Zompist Bboard Again

I'd probably say "first... second... etc." but "firstly... secondly..." doesn't sound too weird, though I think there would be semantic distinctions I can't really put into words atm.

Our AC unit seems to have died. With it running (and it being 68F - 20C outside), it's still 80F - 27C inside :? At least we're renting, so we don't have to pay for the fix Finally had a guy come out and look at it. The compressor is shot, could take days to get it fixed up. Hopefully before Saturd...

While I may be known as the West Saxon guy (to the extent that I'm known at all), I do have other conlang ideas that I work on from time to time. One of which is a descendant of Modern English. The setting, time frame, and all that sociological stuff is still to be determined, mainly to give me max ...

Travis B. wrote: ↑Tue May 27, 2025 8:53 pm

Herra Ratatoskr wrote: ↑Tue May 27, 2025 6:17 pm

Travis B. wrote: ↑Tue May 27, 2025 2:15 pm

Same here.

Huh, neat to know. Thanks for the responses, fellow Zbeebfolk!

Sorry if you really liked the idea of calling people businessfolk.

Eh, that's not even the oddest thing in my ideolect, tbh. I know when to standardize things and when to let my linguistic freak flag fly.

Just curious, does anyone else use -folk as a less formal plural of -person? So formally it would be "businessperson/businesspeople", but casually it would be "businessperson/businessfolk"? Or am I just being weird? "businessfolk" does sound rather weird to me. Same he...

Just curious, does anyone else use -folk as a less formal plural of -person? So formally it would be "businessperson/businesspeople", but casually it would be "businessperson/businessfolk"? Or am I just being weird?

That might be a bit difficult, because I don't have the book at hand and don't remember it in that much detail. For instance, political right-wingers/conservatives are usually both supportive of main commercial interests, and very much led by territorial instincts. Political left-wingers, on the ot...

Mē ne līcaþ þis nīewe gefanglode Ænglisċ! Ġief mē gōd eald Ænglisċ Wouldn't it be ġefanglode , or am I misremembering? You're not misremembering -- the past participle prefix in later Old English started with /j/, even though it may have been a voiced palatal fricative in earlier Old English. Danġi...

Torco wrote: ↑Mon May 26, 2025 10:14 am if old english was so good, however, why is there regular english?

Mē ne līcaþ þis nīewe gefanglode Ænglisċ! Ġief mē gōd eald Ænglisċ

Almost 22 years for me. I got into conlanging the summer after my first year of college (2003), and found the LCK pretty soon afterwards, so... 22 years in the fall? Geez, that's over half my life...

I'm out of time to read, but The Phoenix Project by Gene Kim, et al. on Audible is a fascinating listen. It's a revealing novel about the IT management's mindset. There are a lot of details about DevOps, which every CS student apparently wants to learn these days. I'll second that assessment. I had...

Our AC unit seems to have died. With it running (and it being 68F - 20C outside), it's still 80F - 27C inside

At least we're renting, so we don't have to pay for the fix

I stayed out of the Serali drama as much as possilbe, so my memories of it are just "OMG Pretty Scripties!". I prefer not to try to think how long ago that was...

I did read it, decades ago (though I got it from the library back then, so I don't have it any more), but, to be honest, it's the one of her books that I didn't find convincing when I read it. For a start, most real-life political movements I can think of are orthogonal to the dividing line between...

WeepingElf wrote: ↑Fri May 23, 2025 3:53 am

alice wrote: ↑Tue May 20, 2025 2:32 pm I think they're nice, speaking as someone who tried and failed to do the same thing many years ago.

So you'd say Dekavurian was a failure?

I would strongly disagree with him if that's what he's saying, but I took it as failing to create a handwriting system.

Welcome back, although I'm the opposite of an oldbie, so it's really just a welcome. You're the West Saxon guy¹, are you not? ¹² If I'm correct, please have my appreciations anyway. If not, please accept my more general appreciations. ² I can be summarised as “the footnote guy”. Thanks for the welc...

I'm a huge fan of Germanic langs and I'm really liking what I'm seeing here; can't wait to see more!

Danke, both of you!

Hope you'll forgive the thread necromancy, but have you read Systems Of Survival ? It's another earlier dialogue of hers, this time discussing moral systems, and involves a bunch of the same "characters" as Nature of Economies (it's even mentioned in passing early on in NoE ). I found them...

I wasn't here to vent when it happened, but the lead singer of my absolute favorite band passed away a couple months ago and I'm still quite bummed about it (and since she was a German artist that no-one here in the States has heard of, it's been kind of a lonely being bummed as well, so I take vent...