Zompist Bboard Again

I’m thinking, could this perhaps work? lazhi-nza ak'iju-un-i qam magawa ja tumbu-wi That way, ‘sit’ gets the person as its agent and the chair as its patient, while ‘break’ gets the chair as its patient. This is how most languages with SVCs do it. For the way that I have Jin structured right now, n...

I’m not entirely sure I understand… so how would you translate that sentence now? That will probably be answered in the next post I'm planning. For now, that Jin sentence is just ungrammatical (according to the updated rules I posted) so it would just be formed a little different. Yes, you are corr...

Funny, I could have sworn I already wrote and sent a reply to the post before this… should I be worried? It just gets worse with time. Wait until you're really old.... like 30. :D I’m not sure I understand. Does this mean you’re sticking with the below-quoted system? Note that the above current ver...

Jin: Active vs Stative Issue round 2 After some more thinking, I don't like the structure where you could use a verb with active direct voice and then a stative indirect voice and the arguments would simply be reversed for one of them. It's complicated, ugly, & doesn't seem natural. Also, after...

On Monday I found water under the water heater. Service guy came this morning. We now have a new water heater. Showered this afternoon. Water in the shower didn't drain and I stepped out onto a floor covered in water. Will now be trying to snake the drain and probably then calling a plumber when it ...

Ah, so Jin now has Austronesian alignment! (Or at least, as near as makes no difference. It’s only slightly more elaborate than the split-S system of Indonesian-type languages.) Not on purpose! :lol: Now that I look at both the current and new systems for the inverse voice, I can see where it could...

After thinking about how to handle the examples, I had an idea to modify Jin's inverse and passive voices (both the active and stative versions of each). This is the current system: Active Direct: ak'ijuqawi qam magawa ja tumbuwi ak'iju-qa-wi qam ndalu-wi ja tumbu-wi The man broke the chair. Active ...

sambiwi ja haququni sambi-wi ja haqu-qun-i The one that steals (things) is running. The thief is running. I haven’t read through the whole post yet, but are you sure this translation is correct? I think it should be The thief is a boy . Yep, thanks for the catch. Doing too much copy/pasting and was...

Jin: Active vs Stative Issue I've run into a bit of an issue in Jin using both active and stative verbs in the predicate. It's a matter of whether the verbs are requiring active or stative arguments and in what order. buc'adi qam sambiwi buc'ad-i qam sambi-wi The boy is running. sambi ja haququni s...

Also, because two of my conlangs have initial consonant mutations I use the MUT-\ to show it. The dash is followed by S, A, N, or L for soft, aspirate, nasal, and liquid , but that's very specific for my own needs, I think. A gloss with MUT-S\wolf.sngv would therefore show that the word for 'wolf' ...

I'm a man of my word: https://tinyurl.com/57ekvzzx (PDF) I sent out about 20-25 links for beta readers, only got feedback from about 5 people, so I'm gonna keep revising and updating as time goes, but this is it, for now. Looking good. I checked against the list I sent and everything I found reads ...

Finally getting around to going through this... Like many conlangers, my languages can suffer from some amount of… how should I put it? monotony of style. This thread is an experiment: to produce an antilanguage with as many features as possible which I haven’t used before. To do this in a systemati...

To me any of the personal pronouns followed by a relative clause sound archaic. Yeah, I agree. I wondered if maybe "it which" or "it that" might have been grammatical at one point, but has completely phased out. "He who initiated the Zoom call can mute the others." Thi...

Can a relative clause ever modify the pronoun "it" in English? It that quacks like a duck... It which quacks like a duck... Other pronouns aren't an issue. It just struck me that "it" is different. I look at those examples and think "that SHOULD be OK, but it just ain't!"

Travis B. wrote: ↑Mon Feb 21, 2022 3:38 pm Somehow I feel that a mention of the Leipzig glossing rules would not be out of place here.

Indeed, it would not!

I'll go through their list to see how far off I am, but a quick scan is triggering that OCD bit in me.

I don't know if anyone will find this useful or even interesting, but I created a list of terms used in glossing with an abbreviation for each. The original file is here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vQtGs7TLxoBkABSuI6lRfuds8vKSmHgKfK4fG53qxdXj7XwLyvivL8ykOXvki2w7vGb9OBwKVtgdx1h/p...

I've been starting to learn coding for WebGL, specifically through tutorials for BabylonJS, which is an engine that uses Javascript to drive the graphics. I'm working towards being able to create 3D experiences for products (mostly automotive). My company does a little bit of this and is pushing to ...

zompist wrote: ↑Mon Feb 14, 2022 10:32 am ...may lead to the overgeneralization insightful application of using it with acronyms too.

Fix't.

Estav wrote: ↑Mon Feb 14, 2022 10:52 am I think apostrophes are especially likely to be seen when the period is included, as in “P.C.’s” rather than “P.C.s”.

Yeah, that would be my sense of how it works as well.

I'm not sure what the "rules" are in my own head exactly, but I have an urge to add an apostrophe for some plurals. I think it's maybe acronyms or words that usually aren't plural, but even there it's a limited set. An example might be PC's for "personal computers", not "per...

Moose-tache wrote: ↑Sun Feb 06, 2022 4:57 pm From Twitter, regarding the recent enthusiasm for censorship: "Tennessee is just closing the loop: authors turn abstract ideas into books; Tennessee turns books into abstract ideas."

That could go on the ZBB quote thread, but it's not a quote from a member, so...