Zompist Bboard Again

Given context, it does make sense. During that period, I was still in the midst of religiosity (though the cracks were beginning to show, I was not a rebellious teenager, though I think I was very likely insufferably smarmy) and in trusting in authority, &c.; I was surprisingly compliant, I supp...

It would be interesting to see some of this in practice. Also, I found it very amusing (clicking back to your earlier post) that the older version had mould and evil spirits in the same classification. Granted, mildews tend to be icky and vile things.

I think those are sensible conclusions to draw. I've always found anarchism either too nihilistic or too quixotic in its idealism. Granted, I grew up with some very right-wing ideas, so anarchism was not something I had ever considered seriously until I was perhaps past the idealistic phase that wou...

I also came to the conclusion that law is necessary, because without law how can one have due process, which means that the sort of justice anarchists are for, which is essentially based on whatever any given group of people may decide democratically amongst themselves, may very well be less libera...

Food items seem to be quite given to doing that, I think. The word tarte in French seems to have a much broader application than tart in English (in which torte has the German, rather than Italian, meaning, so it can be passed along, too); I've also noticed on some international food packaging, the ...

also "arisyan" - "lion" (a Turkic loanword; the -syan even gets abstracted off the word, and attached to other animal names to create something meaning roughly "huge fantastical creature resembling [whatever]" so you end up with "Torasyan" (a given name) and ...

Saipan Carolinian Is this in Saipan or somewhere we might call Carolina? Either way... /p bʷ t x (b d g k)/ p bw t kh b d g k /p: pʷ: t: k:/ pp bbw tt kk /m mʷ (n) ŋ/ m mw (x) n /m: mʷ: (n:) ŋ:/ mm mmw (x) nn /f s ʂ h/ f s sh h /f: s: tʂ:/ ff ss ssh /w r l j/ w r l y /w: l: j:/ ww ll jj /i ʉ u e ə ...

Oh, okay. So it had mostly to do with semantic drift of that one word. Maybe... That certainly influenced it, but there are elements of the fiction in play that I don't feel ready to reveal. Ah, intriguing. :!: Happy to have intrigued. I'm sure little bits and pieces will slip out as the language g...

That's a very interesting idea; I hadn't considered it before, but it makes a great deal of sense.

Acoustically, I like /c/.

English has a few that are very old (and which are now largely nativised): Both cloak and clock are loans from a variety of Norman, originally meaning "bell" (Parisian cloche ). Some words for meats, pork , beef , mutton , and I believe also poultry come from the Norman names of animals (P...

I pretty much agree with the above. I arrived at democratic socialism from the opposite direction. In the past I was a communist anarchist, but came to the conclusion that the communist anarchists' workers' councils in practice constituted a state anyways, that enterprises needed regulation by such...

Oh, my. I hope he understands she might be dangerous...

Over the course of the "Ifsumé" period, the language would not, of course, remain static. We start with the following inventory: (Note: Some curly brackets used because putting i in square ones seems to be triggering lots of italicisation.) Nasal: /m n (ɴ)/ "m, n, n" Notes: [ɴ] a...

Very good of you to fix it.

I have also produced a thing about verbs that goes into more depth. I'm not sure if making PDFs or typing out changes and things more directly is the better approach, however I'm finding things easier to structure in documents like this, however, and the fonts to which I have access can make all tho...

Sometimes, doing nothing is positively glorious.

Send him some virtual hugs from an Internet stranger. Perhaps the relationship can be salvaged at some point in the future, but should he not choose to pursue that route (and I wouldn't blame him — sometimes, you have to let people go), peace will come with time, though it will probably hurt a great...

Qwynegold wrote: ↑Sat Dec 26, 2020 3:58 pm Oh, okay. So it had mostly to do with semantic drift of that one word. Maybe...

That certainly influenced it, but there are elements of the fiction in play that I don't feel ready to reveal.

Trying to compile everything into a comprehensible format, I have a list of "lemmas" (I might be using the word overliberally) here, updated to match the revised sound changes.