Zompist Bboard Again

Sef Fake Germanic an Fake Latin wen las yeh, mi neba mek mekop langwic pas long long taym. Mi sapos di las wan a June 2016 ,so mos et yeh pas. Except for last year's Fake Germanic and Fake Latin , I haven't created conlangs in a long while. I think the last one was June 2016 , so almost eight years...

I did not consider changes of state being actions in of themselves, especially changes of state not effected by the experiencers but by outside forces, such as the cooking of a casserole. I see where you're coming from, but an "action" needn't be a purposeful action by some agent. It can ...

I seem to recall that, with regards to Active-Stative languages, Split-S is most likely to use head marking (i.e. on the verb), while Fluid-S is most likely to use dependent marking (i.e. on the subject). This is because with Split-S, it's inherently the verb that determines the marking of the subje...

Ahzoh wrote: ↑Mon Jan 29, 2024 8:27 amHmm, so causatives are always dynamic...

Obviously, as change is the opposite of statis...


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The only remark I have is that I haven't yet heard of "stative transitive" verbs, as states typically don't involve direct objects. What kind of verbs are these that they warrant a special category?


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When I decide to incorporate syncretism that isn't motivated by sound change, how do I decide what direction the merge occurs? Without any knowledge about natlangs that did things like this, I'd say it heavily depends on the frequency of use of these cases, and the grammar rules for using them. Hel...

According to Wikipedia, it is.

Wikpedia wrote:Balto-Slavic genitive case ending is by origin PIE ablative

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Not sure if this is the canonical explanation, but it seems from contamination of Michał.


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What's the origin of -o in Ukrainian words like Dnipro, Petro, Dmytro, Mykhailo etc. ? All other Slavic languages have cognates of these words that end in a consonant (i.e. Dniepr, Pyotr, Dimitriy, Mikhail) Though I don't know the answer to the question, "Дняпро" is, according to Wikipedi...

So how do you realize FACE then? I find it hard to even pronounce FACE + [ŋ] if I take FACE as [eɪ].


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linguistcat wrote: ↑Tue Jan 09, 2024 4:14 pmI don't really want it to be that transparent though.

Your prerogative of course, but in that case anything goes.


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Another objection is that "chon" or "ton" doesn't seem to mean anything, while "day" does. That also makes it difficult to parse. I'd stick to more familiar language. E.g. "tenfold", or "halfscore", or "tennight".


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My father is in the loungeroom. I’m in his bed. Dis a nasti fada im mek yu de ina cambas kos im swayk yu an mayn ponis yu wen yu di ste cayl, ray? Mi fil pon yu :(. This is the mean father that caused you to be in a bad state because he hit you and mentally abused you when you were a child right? I...

If you were reading a speculative fiction story, and came upon the noun <chonday> how would you pronounce it in your head and what would be your immediate associations or thoughts about it, just from spelling. What would be different if the word was <tonday> instead? "chonday" probably rh...

Raphael wrote: ↑Sat Dec 30, 2023 3:14 pmKühlschrank - "cool/cooling cupboard/wardrobe/cabinet" - fridge

Of course, the word originated when it was actually a cooling cupboard (with blocks of ice in it), before it was an electrical appliance.


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Moose-tache wrote: ↑Mon Dec 18, 2023 12:14 amMany if not most languages in the region encode number into the verb stem

Does this mean regular alteration of a base stem, or suppletive forms?


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Most of the time I honestly just throw together sounds I like Be aware that almost all (all?) natlangs have means to derive words from other words, or change the meaning of words, etc., and not just by word compounding. They may have prefixes or suffixes that have specific meaning, or just a vague ...

AwfullyAmateur wrote: ↑Wed Dec 06, 2023 5:46 pmSodemeresh just got its 1,234th word: Lovuzimi , which means "balcony".

How do you go about creating words?


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A marquise is always made of canvas (or similar material). The roofs discussed here definitely aren't marquises, unless the word has a different meaning in English than in German. Which could very well be the case. The Dutch meaning of "marquise" (written "markies", plural "...

Awning has been named previously I think, but is limited to canvas? Marquise doesn't get much hits, so no idea whether that's also roofy.


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