zompist bboard

Matt: I hereby petition the Voom to refer to Eddy as "Eddy the Mango" until such a time when he'll just shut up about that topic, or get off his bum and try to draw some good stuff, whichever comes first.

Now I just need to find a treasonous ZBB quote.

Trebor: actually a mixed language not only borrows boatloads of vocabulary, but also borrows boatloads of morphology. Pidgins and creoles tend not to borrow morphology from any of their source languages.

Dewrad's quoteworthy gem of wisdom: "It's all quite simple. Communism is teh EEEVILZ0RZ!!!1!1! and anything which can even be broadly interpreted as being detrimental to communism is a Good Thing."

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Damn, just where did they get this darn idea from.....

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Noriega: if Dave Barry's any indication, it'll probably go like this:

"We love you; your wife is great.
Here's a frog; let's celebrate!"

Now just replace "frog" with......

KERO-CHAN ^_^

SOFT AND FLUFFY PYTHAGORAS' THEOREM

And "outside conformity" = "stupid". Any more euphemisms? Bring 'em all on...

Grammatical categories are a somewhat artificial concept; we don't "know" right from the beginning that there are such things as "nouns" and "verbs", we know these things because we learnt them from linguists. So it's not very natural for one to be "conscious" of word classes. My guess is, if a soun...

Legros: argh, now I feel really pressurized. I'll definitely keep everyone posted if I do come up with something. I promise!

Legros : Though I have tons of information at my disposal, I'm not sure how much they contribute towards my freedom. Also, doctrellor and Eddy certainly aren't feeling very free... :| Eddy : Stop taking other people's words out of context. You can `prove' anything you want by just grabbing a fragme...

Mercator : Well, every language incorporates loan words, and I don't see loan words going into English faster than they go into, say, Chinese. If you ask me to choose an international language, I'll favour a pidgin such as Chinook Jargon. I'm not sure about ease of access to information, but I pref...

Legros : That's a good point. Japanese anime is in fashion all over the world, even though not everyone understands Japanese. Perhaps the status of English as a lingua franca is a symptom, rather than the cause, of the Westernization of the world. An argument for linguistic diversity that's often b...

Cor: That'll be consonant harmony, not vowel harmony. Reportedly, very few languages have consonant harmony.

Besides the aforementioned forms of vowel harmony, there are also some which are harder to specify, such as the advanced/non-advanced tongue root harmony of written Manchu.

vegfarandi: It's Mongolian, actually.

Notice how, for each word in this passage , the word either contains only vowels from the group { a, i, o, u }, or only vowels from the group { e, i, ?, ? }, never from both groups: erte(#) urida(*) kabalik(*) balgasun-dur(*) biraman-u(*) qamug(*) uqagan-u(*) j?il-d?r(#) mergen(#) bolugsan(*) sain(*...