Zompist Bboard Again

Languages each have their own aesthetic. I'd suggest letting them be "ugly" and focus on making them coherent instead. Not a bad idea, and i think i saw Sasasha give roughly the same answer on the subject. A few of my languages are pretty and satisfying (e.g. Cuêzi, Sarroc). That's fine, ...

I appreciate the advice. All i have to add at the moment was that i consider the conlanging issues unrelated to the other stress, which is why i added the four dashes. But seriously, thank you, that does help a bit to give me the attention.

I'm truly struggling right now. I lost my job recently and it's not been easy to find a new one. If anyone wants to help me out, i can DM a Gofundme, but it's not a demand from me or anything. I guess this whole situation has depressed me a lot. When you're broke, you're just not a complete person. ...

The verb halt meaning 'limp' or 'waver' may be dated, but are the derived words halting and haltingly ? No, but i would still not associate them with the inherited word and probably only pronounce them with THOUGHT for the same reason i accidentally put it in "Las (Spanish article)".

PALM: daal, halt I had to look up what a 'dal' was, then i realized it's just the other half of 'mung daal'. 'Halt' takes this vowel because i see it as a German loanword Apparently halt is both a native English word, from OE healtian , meaning 'limp', and a loanword originating in ENHG (imperative...

TRAP: Al, altitude, calculator, fallow, gal 'Al' as in the Arabic article is sometimes PALM. The given name is always TRAP DRESS: Celt, dress, ell PALM: daal, halt I had to look up what a 'dal' was, then i realized it's just the other half of 'mung daal'. 'Halt' takes this vowel because i see it as ...

This is not the first time you have misinterpreted something i have said, and argued the against something i already would oppose. Please stop skimming paragraphs. Like, it's the same situation with Baltimore and DC, despite them being even closer and some overlap occurring in the suburbs. I didn't...

There's also cities rather close to each other, but maintain a distinct environment as a result of indepently gaining large populations. You could lump them together if you really stretch it, but it wouldn't always make sense. Chicago has this relationship with Milwaukee and Rockford, DC has this w...

Thank you, everyone! I had asked because over the past half year, I've sometimes gotten to visit a nearby city in that range and saw it as a very nice place to visit, apparently big enough for some of the upsides of city life, but still more charming than many larger places. If I wouldn't be in a p...

This is an excellent paper explaining why ‘pitch accent’ is an incoherent term: https://linguistics.berkeley.edu/~hyman/papers/2009-hyman-pitchaccent.pdf Do you have any sources on how to correctly understand the phenomenon then? That source is also a textbook example of someone going on tangents, ...

Please no. :( My e-mail is in my profile here. No worries! But clicking on your profile only gives me your website, Twitter, and DM links. I can't find your email in there. edit: Zomp dm'd me his email. Examples might be buying a car, asking for a raise, buying a house, condo association meetings, ...

Alright, here's my first draft. I plan on re-organizing these under different headers, since i realize the original collections were kind of haphazard. Regadless, i think it's a good base. I grayed out anything that's intact from the original . Good work, though I think it needs some editing. E-mai...

I'm aware of their peerage, but does the average person think about it?

There are cultures that traditionally were, or perhaps even partly still are, ruled by old-school aristocracies. Not a billionaire class, where some people in it are the first or second generation in their family who are rich, but a landowning aristocracy that places a lot of value on being born in...

Alright, here's my first draft. I plan on re-organizing these under different headers, since i realize the original collections were kind of haphazard. Regadless, i think it's a good base. I grayed out anything that's intact from the original . If you're American... You believe deep down in the Firs...

I've always loved the culture tests on the Zompist main page. I think i've read them more than anything else on the site. I've been considering making an "improved" one for my generation (since i actually am a millennial), or at least one for some subculture i am a part of. I'd definitely...

I've always loved the culture tests on the Zompist main page. I think i've read them more than anything else on the site. I've been considering making an "improved" one for my generation (since i actually am a millennial), or at least one for some subculture i am a part of. I'd definitely ...

Does anyone know a good source to learn how pitch accent (not tone) works? A lot of the sources i've found go off on a ton of tangents and are difficult to read for it, or seem rather unreliable. Thanks in advance to anyone with options This is an excellent paper explaining why ‘pitch accent’ is an...

Does anyone know a good source to learn how pitch accent (not tone) works? A lot of the sources i've found go off on a ton of tangents and are difficult to read for it, or seem rather unreliable. Thanks in advance to anyone with options

rẹkx
[^ɢʁɛkʲiʃ]
‘conspicuous consumption’

prosthetic initial plosive

naus
[ˈnaus]
‘endonym’

loss of word-final shwa