Zompist Bboard Again

I’ve just happened to rediscover this thread, and remember really liking what I saw of it. Do you have any plans to continue on with it? I’m glad you remember Telpahké fondly! To answer your question: yes and no, Since 2018/19, the world in which Telpahké is spoken has undergone a number of substan...

Regarding heavy initial stress, I have long nurtured a theory that it is actually original to Latin and Celtic, and spread to Proto-Germanic during a period of heavy contact between Proto-Germanic and Gaulish. And, in turn, penultimate stress spread from later Latin to Gaulish and Brythonic, but nev...

That's awesome! I'm tempted to just use it, but I have one quibble. Shouldn't the most frequent keys be on the home row? Is there any reason we can't swap the top two rows? That's what I would have thought initially, but no, it turns out that this wasn't a concern all that much- it was more about b...

Assuming that early Verdurian typewriters shared the same limitations of their Terrestrial equivalents, I would guess that keyboard design would try to strike a balance between user-friendliness, having the most frequent letters the easiest to access; and functionality, keeping those letters commonl...

It places a restriction on their previous right not to go through a traumatic, irreversible puberty of a gender they don't identify with that they will have to live with the rest of their life. I haven't made myself clear, I'm afraid. When I say "[it] doesn't place any restrictions upon their ...

I'm just not familiar with how the justice system in UK works. I've never heard of a high court before. That's pretty bad news for any teen who is trans or questioning. That is, I suppose, a matter of opinion. The actual judgement makes for some interesting reading . At its crux, the judgement is b...

then how would you explain the existence of a common PIE root for honey? and evidence that beekeeping goes back quite some time. Itinerant Egyptian bee-keepers, wandering from nomadic encampment to encampment with their hives, trading bees for honey as they hadn’t yet worked out the connection betw...

I just found out about a high court decision that harms trans teens. I wonder how legally binding a ruling against the NHS by a court is? It’s a High Court decision, not an opinion handed down by a part-time volunteer magistrate somewhere im Nowhereshire. It’s about as legally binding as you can ge...

Amazing. Shared on social media and incredibly excited about this!

Asking for a friend, Travis?

So, I've finally decided to break out of my comfort zone and explore the exciting new world of social media. I am told that the "Tick Tock" is currently the "thing" amongst the youth of today, but I do not yet feel ready to jump straight into such lunacy. I have instead decided t...

Linguoboy wrote: ↑Tue Jul 07, 2020 9:42 am

alice wrote:Or you could hunt down Dewrad and bribe him with some free phonemes.

Good luck with that!

It's all about the 'Gram these days my dude

Ahem. Modern Welsh rejoices in between eight and twenty different methods of plural formation, dependant on the speaker, dialect and analysis. Frankly, this is ridiculous and is more a reason that my native language needs to have a little word with itself than any whingeing about mutation or "n...

For my own part, I once tinkered with the concept of “Sindarin but Goidelic”, based on something I read in Parma Eldalamberon 17 (I think it was) It never really went anywhere, but it was enjoyable at the time. An example: What does this make Quenya? Insular Celtic or old Ogham Q-Celtic? I've gener...

As I recall, one of the “big” conlangs from back in the day was Amman-Îar, which is expressly based on this premise. For my own part, I once tinkered with the concept of “Sindarin but Goidelic”, based on something I read in Parma Eldalamberon 17 (I think it was) It never really went anywhere, but it...

This has strong Hurro-Urartian energy, and it is making me very happy.

I've heard them called "keep cups", but refuse to participate in such offensive tweedom.

Quick PSA for my fellow Brits who are confused about this whole 3.0 GPA thing. Turns out it’s equivalent to a 2:2 (also known as “a desmond” or “the degree classification that won’t allow you to do a masters”)

Shout out to my peeps who graduated with a first, on that note.

OK, something quick and easy to nudge things along: Mese feskede, te uwa dolume, dafsuN muku' dolume, ijyaremi. DafsuN muku' aceneme da, tateme xene syaN yawemi. DafsuN muku' lawdu dolume da, tateme syaN yawequ, caqajemi li. Ere dafsuN muku'ni saxunuN muku'. Muku' qomsu lawduwe tame ijyalemi. Muku'...

Are there any languages with only one case-marker? (Or equivalently, are there any with two cases, one of which is realised as ∅?) This post is written in such a language. Unless I’m badly misunderstanding something, English doesn’t have any casemarkers — the cases are fused with pronouns. Leaving ...