Zompist Bboard Again

I know very few Brits who still use the term "chemist('s)" for the local dispenser/ary. They're nearly always called pharmacies nowadays. Where in Britain? I'm in East London and would only ever use "chemist" - I've only heard "pharmacy" from foreigners. East Midlands....

Travis B. wrote: ↑Wed Apr 21, 2021 5:28 pm Of course, here dispensary common refers to someplace one can legally get marijuana and marijuana products.

Now that, I didn't know.

From the BBC: Inside the chemist made entirely out of felt now apparently corrected to Inside the chemist's made entirely out of felt Ah yes - a person made entirely out of felt would have seemed a bit odd. Bonus points is that, for a lot of people from a US, a chemist is a chemistry researcher, wh...

That's horrific. I'm so sorry they put you through that.

Moose-tache wrote: ↑Sun Apr 18, 2021 3:49 pm Gold tier: iologist
Platinum tier: atorloreman

Can you explain these? I get the platinum one is Anglish but where has the element 'ator' come from?

A fun speculative article on donut-shaped planets
A less in-depth video on the same topic

In this song by Welsh speaking band Sŵnami: Uno, Cydio, Tanio, the lead singer aspirates the /t/ in tanio so strongly it sounds like [t͡s] to me.

Numbers (for Janko) Leima has names for numbers one to ten and powers of one hundred. One to ten have two forms - a full word meaning 'a set of size x', and a reduced prefix. Full word Prefix Value daa /dɑː/ d(a)- one gea /gɛ͡ə/ g(e)- two moe /mɜː/ m(o)- three ame /ˈamɛ/ am- four oru /ˈɔɾu/ or- fiv...

Oi in nogahweg weumad orwe weid emde nehyudya yeude

Oi

SBJ

in

GEN

nogahweg

basket

weumad

old

or-we

NZP-3s

weid

but.simult

em-de

ID-PROX

n-ehyudya

ABST-deceive

yeude

hot

That he would have an old basket is a big lie

(literally "maybe he has an old basket, but that's a hot lie")

I dunno, those ‘modifier’ constructions seemed quite different to me — though on the other hand, if they do turn out to be as similar as you say, then it could well be more parsimonious to analyse them as one construction. The thing that makes it confusing is that I decided to use the same morpholo...

Deg hannaid alloryaro allad doideneu houh aimuhi, allugum hingim alluno hodig eunai. /dɛg ˈhanːajd alːˈɔɾjaɾɔ ˈʔalːad ˈdɔjdɛnu həwx ajˈmuhi ˈalːugum ˈhiŋgim ˈalːunɔ ˈhɔdig ˈɛwnaj/ Deg hannai-d allorya-ro allad doidene-eu houh aimuhi, allugum hingim allu-no hod-ig eun-ai. The brothers left before da...

Ooh, look, a language with a closed verb class! My favourite type. It’s good to see a conlang experimenting with word classes. (And, to forestall any argument, I would analyse these ‘auxiliaries’ as a closed class of 15 verbs — they seem to be used in predominantly verbal contexts. The monovalent ‘...

Am I correct in my impression that Leima has only two stops, /d/ and /g/? Yes. Leima's phoneme inventory is /d g m n ɾ h j w i u ɛ ɔ a/ with an allophonic chain d > ɾ > l in various contexts. I originally had /ɨ ʉ/ instead of /i u/, but eventually gave up on /ɨ/. Alternation of /u~ʉ/ still lingers,...

Weo wain onyam gei oi da goen welmau gum ihnin rihou
COND STA right do SBJ PST.ACT.1s cut meat INST knife sharp-more
I should have cut the meat with a sharper knife

De dem el-Raimra ed-Eine hannai inai. /dɛ dɛm ɛlˈɾajmɾa ʔɛˈdəjnɛ ˈhanːaj ˈʔinaj/ De dem ed-Raimra ed-Eine hannai in-ai. Raimra and Eine were brothers. The narrative begins with an evidential particle - the reportative de . Leima has fifteen auxiliaries, each of which specifies a type of relationshi...

Here's my attempt at the approach bradrn took in presenting a conlang via annotated text ( here ). I started writing a story but it's been languishing unfinished for a while, so I thought I may as well post what I have. Full text so far below, gloss and discussion to follow. De dem el Raimra ed Eine...

Rounin Ryuuji wrote: ↑Sun Apr 04, 2021 3:17 am Is that maybe a British thing? I think I remember seeing it in Banjo-Kazooie, but not much of anywhere else growing up (the standard abbreviation was "AC").

I think it is. "Air-con" is standard for me, too. I've only ever heard Americans refer to it as "AC".

Yes, you just put E or EPEN(TH) to indicate an epenthetic "morpheme" Yeah, you don't gloss it. It's like you said non-morphemic and doesn't have any meaning, it's just allophony or sandhi etc. Sometimes it's important to indicate epenthesis so people don't get confused about the random in...

Are there any conventions for glossing intruding non-morphemic material? I looked through the Leipzig rules but didn't find anything relevant. I don't how prevalent such a process is in natlangs (or even if it's an acceptable analytical approach). Some examples in Leima of phonological rules for aff...

Ada araug yoerun elreo nurug nearde
I have so little to talk about these days