Zompist Bboard Again

I just realised how strange the acc- words are (accent, accident, etc.): in their initial consonant cluster, they first feature the original consonant before the latinate palatalisation, immediately followed by its present-day reflex, i.e. /ks/ instead of just /s/ or maybe /sː/. I'd have thought tha...

Is any of the following sound changes at all plausible?

ɾ > ∅ / V_V
ɾ > h / V_V
ɾ > ʔ / V_V

I.e. can I get away with deleting intervocal /r/ provided that there weren't many minimal pairs to begin with?

Wasn't Proto-Semitic spoken in the south of the Arabian peninsula? It's a stretch to posit some parasemitic substrate in the EE steppe.
Although the lexical similarities are suspicious indeed.

Darren wrote: ↑Fri Feb 02, 2024 9:38 pm A good start, but too many consonants. How about:

/k/
/ɣ/
/m n ŋ/

With progressive rhoticity triggered by vowels turning /ɣ m n ŋ/ into [ʀ mbʙ ndr ɴɢʀ], and blocked by /k/.

Gleb, is that you?

Isn't 'be' itself from PIE *bʰuH- 'to grow' with an intermediate sense of 'to become'?
Anyway, for a field day of content verbs grammaticalising into copulas, somebody could bring up Sino-Tibetan copulas.

I like the idea of the four cell table containing with declaration of the human rights, though the gloss could be more easily readable if it was directly below the Lemobrogian text and aligned to it.

As an aside: I wonder if upgrading phpBB to the latest version might be worth a try? Might be worth a try, though it's tedious. FWIW I ftp'd into the server and checked the error_log file. It has an innumerable set of errors like this: Stack trace: #0 /home3/verduria/public_html/cache/production/ur...

Now that it’s the new year, may I reiterate my call for people to have a go at submitting sound changes to the GitHub repository? Aight, sorry, I'm out of the loop, but is this about reformatting sound changes from the old ID to the new one using the new syntax, or about adding new sound changes fr...

Does it feature ablaut, what with fay ~ foyŋ?

Man, I keep telling myself that I'd make a review of the syntax and the website itself, then keep not doing it, because I have higher priority stuff (which, incidentally, also keep getting postponed). But I do look forward to making a pull request with those stylistic suggestions of mine, and maybe ...

I really dig the aesthetics. Are those retconned, or did you start making some new glyphs?

Important Temperature Points: absolute zero (-273.15 C) (relevant to physics/chemistry) freezing point of water (0 C) (relevant to weather) freezing point of "a mixture of ice, water, and salis Armoniaci" (-17.777 C, 0 F) boiling point of water (100 C) (relevant to cooking) typical temper...

Are there tonal languages without a level tone? E.g. just rising and falling tone?

Americans attacking Metric measurements: "Why can't I use a nice whole number below 10 for THAT particular everyday item? Ugh, what a dealbreaker!" Americans defending Imperial measurements: "To convert from dorths to shmogadiboos you only have to divide by 17. It's simple, really!&qu...

Before I read your post, I didn't even know about the m/M distinction, and I've used the metric system for all my life.. And how does the sign in the photo you posted cause confusion? What else could "KM" mean in that context? Sure, it's clear for "KM", but what about "MG&q...

None of these have caused any issues to me.

My view of Rust is that it is the language C++ should be but isn't. That said, there are plenty of use cases where using C++ (or Rust) is pure insanity - they are just too complex and give you few benefits for very many things. Of course I think that there are better high-level languages than Pytho...

Word formation by reduplication:

['k͡pejæða]
pcoagha

"valley, fault"

['k͡pek͡pejæða]
pcopcoagha

"gorge, sheer cliff"

Vowel breaking of long vowels:

['k͡pe̯æða]
pcoagha

"valley, fault"