Zompist Bboard Again

Oh boy, we're getting close to the final reveal!!

Morkai5 wrote: ↑Tue Sep 08, 2026 5:25 am Finally, we're on strike at work today, and I was able to do it. I sent the torch to Emily.

Hell yeah I hope yall get what yall are striking for!!

I've been on a variation of this Board for 20 happy years now

rotting bones wrote: ↑Wed Jul 08, 2026 12:45 am The languages are basically notes at this point. Everything is up for change. Question: Is the consonant inventory for ǁamə imbalanced?

Wanted to add my 2 cents in that the inventory looks balanced to me.

Today I learned that the name "Axel" derives from "Absalom"

I'm tempted to place Proto-Germanic in a region of my conworld and just create language sketches from it to fill out an otherwise empty region of the map

I could swap you and bradrn if that’s all right? I'd need to be moved to lëtzeshark's position at the least, and I understand he needs to be later in the relay as well... alternatively, I'm free all this week, and wouldn't mind being first in the relay if Arzena is fine with being moved. When would...

OK. Adding a day because I was so late in seeing lëtzeshark’s message, so I had to redo this. Does this order work? Torch Order Man in Space: Archaic Vyʌ (2 Jun) Arzena: TBD (2 Jun–8 Jun) /ˌnɐ.ˈɾɛn.dɚ.ˌduːd/: TBD (9 Jun–15 Jun) bradrn: Eŋes (15 Jun–22 Jun) lëtzeshark: Ilian (23 Jun–29 Jun) Lērisama...

If they're as tall as the Alps then I'd expect tall-grass prairie, something like the more humid regions of the American Great Plains on the eastern slopes of those mountains with forest returning the closer one gets to the coast / windward side of those mountains across the strait.

My quick thoughts: 1) and 2): without knowing how tall those mountains are it's hard to say. If they are relatively short then I see a situation like the Appalachian Mtns. in the States where there's ample green on both sides of the ranges. If they're taller, however, then I'd expect rain shadows to...

Modern Akkadian For a moment I was working on a modern descendant of Akkadian. I imagined it spoken in Northern Iraq with speakers clustered in Mosul, Erbil, and Kirkuk. I recall that I called it something like Agadi - عقادي . If I had completed the project it would have had tremendous influences f...

I'm interested to participate

- Maybe this is obvious, but learning by immersion is so much easier and more effective than classes/excercises/etc. The only languages I know, I have learned by being surrounded by them for a time. On the other hand, I feel that formal "correct" grammar takes longer to really stick when ...

flounder: bottom-rester

next animal: hyena

Translation Challenge: "The Chant of Nudimmud", a Tower of Babel variant story from Sumer. (I cant find the source from which I sourced the version I used, but an alternative translation is here [ LINK ] (lines 134-155)for localizing the Terrestrial placenames into your conlang) Ardinian O...

Obviously there's no international standard for representing the Köppen type with colours, but I find it hard to think of A-type climates as blue. (What do synaesthetes think? This could be very interesting.) Not a synaesthete but in contrast to what Alice said, blue on Koppen maps (especially the ...

Man in Space wrote: ↑Sun Apr 12, 2026 7:06 pm Íröd:

Love that supercontinent

I always wanted to do something like this but Inkscape makes it difficult. I also never really know how big or small a koppen region should be. I did my maps in GIMP; I'm teaching myself Inkscape atm which presents design challenges not present in GIMP though you do get lovely pixel-free maps out o...

I like seeing Koppen maps (or any climate classification system) of people's conworlds. Here's a thread to share such maps. And to start here's the Koppen maps for my world, Enumene (WIP, I havent distinguished the various continental zones from one another and the desert regions need a rework imo) ...

Sometimes you'll hear that two pieces fit together 'comme papa dans maman', ie as daddy into mommy, ie perfectly.

Suddenly I understand Guattari and Deleuze's asides about "daddy-mommy-me" a lot more...