Zompist Bboard Again

I think that the native Latin transcription is the best, as the phonology has been made to be unpleasant to the human ear, as the transcription is to the human eye ... You can otherwise try to do worse ... I enjoyed making a pseudo-French orthography as I felt that it clashed with the archetypal Kl...

But the Dothraki aren't exactly villains or heroes. Their attitudes to women are awful, but it many ways their society is shown in the books to be better for Danaerys than Westerosi culture or the cities of Essos. Wow, that's a new one. "Sure, these people may be genocidal gang-rapists, but th...

I think it's been a while since anyone made a culture test for a conculture. Well, in any case, here's a new one! The Tarandim culture test. This applies to pre-imperial Tarande (that's about two thousand years before present for that conworld; and two thousand years after the 'Prophetess' story).

I used to be like that. Then, I studied English phonetics, to try to get rid of my stupid accent. An interesting side effect is that I started to make spelling mistakes ! Like, the other day I caught myself typing *munkey instead of monkey . Previously, I would have done the opposite mistake (prono...

What zompist said makes me think of a related phenomenon. As a direct consequence of texting and Facebook (or so it seems), Moroccans have started writing in darija (which was I believe unthinkable twenty years ago; back then it was either French or MSA). So, I guess I'll have to wait for cryonics t...

Moran ko wešinim lona suralon, ni more šað lommamoqmɔḥ šamaru londim. moran ko wešin=im lon-a su-ra-lon / ni mor-e ša-ð lom-m-am<oq>mɔḥ ša-ma-ru lon-dim male or female=ADV TIDE-about 1s.PAT-not-sure / therefore man-PL 3p.PAT-for TIDE-INT-<FUT>easy 3p.PAT-MID.CAUS-grow TIDE-during I'm not sure if yo...

Nan lilhedyus oda imbibun yesikiru, gyar vyas uttes vibun in imbibun. COMPLEMENTIZER work.out-FUT-3s.sub all-PAT sometime tell-REFL-1s.sub, but know-3s.obj who-MASC-AG. when be-3s sometime. I tell myself everything will work out eventually, but who knows when eventually is. Durawen-ɛh? dur-awen-ɛh ...

A random thought that occured to me. It makes sense to me, but I can't exactly prove it; so it might be deep, but it might be stupid. Aren't most current languages, in a way, the result of limited forms of globalization? When were the last times wildly different cultures were unexpectedly brought to...

There are two difference with a French r that I noticed: first it's an approximant. (My r is a fricative.), and second it's noticeably labialized. I wouldn't risk a comparison with other languages. (German r is often vocalized; I don't know what exactly is going one with the rhotic in Hebrew, but ha...

Thanks everyone for the advice! So what did I choose? I've picked option 2 - discussing usage immediately after (and sometimes before) describing the morphology. It makes for a more interesting read. Option 1 doesn't work that well with unfamiliar morphosyntax; it works well with Indo-European langu...

zompist wrote: ↑Sun Aug 05, 2018 2:56 pm That fixed the loop, but tried to go to the wrong page.

But I fixed the original problem anyway, by making an index.html that redirects to almeo.html.

I do appreciate the help— I never learned how to do .htaccess.

No problem, I'm happy to help — and I'm glad you could find a solution.

Looks like it loops now. Crap. I think we need an extra condition: RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^.*.html RewriteRule ^(.*)$ almeo.html?$1 [R=301,L,QSA] (Sorry about the back-and-forth. Apache is powerful, and also awfully counter...

Do not assume that how I speak is universal for people from Wisconsin. Also note that if you do try to speak like me, you'll have to learn a doubly articulated postalveolar and uvular approximant for where /r/ comes after a coronal, and you'll have to learn to labialize your /r/s (my initial /r/ is...

And I bothered practicing retroflex r when I could've pretended I was from Wisconsin all along!

I don't think it's velar, it sounds like something like [ˈsɔːʁʷi].

languages especially con are too long to implement (too long to build and too long to learn) and too easy to drill (too many sources accesible) ... nothing beats a code for spies ... Languages have worked out fairly well in warfare. An advantage is that you can't do much with cryptoanalysis. Restri...

Thanks, Are Lande! Sadly, though, it doesn't work. Any request just goes to the main page. Any idea what might be going wrong? Ah, yes. I think you need a redirect instead, and besides the query string was wrong. So the correct rule should be: (crossing fingers that I don't mess up this time) Rewri...

I've got that Beastie Boys song stuck in my head now. I hope you're pleased with yourselves.

OK, these should be done except for the rewrite rule. Does anyone speak .htaccess? This is what I have now: Options +FollowSymLinks RewriteEngine on # Special handling for search strings # RewriteRule ^Special:Search(.*)$ almeopedia/mediawiki/index.php$1 [L] # Everything else RewriteCond %{REQUEST_...

Interesting to see that English "the world over" has an exact parallel in Swedish världen över . Two curious sound changes, regarding final [i] in French. Lots of people, of all ages, have [i] -> [iç] word finally. I caught myself doing too, to my consternation (it is a little annoying). ...

Good idea!
The images on this page: http://www.zompist.com/almea.htm are broken too, and so are the links on this page: http://www.zompist.com/beliefs.htm

Also http://www.almeopedia.com still redirects to http://www.almeopedia.com/Main_Page instead of http://www.almeopedia.com/almeo.html.