Zompist Bboard Again

Mi a dis taym tahn Obit Ya cata tu, "ros cip-fles". It in ahcip sem cata wan, oba ahcip fo mata, olbit mi gwan af gut pas. I'm currently translating The Hobbit chapter two, "roast mutton". It's not as difficult as chapter one, but difficult nonetheless, although I'm continuing a...

Nona igman oi wead nedwalde hod horog nurug Eglan. Deun eoryeude ugeohodu!
It feels like summer has finally arrived in England. June was so rainy!

Waina reo mognir! Onwaina dallih rug ihid in nahnoa
STA.PST-1s NEG busy | CMP-STA-1s stop LOC land GEN hill
I haven't been busy! I've been on holiday in the peak district

Daina hinemi irnim girmidoi digeuma igload, weid dada reo ranon
STA.PST-1s attempt think-what interesting RS-REL.ACT.FUT-1s add-abst.sg but PROP.PST-1s NEG ability
I've been trying to think of something interesting to add, but I couldn't

Linguoboy wrote: ↑Wed Jun 05, 2019 2:56 pm So I'll ask again: Is the construction "serve [person] with [drink]" natural for the other fluent English-speakers reading this or does it sound odd?

This sounds odd to me. I'd say serve has a similar ditransitive pattern to give: 'He gave me a drink', 'He served me a drink'

An ordered set of phonemes could be a string - "It's naive to assume you can model speech entirely as strings" sounds valid - although strings of phonemes would be clearer.

Looking at E (typed), I wonder: if the users of this script were to develop movable type, perhaps they would manufacture blocks for the glyph components rather than whole glyphs, e.g. 'dot', ' short line', 'long line', 'square' etc. and arrange them into the glyphs on the forme? Then suppose they in...

masako wrote: ↑Mon May 27, 2019 7:46 am tlalok
Of course not.

http://mentalfloss.com/article/31262/wh ... poop-white

Rai lug Masako hilde geo nonen reo muhhagyor yoer egyealla!
VIS LOC Masako here and EXP-3s NEG suffer VIA nonsense
Masako isn’t here to put up with nonsense!

Gu gen weayeam duma anha? Idyarne oh arirged? N'oi yeamora edougoer moureuruhyo moumodonegaar moumanri? INF Q INC-FUT.ID tree NZI-what | wood PART PAT-build | POL:SBJ FUT.ID-plt.pl and-door or-gate or-furniture or-NZP-other What do you suppose the pines will become? Structural timber? Might it be d...

anteallach wrote: ↑Mon May 06, 2019 11:03 am

quinterbeck wrote: ↑Sun May 05, 2019 12:04 pm [ˈnɛʟklɪpʰə]

DRESS-FACE merger before /l/?

Hmm, not quite a merger I'd say - nail is varying between [nɛjʟ] and [nɛːʟ], but Nell is [nɛʟ]

Perhaps it's closer to [ˈnɛːʟklɪpʰə]

BrE - I would pronounce biopic with stress on the penult, and the LOT vowel [ɒ], probably by analogy with topic

bbbosborne wrote: ↑Sun Apr 14, 2019 4:32 pm nail clipper
its/it's
heart

[ˈnɛʟklɪpʰə]
[ɪʔs]~[ɪts]
[hɑʔ]~[hɑt]

amak na nye tlanam ke inka tsoponketse unyak I will never understand why people don't prefer calm. Oi men araug yoer mair non ireagi in mognir, weo wainena mineme SBJ ACT.2s say VIA person EXP pleasure-more GEN busyness COND STA-2s-1s agree If you are talking about people who prefer being busy, I a...

Da omeor eimoudwa yoelge
ACT.PST.1s see video VIA-inan.sg
I watched a video about it

De yarnon rimean aini yoer iname!
REP HAB-EXP light turn VIA frac-four
The light is bent by 90 degrees!

Rai darge reo hoedeh nuheuna
VIS PROP.PST-inan.sg NEG black-some RF-REL.COM-1s
It didn't look very black to me

Wan oidur da reo naroni neaweinineg yoelge
But not.yet ACT.PST.1s NEG read ABST-explain-any VIA-inan.sg
But then I haven't read any explanations of it yet

I'm still screwing around with phonologies, trying to create something fun and weird in the spirit of Danish and themed around west Africa, so weirdass allophony/patterninɡ and questionable boundaries of what a phoneme is in a smallish consonant inventory. This is what I have so far: /i e u o a ɨ/ ...

Dem euhida lam rug hilmemun di nairye dihin umemun oreha, geo degwe doryam, ID.PST yesterday day LOC workplace RS last RS-GEN AGT-work beside=PART-1s and.same.time GO.PST-3s ABL.PST-MED Yesterday was my coworker's last day at my workplace, and just before she left, ...nen dugwe ougoa oi dema umemun...

Mia ka leu na ixi enio gune xui lu xo. on.way FUT rescue NOM.1S.ACS ACC.3P.DEF.INAN plant VB-GEN.1S.ACS ABL.3P.DEF.INAN place work I'm on my way to rescue my plants from work. Eh! Wainod orneru in yom! Na duno edih oi yeuno oelgudora? EXCL | STA-abst.sg appearance GEN bad | POL ACT.PST-3p plan SBJ ...

Nen da naroni yoer unnomin, goud wedona yehu oi dem egwaidi igmaugauh or agdeo ano before.that ACT.PST.1s read VIA letter and.then INC-EXP.PST-1s know SBJ ID.PST priest senior-SUP NZP guilty true As I read through the letters, I realized the Pope was the true culprit! (source: random sentence websi...

Ha kka mula ixu enio, tos e volo xuka . Q NEG pleasing NOM.3S.DEF.INAN plant | thus IMP give sugar If the plants aren't tasty, add sugar! Armu aneu rug naamdeim oem da reo hinemi geineon rug odudear... PROP-MED suitable LOC fruit but ACT.PST.1s NEG attempt do-nat.sg LOC vegetable This works for fru...

Tu oehmaeddue. Qa saelaetkin tu i gwi yula. [twɤm̥æɗɯ || ʔɒ sælætkin twi ⁿgwi julɒ] EGO.PFV PST-BEN.1-go_to || now salad_greens EGO.PFV POSS 1SG COP-3 I went to the store. Now I have salad greens. Armu yoenari! Moira hi, laa weador gaugoan! PROP-MED healthy | next TOP OPT INC-PROP-plant.sg tasty He...