Zompist Bboard Again

Most Latin words with a stressed {d,g,l}V{d,g,l} sequence that I can find on Wiktionary seem to have retained both consonants mostly unchanged, but of course many (most? all?) of these words are learned reborrowings rather than regular inherited reflexes. For instance: agilitas > agilidade dēlēgāre ...

[ũmꜜbaaɡa ‖ beꜜje iꜜɲi ə̃nꜜrookʷumꜜdooma ũꜜŋʷee mi | ũꜜŋʷee mi ĩꜜɲuuɡeje ‖ ꜜra tsu ĩꜜɲee ɦʲiꜜra wojiꜜji ꜜkʷa ĩꜜɲeese] Ũmbàaga. Beyè inyì ṽnròokwumdòoma ũŋwèe mi, ũŋwèe mi ĩnyùugeye. Rà tsu ĩnyèe hyirà woyiyì kwà ĩnyèese. Tonal downshift becomes a stress accent. m n ɲ ŋ ŋʷ > b d ɟ ɡ ɡʷ > w ɾ j ɦ ɦʷ ...

I typically design my diachronic developments roughly as follows (this is not a fixed methodology, but more a summary of my experience of what tends to work): I usually tend to simulate a time interval of 1000-1500 years. I often set a "break point" somewhere in the middle, in order to hav...

[ɛn ˈluɛh 'jɛæiʒ | ˈsɛiɹ ˈnøymɛn non ˈsɛæɹo ˈsɛiɹɛɹ ma | non 'jout ˈmuɛlɛt ˈtɛæmpɸis kɛ 'jewet ˈsɛilɛs tɛ ˈlou.ɕɛˌʒas jɛn 'sɛiɕɛs | cɕɛ'sɛit i'sik | ˈkuɛi ˈjak aˈkoun ˈzɛi ˈsɛi.ɹɛnˌɕis] En lóh iéhetg, chídd númen non chéddo chíddedd ma, non hiát mólet tempiys que hieuet sílych ty lásiytgas hyn sítt...

MacAnDàil wrote: ↑Thu Apr 29, 2021 8:04 am

Ares Land wrote: ↑Tue Apr 27, 2021 3:35 am I'd suggest 'Populist' vs 'Globalist' (though that's not idea either).

I think that the term ‘globalist’ is overused

Maybe something like "tribalist" vs. "universalist"? But this once again feels not quite neutral enough...

Ahzoh wrote: ↑Sat Apr 24, 2021 9:54 pm Ok, the user/common.css works and my font shows up, but, my font doesn't show for anybody else, so that's greatly disappointing

But this means it will probably work if Muke adds your style declarations to the main Common.css file. I'd suggest you go and ask him...

A question about German: is the city on the North Sea Dunkirche or Dunkerque? (I learned the former, bit it did get me some blank stares.) The traditional German name is Dünkirchen, but it seems to be falling out of use somewhat. The article on the German wikipedia is called Dunkerque and normally ...

Yes, I'm sure there must have been reasons that were actually reasonable from some perspective, but my summary was how this decision came across to almost anyone not directly involved in the decision-making process, even to politically-informed people in NRW I know personally. In my opinion, if you ...

Frankly, I don't know enough about Laschet to have much of an opinion about him. In the various internal CDU power struggles that he eventually won, I usually expected his various rivals to win, so I'm still a bit surprised that he ended up where he is now. The very same thing could be said about M...

I don't use Zompist's SCA² a lot (my go-to sound change applier is still Alice's GSCA 0.5), but here are two tricks I use frequently that may still be helpful: - If your SCA has a way to use them (and SCA² does), nonce categories are often much quicker to implement and easier to keep track of compar...

4.1 Spelling reform based on lack of accented characters in printing presses, and Dutch typesetters only partially respecting earlier preferred etymological spellings. Olle mennes sciedden aare ad wruwo ad rechtes iewad jooworad. Ebsciedden jewiede jeraddes ad enchenchoechtes, ad scí schioelde dood...

Prěžde ubo slověne ne jьměhǫ pismenъ, nǫ črъtami i rězami čьtěhǫ i gataahǫ, pogani sǫšče. Krъstivъše že sę rimьskami i grъčьskymi pismeny. Nǫždaahǫ sę slověnsky rěčь bezъ ustroenia… Less abstractly: (with notation that assumes [-long] was marked, which seems reasonable) [præʒdɛ̆ ubɔ̆ slɔ̆vænɛ̆ nɛ̆ ...

cedh wrote: ↑Sat Mar 13, 2021 6:11 am My band has released its first album!

quinterbeck wrote: ↑Wed Mar 17, 2021 4:47 pm I enjoyed this album! Will probably listen again sometime

Ares Land wrote: ↑Fri Mar 19, 2021 4:38 am Congrats -- I just listened to the album, and I really liked it.

Thank you both! I'm happy that you enjoyed it.

My band has released its first album!

It contains six instrumental pieces in a style somewhere between post-rock, post-metal, progressive, and alternative. Maybe some of you might like our music... (I definitely do, but I'm of course biased )

Re: phonemes, Sikaritai has been alleged to have intramorphemic contrastive syllabification . Which page? I can’t find it. (Unless you mean the contrast between complex nuclei and hiatus… but that’s pretty normal, isn’t it?) There are at least two things in there: - a marginal contrast between inte...

OK all of this is making my head spin with possibilities for cool things to do with factitive verbs. Anyone have some kind of survey of different ways these work in different languages? Many languages use a separate case for the resultative secondary predicate. In this Hungarian example it's the su...

Are these changes possible? Reflexes: /t͡ʃ d͡ʒ/ > /k g/ maybe before another velar, maybe also word-initially and word-finally Coronal plosives seem to only change into velar plosives as part of a chainshift caused by the glottalization of /k/. Some German dialects (in the region around Cologne) ha...

As it happens, for an ‘About’ page, you don’t need to know much HTML at all . This template should be complete enough for your purposes: <html> <head> <title>Put the page title here</title> </head> <body> <p>This is where you put your text.</p> <p>You need to surround each paragraph with 'p' tags, ...

You could allow /j w/ to become syllabic. I actually think this would be fairly likely with changes like the ones you have. And/or you could also just exclude jC wC Cj Cw sequences from counting as "consonant clusters that block syncope on the other side of C". There's no reason that all c...