Zompist Bboard Again

I'm sorry to hear that. Are you sure it's not something a longer deadline could fix? Also, I'm sure it would be possible to jump back in at the end if you find you have more free itme in a month or so. I appreciate that! If I thought I had time later I would ask to move down the chain, but I'm quit...

I'm afraid I'm going to drop out of the relay. I only had time to do this up until Wednesday 20th, after which I will not have spare time for quite a while. The few days left of my holiday, I've realised, need to be spent in other ways (as much as I would love to decipher and translate the torch). A...

Moose-tache wrote: ↑Thu Apr 14, 2022 7:12 pm Not trying to be a pain, but do we have confirmation from Rounin Ryuuji that they got the text?

My understanding from PMs with Rounin is that they have been delayed unexpectedly in various ways ("never rains but it pours" and all that) and that the torch is nearly ready to be passed on.

Except for 'I think, therefore I am', in which the 'am' does signify existence, your examples for the 'existential to be' are all best described as states IMO. You could distinguish more finely - 'at home' and 'away' are states of location, while 'lonely' is a state of emotion. I attempted to do thi...

https://tinyurl.com/mrxppx7p [PDF file] So, I was given the go ahead to show at least some basics of the language. Sorry I can't post more, but feel free to ask about anything in the above document. Thanks for sharing! And congrats on having your work on screen! (since I haven't yet said so) There'...

I'm using Leima. Spent some time the other week on the grammar description so hopefully it's now up to scratch!

nabasadi onx ni naɲetupa na· mida·jady pana u·múlytage na+b(p)asadi onx ni naɲet(d)u-pa(·) na· mida·-ja-dy(·) pana u·múlytage neg+be.fortunate no B wish-tenative 1.sg have-1.2-optative near winter “Unfortunately no, hopefully i will have it by the end of the year” kago na· natanjajado·do kago na· n...

Zju wrote: ↑Thu Feb 03, 2022 2:17 pm Does anyone in any dialect say [bi˞d] or [biɹd], etc., or is this an entirely spelling pronunciation? I swear I heard it today somewhere online.

Was it by any chance this bit of video? I think the intent was humorous

Linguoboy wrote: ↑Thu Feb 03, 2022 11:08 am subsequently

[ˈsʌbsəˌkwn̩ʔli], I think.

I read Piranesi by Susanna Clarke - really enjoyed it.

Hmm, perhaps. What’s a translation relay? (For conlangs, I mean. Natlang relays I know about.) It's similar, but in a conlang relay, each translator also provides some documentation alongside their text - a grammar and a lexicon, I believe. I would love to participate but I won't have time until Ma...

Maiz c'êt on mot qui veut dicir « non » , n'êt-il ? [mɛː s̪ɛː͜ t̪õː mo ki vøː d̪i's̪iɾ̪ | nõː | nɛː͜ t̪ij] "But that's a word for 'no', isn't it?" Nnn, oi wainen ano… Hmm, you may be right... Weid, arde hehude: But, these are formal: "Dona" - "I did" "Dona leo&quo...

Untzu saguir „si“ en transemiliano require man lo verbo repetir, i untzu „no“ saguir negue man lo verbo. In Transemilian, you say "yes" by repeating the verb or "no" by negating it. Ad Reima meid. Ad Reima m-eid Leima does the same thing. "Na donen omeoreon?" Na don-en...

We have no Priests, but we have non-Priests

Eunnoa reo egwaidi, weid eunnoa elgegwaidi.

Eun-no-a

COM-3p-1s

reo

NEG

egwaidi,

priest

weid

but

eun-no-a

COM-3p-1s

elg-egwaidi.

OPP-priest

bradrn wrote: ↑Wed Dec 15, 2021 12:44 am

fusijui wrote: ↑Tue Dec 14, 2021 10:39 pm Water is a mysterious element, even with (or especially with?) the science of fluid dynamics trying to help.

That would be because it isn’t an element in the first place.

The semantic domain of 'element' is wider than just 'chemical element', which is what I assume you're thinking of.

The whole thing feels somewhat odd, though… people often take insensitivity to host word class as one of the defining features of clitics, and I’d expect them to simply cliticise to the next word no matter what it is. Requiring a specific host feels more like an affix than a clitic to me, though it...

I just wrote the following: Occasionally, pronominal clitics (including demonstratives and quantifiers) have no host to attach to. This usually occurs when the pronoun is itself the object of a predicate light verb, or when it is part of a coordinated noun phrase. In these cases, one of two semantic...

Man in Space wrote: ↑Sun Nov 21, 2021 11:11 amschlaugh

Never heard of this before, looks interesting!

jal wrote: ↑Mon Oct 04, 2021 12:05 pm Skul de a yon de.
School days are long gone.

Eun udehyo rugde orenehwai mouneu. Alreo ereg mendainodu.

Eun

COM

u-dehyo

AGT-learn

rug-de

LOC-PROX

or-en-ehwai

five-ten-year

mou-n-eu.

or-NMZ-more

Alreo

PROP=NEG

er-eg

time-any

mendai-n-odu.

late-E-too

Some students here are 50 or more. It's never too late.

Idwaina mognir med weruga hildehyo gaude.

Id-wain-a

CONT-STA-1s

mognir

busy

med

because

we-rug-a

INC-LOC-1s

hildehyo

learning.place

gau-de.

ago-PROX

I have been busy because I just started college