Zompist Bboard Again

• important, lanni
• thing, matter, factor, ayuuca
• time, motti

Ta t'a ayuuca lanni leecadaa motti.
COP EMPH matter important see-ACTION time
The important thing is aspect.

• state, status, q'awwa
• past, faabi
• unitary, nire
• merge, combine, khay

Khayim q'awwasewa faabi nire.
merge-DAT-AGT.1.S state-ADJ-CONCRETE past unitary
I have merged the stative with the past perfective.

I have decided to combine the past perfective with a stative aspect, which are both unmarked. Henceforth the present tense is specifically imperfective, and where in many cases in my examples I have used the present I would instead use the unmarked merged past perfective/stative.

"in the popular dialects" [θ] and [ð] are sometimes completely replaced by [t] and [d]: think [tɪŋk], that [dæt] — i've heard [dæt] before, but never [tɪŋk], at least not from a u.s. native speaker I think "popular" here might mean "AAVE". TH-stopping exists sporadical...

As mentioned above, the real choice is between fascism and non-fascism, not between American hegemony and a "multipolar" world -- seeking a "multipolar" world by installing a fascist in America will only result in a fascist-dominated world not the desired "multipolar" w...

"in the popular dialects" [θ] and [ð] are sometimes completely replaced by [t] and [d]: think [tɪŋk], that [dæt] — i've heard [dæt] before, but never [tɪŋk], at least not from a u.s. native speaker I think "popular" here might mean "AAVE". TH-stopping exists sporadical...

And anyways, anyone who writes a system that won't accept arbitrary UTF-8 ought to be ashamed of themselves.

zompist wrote: ↑Thu May 30, 2024 4:44 pm A modern system should easily handle names like Robert'); DROP TABLE Students; --

That's our Bobby Tables!

Anyone who thinks the Democrats are "elitist" is regurgitating Republican propaganda, if perhaps second-hand. Really? You don't understand how the likes of: Bill "NAFTA" Clinton Barack "Go to school!" Obama Hillary "$12 is enough" Clinton Joe "Stop strik...

I personally am a socialist, and really only vote Democrat because due to how our electoral system works, any non-vote for the Democrats equals a vote for the Republicans, who are infinitely worse as we all know. But at the same time, criticizing the Democrats without criticizing the Republicans sou...

The thing about true Wanderwörter is they are dead obvious -- words traveling between many unrelated and loosely related languages with gradual changes over space that do not obey typical sound changes within language groups as if they were inherited. I am sure if there were so many Wanderwörter peo...

My point is although these words are more or less distantly related, they can't be derived from a single PIE protoform. I'm affraid Fenwick and other scholars deceive themselves. :( And yet, you’re yet to give us any actual reasons why you think this… OK, I owe you an explanation. From my own resea...

Travis B. wrote: ↑Wed May 29, 2024 1:03 pm gaxaguyeya

Tadiziye /ɣaχaɣujɛja/ rixaa laxadaa
COP-DAT-AGT.3.S.INAN-PRES /ɣaχaɣujɛja/ difficult say-ACTION
/ɣaχaɣujɛja/ is a mouthful.

The Democrats may not be ideal, but anyone who thinks that the Republicans are somehow better than them (including the people who think that the Republicans somehow favor the working class or that the Democrats should not be voted for because they are "elitist") [...] I don't have the imp...

But I have the impression that Talksubilos hasn't grasped that the inconvenience of the fact is an important facet of the semantics of afraid . But then I am not a native English speaker and may be wrong ;) What I get out of Talskubilos's use of the word afraid is that they are insisting that they ...

• make, create, khayta

Ximame ha aariye ha khaytameya ibba gaxaguyeya /ay/ ay /aw/.
think-AGT.1.S-PRES COMP should-PRES COMP create-AGT.1.S-PRES-PAT.3.P.INAN words exist-COM-AGT.3.P.INAN-PRES-PAT.3.P.INAN /ay/ or /aw/.
I think I should make more words with /ay/ or /aw/.

The Democrats may not be ideal, but anyone who thinks that the Republicans are somehow better than them (including the people who think that the Republicans somehow favor the working class or that the Democrats should not be voted for because they are "elitist") is frankly either a fool or...

What I have done with Fad'ami is first to give each morpheme a number of different forms depending on what precedes it phonetically, and secondly to primarily put things like geminates, aspirated consonants, and ejectives in roots, and avoid them in affixes (there are a couple notable ejectives in a...

Um, French verbal clitics are already morphemes, and always have been…! Really? I thought they were still clitics. So what are some papers that discuss this aspect of French morphology? Clitics are morphemes… I’m wondering if you perhaps mean ‘affixes’? In response to which I submit that ‘clitic’ a...

jal wrote: ↑Tue May 28, 2024 5:23 am

Travis B. wrote: ↑Sat May 25, 2024 10:11 pm

Rounin Ryuuji wrote: ↑Sat May 25, 2024 9:39 pm[í.ˑɫ̪ʷò̞ᵝ jǿ̞ᵝˑc͡çì t̪ʰí.jò̞ᵝː.n̪ɐ̞́ˑ.s̪ʉ̀ᵝ.ɾ̪ʉ̀ᵝ t̪ʰi̯é̞ːˑ.ɲò̞ᵝː ɐ̞́ˑ.ɾ̪ʲì]

Your posts look hard to write.

Dem fo specal luk ahcip fi tok.
They especially look difficult to speak.

• agree with (trans.), q'atti

Q'attimena
agree-AGT.1.S-PRES-PAT.2.S
Agreed.