Zompist Bboard Again

Oops…okay, rephrase time. Listen to a song with lyrics. If there's a particular word in the song that catches your interest, look it up in your lexicon. If it's there, rejoice and start over again (without pausing the song if you can). If it isn't there, create the word, and start again in the same ...

1,002 words of Classical Salvian. This year . 4,002 words created in total in 2021, out of the 6,000 goal I set for myself. I have no idea how you do this. How do you even decide which words to make? I make words only as needed, which means that even my biggest languages only have about a hundred w...

1,002 words of Classical Salvian. This year. 4,002 words created in total in 2021, out of the 6,000 goal I set for myself.

Ares Land wrote: ↑Tue Jun 22, 2021 2:33 am (The merchants were called pōchtēcah in Nahuatl which also sounds like an ethnic name but isn't, AFAIK.)

From what little Nahuatl I know, wouldn’t that mean something like “person/people from the smoky place”?

BITHRAEL The key concept behind Bithrael or “fivefold worship”, the main religion of Irthiron, is quite simple. Wherever one lives, one is tied to the main five deities who have made their home there. One prays to the gods for justice, for success in conflict, for health, for industry–and for respi...

Breached 3,600 conlang vocabulary words of my 6,000 goal this year!

CLASSICAL HERCUAN MORPHOLOGY Classical Hercuan ( sa pura conaja , "the classical language", in modern Hercuan) was spoken for nearly fifteen hundred years as the primary language of Empire of Hercua, the Holy Land, from the mid-14th Century LC to the early 30th. It's part of the Hefrago b...

There are two ways of denying the evils of colonialism: one is to simply ignore them and refuse to apologize (as France does), the other is to apologize so profusely which such heights of self-flagellation that the apology is now about you and what a wonderful ethical being you are and not about th...

Idk I think there is some value in people feeling guilty about past injustices. I have met British people who feel guilty about colonialism in India, and I'm glad they are because they benefit immensely from it today and it came very close to preventing me from existing. As for benefits, what are t...

I have to wonder, truly, what’s in it for people when they speak of atrocities in the past. If they truly committed them, yes, I understand reluctance and grief and wishing to do better. But what good does self-flagellation do for those who have suffered? It feels like throwing a temper tantrum. I u...

I think Ive heard of what youre talking about, and that it didnt succeed because it just wasnt practical to require the use of color to write ordinary texts. imagine needing six pens and having to switch between one and another every time you write a new word. it would make a nice ornate script, bu...

This seems to be the best place for this… Has anyone heard anything about the writing system called Ndélélé? Used, appropriately enough, by the Ndebele people in Africa, and taking traditional pictorial representations and styles and turning them into a script. I have literally found only two source...

masako wrote: ↑Sun Apr 04, 2021 4:08 pm
next: neighborly relations

Qoliyyu:
Nubashk ur-sanash (nf) “sharing of food; neighbourly attitude, communion”

Next: trade school

TENSION POINTS The Bithwealdes or Five Powers have been slowly growing in influence for a number of centuries now, and each now controls a sizeable portion of the world. For very different reasons--Irthiron's navy and technology, Qoldishtar's size and army, Hercua's divine intervention, Zahng Kwen'...

Hollow1134 wrote: ↑Mon May 03, 2021 8:29 am Nextː ŋeena /ŋe.e'na/ [ŋe.eˑ'na] n. A strong, soft material; a cotton-like weave

Irthironian:

Neen, neenes /ni:n 'ni:nz/ (nc) plains cotton shrub (bombacinum fluvialis)

Next: dyre, dyerie /dɑɪə dɑɪɹi:/ (nf) spring equinox

Salvian:

Nyuśśur sunmas dhārasas t' yosāuthirnaru Hutha-Salaviha!
Only sixty more words until I've remade Salvian Mk. 7!

QOLDISHTARI SKETCH PART I: Phonology & Nouns Introduction Of the five major empires in the world, the Empire of Qoldishtar (Qoldishtari Charakar-iy Qoldishtar ) is the closest to what we might conceive of as the "traditional" model. Founded by nomadic riders given a taste of city-dwel...

600 words of Irthironian, done and dusted, and over 2,100 words in total! At the moment that puts me over a third of the way through my yearly goal!

Lewidzian:
Wenyt sobry smobo.
Day-ERG friend-ABS 1s-lose-PERFECTIVE.POT.SING
I may have lost a friend today.

Ares Land wrote: ↑Tue Feb 02, 2021 9:03 am Stupid question, but have you tried emptying your browser cache? (Ctrl-Shift-Backspace will bring up the appropriate dialog)

Not a stupid question at all, and thanks so much for the suggestion! Working fine now! Sorry about the trouble…