Zompist Bboard Again

I am hoping that I will complete this before I conk out for the night. It is being worked on.

Does any natlang contrast between roundedness and protrusion both? Like is there a "u" that's just round and a "u" where the lips protrude?

tlacamazatl wrote: ↑Mon Oct 12, 2026 1:29 pm https://youtu.be/tfqk_LCpKzs?si=cWJd6NY7AGmgGR0q

Yi Scripts

Excellent work. Thank you!

rdăċhkhįi
[ntsʰz̩ˤ˦˨]

‘halfway, especially in reference to distance; checkpoint, save point (video games); moiety; geographic division in major-league sport’

Retraction of laryngeal feature expression (with a place assimilation as cleanup)

rdăċhkhįi
[ɳ̩ʔ˦ˈtsʰi˨]

‘halfway, especially in reference to distance; checkpoint, save point (video games); moiety; geographic division in major-league sport’

Loss of vowels before the glottal stop

rdăċhkhįi
[ɳəˈtsʰːi˨]

‘halfway, especially in reference to distance; checkpoint, save point (video games); moiety; geographic division in major-league sport’

Onset of minor syllable acquires nasality from the major syllable as it denasalizes

We’ve the holiday imminent so I’m planning on finishing the torch either tonight or tomorrow. If you haven’t sent me your torch plus smooth English, please do so now.

rdăċhkhįi
[ɽəˈcçʰːĩ˨]

‘halfway, especially in reference to distance; checkpoint, save point (video games); moiety; geographic division in major-league sport’

Loss of tonal contour

rdăċhkhįi
[ɽəˈcçʰcʰĩ˦˨]

‘halfway, especially in reference to distance; checkpoint, save point (video games); moiety; geographic division in major-league sport’

Palatal assimilation

rdăċhkhįi
[ɽəˈʈ͡ʂʰkʰĩ˦˨]

‘halfway, especially in reference to distance; checkpoint, save point (video games); moiety; geographic division in major-league sport’

stoppage of semivowels when a kin semivowel is in the coda or the next onset, followed by deletion of the second semivowel

Hey zomp—do you have an llms.txt file set up for the site? Like the standard robots.txt?

Had an interesting idea for a satirical villain: a Calvinist teacher who decides at the beginning of the school year who will pass and fail and deliberately sabotages students to ensure they fail despite their best efforts. I passed this along to someone I know elsewhere who I regularly discuss Chr...

I found schcompile, VSCA, and (Web) Sound Change Applier on the Internet Archive!

Updated. Thank you!

In that case, Morkai5, do you want to send me the torch?

zgtśąu
[ɽʈ͡ʂʰwɨn˦˨]
‘halfway, especially in reference to distance; moiety; geographic division in major-league sport’

*a > ɨ / _N%

Qwynegold wrote: ↑Mon Sep 28, 2026 5:28 am

Man in Space wrote: ↑Wed Sep 16, 2026 11:08 pm

Imralu wrote: ↑Fri Sep 11, 2026 11:39 pmNow it is time for beach to be an occupation.

According to the Barbie movie, it is.

(For reference, the moment in question.)

Music question: do people still use the "end a song by fading out the sound"-method these days? I've kind of got the impression that the time when people did that a lot were the last decades of the 20th century, that is, probably the first decades after the technology to do that became se...

Updated again. Thank you bradrn and Vilike!

Imralu wrote: ↑Fri Sep 11, 2026 11:39 pm

Travis B. wrote: ↑Tue Sep 08, 2026 7:27 pm

Richard W wrote: ↑Tue Sep 08, 2026 5:44 pmComputer is no longer a human occupation.

Most people today do not realize that computer once referred to a human job.

Now it is time for beach to be an occupation.

According to the Barbie movie, it is.