Zompist Bboard Again

Me, a Britbong? Anyway, this article will tell you everything you need to know.

I'm still using v0.5 of your own GSCA, and the things I like most about it compared to other sound change appliers include both the whitespace-based syntax (because it's visually much clearer than e.g. A/B/C_D, especially with tab sizes of 10 or more characters) and the ability to define all phonem...

dhok wrote: ↑Tue Oct 02, 2018 3:52 am Can one of our resident Britbongs explain this exciting-sounding "Festival of Brexit"? It's apparently going to cost 120 million pounds, a sum which sounds like it would buy a lot of fireproof cladding.

Or even a mile or so of a bridge to Ireland...

Perhaps relevantly, yesterday I encountered a copy of Metro in which someone had thoughtfully identified all the Conservatives by writing a well-known four-letter word across their foreheads. Ruth Davidson, the Scottish Conservative leader, who is actually popular, has ruled herself out because a) s...

In any case, it doesn't make much sense - nor is it likely to happen - to force users of existing SCAs to relearn the entire syntax to suit your preferences. What's in it for, say, Zompist to alienate his userbase by changing his rules to match the rules of your favourite SCA? The answer is clearly...

The Ultimate Sound Change Applier is a very difficult thing to define clearly, in part because people all want it to do different things: generate tables of inflectional paradigms, derive an entire child vocabulary, verify that one's child vocabulary is consistent with the sound changes, etcetera. H...

Boris's latest wheeze, according to theSunday Times: Scrap HS2 and build a Bridge to Ireland!!!

Is the initial /ʤ/ a one-off, or the result of a more general Cornish palatalisation of /gw/?

It makes sense - Cameron should have set it up as two-stage in the first place. [first: should we negotiate a withdrawal? If yes, then second: are these the terms we withdraw under?] In retrospect, What Cameron Should Have Done would fill a very large book. But no, there isn't time to organise and ...

Went back to work for half a day; survived with no obvious ill effects.

Back to work on the 17th. Ideally this will be the start of a steady and successful "phased return" to normal working hours. More realistically there will be bumps and setbacks along the way, and there's the possibility that I won't improve fast enough to justify my employers continuing to...

Risla wrote: ↑Tue Sep 04, 2018 8:16 am Anyone need any extra luck? I think I have too much…

Glad to hear you survived. I saw some footage on this evening's news and it did look quite terrifying.

Anyway, I could do with a bit of luck right now, if you can get it halfway across the world...

... What's with the third person narration? You aren't writing about a crime you committed. Irony! http://pics2.ds-static.com/prodimg/348104/300.JPG Also, you have a wiki now? Yes, but it's (1) private only and (2) not filled with conlangs. General notice I'm not saying this is my best ever conlang...

Is this Welsh sound changes applied to Gothic? And why is it posted here and not in the Conlangery forum? Close; and because it was late at night and I probably selected the wrong forum :oops: I'm still not recovered, you see. Would it be possible for someone to move this thread to the correct foru...

A member of the Zompist Bulletin Board has created a conlang. The conlang, which is called Gwelhesh , is said to have been partly developed during hallucinations while recovering from influenza. The creator welcomes comments and suggestions for clarifications, and will offer a free phoneme to each r...

Different dialects? Compare also Ungarn and Arabien.

zompist wrote: ↑Thu Aug 30, 2018 1:33 am As a partial answer to what I think is alice's question, time runs from east to west in Kuuk Thaayorre.

That's the idea, where you express relative time with reference to an absolute set of directions.

It's interesting to read about languages which, instead of using relative terms like "left", "right", "forwards", "backwards" instead use absolute terms like points of the compass. Do any of these languages combine this with the TIME IS SPACE metaphor?

Of the major auxlangs of that era, Volapuk is certainly the one that's aged best, precisely because, as you say, it's ridiculous. It's the steampunk of conlanging.* It has abundant character and it's own weird beauty - half auxlang, half art project - that the battleship-grey esperanto and its roma...

Salmoneus wrote: ↑Sat Aug 18, 2018 6:45 pm*damnit, now I feel a desire to make The Steampunk of Conlanging. No!

Now there's a good collaborative ZBB project. Brass, iron, and wooden noun declensions, anyone?