Zompist Bboard Again

and comparisons to Latin just reinforced that, as I knew it was a liturgical language, but I also knew that, in most books that were written in Europe had at the very least their titles in Latin. But Latin still had to be learned, often together with reading. okay, but thats true of any language th...

Coptic has not had native-speaker transmission for multiple hundred years now, so while they may technically be speaking it, that statement needs qualification. what?? then how did some of the French and English people who used spoken Coptic to help them decipher the Rosetta Stone, learn a language...

the Copts would be shocked to hear that they are speaking a nonexisting language. Coptic has not had native-speaker transmission for multiple hundred years now, so while they may technically be speaking it, that statement needs qualification. what?? then how did some of the French and English peopl...

For example, Latin wiped out the other Italic and continental Celtic languages, you mean like Galatian in 1st Century AD Anatolia? but left Basque and the Afro-Asiatic languages of North Africa more or less unscathed. But those Afro-Asiatic languages in turn were partially (Berber) or wholly (Egypt...

Judging by that the decline in popularity must have occured much later then similar declines in anglo countries Why is that? Aren't things such as (ox) heart and jellied eels still eaten in countries like the UK? I've never heard of ox heart in the uk only peru but from what i understand jellied ee...

foxcatdog wrote: ↑Tue May 14, 2024 3:59 am Sigh. Without religious autism jews would have been given parts of germany similar to poland and the czech republic.

Wha??

Not sure what religious autism is - (do you mean autonomy?) - but I don't see why you think the Jewish people would have been awarded part of Germany at any point.

Am i right in saying organ meat phobia is less prominent amongst non anglo europeans? See french foie gras and italian tripe sandwiches. I'm not sure. I think it's true but increasingly less so. You still find a lot of people loving tripe here, but less so than one or two generations ago. Judging b...

I don't think that means people should stop protesting, or debate on <insert social network of your choice> But actual solutions or peace plans will be found by people who are directly involved and knowledgeable about the issue. We're not going to come up with a peace settlement and constitution he...

In a conlang with cases, what consideration should be given to adpositions and which cases they're used with? I've seen European languages which will tend to always use prepositions with, say, the genitive or the dative. Now, my plan is to have adpositions give context to case, e.g. where the locat...

I got ChatGPT to estimate the total number of words it has been exposed to in all of its training. [...] It’s ultimate estimate, IIRC, was 5 quintillion. There are some estimates of the total size of the Internet, but I don't think they're comparable... consider how much of the Internet is pictures...

The thing is that raise the question of where the palatovelar versus velar versus labiovelar contrast came from in the first place, since the instability of such an arrangement implies that it should not have existed for long, and hence positing it merely pushes the actual original state back in ti...

therapist: objectively evil sound changes do not exist they can't hurt you cot-caught merger and yeismo: allow us to introduce ourselves I think the most evil sound change is turning sibilants into laterals myself. You deny the darkness in your soul, you deny your power. just let the pressure build...

foxcatdog wrote: ↑Thu May 09, 2024 3:03 pm english clearly stole do support from conlangs everyone claim are bad for copying it

You just now realized the Real True Ineffable Reason why conlangers discourage copying from English.

Yet that's what we see here: Old English lacks contemporary do -support. It does include some precedents, chiefly emphatic use of do in imperatives. So the substratum argument would have to be that some form of it was present in the speech of Anglo-Saxons beginning shortly after the invasions and y...

When did do support first appear in English? according to Dr McWhorter, back in the days of Welsh, Cornish, and other Celtic languages. (it was brought into English from there, so its been here the whole time) McWhorter is, IMNSFHO, full of shit here. To be fair, thats not an exact quote I was usin...

Otto Kretschmer wrote: ↑Wed May 08, 2024 8:59 am When did do support first appear in English?

according to Dr McWhorter, back in the days of Welsh, Cornish, and other Celtic languages.
(it was brought into English from there, so its been here the whole time)

Plenty of divergent dialects made it to North America in large numbers. Where I grew up, the largest ethnic group was "Scotch Irish," meaning there would have been a time when everyone in the Appalachians sounded like this child . The issue is that those divergent dialects never made up t...

to my eyes, that looks like the same thing...the only difference is the tense of the had/left within the counterfactual. They are apparently completely different things, and the counterfactual is expressed with fake past tense. fake past tense? I'm suspecting that the two example statements were sp...

What I I'm trying to understand is why the Quran having a code would be significant. The same thing is done with the Bible...literally "The Bible Code" as per many dozens of books and tv specials. I'm not sure what the founding thought was that kicked off the 20th Century searches and pub...

sounds like sleep is a good idea. enjoy. :) So last week I tripped while running and scraped my shoulder on pavement. Now an enormous scar is forming on my shoulder, the size of a playing card and stiff enough to make moving my left arm uncomfortable. my commisserations and sympathies; that sounds m...