Zompist Bboard Again

Heh, I just saw your perfective thread. I'm gonna read and see if it's of any help...

Well, you posted the challenge in May, and I posted the language in July, so… two months? But I didn’t work on it consistently. That's fast for that amount of work! Well, I don’t recall ever seeing it in a natlang. But hey, it’s an interesting system! Oh? Well that's well done for coming up with su...

I think it’s best to be consistent in an auxlang — either make everything head-final, or make everything head-initial, but I don’t think it’s a good idea to do a mixture. I don’t think any one approach is necessarily better than any other. I agree that it would be more logical if everything was 100...

I suppose you might get a clue if prepositions were conjugated. :) >_< If a language has unconjugated modal verbs, how do you know that they are verbs and not adverbs or prepositions or particles or something? I think you are approaching this the wrong way. Whether a word with a modal meaning is a ...

If a language has unconjugated modal verbs, how do you know that they are verbs and not adverbs or prepositions or particles or something? Btw, I saw that there was some language that had a word translated as "should" but classified as an adverb. I'll post that example later when I've foun...

Now I've finished reading it. How long did it take you to make this? I never get that much done on grammar. Surface primary stress is consistently on one of the first two syllables. In most case, the stressed syllable can be predicted by the following rules, although they occasionally fail: This is ...

I'm thinking of putting out a sample of the dictionary of my 'Pseudo-Misihase' conlang (a posteriori Tungusic) -- I saw that Lexique Pro lets you output a compressed self-installing file that's easy to share. Maybe in a few days I'll post it on the forum and see what people think. It's more of an a...

As you can see, only one of these examples precedes its modifier. I mean, in Omni-kan they precede. Based on this, is there anything one can say about the order of prepositional phrases? I'm thinking specifically about prepositional phrases that describe location. I'll give a couple of example sent...

To me it's much more broadly applicable, not limited to online fracas (fracases?). Certainly when I learned it in the '80s, that wasn't even an option. A term I'm fond of, and am glad to hear has been borrowed by other languages :) Same thought here - it is more widely applicable to a variety of cl...

Oh, this is that conlang with weird romanization choices for some consonants that you've been posting in the Conlang fluency thread! Surface primary stress is consistently on one of the first two syllables. In most case, the stressed syllable can be predicted by the following rules, although they oc...

Anyway, so it's clear now that adverbials always precede the thing they modify. Based on this, is there anything one can say about the order of prepositional phrases? I'm thinking specifically about prepositional phrases that describe location. I'll give a couple of example sentences. Hmm, it might ...

(Btw, I don't think there are much more "syntactically experted people".) Thanks, but I'd point to Zompist (he's written a book, fer cryin' out loud!) and pretty much anyone who has looked into syntactic trees, transformations, etc. I have actually taken a course in syntax, but I can't ma...

Note that poste mici puru saha "turn back the clock" is a subject complement here since it is describing the subject: mi "I". This might be part of what's tripping you up: Aha. I had to reread that part in the WP article , because that's something I hadn't understood at all. So ...

Balog could, at this stage, easily get along without definiteness/specificity marking in the predicate I just wanted to say that if you did decide to do this, you don't have to worry about it being a weird random feature (=bad conlanging). It would be weird, but there's a perfectly logical explanat...

So I wonder if anyone knows of other natlang suffixes used for male derivation. I would like it to come from one of the below languages, but I may consider other languages as well. German has -rich . It's not terribly common and mainly used just for a few animals. Thanks! I might change my male suf...

One very important thing I would add is that languages very often have multiple complement types. For instance, the English sentence I wish [one was able [to turn back the clock]] has two different complement types: One was able to turn back the clock has the internal structure of a sentence, and c...

one could turn back the clock. INDEF.PRON can back way turn clock wan pisa poste mici puru saha Yes? Ah, I see. I had been thinking of only poste mici (back way) as the complement, and saha (clock) as a separate object. I wish one could turn back the clock. Mi tamana wan pisa poste mici puru saha Y...

Right now I'm struggling with this sentence: I wish one could turn back the clock. 1SG wish INDEF.PRON can back way turn clock Mi tamana wan pisa poste mici puru saha In Omni-kan adverbs are supposed to come before the verb, so if "back way"* is an adverb, it should come before "turn&...

Shhhhh! 🤐 Well, most of them are and that's how I've envisaged it, that writing is a specialised activity performed by the upper echelons. In fact, probably they'd get non-orcs to write for them since they don't have such fine motor control. The person who had the writing done, however, is still re...

Imralu wrote: ↑Sat Jul 10, 2021 7:30 pm German uses Shitstorm only for a shitstorm of negative comments in social media or in the comments on a website.

Does it have any other meaning in English?