Zompist Bboard Again

...and that I would have no expectation that a Brit would readily understand my own speech unless I was deliberately approximating GA... Curious... Any audio clips? I will say that we are pretty used to most varieties of American speech over here. We have a lot of your TV. On your general point, I ...

Thoughts? Interesting that is was relatively adept at that exercise. On ‘magical’, I’ve noticed that whenever I talk about conlangs or any concept which is potentially fantasy-adjacent, ChatGPT seems to like to throw in more and more fantasy terms to its responses until I challenge it / ask it not ...

I think there could be some sociolinguistic shifting gently underway behind Jonlang’s observation: it seems to me it’s potentially becoming more common to hear and produce constructions like “I just wanna like... not go” (without particular emphasis on the ‘not’). With familiarity, variations of thi...

Backing and unrounding of front rounded vowels [w] > [ɥ] after [ɯ] Minor orthographic reform ['cɯː.pɔjs] ciúpoys "( to a woman of higher rank than oneself ) Mrs., Ms.; ( of judges, justices ) your honour" ['jɤɯ.ɥɔ] iúcha "( archaising ) madam, ma'am; ( in fantasy literature ) madam, l...

Interesting points! I asked it what it thought. Your friend has made some insightful observations about how I work. Let me break it down: 1. **Understanding Conversations:** You're correct that I've been extensively trained on conversational data, so I can engage in discussions like these. My traini...

Motivated by discussions here, I spent a while ‘talking’ with ChatGPT today, and thought I’d share some of the ground that got covered. Feel free to do the same. Snippet 1: the voice of the dead User You speak with the voice of the dead ChatGPT That sounds intriguing. What do you mean by speaking wi...

Loss of unstressed [ i] after alveo-palatals [a] > [ɔ] after labials Assignment of stress to long vowels ['cyː.bɔɕ] ciúwosy "( to a woman of higher rank than oneself ) Mrs., Ms.; ( of judges, justices ) your honour" ['yː.wɔ] úicha "( archaising ) madam, ma'am; ( in fantasy literature ...

I have the feeling that strong and clear segmentation might be an artifact of writing as opposed to something speakers "are doing under the hood", mostly cause people who are otherwise able to speak normally and functionally segment "incorrectly" in writing all the time. just to...

The 13 Clocks This is possibly my favourite book! I have a suite of piano pieces I wrote inspired by it. Sadly largely unnotated and unfinished. I just found a draft recording I did of it nearly 10 years ago. I reallllly need to finish this piece... If anyone wants some escapism, and faulty but wel...

I’m curious how many people noticed that this paper… …is itself a great example of some prose in metric time? For it’s plain to see its rhythm is trochaic octameter, with the end of every sentence counting as a final rhyme. (Obviously alice has, but anyone else? If you haven’t, don’t spoil it by ex...

My gut reaction is that while this is generally correct, it is a little overblown, in that I’d wager that phrase-level pitch contour has at least as much to do with segmentation as rhythm.

It didn't occur me to try that, but that's pretty impressive! Interestingly, I tried to repeat the exercise today, and it produced strings like ‘ekëzäm ziëk lämec ö terfihal’ ‒ phonotactically pretty good, and it sort of looks the part. But the only in any way ‘correct’ word it could produce was ‘d...

I'm surprised there is enough stuff about conlanging out there that ChatGPT actually knows about it :) ChatGPT can, when pushed quite hard, speak really really bad Verdurian straight out of the box. I got it to tell me about Verdurian, which it could do quite well, and then insisted that for the re...

and what's the point of talking about, or being interested in, the worldview of an average simulated human being, when the world is literally teeming with unique and original minds... I’m quite interested in what AI have to say. They’re not, at all, the same thing as an average simulated human bein...

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, ...