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by gestaltist
Mon Dec 11, 2017 11:31 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Lexember 2017
Replies: 43
Views: 15927

Re: Lexember 2017

Wow, Lexember really hasn't taken off this year, has it.
by gestaltist
Fri Dec 01, 2017 5:58 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: How to make a spelling without diacritics?
Replies: 24
Views: 6346

Re: How to make a spelling without diacritics?

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Yeah, I've seen that but I know some people from Lodz and they speak nothing like what you're describing...
by gestaltist
Thu Nov 30, 2017 3:26 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: How to make a spelling without diacritics?
Replies: 24
Views: 6346

Re: How to make a spelling without diacritics?

Ok, It'll be long but I'll try to describe it: 1. No "classical" phonemic nasal vowels: Ę and ą are /ɛN/ and /ɔN/ word-internally (N assimilates in POA to the following consonant) and /ɛ(m)/ and /ɔm/ word-finally. 2. /ɛ/ is backed, something like [ɜ] and sometimes it is identical to /ɨ/ ([ɘ]). 3. I...
by gestaltist
Wed Nov 29, 2017 4:00 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: How to make a spelling without diacritics?
Replies: 24
Views: 6346

Re: How to make a spelling without diacritics?

I don't see how typing alt+s is any slower than typing s-j. It's two characters either way.
by gestaltist
Mon Nov 27, 2017 8:59 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Any languages show h > j?
Replies: 10
Views: 6428

Re: Any languages show h > j?

h > j was reconstructed as a change in the development of some Khoisan languages, IIRC.
by gestaltist
Fri Nov 24, 2017 9:16 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Should I make the lexicon or grammar first?
Replies: 10
Views: 4433

Re: Should I make the lexicon or grammar first?

I don't think it's possible to make a "good" conlang without iterating between the two. Without a lexicon, you can't really make sentences or check how various affixes react to their respective roots. Without grammar, you have no working derivational morphology and your lexicon can only be very rudi...
by gestaltist
Fri Nov 10, 2017 2:36 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Word Initial Glottal Stop v. Zero
Replies: 14
Views: 5088

Re: Word Initial Glottal Stop v. Zero

Iirc languages can phonemically contrast zero-initial with a glottal stop, but that phonetically such a contrast won't be realized utterance-initially. There's no way (again, iirc) to distinguish between the initiation of voicing because of a preceding glottal stop and the initiation of voicing bec...
by gestaltist
Thu Nov 09, 2017 7:05 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Phonemes which are found in <5 languages or so
Replies: 54
Views: 14240

Re: Phonemes which are found in <5 languages or so

I found a useful resource: http://web.phonetik.uni-frankfurt.de/upsid_info.html

They have only a sample of 450 languages but it's a start. There seems to be way more infrequent phonemes than I'd have thought.
by gestaltist
Tue Oct 31, 2017 3:24 am
Forum: None of the above
Topic: An Extended Sound Change Applier
Replies: 17
Views: 14665

Re: An Extended Sound Change Applier

bradrn wrote:
gestaltist wrote:Any plans for a Mac version?
Unfortunately no, unless someone builds it on a Mac. I'd like to see that happen, though.
I might try to build it. What language/libraries/etc. have you used?
by gestaltist
Mon Oct 30, 2017 10:22 am
Forum: None of the above
Topic: An Extended Sound Change Applier
Replies: 17
Views: 14665

Re: An Extended Sound Change Applier

Any plans for a Mac version?
by gestaltist
Wed Oct 25, 2017 7:15 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Singing pronunciation in different languages
Replies: 16
Views: 6134

Re: Singing pronunciation in different languages

Actually, singers are trained in Poland to drop nasalization of word-final vowels because it "sounds better" and is an accepted alternative pronunciation anyway. My personal theory with /i/ > [e] is that restricts your voice more. You can generally sing higher if you take [e] over . But it's an unfo...
by gestaltist
Mon Oct 23, 2017 5:24 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Phonemes which are found in <5 languages or so
Replies: 54
Views: 14240

Re: Phonemes which are found in <5 languages or so

Nobody mentioned the whistled sibilants of Shona yet. They don't even have an agreed-upon IPA transliteration.
by gestaltist
Thu Jan 26, 2017 4:36 am
Forum: Almea
Topic: Is Almea still used for RPG?
Replies: 3
Views: 5582

Is Almea still used for RPG?

