Zompist Bboard Again

My guess is that /s/ (and other fricatives) are common as syllable- (or word-) margins due to their audibility. For /s/, at least, since it involves just the front of the tongue, it’s pretty easy to combine articulatorily with labials or dorsal, at least. An interesting example of fricatives as syl...

I rarely ever agree with xxx, but they have a point there. Natural languages were created by human beings, after all, so you could interpret them as a form of collaborative conlangs. I think there’s a fundamental and very important difference: natural languages have evolved under the process of nor...

Heh, yeah... the initials stood for Contemporary Keyboard , later just Keyboard . Though this kind of silliness has been tempered, the association can remain. Haha ok, that makes more sense now! It would certainly be nice to place a workshop in the town making keyboard parts or something that Kaida...

I'll look at my notes but I'm afraid there's very little there. No worries ‒ you mentioned keyboardists ‒ I thought C.K. was a truckers’ magazine, am I missing something here? Yeah, I think the region could be called the elcaďinî cimî . Sounds good. I wonder if it would then just still get called E...

Some quick reactions... There are two days until Ulian, and two more fameless small towns to spend my few remaining coins in – Zola and Cuendaya Kainei. I forget if I told you the metanarrative about the latter town, but it has a slight reputation for good keyboardists. Ah! You mentioned its name b...

Subproject index Episode 7: a spring knife Diary of Kaidan Žambey 19 reli 3422 (zëden) I dreamed that the Kebreni was knocking at my door and asking me to see the palaces of Šerian with him. We sang the song last night, which I suppose put ruined towers looming in my consciousness. When I came to, ...

I’m pretty sure I’ve got the answer already from readings, but just to register this stress query I once had so this thread has a comprehensive record of them, and in case I’m wrong: If a word with an accent in the root then takes an inflectional ending with stress, it’s the ending that takes the st...

I didn’t realise you D&Ded in K'aitan! That’s cool ‒ was it with the original group? Were you Verdurian characters travelling there (in which case, how did you go about crossing the Zone of Fire?), or did you make K'aitanese characters? Are there any notes about what you got up to? This was the...

Quick question ‒ does Caizu (the Karazi language still spoken in Caizura in 3480) survive through the modern era? And... Do you have any notes on it / plans to work it out, one day? That's a good question... modernism has a tendency to do what medieval kingdoms could never do: push the nomads out o...

Quick question ‒ does Caizu (the Karazi language still spoken in Caizura in 3480) survive through the modern era? And... Do you have any notes on it / plans to work it out, one day?

I imagine it’s quite a big task ‒ seeing as it would involve working out Coruo as well.

Just curious, really!

Yes indeed it is ‒ “the huge map” of Eretald from 1981 ‒ not as huge, I guess, as the one from the college-room wall, but it is exceedingly detailed. I may be wrong in this, but I think it’s the earliest still-fully-canonical map of Eretald (at least which is accessible publicly?). I think you're r...

I like it! And is that Zomp's old hand-drawn map of Verduria? I always found that it was a thing of beauty. Thanks hwatting! Glad you like it! Yes indeed it is ‒ “the huge map” of Eretald from 1981 ‒ not as huge, I guess, as the one from the college-room wall, but it is exceedingly detailed. I may ...

I’ve been learning Verdurian, and I thought I would make this blog as a place to offer some reflections ‒ and hopefully to gather some resources for learners (e.g. a deck of flashcards I’m making to get the vocab under my belt). For now there are just these ‘definitions’ type of posts, but I have a ...

Verdurian was my first published conlang and there's much I don't like about it. It was thoroughly revised once but it's too late to do it again. (Also there is an in-universe, or in-multiverse, reason for the similarities.) I’ve been doing the nuts and bolts work of learning Verdurian recently ‒ l...

Ok, great! Another alternative arrangement for the first stanza: Ä syelë selta, | cuelzulë er čistë, i so nëron brac, | ä Iesu Krist, so Benul, Oränise er Nëron, | soán Řourisen Piron. Here so Benul, Oränise er Nëron refers to Iesu Krist, being also the selta , and the other phrase is reduced to ‘of...

Would it be strange to add ya in the last line (ket Almea ya estae) ‒ it’s not exactly a perfective meaning I’d be going for, but more the kind of intent that it will be perfective...? Sure. I think it'd be taken as future perfect. (Also, don't tell the non-poets, but it's just the sort of word you...

How about orestán instead of telcan? Ok, though isn’t it a bit odd for Eleďî to suggest that theirs is the ‘true’ sun? ... But perhaps it’s just a bit of vague flattery towards Ënomai. Orest means 'true' but also 'loyal'. So it's aimed at Calto worshippers: look, the sun is not a god, but a loyal v...

I'm just going to look at the verse translation. Your Verdurian is good, the problem is the alliteration. You really want to avoid alliterating on the same word. Ä zula s elta, | s elta cuelzulë Maybe "Ä sye l ë selta, cuelzu l ë (er) čistë" The original line is ambiguous as to whether it...

Gute Besserung! keep safe and may your recovery be uneventful. Thank you for the wellwishes! I’m feeling much better and back at choir... which, given that it’s Holy Week in the Church of England where I work, has partly prompted the following translations of the 3rd or 4th century Greek hymn Phos ...

snip Amalgamating these, adding one and making a list for 90s UK: Known: The Flintstones, Superman, Bugs Bunny, Road Runner, Woody Woodpecker, Yogi Bear, Star Wars, Star Trek, various Westerns, Peanuts (including animation), The Addams Family, Monty Python (obvs British anyway), Dr Who (ditto), Bew...