Zompist Bboard Again

I watched this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCy12B14woM Wow, that was full of bullsh*t. The video insists that Jews are not be called "Jews". That's akin not calling Chinese as Chinese, but as "zhongguoren" I'm sure that the word is not pronounced like that. So, the vid...

My university is now all online, thanks to COVID-19. After so long time Indonesia got infection-free, now people suddenly got COVID-19. Although, I have to be suspicious as the neighbours are all infected badly.

Pabappa wrote: ↑Tue Mar 10, 2020 8:16 pm Ive seen a few people here question the analysis of Marshallese

Ah, a language with emoji as the vowel.

Ryusenshi wrote: ↑Mon Sep 23, 2019 12:26 am ... Hale (2000) paper that analyzed Marshallese with four vowel phonemes //, //, /☎/, /☯/?

linguistcat wrote: ↑Mon Mar 09, 2020 10:56 pm ETA: A little ways into this paper, I found that concessives do often become concessive conditionals. So please ignore this question.

Wow, that's a cool idea.

Why does a lot of ancient languages in area around Persian lack 2nd person agreement?

Pabappa wrote: ↑Sun Mar 08, 2020 10:35 pm i wonder if butt=knife comes from people carrying knives by their hips? if so, it has the exact same logic that I use in Poswa for hip=cellphone=gun. but i suspect the Pomo way might have something to do with blunt force.

Probably just a homophone.

Wait, Mixe, you're too?

Wikipedia wrote:Pronunciation: [pwes haduʔn ʔidaː ʲ-ʔɨjoːb hɨjaʔaj ʔidaː ʔaldeano mɨːd ʲ-toʔoʃʲɨʰk ʲtɨɡoˑjʲ jɨ mɨkuʔu ]

Latgalian language has phoneme /jʲ/, which makes no sense whatsoever.

I'm surprised I can understand Sri Lankan Malay, despite the big grammar difference. Sri Lankan Malay's grammar is like a Japanese grammar but with Malay words.

Interestingly, an O-construction ("inverse") is only possible if the O is 3rd person or in certain morphologically limited conditions, which is not what would be expected if the purpose is to promote SAPs. I once had a conlang that works this way. I thought I misunderstand the direct-inve...

On object agreement, the claim seems like complete nonsense. To start with, it ignores Arabic, which has object agreement, as did the earlier imperial languages Akkadian and Aramaic. Spoken French arguably has a verbal complex that includes object agreement— /ʒnətevypa/ "I didn't see you"...

I read a paper that says that a language spoken by millions of native speakers tends to lack object agreement and applicatives. But I forgot the exact paper. Could you tell me the exact paper?

You should watch English by Phensri. It's a video about how a teacher butchers English language. Here's a link to one of the its episodes.

Also, it's worth pointing out the ergativity in English. (i.e. My reading vs Troy's destruction by the Greeks). In English, action nominals seems to have a split intransitive alignment. Compare above with "My singging the Marseillaise"

Can + passive is OK (I can be persuaded). To me, it's not only OK, it's also common and quite important. However, I'm a native speaker of Indonesian, where such construction is more common. For example, this sentence is grammatical (aside of definite article, which I'm not sure): (If you go there,)...

Linguoboy wrote: ↑Mon Feb 17, 2020 11:21 am Same. "Do an orgy" sounds as off to me as "do sex".

Accoding to the context, exactly. The city is panicked because of the snakes having sex. https://www.reddit.com/r/BrandNewSenten ... too_weird/

Well, then it's just me that thinks Past Modal/must + have + been + Ving as inferential, instead of imperfective.

Also for some reason can + have is ungrammatical to me except when used as "You can have this food."

The Malagasy wiktionary is one of the best overperformers relative to its language's number of speakers On the other hand, Indonesian wiktionary is bad despite the number of speakers. First, there is no IPA given, and unfortunately Indonesia does have some of the words pronounced irregularly (altho...

/m mʲ n nʲ nʷ ŋ ŋʷ/ <m my n ny nw ng ngw> /p pʲ t tʲ tʷ k kʷ q qʷ ʔ ʔʷ ʔʲ/ <p py t ty tw k kw q qw ' 'w 'y> /pʰ pʲʰ tʰ tʲʰ tʷʰ kʰ kʷʰ qʰ qʷʰ/ <ph phy th thy thw kh hw qh qhw> /tʼ tʲʼ tʷʼ kʼ kʷʼ qʼ qʷʼ/ <t' t'y t'w k' k'w q' q'w> /b bʲ d dʲ dʷ ɡ ɡʷ ɢ ɢʷ/ <b by d dy dw g gw gq gqw> /ɓ ɓʲ~ᵑʘ/ <b' b'y> ...

Is there any writing techniques to insert conlang to the story. My story is about a prince from a medieval kingdom (the name is to be determined). He loves hunting, but after he found an artifact, he is transported to another world. Despite coming from royalty background, he is forced to adapt to a ...