Zompist Bboard Again

I'd find both of those a bit annoying, because 42 says the same a lot more succinctly and without me having to do addition. You have to do addition with 42 too, only you’re more used to it. Yeah, it's the same math: "for-ty two" = 4 x 10 + 2 "three-zen six" = 3 x 12 + 6 Yes, kid...

scrap practically all the policies and positions I don't trust that they will. Maybe some but not most or all. So you're one of those "but but they're all the same?!" people? Okay, there's some positions I expect they'll keep, such as support for capitalism or Israel, but as for any of th...

Travis B. wrote: ↑Sun Sep 27, 2026 3:58 pm scrap practically all the policies and positions

I don't trust that they will. Maybe some but not most or all.

If one really cared that much you could always put the decimal counterpart in brackets.

I finally forced myself to start writing my novel, and have nearly finished the first chapter. I'm not sure how much conlanging to put in it, though, nor whether to replicate the base-12 counting system. Interesting question. English already has words for 12 and 12² at least, so you certainly could...

Devised a plan for the vowels of my great ancestor lang and its descendants: Early Stage Ancestor /a aː e eː i iː o oː/ (/i iː/ cannot precede /j w/) Late Stage Ancestor (labialized consonants are merged with plain, but not before turning adjacent vowels to /o oː/) /a aː e eː i iː o oː/ Pre-Pre-Old ...

Need help. Using Windows 10 Home still. Still under ESU. Windows Update won't install KB5120249 and KB5121647. Keeps giving me 0x80070057 error. I even tried manually downloading these things and my PC simply won't install them. Trouble shooter detects no issue, I have cleared the windows update ca...

I admit I'm a bit confused by this: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwvgy1mj4yqmo Assuming that he has neither been cloned nor resurrected, it turns out that Mitch McConnell was alive all the time. So why, then, did so many of the people around him or in his party act in such suspicious ways? You...

no language, I think, would ever intentionally create two or more words for the exact same concept. instead, they may have different words for things that only slightly differ semantically, and that difference is later lost. Note that "languages" don't create, people do, unintentionally m...

They need not have been synonyms. The finer distinctions may simply be irrecoverable, or perhaps merely require more effort to distinguish than etymologists are willing to expend. No doubt it's like a "ignite" vs "burn" vs "light" situation no language, I think, would ...

Always these types of languages you have like 10 words that mean "to burn" and it makes me wonder how many words a concept should have. They need not have been synonyms. The finer distinctions may simply be irrecoverable, or perhaps merely require more effort to distinguish than etymologi...

I have begun work on a proto-language that is at least 4 stages above Vrkhazhian that I hope will properly develop into the kind of morphology employed by Semitic (and related families) languages. It is analogous to some versions of reconstructed Proto-Afroasiatic, though it's phonological inventory...

WeepingElf wrote: ↑Wed Sep 02, 2026 4:40 ambut I so far hadn't heard of racism accusations against her.

She supports and defends the main accuser against Arday who calls himself a "race realist" and I believe from the Dave video she hints at supporting the validity of race as a biological reality rather than a social construct.

I am completely lost on how tone should manifest in my language, mostly regarding interactions with codas T = /p t k/ = [p~pʰ t~tʰ k~kʰ] D = /b d g/ S = /s x/ N = /m n l w j/ TVT > TVT (??) TVD > TVT (??) TVS > TVS (??) TVN > TVN (??) TV > TV (??) VT > VT (??) DVT > TVT (??) DVD > TVT (??) DVS > TVS...

Need help. Using Windows 10 Home still. Still under ESU. Windows Update won't install KB5120249 and KB5121647. Keeps giving me 0x80070057 error. I even tried manually downloading these things and my PC simply won't install them. Trouble shooter detects no issue, I have cleared the windows update cac...

Are there any languages that start off without grammatical gender/class but have nominative/oblique case markings (they're simple vowels) and then create animate/inanimate gender classes by suffixing the animate/inanimate markers AFTER the case-marking suffixes? Stage one: -i (nom) / -a (obl) Stage...

Are there any languages that start off without grammatical gender/class but have nominative/oblique case markings (they're simple vowels) and then create animate/inanimate gender classes by suffixing the animate/inanimate markers AFTER the case-marking suffixes? Stage one: -i (nom) / -a (obl) Stage ...

ancestralphones.png Now that I've sorted out the ancestral phoneme inventory, I plan on going back to forming my triconsonantal root system from scratch. I have am planning on having a series of derivational affixes from which to extend short roots to fit the new system. I want to implement grammat...

A phonemic inventory for an ancestor of the ancestor of Vrkhazhian: /m n/ <m n > /pʰ tʰ t͡sʰ t͡ɬʰ t͡ʃʰ kʰ kʷʰ qʰ qʷʰ ʔ/ <p t c ĉ č k kʷ ḵ ḵʷ ʔ> /pʼ tʼ t͡sʼ t͡ɬʼ t͡ʃʼ kʼ kʷʼ qʼ qʷʼ/ <ṗ ṭ c̣ ĉ̣ č̣ ḳ ḳʷ ḵ̣ ḵ̣ʷ> /b d d͡z d͡ɮ d͡ʒ g gʷ ɢ ɢʷ/ <b d ʒ ʒ̂ ǯ g gʷ ḡ ḡʷ> /s ɬ ʃ χ χʷ h/ <s ŝ š ḫ ḫʷ h> /w r l j/ <...

Are there any languages that start off without grammatical gender/class but have nominative/oblique case markings (they're simple vowels) and then create animate/inanimate gender classes by suffixing the animate/inanimate markers AFTER the case-marking suffixes? Stage one: -i (nom) / -a (obl) Stage ...