Zompist Bboard Again

Really? Why would ⟨.⟩ — presumably a syllable boundary marker — be considered a consonant or vowel? And why would anyone include ⟨#⟩, which is (sort of) built-in syntax, in any category at all? i was thinking more along the lines of "there could be stuff that's in neither [# .] nor [C V] "

Isn’t this rule the same as t / d / [C V] _ w ? Because neither C nor V should match . or # . that would require that [C V] contain everything but [# .] , which isn't guaranteed, and in some cases (i can't think of any examples at the moment, but i'm sure one exists) doesn't even make sense. sure, ...

This already exists: your examples of y / i // V _ // _ V and a l k / ô k // # _ // _ u are wrong – you can't use the shortcut of not specifying an environment when you use an exception. The correct form for the latter is a l / ô / _ k // # _ // _ u . Which correctly transformed talk alk alku to tô...

on a different note, the Writing Sound Changes documentation file never once mentions // exception environment , with the one and only use of it being in an example in the section on featural categories, and even there, it says nothing about it. it seems like it should at least be mentioned in the p...

How do I make a sound change to remove spaces? i am pretty sure i was trying to implement zompist's "Hou tu pranownse Inglish" sound changes but was tripped up by the third rule, which half of is Hyphens can however be treated as word separators (mother-in-law is pronounced like mother in...

i just woke up from two or three dreams, the only one i remember being the first one, which went as follows: I was talking with my mom as both of us were sat upon my bed. At some point I stood up, then at some point after that she mentioned the initials of a name, which I then saw the spelling of th...

Man in Space wrote: ↑Fri Jun 21, 2024 8:25 pm Any chance you’ll be picking this up?

i completely forgot about this
(wow my last post in here was 2022)
so currently i'm working on another conlang (droâknleac) but maybe i'll continue working on Olarrthe eventually

The night before last night, though it was probably actually during the day because my sleep schedule is really messed up, I had a dream where I was in a house with at least two floors. At first, I was on the lower of the two with a bunch of other people, and someone told me I was dreaming but that ...

For books and movies: Game of Thrones, which I'm currently waiting until I can go to the library to get season 3 of; Wolves of the Beyond, same but book 2; and Dave the Villager, which I have the next book of (book 38), but I haven't started reading it quite yet. For music, a bunch, but especially J...

I tried typing "≈", but when I typed the sequence for it, G-= G-x, I got ⊗. I then looked at the documentation, and it seems the two have the same sequence:

Equality and inequality:
...	...
G-= G-x	≈
...	...
Haskell:
...	...
G-= G-x	⊗

I'm listening to myself hum and sing.

Ironically, "August 7–10" would be fine if it appeared at the front of the sentence, or after "Utah". Even those sound off to me. I only ever use a date by itself if I'm omitting something like "The day is". E.g., "The day is August 7th, and X is about to happen.&...

may i suggest beautifulsoup? manually parsing html is possible, i've done it, but it's almost always simpler to just have someone else's code do it for you. Ideally I'd use a headless browser, preferably one that supported JS, in a way that I can both control it from the Python program (likely not ...

Update 2 for today: it's much improved and weird things like "urls" like "blah" are ignored (no dot), and it also uses already-downloaded files if possible: import os from urllib.request import urlopen from urllib.error import HTTPError, URLError from http.client import InvalidUR...

Update: I updated the code recently and it at least mostly works now: import os from urllib.request import urlopen from urllib.error import HTTPError, URLError from http.client import InvalidURL import sys import re def istextlike(url): return any(url.lower().endswith(ext) for ext in (".txt&quo...

I just wrote the English translation of a letter from one king to another, though I haven't written much of the source conlang yet (just "gyterendr", one of the characters in the script; "gyt", translation: "fox", plural "gytr"; and a couple names, used in the...

keenir wrote: ↑Wed Jun 07, 2023 3:25 am Okay, if i understand the instructions, here is mine...if i misunderstand, i apologize.

You understood them fine.

keenir wrote: ↑Wed Jun 07, 2023 3:25 am <clip>

Interesting take on it.

I.e., one person gives a sample text, and others make conlangs where that text (or a small variation thereof) is an actual proper sample text. First sample text: Ẑoðeŕ vinuŕ decjun driac fyrbet gendyr gestiŕ Ŕinac fyndri denzoc fȳrben Ŕenyndr getȳr, devrynden, dicað dezut denduŕ Zendric dvendiŕ dezu...

Are "doll" and "dal" (as in "dal makhani", etc.) homophones? I actually don't know. If there's a pom-palm split, "doll" has the "palm" vowel and "dal" has the "pom" vowel, I think? I seem to have that pom-palm split (plus even if...

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