Zompist Bboard Again

The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion. Effectively the footnotes to the putative annotated edition. Fascinating!

It wasn't the anaesthetic, funnily enough, just the very strange feeling of sitting there with my mouth wide open for half an hour and someone poking around inside it.

Went to the dentist for the first time in ages on Saturday, and he said I didn't have any cavities (even per the X-ray), but just quite serious wear that's very manageable (and some need for cleaning). Very pleasantly surprised with this outcome. This reminds me, there have been some times in my li...

Moose-tache wrote: ↑Tue Aug 15, 2023 2:01 am Using sin for is replaces one ambiguity with another. Do Middle Gothic speakers ever get confused by sentences like “Jack showed John what was left of his book?”

Since this is precisely what happened in Dutch and German, I don't think so.

Returning to my second point, do speakers of French consider avez to be syllabified /a.ve/, /av.e/, or /av.ve/? How does this apply to languages with strong preferences for CV syllables, such as Italian or Finnish?

Thanks everyone, even if it's a long way of saying "It's complicated" It's good to know my suffering yesterday morning was not in vain.

I woke up this morning, and this was rolling around my head. I woke up this morning, and this was rolling around my head. I couldn't work it out, so I thought I'd ask the ZBB instead. How, in English, does the trained linguist syllabify a word like sitting , where the first syllable contains a lax ...

We're rapidly heading towards the unanswerable questions of "But what is Art really?" and "How does it differ from 'art'?". And that way madness lies.

foxcatdog wrote: ↑Thu Aug 10, 2023 3:30 am Where's the dual number?

It didn't survive into the Gothic noninal declension, only in the first and second person in verbs and some pronouns.

The Conlanger's Lexipedia. Why haven't you bought a copy yet?

Did you forget an /r/ in the gen pl of "beard"?

Obviously, it's YAML, but YAML for what? And when you've worked that out, what would you do better? Have fun! props_with_cats: str: "stop aff fric nasal lat trill tap glide hi himid mid lomid lo" required_props: place: 12 forbid: - "str>=9 place<=7" - "str>=9 place>=11"...

Nice!!! This brings back some memories of when I used Gothic as the ancestor of one of my conlangs; I notice that you've done many of the things I did.

Trump has pulled off a major paradigm shift in US politics. If nothing else, that is what he will be remembered for.

If Trump is found guilty of something and is put in jail, but then goes on to be elected as president, would there be a means by which he could get himself out of jail? I guess as long as it's for one of the federal charges, he can pardon himself, if necessary from his jail cell, as soon as he's ta...

If Trump is found guilty of something and is put in jail, but then goes on to be elected as president, would there be a means by which he could get himself out of jail?

A bit of AI-related fun which might belong in its own thread: what might an AI-generated conlang look like, if (as is likely) it was trained on a very imperfect (in the usual sense, not the linguistic one) corpus?

Travis B. wrote: ↑Fri Jul 28, 2023 11:06 am Note that "carbon" here can also include methane, another major greenhouse gas.

Except that you don't usually fart coal or diamonds, unless there's something horribly wrong with your insides.

Does anyone else with a modicum of scientific knowledge get really riled when people talk about "carbon footprints" and "carbon capture", when they mean carbon dioxide, which is something very different?