Zompist Bboard Again

How would we know, on either side? This doesn't seem like a falsifiable proposition. You're right, it's absurd, which is exactly why I used it to demonstrate the lack of substance inherent in religious belief. I don't think we're completely clueless about animal minds, but it's a notoriously tricky...

According to Islam, the natural world is revealed to the faithful as an eternal prayer. The Quran says so over and over. After an (IIRC) antisemitic bit, it Ah yes, that wonderfully non-human created book, the *checks notes* Qur'an. basically, your argument boils down to - or appears to boil down t...

No religion, spirituality, or notions of divinity seem to reside outside the imagination of humanity. All known belief-systems are by human design. Show me a pack of wolves making the sign of the cross, or a flock of robins engaged in meditation, even an alligator lighting a menorah, then, maybe, I'...

únyewawem
/uːɲɛˈwawem/
NEG-fly-meadow.PL-2.ABS
You ((all) meadow fairies) do not fly.

We are trapped in this awful situation where no matter what we do we are murdering people , and amidst the horror all I can do is hope that it’s not any more of my family and friends who are murdered. That you think "we are trapped" in this scenario let's me know that you're not listening...

(In fact, there’s been quite a lot about the international response which has been peculiar in this way. For instance, demands for Israel to unilaterally surrender have been much more common than demands for Hamas to lay down its arms.) Given that almost all of the outlets that I have seen/heard (a...

A language for fairies with modals/verbal markers that indicate whether the speaker was flying and/or how they're flying; quickly, hovering, fluttering, downward, etc.

My wife says they are called "winter roses". Dis mosa Helleborus , swel kol Kwismas ros . That must be Helleborus , also known as Christmas rose . nya kala itla nkulanyahi ata ma mila nyahin nyo panayelo yema sahilomue yanimpa This would be white-rose in Kala and "nyahi" has mul...

wa pote kanti mu lo
1s can smell flower PL
I can smell the flowers.

Pedant wrote: ↑Fri Feb 02, 2024 1:12 pm"What's up?"

wa lo se talo kun tela maka le lo te wa lo
We're talking to each other with our conlangs.

pu yuma kan te sita e yun lo
this day COP of rain and cloud PL
Today is rainy and cloudy.

This is Kalo, and minimalist side conlang. No, not Toki Pona...different.

jal wrote: ↑Thu Feb 01, 2024 11:07 am Yeah, I didn't finish June 2016.

ashbeshanla nebu ilha maliyai
aware-PST-1s-NEG name 3s.COP language-GEN
I wasn't aware that was the name of the language.

jal wrote: ↑Wed Jan 31, 2024 2:26 pmI think the last one was June 2016, so almost eight years ago.

bakemti maliyimwa yedeweshti?
enumerate-Q-2s language-PL-ACC make-CESS-PST-2s
Are you counting languages you stopped making?

bradrn wrote: ↑Tue Jan 30, 2024 8:13 pm I didn’t know you had another conlang!

tunara ayan shuk maliyimwa
always have-1s many language-PL-ACC
I've always had many languages.

neshan kehek amalyú shun kabiya biKala
need-1s practice-INF Amal-ACC because achievement DAT-Kala
I need to work on Amal now that I have achieved much with Kala.

Damn, good job! I struggle just to make 50 glyphs, I could not fathom working on over a thousand. Seconded! Kudos and congrats on reaching that number. Also many kudos for attaining such a level of completeness. This is impressive. I don't have much else to say, but yeah. Playing the long game pays...

This year we’ll be given two more seasons of Trek with SNW getting a third and Discovery ’s fifth and final. I do think SNW has the legs to make it to seven seasons like the traditionally successful Trek series, but I am completely happy that the disaster of Discovery is ending. The format of a mult...

I have reached 1,116 glyphs for Omyatloko. This process has been a decade in the making, and one of the more challenging conlang endeavors I have undertaken. While I may pursue other writing systems in the future, this one is as complete as it can be for my purposes and preferences. I can see possib...

CONstructed LANGuage makER

The differences between -ist and -er are subtle, but distinct.

I'm not even sure that con langing is the main purpose of this forum. There are also the other aspects of conworlding, and linguistics in general, and zompist's own work. I would say that conlanging is the main field of interest here, though conworlding and linguistics are very important here, too,...