Zompist Bboard Again

foxcatdog wrote: ↑Sat Jun 01, 2024 2:24 am Ttiruku

Just a minor gripe, but having initial consonants marked by doubled consonants drives me absolutely nuts. (Yes, I know it's done when romanizing Korean and in the writing of some Italian languages.) Could you perchance write that Tirugu or something like that?

Ligim ha gaya fad'am khayaguya leecadaam mottit q'awwasewat ut faabit niret. know-AGT.1.S COMP exist-PAT.3.P.INAN language-P merge-AGT.3.P.INAN-PAT-3.P.INAN see-ACTION-P time-GEN state-ADJ-CONCRETE-GEN and past-GEN unitary-GEN I know there are languages that merge the stative and the perfective. Li...

The usual explanation is that it's a fully phonological process where a final -s on one word in a clause like *wĺ̥kʷoms péḱyonti "they are looking at the wolves" bleeds over to the start of the following word ( *wĺ̥kʷoms spéḱyonti ). It may also have happened the other way round in some c...

• 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...