Zompist Bboard Again

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.

alice wrote: ↑Wed Aug 01, 2018 4:06 am

Risla wrote: ↑Tue Jul 31, 2018 6:01 pm

alice wrote: ↑Tue Jul 31, 2018 11:01 am I will hopefully be returning to work for the second time soon, with any luck.

Good luck with this!

Doso. Returning is one thing; staying returned is another. But I know ore now than I did the first time.

In any case, good luck!

Native speakers of french are, as a rule, universally incapable of spelling their native language. I've never met a single French speaker I couldn't correct on it, and the reason why is quite readily apparent if you look at the way spoken French is rendered into writing on the internet. Learners, h...

Dē Graut Bʉr wrote: ↑Tue Jul 31, 2018 4:05 am The French are bothered by difficult spellings?

Sorry, that was poorly phrased. We're not bothered by difficult spellings, we're bothered when people get them wrong.

in a priori conlang (in philosophical sense...) any speaker is a grammar Nazi, but whose favorite replica would not be "you should not say" but "what do you want to say"... That's not a conlang, that's 5th century BC Attic greek! For Tarandim, a few ideas: - moving place and tim...