Zompist Bboard Again

Many languages of India use padma or its cognates for one of their larger numbers, yet it hardly seems obvious to me why lotus flowers would signify extraordinary magnitudes. Hot take: Lotus flowers are and were extraordinarily significant, so only extraordinarily large numbers are worthy enough of...

How d'yall deal with assholes at work? I happened to start woking on a particular project together with some narcissist that is trying to sabotage my work and frame me for incompetence, while lowkey vying to 'do' my work better using AI - "just" by the way... I don't think I have any kind...

How d'yall deal with assholes at work? I happened to start woking on a particular project together with some narcissist that is trying to sabotage my work and frame me for incompetence, while lowkey vying to 'do' my work better using AI - "just" by the way...

Relevant: how people of ancient India came up with big numbers.

(don't worry, it's slow content, not some musicked out brainrot)

hwhatting wrote: ↑Thu Sep 24, 2026 3:17 am

Zju wrote: ↑Wed Sep 23, 2026 3:15 pm *puts tinfoil hat on*

I assume that refers to the PIE - Japanese relationship? Because the Kloekhorst proposal certainly isn't crackpottery.

The former.

That's what I've been telling mainstream academia because they are against me and trying to silence the truth. Unfortunately, neither of the two are simplexes, and the root is na- < PIE *Hneh 3 - in English name ( -me < PIE *-men is a suffix) and AFAIK -mae in Japanese ( na- is a prefix), and these...

How interesting, I also intended to post about her in the forum.

Sent the torch Morkai5; the conlang's Lùlàjnòj.

Man in Space wrote: ↑Sun Aug 30, 2026 12:16 pm

Zju wrote: ↑Mon Aug 03, 2026 2:18 pm Know what? Sign me up at the last spot.

How is it going?

On track to pass the torch by Friday.

I sent the Entivara translation to Man in Space, basically to prove that there is progress. But the grammar and vocab will take a little bit before it's ready. I have toddler duties on top of work, so it's slow going. I'll go as fast as I can. Please, take your time. Family first. It's not like I'l...

Know what? Sign me up at the last spot.

WeepingElf wrote: ↑Fri Jun 05, 2026 1:32 pm

Ketsuban wrote: ↑Fri Jun 05, 2026 10:27 am

Talskubilos wrote: ↑Fri Jun 05, 2026 1:00 am Thanks to Gemini AI […] I've found another possible match

Bahahahahaha! Yeah, you and AI are a match made in heaven, you both like spewing meaningless gibberish.

But really. I don't like it that the firehose of falsehood is demonstrated live in this forum.

Re. earlier: Indeed, a number of Thracian words, names and short texts have been recorded. From there, you can deduce the most salient sound changes and triangulate the rest; large gaps in vocabulary can be filled in with loanwords, a la Albanian and Armenian.

An idea I've thought about for the longest time, is a bogolang descended from Proto-Vasconic, set perhaps in modern day Normandy or Brittany, with all the respective sound changes of Proto-Celtic, medieval French, etc etc, or inspirations thereof. Wish Western Europe had another remaining non IE lan...

Count me in only if after it stretches past mid August.

Starostin's chimeras do not meet the standard of historical linguistics. Sino-Tibetanists happily reconstruct the numbers. I suppose Classical Tibetan *drug , Sunwar ruku, and Written Burmese k’rok could be from Middle Chinese *ljuwk, but they're explained better by proto-Sino-Tibetan *t-r’uk. This...

I have decided to draw my consequences and withdraw from the ZBB. I need a break from this. What kept me here were mainly the Great PIE Thread and some other threads on related matters in the L&L section, but these have lately been molested by Talskubilos again, drowning all meaningful discussi...

Is k͡p → kʷ attested? If so, could PIE labiovelars have been coarticulated stops at some earlier point?

What is expiratory stress?

It should be remembered that loanwords can go a long way -- consider Latin musa 'banana', which is most likely a Wanderwort ultimately from Trans-New Guinea of all things. Wow. Are you sure? In that case, again, wow. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musa_(genus)#Taxonomy Honestly, I find it a bit of m...