Zompist Bboard Again

Does anyone know how to contact the late Gary Shannon’s estate? He had a list (in-progress, sadly not completed before his passing) of derivation operations that I find useful, and others may too. I’d like to contact his next of kin to seek permission to expand on it and maybe publicly release it.

Not only was my vacation a bust, I come back to ridiculous BS at work that, had I or my manager been in the office, wouldn’t have been an issue, but now it’s my problem and a black mark against me. It is taking a stupendous amount of self-control not to just quit right now, money and job search be d...

Fortition of *j after palatal fricatives ['ðjɔː.ʒɟɑ] dhióžia "(to a woman of higher rank than oneself) Mrs., Ms.; (with titles of office) madam; (of judges, justices) your honour" Length > glottalization ['d͡ʑoˀ] giô "(to a woman of higher rank than oneself) Mrs., Ms.; (with titles of...

Palatal affectation ['vœː.ʒæ] vueja "(to a woman of higher rank than oneself) Mrs., Ms.; (with titles of office) madam; (of judges, justices) your honour" Transference of rounding ['gjo] gyua "(to a woman of higher rank than oneself) Mrs., Ms.; (with titles of office) madam; (of judge...

*a-affectation ['vœː.d͡ʒa] vueja "(to a woman of higher rank than oneself) Mrs., Ms.; (with titles of office) madam; (of judges, justices) your honour" Deletion of high vowels before semivowels ['gwja] goea "(to a woman of higher rank than oneself) Mrs., Ms.; (with titles of office) m...

Ø > g / #_w

['gwɛ.d͡ʒa]
wéoje
"(highly formal, now chiefly archaising) mother; (of a woman of higher ranking than the speaker) Mrs.; (with titles of office, as "secretary", "prime minister") madam; (of judges, justices) your honour"

Vowel length converts to consonantal gemination

['vɵ˞j.ja]
wéorle
‘(highly formal) mother; prime minister; madam, Mrs.’

I was on vacation this week, to visit the Norman Music Festival (which runs from Thursday to Saturday). - Arrive on Tuesday. - Catch sick Wednesday night/Thursday morning. - Recover sufficiently by Saturday to do things. - This being Oklahoma, tornadoes and severe thunderstorms occur on Saturday, so...

Trill release before high back vowels

['mʙu̯ɵ̃ː.lɛ]
muǫ́le
“mother”

Breaking of nasal vowels

['mu̯ɵ̃.lɛː]
mǫlē
“mother”

Intervocalic lenition

['mɔ̃.ðaː]
mantā
“mother”

HolyKnowing wrote: ↑Wed Apr 24, 2024 12:34 pm

Darren wrote: ↑Tue Apr 23, 2024 4:43 am/s/ is always weird phonotactically. Some say it's a vowel.

Deep.

That’s not a joke.

I’m on the way back to my college town for the Norman Music Festival.

Took a few hours but I alphabetized my record collection this afternoon.

Moose-tache wrote: ↑Sun Apr 21, 2024 9:56 pm/ð/: "Hi, I'm the least robust phoneme in the universe. Literally sneeze and I'm gone forever."

/tʙ̥/: “Am I a joke to you?”

Did anyone actually specify how tall Mr. Clean is? The text that came with those figures, perhaps? By that you could determine the height of Mr. Clean by measuring the height of the Mr. Clean action figure and multiplying by six... I'm thinking then it's a rather tall action figure or Mr. Clean is ...

Band practice today went fantastic . My collaborator paid me a huge compliment: One of our WIPs ends with a vamped passage for the outro (for the recording it’s supposed to fade out) and I decided to go a little nuts with the ride cymbal, snare, and toms. When we ended it, he had a grin and told me ...

I like to collect the unusual. Items I have include: - A Zoloft promotional clock - A fragment of lunar meteoritic material - A 2009 Physician’s Desk Reference - An IBM PCJr. wall ad - Not just one, but two 1:6-scale Mr. Clean action figures (still in their boxes) - A copy of Globus Cassus I also co...

From a local X feed (19 Action News): They're keeping smaller birds from pooping all over and making a mess of the city. Initially I read this as They're [keeping smaller birds from pooping all over] and [making a mess of the city]. and not They're keeping smaller birds from [pooping all over and ma...

Seriously, what part of [ˌɑ̃ːʁ̃ˤɯːp̚ˈpʰɑːmʁ̩ˤ(ː)] is hard to understand? Aarghoop Paamrrgh? The way you spelled that makes me think [ˌɑːʁˤɡuʔpˈpʰãːmʁ̩ˤːk]. This is peak ZBB. It was either going to be something like this or Nortaneous summoning Cthulhu in the Romanization Challenge Thread thanks to ...