Zompist Bboard Again

These - Omlatyoko - forms seem more different from each other than the Moya forms you originally had. Forgive me if I'm being stupid here, but are these supposed to be related to each other, because the Moya versions of a, e, i , o, u are all based on one bif vertical dash?

I was looking at the glyphs for Kala, partly because I'm still mucking around with letter forms for my alphabet for Vedreki and Cheyadeneen. The vowels all seem quite similar. They all have the same vertical stroke and get differentiated by marks top and bottom. But even those look similar - big das...

The thing is, the industrial revolution never did took off in that timeline. Part of the reason is, there was never any good reason to improve productivity: the empire was prosperous enough. The autocracy enforced conservatism besides. Modern capitalism was killed in the bud because it threatened t...

To some extent I wonder if the problem is not the barbarians from the north - Rome could afford to lose what is Britain, France, Germany and (to a lesser extent) Spain. Not much in the way of rich cities there, fortify the Alps and keep them out - so long as this was a conscious decision and kept It...

Looking forward to part 2

Incidentally if there are worker bloodmares, does that imply that bloodmare social structure is like that of the bugs - or am I reading way too much into things?

As noted, other than the active voice, Cheyadeneen has both an antipassive and a passive voice. The antipassive deletes the absolutive object and “promotes” the ergative subject to the absolutive. It is formed morphologically by reduplication. The man drinks Stene sosorun Man-abs sing drink-pres-ind...

I'm quite looking forward to "a Day in the Life of a Bug" So is there a human colony on Orenda? Do human trade with the Bugs - and what do they trade? Bugs are I imagine keen to get their hands on bright shiny new technology without having to go through the bother of having to invent it th...

Subjunctive: The inflections are common to both conjugations so only sakaz is given. The subjunctive is used in a number of situations. It is used in reported or indirect speech. “He said that…” and in subordinate clauses indicating wish or request. “I asked him to do X” It is also used in condition...

The Cheyadeneen verb inflects for tense, mood, aspect and voice; the anti-passive being morphologically marked through reduplication. Cheyadeen also has a separate periphrastic passive voice, meaning that it has three distinct voices plus the imperative. Unlike Vedreki which inflects for gender and ...

Cheyadeneen can be considered as a generally SVO language (or maybe AVO is better given the ergative alignment) and many of the corollaries are also found: prepositions rather than postpositions, postnominal genitives etc. Word order is more fixed in Cheyadeneen than in Vedreki because of the way in...

No, but it's a property of languages, not of phonemes. "Non-rhotic" just means "isn't R" (used of phonemes) or "doesn't pronounce the R" (of dialects). What evm appears to be talking about is some sort of sandhi rule, which should probably go in its own section... I'm ...

Rhotic is basically a fancy word for r-like so I have no idea what you mean by this. How can r be not like r?* Do you pronounce r in park? If so, you speak a rhotic dialect of English. If not, you speak a non-rhotic dialect. That's it, as I understand things ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhoticit...

Ok - so this thread needs to be read alongside the Vedreki thread - ( http://verduria.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=395 ) or some of the worldbuilding stuff will make much less sense. The languages are different enough that you will be able to follow the grammar of Cheyadeneen in isolation though. Che...

akam chinjir wrote: ↑Sat Sep 28, 2019 12:38 pm I've actually wondered if it might make sense to put up some worldbuilding posts, maybe I'll give that a try.

Yes please!

What about the grammar? How do we get these particles from the Dutch auxiliaries like "hebben"? Seems like the grammar would be completely mangled from what little you've said. Looking forward to more!

I have to say Aqiatu is going to have some serious depth if all of this is intended to provide some vocabulary and ancestors of neighbouring languages. But some historical context would be good - where are these settlors going to come from and why did they migrate? What happened to the original inha...

Two questions. First is there a reason why in the first table you have labelled the moods realis and irrealis and aspect imperfective/perfective etc, but in the second we are using the perfect subjunctive base? Is it not perfective irrealis? And you're going to have to explain the comparison table, ...

I think you're only half right. The gamble. And it is a BIG GAMBLE. The gamble is that if we have an election in the Autumn and the EU is now pretty fed up and has made it known that an extension must be for either a referendum or an election not for stringing it out even longer with no end in sight...

The Labour refusal to have an election before November is rational. 1. Boris promised come what may to be out by October 31. If the UK isn't out, he looks as useless as May. The Conservatives risk decimation as in the Euro elections and however useless Corbyn is that redounds to Labour's benefit. 2....

Let's start with relative clauses. The problem starts from a lack of relative pronouns, but in their absence relativisation can be expressed via participial constructions, and this type of adjectival construction is common – along the same lines as in German. There are essentially four basic relativ...