Zompist Bboard Again

Dansoo: Thank-you for your post. Very nice. :) Were you inspired by the cipher code in the 2006 movie "Prestige"? There was a cipher in there that changed with the date or something. 8-) I also have been doing this simple P T K grid thing with my conscripts the last few years and posting i...

Famous 1970s Dinosaur Conlang Pakuni, Ancient Greek, Bees: Prometheus Text 2 2pens7.jpg Here's more of the Pakuni Language from the 1970s dinosaur hit "Land of the Lost". Because Marc Zender's last post was about the insect-like Sleestak, here's the beehive part from the Ancient Greek lang...

Birdlang, thank-you for your response.

Pedant: I'm a big fan of Scythia. I forget if those place names are from it. I think probably. I'm more a fan of Bactria, though, because of Bactrian camels. I've read all of Herodotus and found Scythians there and in very very nice poetic, Christmas-y passages in the Aeneid or perhaps one of those ...

zyxw59: Thank-you for your reply. I never heard of these ȹ letters. Thank-you for sharing. Curlyjimsam: Thank-you for your reply. Oh, wow! But that does make sense. I've heard things like that of the weird but possible parts of the IPA chart. letter+h also can be used to just make a digraph, I think...

What are good romanizations for the (labiodental stops)? voiceless labiodental stop IPA: p̪ voiced labiodental stop IPA: b̪ I'm doing a conlang based on Modern English orthography today and I have lots of background in Old, Middle, and Early Modern English orthographies. So I'm going with fh and vh....

Risla: Thanks for posting, very interesting. I study a lot of different myths. I'm working on Eastern Algonquian myths now and translating them into 1600s Massachusett. Some words and idioms of which I have to conlang or invent. I'm reading Leeland 1880 now, "Legends of Algonquian New England&q...

English Spelling, OVS, and Postpositions: Conlang 12 11 2018 Sample sentences: The jade disc is good. LOTOTEETOE NO CHOCHO. jade disc LOTOTEETOE be NO good CHOCHO. My stool is upstairs because I put it there. EE HA NO TOTO-DRA TAN CKS MOTEE STI EE. my EE stool HA be NO stairs-up TOTO-DRA because TAN...

Next: spotted [/quote] 1974's big hit kids' show Land of the Lost's Pakuni Language, my expansion of it, "Rogers Pakuni": striped (adj): sungsa* < / be striped SUNG adjetive SA /. * Marks words not invented by the language's 1974 creator, Professor Victoria Fromkin. The language is based o...

Wow. Really great.

Some comments:

I'm a big fan of glossing. Using standard grammatical abbreviations is a big plus.

I have this book by Yallop, Australian Aboriginal Languages, you might like it.

Working on my English descendant. A short two sentence sample: [wɨ̃ wə sɛ:n laˀ keəl d̪ə kɛske:ɾɨ̃z t̪ɪ̃ˀ wə tambaɾ ə vɛtʃtəbəl || bəˀ keəl kɨˀ bi ə ʔɛ̃nməl tɨw] This is from the 22nd century. Almost all of it should be recognizable still, I'd say. But other than some phonological changes you've go...