Zompist Bboard Again

anteallach wrote: ↑Wed Apr 19, 2023 11:31 am Perhaps the last of these is -ARGH.

Raphael wrote: ↑Wed Apr 19, 2023 3:14 pm

anteallach wrote: ↑Wed Apr 19, 2023 11:31 am Perhaps the last of these is -ARGH.

hwhatting wrote: ↑Thu Apr 20, 2023 5:21 am

Linguoboy wrote: ↑Wed Apr 19, 2023 12:05 pm

Ares Land wrote: ↑Wed Apr 19, 2023 9:18 amI think the alt right, or far right, or whatever you call it

I dislike the term "alt right" because it's always felt like an attempt by fascists to rebrand fascism as something cool and edgy.

The original fascism was cool and edgy back in the early 20th century. For me, "cool and edgy" are huge alrm bells on any political ideology and social movement; "cool and edgy" is fine in the arts, but should be applied to politics and society in general only in very, very, very, very small doses; best wait until the ideology has lost its coolness and edginess and can be evaluated with a calm eye and mind.

mocha wrote: ↑Fri Apr 21, 2023 9:03 am

Raphael wrote: ↑Fri Apr 21, 2023 9:02 am I once played with the idea of a culture that wouldn't really have a mathematically developed calendar - instead, they would handle astronomical irregularities by counting years and days based on Spring Festivals, and each year, in each community, the Spring Festival would be celebrated 10 days after the Community Elders had decided, based on observing the weather, that it was now officially spring.

Would these elders be groundhogs perchance?

alice wrote: ↑Fri Apr 21, 2023 9:07 am

Raphael wrote: ↑Fri Apr 21, 2023 8:56 am

foxcatdog wrote: ↑Thu Apr 20, 2023 7:54 pm People who have hadn't played typing games as a kid how well can you type? I can type without looking because i know instinctively the place of keys and i type fairly quickly much faster then i write.

Not well at all. I type with one and a half fingers - one for typing, one for pressing shift when needed - and I think most of the time, I look.

Fingers? We used to type with our noses, holding down t'shift key with our tongues!!!

Raphael wrote: ↑Fri Apr 21, 2023 9:15 am

alice wrote: ↑Fri Apr 21, 2023 9:07 am
Fingers? We used to type with our noses, holding down t'shift key with our tongues!!!

Given the state of my keyboard, I think I don't really want to do that.

MacAnDàil wrote: ↑Fri Apr 28, 2023 10:09 amAnd Apple did not branch out from phones to computers, even though you chose that as your presentation topic.

Zju wrote: ↑Mon May 01, 2023 8:28 am

bradrn wrote: ↑Mon May 01, 2023 8:16 am By the way, does Zewakʼ have any bound morphology? None is listed, but I don’t know if that’s because it has none or because you haven’t developed any.

It does – unfortunately, the grants weren't enough to document it.

Linguoboy wrote: ↑Mon May 01, 2023 10:21 am Sometimes an ach! is just an ach!

Moose-tache wrote: ↑Tue May 02, 2023 7:44 pm Supporting the current global copyright regime in order to fund creators is like supporting global warming to help seniors stay warm in their homes.

zompist wrote: ↑Wed May 03, 2023 11:19 pm Peter Mayle's A Year in Provence is delightful and helps explain that exotic and sometimes maddening people, the French.

foxcatdog wrote: ↑Sun Apr 30, 2023 6:18 pm Apparently in german and dutch fish dishes you can actually "taste the fish in them" unlike sushi. I'm scared to know what that means.

zompist wrote: ↑Thu May 04, 2023 10:36 pm

Moose-tache wrote: ↑Thu May 04, 2023 9:36 pm That's Moldova.

I'm not sure if it's edgy goth, or just bad conlanging, to start your country's name with "mold".

Moose-tache wrote: ↑Thu May 04, 2023 8:12 pm I can go into the next room and ask my wife "Why won't my phone turn on" or "when was the first battleship built," but she might not have the answer. I could go to the neighbors' house, but then I have to shower, and they're dumber than my wife anyway.

Imralu wrote: ↑Sat May 20, 2023 6:45 pm

foxcatdog wrote: ↑Sun May 07, 2023 6:36 pm The english translations don't feel like poetry at all.

When I was at university, studying ecology but doing a few subjects in German, my monolingual ecology friends asked me about my German class and I said we had to write a rhyming poem for homework. They wanted me to read it out, but after about three words in German, they were like "What does it mean?" and I told them and one goes "That doesn't rhyme though!?" and when I said "It does in German!?" she was like "OMG! I'd never thought about that."

Moose-tache wrote: ↑Mon May 08, 2023 12:38 am Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch: noun, onomatopoeic origin

zompist wrote: ↑Mon Jun 26, 2023 4:12 pm From A.Z. Foreman, on Twitter:

The major weakness of Wagner is trying to pull off improbable plots, combined with a tendency to wildly overdo the drama

True in Germany in the 1800s

True in Russia today

zompist wrote: ↑Tue Jun 27, 2023 5:20 pm

Travis B. wrote: ↑Tue Jun 27, 2023 4:21 pm

alice wrote: ↑Tue Jun 27, 2023 2:16 pm [face-straightness=forced]
The tendency towards aspiration in Germanic is of course easily explained by the fact that it has typically been spoken in relatively cold ciimates.
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That doesn't explain the strength of the aspiration in Australian English, considering that Australia is hot enough to be nigh uninhabitable in the summer.

You need to aspirate strongly to foosh away the venomous spiders.

zompist wrote: ↑Thu Jun 29, 2023 10:29 pm rotting, though I love you like a brother, I am not going to make changes to a live bulletin board based on the output of a glorified Markov chain.

bradrn wrote: ↑Thu Jun 29, 2023 10:48 pm

zompist wrote: ↑Thu Jun 29, 2023 10:29 pm rotting, though I love you like a brother, I am not going to make changes to a live bulletin board based on the output of a glorified Markov chain.

hwhatting wrote: ↑Wed Jul 05, 2023 6:00 am I guess your approach has two problems: if each language contributes, say, about 10 words, and the languages are not similar to each other, you don't really help anybody much in learning your IAL. And if you simplify the phonology, you make it harder to recongnize words - it's a bit like the pük in Volapük is based on English "speak", but if you have to be told that in order to get it, that means it doesn't really help in learning the language.
OTOH, as the world won't use an IAL anyway, except if someone becomes world emperor and imposes it, you can treat it as an art project and don't need to concern yourself with learnability.