Zompist Bboard Again

So how can you eliminate the difference between voluntary (conscious) and involuntary (unconscious) behaviour, if both are necessary? I was talking about eliminating the difference in expression . So, instead of evolving a different lexicon for conscious signalling versus certain kinds of unconscio...

Pabappa wrote: ↑Fri Jan 25, 2019 11:29 am We eat whales and dolphins

We consume whale products or at least used to, we don't eat them.
We accidentally catch dolphins in nets made for tuna, we don't eat them.

Edit: haha, anglocentric ignorance

Is linguistic ability inherited within the DNA of each animal? Can some animals be born already able to speak? Maybe there is no separation between DNA and memory. Maybe the analogue of DNA is different. Can some animals speak fluently with other animals? Are there groups of species that evolved ex...

Ooh, could make it rather difficult for anyone to reasonably be a carnivore with enough thought about what they were doing...perhaps you should consider investing heavily in designing protein-heavy plants? I'm not sure how to solve this problem in any way that's palatable to humans I'm sorry. I was...

I'm not sure how this differs from the real world? Most humans, for instance, are in very little doubt about what a dog seems to be saying at any given moment... We still in the real world have a difference between pheromone communication and verbal communication. But what if there is no subconscio...

In this conworld, there would be no clean break between pheremones/pheremone-like communication, animal/animal-like communication. and more complex language. There would be a common set of 'morphemes' between all creatures, like 'pain', 'light' and 'grow' perhaps. And the more complex the creature, ...

Linguoboy wrote: ↑Tue Oct 02, 2018 9:22 am Welsh
och(e)neidio
sighing

I live in Wales. I may have cause to use this one day.
Thanks.

Hey language nerds, I've thought of a great game we can play: First someone PMs me a link to a description of a conlang that they haven't told anyone about yet. Next, they post images and sound files and talk about them in that conlang. Everyone else tries to figure out the rules and vocabulary of t...

petty [p^hɜt^hi] overly concerned with profit and gain

The other day I saw on Reddit someone say "wanna talks" presumably for "wants to talk" from "wanna" as a contraction of "wants to" in front of verb forms without the s. "Wanna" seems to have become an adverb. Also I've just thought of something, do y...

What I'm talking about is the morphological process. In written English, taking the space away. In spoken English AFAICT-only the change in emphasis.
I'm not talking about the relationship between the specific meaning and the general meaning (although we can)

One process is "black bird" > "Blackbird" etc Another is "person with white skin" > "White person" etc In languages other than English how does this work in speech and in writing? I'm thinking particularly about the first process in Germanic languages. And doe...