Zompist Bboard Again

Dyii ze ndwabi. The name is not finalised. Bawei mwemwe dyi. There are many possible names. Dzuier kimi, hmyruti neshakattoui reng attou fei zo Giving the title after finishing writing the story is best zo ptcl. appears with general knowledge or widely held opinion and expresses agreement or suppor...

Imralu wrote: ↑Mon Aug 17, 2026 9:02 am Ndyolya ngai nye ze vabi.
My book is not yet finished.

Senya neshaki pinsei?
How much is left to write?

Lately I've been working on moving Heláin onto paper: I'm planning to keep printouts of everything in a binder, and handwrite corrections/additions until a section's getting hard to use, then update on the computer and print again. Right now I'm trying to deal with a messy backlog of vocab-related ...

My memory of the canon of Elrond and Elros is that they were half-elven and were required to choose which race they would live as - Elrond chose the elves and Elros chose men.

Raphael wrote: ↑Sun Aug 02, 2026 10:37 am

quinterbeck wrote: ↑Sun Aug 02, 2026 10:36 am Thank you all for the congratulations - I abstained from checking the board over my honeymoon

Hope you enjoyed it!

Very much so

Thank you all for the congratulations - I abstained from checking the board over my honeymoon

I just got married!!

ifan ruvaoga hi, nariwe bua ban Somebody ask me [something], I can't think of what to say Mai zyeu wai ze mu ya zya nge? Why can't you think of what to say? Telvanga; Ineru ne suo dzaneru temie... golao mebu. I don't know; Ineru still has few words... maybe that's why. Gwii lu ma? Where are the fis...

ifan ruvaoga hi, nariwe bua ban
Somebody ask me [something], I can't think of what to say

Moose-tache wrote: ↑Thu Jul 16, 2026 9:25 pm Does your conlang have a word that is, approximately, /ni/? If so, what does it mean?

I want your examples of /ni/!

In Ineru, ni is an aspectual verb meaning 'do/be briefly, temporarily'

MacAnDàil wrote: ↑Wed Jul 15, 2026 8:40 am Happy birthday to both alice and quinterbeck!

I clarify that I announced the birth on the ZBB more than a month after it occurred.

Aw, well at least I still get to share a birthday with alice. Thanks everyone

MacAnDàil wrote: ↑Tue Jul 14, 2026 12:57 am My first child is born.

Congratulations!!!! I also share a birthday with your child

Beyond the scripts, other things which stick out to me are the square brackets (hardly ever used like that) and the layered superscripts and subscripts (sometimes seen in Einstein summation notation, but hardly otherwise). Basically it looks like someone’s idea of what complicated mathematics ‘shou...

I'd like to share this lovely bit of sci-babble my teenage self thought up in 2010: The propagation of the wave [p] is equal to the oscillating variable [ ε g] to the power of the recurring anomaly [Дд]. Differentiating this results in the square root of the resolved vector [vф], and is equal to the...

Some may say the news media is becoming a bit of a broken record on this topic.

Byo lo limwe nge zyange zyi me u dyii zyamu wi nyoli do, dei byu zyi u zobye. The bit about learning the basic words of each others' languages is raced through. U ga ya giwe qawa do, dwei mu vye wendi wemba dyi. After a few hours, they know thousands of each others words. Ndo zyu dwei li mu zyu ndz...

alice wrote: ↑Sun Jun 07, 2026 2:27 pm Note for the potentially confused: this has nothing to do with what zompist.com used to be called.

I wasn't confused but now I'm curious! What prior name are you referring to?

Also I love your current signature

so some quick results (with no stress changes or morphological leveling) give us: numbers: 1: sḗm → síém 2: dwóh₁ → vɔ́x 3: tréyes → déjɛs 4: kʷetwóres → bɔbólɛs 5: pénkʷe → bɛ́mbo 6: swéḱs → fɔ́ʃ 7: septḿ̥ → sɛfmó 8: oḱtṓw → ɔʃáúv (or h₃eḱtéh₃ → xɛʃɛ́x?) 9: h₁néwn̥ → snɛ́mnɛ 10: déḱm̥ → zɛ́fmɛ 20:...

Terminological question: Does a tense have a morpheme? It feels hard to say that the English simple past has a morpheme, and this is not an isolated example - good examples can be found in all of the 3 classical IE languages. Does a tense have a morpheme? Not necessarily. Can a tense have a morphem...

WeepingElf wrote: ↑Mon Mar 23, 2026 1:03 pm K'is 3na3m°n Prijam-Hesperik'jam hesei.
this-GEN name Proto-Hesperic be-3SG.PRES.PASS
'Its name is Proto-Hesperic.'

Se nehefino "3" hal "°" jaoe?
what speech.sound "3" and "°" have-ACT-INT.OBJ
What sounds do "3" and "°" make?