Zompist Bboard Again

I managed to snag a table on the patio of the local brewery. Currently 82, a few clouds, & slight breeze. PERFECT!


Wait, does that count for this thread? I haven't done conlang stuff in several months.

Welcome to the board! :) That's the whole problem "it does seem". Every time I tried to use common linguistic terms, I ended up with situations where it does not fit. That will be the case for a lot of languages. Often you can pick the term that fits the closest, and then in the explanatio...

Trivial vent: My bank just sent me a helpful message informing me about various types of frauds and scams that are apparently currently used against their customers. And the first type of fraud/scam listed in the message was the "grandchild trick". How old do they think I am grumble mutte...

Who, and I mean this as a sincere question, who the hell is still holding out for a criminal punishment of 45? I absolutely am. That is, unless by "holding out" you mean that I think there's a near 100% chance of Trump being convicted. At this point, I think there is a good chance of it h...

Nila_MadhaVa wrote: ↑Mon Jul 18, 2022 7:16 pm ...

Condolences to you. It's good he could slip away in his sleep and that you could be with him at the end. Best of luck with the legal stuff.

My trans niece has been trying for months to get her name officially changed and it's been a real slog. Every time she and my sister think they've jumped through all the hoops, another one appears. The latest is that, despite being presented with an official government certification of the name cha...

Moose-tache wrote: ↑Sat Jul 16, 2022 6:36 pm <snip>

Finally got around to learning about Optimality Theory! I’ve just made my first mini-grammar, for a tone system. At the same time, I’ve just decided that OT doesn’t actually work much of the time. I don’t think I’ll be using OT again. HAH! :lol: That reminds me of a software training I did for a cl...

Richard W wrote: ↑Wed Jul 06, 2022 3:04 pm You could also use it to manually select between the results of optional sound changes and insert irregular changes, such as analogical levelling, suffix change and change of inflectional class, and keep a permanent record of your selections.

I like the sound of that!

Why do you need an SCA in a spreadsheet? I've been considering doing this, but using Google Sheets. I think the actual sound changes would be done using Regex, but I'm a long ways from vocabulary on my current langs, let alone descendant langs. However, the idea was to be able to link the spreadshe...

Not a prediction for 2301 , but one for 2 03 1 : A global cold war between an alliance of liberal democracies who take the climate change problem seriously (even if they not always do enough on it) and an alliance of authoritarian régimes who more or less deny it. It is less easy to predict which c...

malloc wrote: ↑Fri Jun 17, 2022 9:46 am I honestly have no idea why I bother living anymore, knowing that nothing but catastrophe lies ahead for the foreseeable future.

Go get counseling.

Ares Land wrote: ↑Mon Jun 13, 2022 7:45 am Okačatsatlis dačča, aytlomi!

o-ko-čats-atl-is

CL.2-REP\PFV-serve.food-seem-FUT

dačča

meat

/

ay-tlom-i

VOC-mate-PL

I didn't expect an actual gloss. Apparently my expectations were too low!

Ares Land wrote: ↑Mon Jun 13, 2022 2:29 am

alynnidalar wrote: ↑Sat Jun 11, 2022 8:48 pm Planning to take Simbri for a spin on the Oregon Trail?

Next verbs: 'to be too deep to ford' and 'to break an axle.'

In Simbri, how does one say "Looks like meat is back on the menu, boys"?

https://www.rte.ie/news/2022/0529/13018 ... n-airport/

That was my morning. 3+ hours in line and didn't even make it into the terminal! Vacation continues, sort of.....

Watching live Irish music in a pub in Galway tonight, plus hearing our tour bus driver speaking fluent Irish today and being surrounded by signs in Irish are GREAT motivation for my Dwarven conlang.

What a massively fun vacation day!

Someone posted zeptoforth (specifically both its hackaday.io page and its GitHub) to a Forth group on Facebook all on their own! Grats! That's gotta feel good! And today at a Zoom meeting one of the participants had used the zeptoforth kernel as an example of their disassembler in action (but unfor...

Travis B. wrote: ↑Fri May 13, 2022 10:27 am Someone posted zeptoforth (specifically both its hackaday.io page and its GitHub) to a Forth group on Facebook all on their own!

Grats! That's gotta feel good!

I had to learn that for the first time when I was 53, and it went easier than I thought. Everybody else on the road doing it the same way keeps you from forgetting it. The only thing that took a couple of days to sink in is how to correctly enter a roundabout. Way back in 93 & 99 when I went to...

Raphael wrote: ↑Sun May 01, 2022 3:32 pm Congratulations! I hope all goes well!

Thanks! It's been 22 years since I drove on the right side of the car and the left side of the road. If we can get through the 1st half hour or so of that, I think we're golden.