Zompist Bboard Again

This seems to actually be an area where my own dialect is syntactically distinct from Standard English, as when approximating Standard English I would never say anything resembling either version of mine, but rather would say: I would have never gotten my system cryptolocked if I had not downloaded...

foxcatdog wrote: ↑Mon May 13, 2024 10:36 pm *m *n
*mʲ *nʲ
*p *k
*pʲ *kʲ
*ts
*s *ʃ
*l *l̃
*w̃ *w *j̃ *j

*ĩ *ũ
*ẽ *õ
*ɛ̃ *ɔ̃
*ã

*e *o
*a

I assume this is from one of your conlangs (since practically no language has more nasalized monophthongs than un-nasalized monophthongs).

Calling anyone who is right of social democrats "fascist" really dilutes the meaning of the word and renders it meaningless. Just because one does not agree with all of Biden's foreign policy positions does not make him a "fascist". Likewise, referring to both Biden and Trump as ...

Other fun in this sort of department are things like: I'd've never've gotten my box cryptolocked if I hadn't've downloaded that "antivirus" program from that site. To me, this feels almost like aspectual agreement! It doesn’t work in my dialect, though: it feels very much like a feature o...

It seems on my examples above that -'ve is no longer equivalent to the expanded have.

Other fun in this sort of department are things like: I'd've never've gotten my box cryptolocked if I hadn't've downloaded that "antivirus" program from that site. However, it doesn't quite work if expanded: ? I would have never have gotten my box cryptolocked if I had not have downloaded ...

The only reason why Finnic languages are treated as having a large number of cases rather than a smaller number of cases and a large number of postpositions is that adjectives agree with their nouns with regard to case, incorporating such endings, presumably under IE influence. It's not the only re...

Languages with case suffixes and postpositions, like a lot of "Uralic" languages for lack of a better term, make this even more clear by blurring the line between the two. The only reason why Finnic languages are treated as having a large number of cases rather than a smaller number of ca...

One thing to remember is the case of StG, where a number of adpositions change meaning depending on whether the noun you use them with is in the accusative or dative case.

Man in Space wrote: ↑Sun May 12, 2024 10:52 pm - Again, thanks to Janko, Proto-Macro-Jädewan:

1. *¢órl ('(single) thing')
2. *¢óst (lit. 'two *¢órls')
3. *erka̋ða̋
4. *êyor
5. *ław
6. *ḱälḱa̋
7. *¢órli¢óst
8. *¢ósti¢óst
9. *erka̋ða̋y¢óst
10. *êyori¢óst

Holy cent-signs batman!

You seem to have a lot of trust that the rise of revisionist states would lead to less balancing against the US rather than more, because... China is less interested in imperialism for some reason than the United States? I imagine the people of Tibet, Xinjiang, Mongolia and perhaps Manchuria would ...

*ts > *ɬ [ɬɑ' n ʒo:] tsanjô "our language" See this is what I mean by evil sound changes. I’ve actually seen evidence of a dialect of a language (I can’t recall exactly but ISTR it was Sinitic) that had *s > ɬ as a result of a push chain; since we’re only seeing one element of the shift, ...

I'm no expert, but I do have a Larousse, which says the word was singular or plural till the 18th century; while Etymonline says the English word became plural in the 17th century. while in English the plural agreement is inconsistent and varies by dialect ("maths is..." etc.). I don't th...

foxcatdog wrote: ↑Sat May 11, 2024 11:05 pm *ts > *ɬ

[ɬɑ'ⁿʒo:]
tsanjô
"our language"

See this is what I mean by evil sound changes.

The big thing is this: would life be better with, say, China as global hegemon? I am pretty sure that the end of America's role as global hegemon would simply mean its being replaced by another global hegemon, and not some benevolent "multipolar" world that some might assume.

[ɮ] > [ʒ]

[tsɑ'ʒõ:]
tsalǫ̂
"our language"

I was linked to this wonderfully refreshing view of the whole situation: 50 Completely True Things (by a Palestinian American). I agree with 98% percent of that. The 2% I don't agree with is the one versus two-state solution part - because the Israeli gov't and the settlers have destroyed the chanc...

Where does Swedish-Norwegian-Danish -en definite article come from? ON inn, which IIRC further back was originally a demonstrative, which is also reflected by South Jutish æ even though that comes before the noun under WGmc influence (I have heard that Jutland was originally WGmc rather than NGmc-s...

Pirenáj: Tento traducír a la Pirenáj, peróc tap mout tempos. [tə̃.to tɾa.du.s̻iɾ a la pi.ɾə.naʃ pə.ɾɵk tap mot tə̃.po] I try to translate into Pirenáj, but it takes a lot of time. Phàang óo ũ thĩung ruman ngá líu tàe sí. [pʰɑ̀ːŋ ʔɔ́ː ʔṵ tʰɨ̰ŋ ɾʊmɑ̄n ŋɑ́ lɨ́ tæ̀ sí] kind what POSS.3S language Romanc...

Niwanĩ ẽe yän thĩung ga ho lae ék thäe nyẽu màe.
[niwɐnḭ ʔɛ̰ː jɑ̤n tʰɨ̰ŋ ɡɑ̄ hɔ̄ lǣ ʔɛ́k tʰæ̤ ɲɘ̰ mæ̀]
tone.GROUP DAT more language PROX.S than COMP 1S able.to speak EGO
This language has more tones than I can pronounce.