beautiful resort, visited a native village, went scuba diving and walked on lava rock.
Also Equador. The country is beautiful. The view in Quito is amazing, on a hill. I saw a bunch of sites in the city, such as their big cathedrals, and then went to a small town and saw there's a lot of poverty there, which was sobering.

Basics
Username: Hâlian
Birthplace: High Point, NC
Place of residence: Central Florida
Any particular reason you live there now? Dad got a job at Universal Orlando in 2000.
Occupation: Unemployed

Identity
Gender: Male
Sexuality: Aromantic aëgosexual
Relationship: None
Nationality: USA
Ethnicity: White
Religion: None

Measurements
Age and date of birth: 28; 1994-05-29
Height: 6’ 1” (185 cm)
Weight: 538.2 lb (244.1 kg)

Languages (including level of fluency!)
Native language(s): American English
Other languages: Spanish (took two years in high school and forgot almost all of it); Japanese (beginning learner)
Your conlangs: Classical Âirumâli
Natlangs or conlangs you have interest in but have never actually learned any of aside from maybe reading a paper on it once: Creek, Classical Maya, Finnish, Middle Egyptian, Georgian, Wu, Classical Japanese; Ithkuil, Na’vi, High Valyrian, Idrani, Eteodäole, anything spoken by a species that has syrinxes, anything that has won the Smiley Award

Favorites
Favorite language: Classical Japanese
Favorite color: #008141
Favorite food: Stuffed-crust pizza
Favorite drink: Dr Pepper
Favorite animal: Giant ichneumon wasp (Megarhyssa spp.)
Favorite sport: College football or baseball
Favorite movie: Back to the Future Part II
Favorite video game: System Shock 2
Favorite non-video game: Magic: The Gathering

Extra Credit
1) Link to the funniest picture you know of on the internet that isn't goatse or in the same spirit.
2) What's the most interesting place you've ever been to?

Welcome!

Ares Land wrote: ↑Thu Aug 04, 2022 12:07 pmWelcome!

I remember Halian being a user from way back, if my memory is correct.

Oh sorry!

(And welcome back then!)