Zompist Bboard Again

Russian: The vowel reductions, they're a dead giveaway. Only if it also has afficates for palatalised /t/, /d/, then it's Belarussian. (Basically, Belarussian is the only Slavic language you can mistake for Russian if you only hear some snippets) Polish: Again the afficates for /t/, /d/, plus /w/ f...

I'm quite enjoying this thread. The phonology was interesting, and your presentation style is fun to read.

Meanwhile, a message for the web developers among you and the people you know: https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2020/03/22/get-static/ Or get on a CDN. you'd probably hate the iPad then, and i think other tablets are moving that way .... I dont use a tablet but i see people on youtube with iPads ...

The counter-intuitive thing about this sort of crisis: the time is to act is when it seems (to laymen) that it's way too early. This, so much. Here in Poland, our government did the right thing for once and started reacting very early. They announced the closure of schools when we were at 30 cases ...

Man in Space wrote: ↑Fri Aug 16, 2019 10:29 pm As a bonus, this language distinguishes /sʲ zʲ/ vs. /ʃ ʒ/.

That doesn't strike me as too weird if /s z/ are dental.

Modern Poland has huge dialectal differences. That's not what modern Poles seem to think. Says the American. I'm a few days late to the discussion but since no Polish person commented on this, let me. Polish has minimal dialectal differences when compared to any other language I'm sufficiently fami...

It reminds me of what happens in some cultures anyway where admitting ignorance equals losing face so you'll get a likely answer instead of "I don't know".

Salmoneus wrote: ↑Thu Mar 07, 2019 6:25 am [this is leaving aside the broader problem that, beyond perhaps a symbolic research station, we will never colonise Mars]

"Never" is a very long time. People used to be sure we'll "never" reach India by sailing West.

bradrn wrote: ↑Thu Mar 07, 2019 1:55 am Would it be reasonable to have ʔ → k between vowels but ʔ → Ø everywhere else? e.g. maʔ → ma, amasʔe → amase, but paʔel → pakel.

I've never seen the glottal stop to fortite to /k/ so not sure.

So Haleza Grise wrote: ↑Wed Mar 06, 2019 5:41 am

gestaltist wrote: ↑Wed Mar 06, 2019 2:06 am I'm confused. This is in the Almea subforum. Was there colonization of Mars in Almea? What am I missing?

The Almea subforum covers both Almea and the Incatena (Zompist's sci-fi setting).

Oh, makes sense now.

I'm confused. This is in the Almea subforum. Was there colonization of Mars in Almea? What am I missing?

Sounds like the shagrats from the Future is wild Yes, that's where I got the idea. I completely forgot, TBH. Next: Man's (or whatever your sapients are) best friend I my current project, humans have actually evolved as favorite pets of an older sapient race. I'm still deliberating if I should use t...

What you're describing sounds like a causative case to me. I don't think it's reconcilable with the causative voice since raising the causer to the role of the syntactic subject is in the definition of the causative voice. But I see no reason why you couldn't have a causative case used with the usua...

Pabappa wrote: ↑Wed Feb 13, 2019 10:17 pm Romanian has tei for linden tree. Not really a basic concept to me, but maybe it is to them ... also the longest word I've ever seen for love: dragoste.

There's plenty of monosyllabic words for trees in many languages, including English (fir, birch...) What makes "tei" special?

This is my favorite thread ever. :) Next: Anything domesticated for food An animal from an old project of mine which I'm actually thinking about importing to my current conworld: a capybara-like rodent adapted to tundra. I am (unimaginatively) calling them "kapi". The kapi look more or les...

If you mean a whistled language like some tonal languages do where you whistle the tones, I've seen notation using tone numbers. I guess you could also use IPA tone symbols and have something like [˧˦˦˥]

Thanks, Ive always wanted something like that .... but it's for Linux. Does there exist anything comparable for Windows? It can be used with Windows and with a Mac. They provide instructions on how to get it to work: The GUI (Graphical User Interface) and MoSt (Model Starter) are written using the ...

The best resource I know is PlaSim to be found here: https://www.mi.uni-hamburg.de/en/arbeitsgruppen/theoretische-meteorologie/modelle/plasim.html It's the only climatology model I know which can be downloaded and use for free and won't fry your computer. Installing and using it requires some knowle...

For an S-type system to be habitable, the secondary star would have to be very far away. The added heat is the least of your concerns. It would also disrupt the orbit of your planet. Unless you find some research stating otherwise, I'd go for your secondary being far away enough to have a similar ro...

Estav wrote: ↑Mon Jan 28, 2019 1:34 am For me, [ɾ] in the context of English sounds the same as [d]

As exemplified by [ɾɔɹ] for "door"?