Zompist Bboard Again

Yang ik pumuhrr?
what TOP PERF.INTR-change
"What's up?"

The continent that these stories take place on is the third-largest continent on the planet, coming behind Asia and Africa (still accorded their own place in this history). Connected to South America—here simply Pacifica —by the Isthmus of Panama, and to Asia intermittently via the Bering Strait, an...

Ares Land wrote: ↑Thu Dec 29, 2022 9:46 am A very interesting premise. What language are the names in?

Many thanks! The names are in Norse, then Mi’kmaq, and then Mi’kmaq with Norse origin.

Happy New Year, folks!

Prologue: First Contact So it was that Bjarne Herjulfson came to Greenland, and Jarl Érik received him well. And Bjarne spoke of lands he had seen, further to the west, but could not tell further stories, and so people gave his words no heed, and he was wroth. But Leif, son of Érik, was struck by h...

Going to see about reworking this old thing a little bit…

Prologue: First Contact
Chapter 1: The Survivor

Salvian:

Mu sahajgalar hulnaa kirshinan chin tandhaś chin-hulnaa haraar.
Not transform-simp.int-5sE woman-GEN.S childbirth-LOC.S nine month-NOM.PL nine-woman-GEN.S one-DAT.S
“You cannot turn nine months of one woman’s childbirth into one for nine women.”

Travis B. wrote: ↑Mon Dec 05, 2022 12:48 pm The question may have been asked before, but is that con-Australian?

One of them, anyway! I have four: Booladjirra, Arrahng, Warruk, and Proto-Theryke.

I'd like to give it a try if I may--I messed up last time, I'm not going to mess up again. (For one, I think this time I'd stick to Classical Salvian instead of Booladjirra.)

I am terribly sorry—work and studying have been busy and I got COVID. Hoping to get back to it soon!

Received! Might be a tiny bit of time, but I'm working on it…

Seems very vague with all its reference to peoples and things a reader would be unfamiliar with. The plot feels slightly disjointed but it is well written. This is fantastic! Thank you so much indeed! I shall definitely have to find a way either to simplify or explain matters, or possibly both at t...

For your perusal, a new short story set in Ajjamah. I’m trying to work on a new style of story, so please do feel absolutely free to rip it to shreds…

Håmwo väh dats'jitåġåt. [xʷɒmwo vʲæx datsʼjitʰɒɣʷɒtʰ] /xʷam=wə vʲax datsʼ-jɨ-tʰa-ɣʷa-tʰ/ people.A=GEN tongue.B practice-3.SG.B-1.SG.EXCL-DESIRE-DIR I want to practice Håmwo Väh. Duales Hercuan: Ca \Håmwo väh/? Se útro, se ebavo, pill' avura, nadello eidaja! What.Q Håmwo väh / PROX game / PROX music...

Back again? THE LINEAGES OF MEN The Northerners are children of the woods and the air, loving best the cool open light of the hills and the mountains. They claim descent from Frank and Helen , two of the first five humans to enter Narnia. But their descent in larger part is of the nymphs, wood-gods ...

Háir ġáisji håmna fûṙṙâjijenenälå? [xaːrʲꜜ ɣaːɕꜜji xʷɒmna ɸɯꜜʁɑjijeɲeɲæɫɒ] /xáːrʲ ɣáːɕ-jɨ xʷam=na ɸɨ́ʁa-jɨ-jə-ɲə-ɲa-ɫa/ DIST.S.B be.natural-3.S.B tongue.B=AGT inspire-3.S.B-PAST.PFV-3.S.B-INV-Q Was that inspired by a natlang? Salvian: Echembit' osnavat Osmaniyaha tu-Mongoliyaha. Aajaatita. inspire....

Naak thaŋ nii bey gadiqŋu ŋa-qangat thaŋ? what the FOC Q absorb-STAT [=have.as.member] that-tree DEF What kind of tree? Qoldishtari: Mosala jar-i-dihreyakh. 1p-GEN tree-CONJ-apple-past.SIMP.MED "It was our apple tree." Yal-i-padr selelayakh. 7-CONJ-10 year-PL-GEN-past.SIMP.MED "It wa...

Classical Salvian:

Chilintara shimdina. Pr’-aargotaya laśrasi-thuli.
annoy-SIMP.REAL-1sA-3sE / but-rescue-PERF-REAL-3sA-1pxE regrow-POT.ABS-f branch
Guessing annoys me. Still, we did save a branch to replant.

Did you use any simulation for the latest climate map, or did you just follow basic principles? E.g. from Geoff's climate cook book. Just basic principles, I’m afraid—I don’t have a computer with enough storage to run a simulation. But I used a couple of sites and compared the methods, mainly deriv...

The Empire of Glass, Part I a.d. XVI Kal. Sep. DCCLXXIII A.U.C./August 15th, 20 CE Rome, Italia "Exquisite work, truly," said the princeps, running his hands over the bowl. Theocritus bowed as deep as he could. Cool air rose from the marble like smoke, pushing back against the heat outsid...