Zompist Bboard Again

Raholeun wrote: ↑Mon Jun 07, 2021 1:48 am

bradrn wrote: ↑Sun Jun 06, 2021 2:38 am I eventually went for a system where stress is fixed at the morphophonemic level, but becomes unpredictable at the surface (though always on one of the first two syllables).

I'd be interested to see how that works.

Few things are as predictably unpredictable as language. []

Rounin Ryuuji wrote: ↑Fri Jun 04, 2021 4:52 pm

JT the Ninja wrote: ↑Fri Jun 04, 2021 4:32 pm I wish I'd accomplished more today...but hey, I've got a whole weekend now to do absolutely nothing I want to get done. []

Join our budding Japonic clique thingy!

If only I knew more than a handful of Japanese words...not nearly weeb enough, I suppose. []

Heya JT! You must be, like, all old and stuff. What are you doing these days? Hey zomp! If 35 is old, then I guess I'm old? Still mostly the same (though my beard is longer). Still working on my conlangs in fits and spurts. I'm on a discord server for silly linguists, so that helps. The past year a...

I wish I'd accomplished more today...but hey, I've got a whole weekend now to do absolutely nothing I want to get done. []

When I say 2 or 3, I'm counting the major overhauls, where I just deleted everything and started from scratch. The minor iterations are much more numerous. The language itself is...I guess you'd call it isolating? It marks most things with articles and auxiliaries instead of endings. Apart from the ...

Rounin Ryuuji wrote: ↑Fri Jun 04, 2021 10:58 am Well, hello there.

General Kenobi...you are a bold one. []

Is it normal to want to re-work a verb system literally every time you look at it? I've seriously re-worked the Ahnakáh verb conjugation system at least 2 or 3 times, but it's still not satisfactory. I almost want to scrap all the person endings entirely. The language really doesn't make use of affi...

What's more random than posting on a forum you haven't visited in years?

Well, technically I guess it isn't random, since it was caused by much nostalgia and conversation about conlangs..but whatever. []

Salmoneus wrote: ↑Wed Jan 16, 2019 7:40 pm Bryatesle is miekko's. qatama... is that masako's?

It's been so long I don't even know if most of the people are still here... but I do remember the name miekko. []

A while back, I found a cache of confonts I made for several ZBB users lo these many years ago...and now I'm wondering how many of those users are still around... ...do these conlangs sound familiar to you? Ajan, Bryatesle, Kîn-Hedenào, moj, Ooqatao keygao, qatama, xadim? I also did a couple fonts f...

Bleh...travel to England is a bit out of my budget, alas...would really like to go to a conlang event, though.

When I first saw the word Velociraptor, I thought it was stressed on the first and fourth syllables, with the fourth syllable being the primary stress. Had to unlearn that after watching Jurassic Park . Also, for the longest time I thought the l was silent in the name Gandalf, by analogy with words ...

While "somewhere" is largely preferred to "someplace", "sometime" is preferred to "somewhen" which is rarely used. "Somewhen" is a word...? :? At any rate, I probably wouldn't find it remarkable if someone used the word "someplace," but I ...

I think I usually only hear "someplace" in the context of "someplace else," but "somewhere" works in all contexts.

Which syllable do you stress when saying "TV"? I personally always stress the second syllable, but I've heard a lot of people stress the first.

Morphological rather than phonological: Chinese added clarifying morphemes to words which became homophones with each other as a disambiguation strategy I was actually thinking of something similar to that earlier today, only more due to common stock phrasings than homophone distinction. Like if th...

I'm gradually working on rebuilding all my conlang stuff on my site...I keep all the good bits in a Google sheet, but I at least have some brief summaries (or at least name mentions) up...

...eventually it will be in presentable form >_<

I just use Excel or Google Sheets, honestly.

Actually I almost forgot my favorite example ever of something that at least presents as a prothetic consonant: some gaelic varieties apparently are inserting /f/ before initial vowels as a hypercorrection of the lenition rule that sends /f/ to zero. I can't remember whether the hypercorrected word...

Zaarin wrote: ↑Fri Oct 12, 2018 7:53 pm

JT the Ninja wrote: ↑Fri Oct 12, 2018 6:47 pm Go full Coach Z on it?

/ʤɑb/ > /ʤijɛɪ̯ɔːːʊ̯wɹ̩b/ would be an impressive set of sound changes.

Maybe not full Coach Z xD...but at least full Southerner.