Zompist Bboard Again

My main conlangs are at two extremes in their approach to this problem. With Pabappa, massive analogy occurred, and while the language still has many inflections, all verbs and nouns are regular and there are no separate declensions to learn . But in Poswa, there was no analogy at all, so every root...

Cypriot Greek apparently has postconsonantal /j/>/c/, with an additional shift to /k/ after r. Very odd and a conlang might put that to good use someday.

It might not happen after some consos, e.g. nasals, or maybe gk never had those sequences to begin wih.

Yeah but Im pretty sure teh songwriters knew what they were doing and that it was going to be talked about like this. The artwork often shows the creature as purple himself. Also, why stop there? you can put the clause division almost anyw,ere. Maybe it;s a cyclops that eats flying purple rhino-huma...

Putting the problem another way, consider the hypothetical form she-him-work-CAUS today for "she made him work today". Does the temporal adverb "today" indicate when he worked or when she ordered him to work? You seem to like to work in glosses... can you stick something on the ...

I only hear "money" with the vowel of "bunny" ... never heard it with /O/ or /A/.

those pronuncs are just for the shoe company, right ? A bit odd since Niké the goddess is pronounced with two full vowels. I guess it's a hyperforeignism that stuck. The town of Nice is named after Nike, btw. ÷÷÷÷÷÷÷ I made the same mistake with "albeit", and I think it's easy to understan...

Iraq with /ai/ can at least stand on the fact that it begins with an /ʕ/ in Arabic. I dont really have a facvorite pronunciation for that name, or for Iran ... I alternate between /ai/, /I/, and a schwa-like vowel that cant really be heard distinctly .

I was actually quite disappointed when I learned the truth about "synecdoche" and "segue." Ah yes, segue is a good one .... I may have posted that on the old ZBB. I only heard the word out loud shortly after the announcement of the Segway motor scooter, and that may have caused ...

Next: peasant, someone of low station Poswa: pupu poor, uneducated; common, commoner .... this word is etymologically "(insect) flying eyes" because when visiting a major city, the eyes of the poor, rural Poswobs move rapidly from one object to another, curious as to what the objects they...

This is just speculation, but the vowel irregularity could be due to restoration from an unstressed schwa form. Perhaps "who" also did this? Or maybe it's a regular change I don't know about ..... I haven't looked up any of this.

Yiʾmerti limallel Ṭarṭessīm. contemplate-1s INF-speak Tartessic-m.pl [jiʔmɛr̪ˈt̪̪ʰi l̪imɑl̪ˈl̪el̪ t̪̪ʼɑr̪t̪̪ʼɛs̪ˈs̪iːm] t̪̪'s fampaebo. Im curious about the t̪̪. ÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷ is it a typo? I notice you seem to have a letter spelled <t> that has a single dental. Im n ot aware of a double-dental diacrit...

Is the name Shoghi Effendi well known enough to form an association with this one? I don't have TV, so I never heard Khashoggi pronounced, but i mentally rhymed it with Shoghi.

mèþru wrote: ↑Sun Oct 28, 2018 8:15 am How about kinitophobia, from the modern Greek word for cell phone? (same root as kinetic)
Oh wait, kinetophobia already means fear of movement

yeah but you'd need to add an a- anyway, so it could still work. I like this one.

About 15 years ago I certainly had this reaction with respect to the Internet. During a power outage I was deprived of the Internet for about 24 hours and I had a very difficult time coping with it. I can certainly relate to nomophobia, though I think I've developed better coping strategies now even...

i think nomo- "law" is a different root than onom- "name" though. im not sure because wiktionary gives no etymology.

Courtesy link because I bumped 😛 http://www.verduria.org/viewtopic.php?p=4377#p4377 ÷÷÷÷÷÷ "Google Turbo" was the name of a tabletop game played with red and black checkers on an upright circular board. The goal may have been to get a piece of ones color to the center of the board, or to m...

pampas /'pam.pɐz/ ... American high school Spanish taught me to mix English features with Spanish ones in words like this ... The plural is always /z/. pompous /'pɔm.pəs/ .... cot&caught merged pampers /'pæm.pɹz/ .... noun and verb the same, can't type syllabic symbol here ÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷ https://en....

Not sure if this helps at all, but I'll spill it out and maybe it'll give you ideas.... nampapep "germ" wappenum "to die" -pef- cessative maetom "soap" Nampapep wappenumpefa maetiuba. germ die-CESS-3p soap-INSTR-3p Germs stop dying to soap. Note to self: make some SUPPL...

Japanese 茶髪 /chapatsu/

Are there any other words where a morpheme appears with /p/ rather than expected /b/ or /h/, despite not following a closed syllable?

(Besides recent loans and onomatopoeia)

I'm guessing "A visiting lady from Asia / Said "How they talk here would amaze ya". Thank you😀 Once again, the answer is simpler than I thought 😛 I think they're treating the /r/ of /-bərə/ as unexplained, which is fair, since it's not in the position the spelling indicates it should...