Zompist Bboard Again

Gosh, I'm flattered. Unfortunately none of these reconstructions would work for any other verbs, but never mind.

For those of you that care: https://web.archive.org/web/20060923075 ... ahaha.html. Deity-VOC, this brings back memories.

... and you may say to yourself, "My God! What have I done!" I think Sal's saying that it's not possible to have objective standards for judging conlangs. Well, if I may put my head on the chopping-block and let it be kicked around for a bit, as it were: here's what I remember of the verba...

This thread reminds me of the following book, which I found pretty hilarious: How Not to Write a Novel: 200 Classic Mistakes and How to Avoid Them--A Misstep-by-Misstep Guide To paraphrase Roger Lass, nobody with an interest in writing novels should be allowed to not have read this book. I'm glad y...

It's easy to give examples of things you shouldn't do when creating other forms of Art, such as "don't use every synonym of 'said' you can think of" and "don't switch viewpoints within one sentence", or "keep your eyelines consistent". Beyond obvious things like "d...

mèþru wrote: ↑Thu Jan 03, 2019 6:50 am I agree completely with alice.

I agree completely with mèþru.

I don't think there's anything particularly cool about Esperanto which either (1) doesn't actually already exist in perfectly workable form in a natlang or (2) hasn't been done far better in another conlang. But that's just me. OTOH, reading Justin Rye's Ranto will teach you a *lot* about many of th...

Raholeun wrote: ↑Wed Dec 26, 2018 9:09 am

alice wrote: ↑Wed Dec 26, 2018 6:26 am The SCK, of course. Why aren't you?

Because I do not own a credit card and I would need one to order it off Amazon. Recommendations or alternative paths to purchase it are welcome.

I use a debit card with Amazon.

The SCK, of course. Why aren't you?

I forgot:

7. Presumably, if you're brave, there's nothing to stop you making up your own theory of syntax and basing your conlangs on that?

("reify"? I've only ever heard that word in distinctly Marxist contexts. Is this a subtle reference to Chomsky's politics?)

I haven't finished it yet, but these might still be interesting. 1. I have to redo all my conlangs. Doesn't Mark realise how many there are? 2. Page 169: HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! You can never have too many words for insects. Who is this "Sam" supposed to be? 3. Syntactic theories seem to be a lot...

Bob, a few points to help you cool down and think a bit. 1. Yes, some others in this thread could have been a little less abusive. It's not nice to get that sort of feedback, especially when you've clearly put a lot of effort into something. (You might want to consider what its like to get no feedba...

Trying to come up with features which (1) are interesting, (2) are unusual, and (3) have not yet appeared in one of Zompist's conlangs.

@Vardelm: Nice and interesting paper! Your occasional comments on the history of the board made me think that it would be nice if someone could put together a full history sometime, possibly (if they were feeling particularly ambitious) in the context of a history of the internet conlanging communi...

There have been remarks that the ERG is "a party within a party". The Militant Tendency for the late-2010s generation?

To use my favourite mixed metaphor, this is truly the Conservative Party's sacred cows coming home to roost. Ted Heath took the country into the EU and every Conservative Prime Minister after him has suffered as a result. The front page headline of one of our right-wing tabloids was on the money whe...

The thing which is most depressing to me is when the BBC goes and does vox pop and of course there's so many ignorant pro-Brexit views, because few people actually pay attention to what's going on in politics at the time, and many of those who pay attention to the news get it through the rampantly ...

Meanwhile, I managed to work twelve hours this week, the most for abut two years.

Yay Arzena! Pat thyself upon thy back!

Transport for London?

(Also, so far we have four people in this thread - Zju, chriss_notts, alice and me - who have each made their own SCA. Is there some sort of list of all SCAs currently in existence? It would be really interesting to compare them all!) Alas, the list of all SCAs that have been created is longer than...