I remember reading that Almea was first created as an RPG setting. I wonder if it's still used that way. Obviously, I'm most interested if zompist still plays RPGs, but if anybody here plays in Almea, I would love to hear about it, too. This is mainly just idle curiosity, but I would also like to kn...
by gestaltist
Fri Jan 20, 2017 6:43 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Creating a continent
Replies: 58
Views: 37087

Re: Creating a continent

One thing you might want to take into account if you're shooting for realism, and which I haven't seen suggested yet, is erosion. Two things specifically: 1) glacier advances during the Ice Ages had a huge impact on Earth. If you're planet had an Ice Age, you'd expect the northern part of the contin...
by gestaltist
Fri Nov 11, 2016 11:24 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Sound Change Quickie Thread
Replies: 2827
Views: 614036

Re: Sound Change Quickie Thread

The other stops (/p t k/) are unaffected by all changes bar a set of palatalisations before /i/, most of which merge with that intervocalic ʈʳ (with the latter probably through a medial /ʈʂ. stage) to form a new set of palatal affricates not present in the protolang. My problem was actually more wi...
by gestaltist
Thu Nov 10, 2016 2:52 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Sound Change Quickie Thread
Replies: 2827
Views: 614036

Re: Sound Change Quickie Thread

I'm back-deriving the proto-inventory for this language , and I have a phoneme /ʈʳ/ and I want it to split and caused a position-based alternation in the daughter language. Does changing it to /t/ word-initially and /t͡ʃ/ otherwise seem sensible? I think this was buried, but my question still stand...
by gestaltist
Thu Oct 13, 2016 4:13 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Benefits once an IAL has been established & spread
Replies: 25
Views: 8729

Re: Benefits once an IAL has been established & spread

A benefit of an established IAL would be an influx of new languages for linguists to study: creoles of IAL with the various local languages for one, and when communities form where the IAL becomes L1, the inevitable diachronic change will mutate them into something new. And then, after a few centuri...
by gestaltist
Mon Feb 29, 2016 3:54 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: kårroť thread - thread is now closed
Replies: 13
Views: 5323

Re: kårroť thread - Necroes welcome!

Any specific reason why you're not using an English-friendly romanization for the name of the conworld?
by gestaltist
Sat Feb 13, 2016 7:51 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Gestaltist's Conworlding Scratchpad
Replies: 4
Views: 2171

Re: Gestaltist's Conworlding Scratchpad

Since there have been zero comments in this thread I am going to assume it wasn't interesting enough. I will stop cross-posting here.

If you were reading along, you can find the newer entries in the original thread on the CBB: http://aveneca.com/cbb/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=5247
by gestaltist
Thu Feb 11, 2016 9:52 am
Forum: None of the above
Topic: Venting thread that still excludes eddy (2)
Replies: 2639
Views: 301749

Re: Venting thread that embraces everyone without distinctio

WeepingElf wrote:Switching to Linux is always a smart move.
Yes, there are no situations in which this isn't a smart move. :roll: I agree that Linux is a viable solution for a lot of folks, and I used to run Archlinux on my previous laptop, but it's not the right solution for everyone (including me right now).
by gestaltist
Wed Feb 10, 2016 3:56 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Gestaltist's Conworlding Scratchpad
Replies: 4
Views: 2171

Re: Gestaltist's Conworlding Scratchpad

A sketch on Tsokkwi religion (The Tsokkwi are my focus culture on golempunk, in case it's not clear.) The Tsokkwi believe there is only one life, and your fate is dependent on how much good you have done in its duration. They stress proactivity and making a change in the world. They worship three g...
by gestaltist
Mon Feb 08, 2016 4:19 am
Forum: None of the above
Topic: Venting thread that still excludes eddy (2)
Replies: 2639
Views: 301749

Re: Venting thread that embraces everyone without distinctio

Windows apps generally don't work with Linux. Yes, there are wrappers like Wine, but given that you know nothing about Linux and just want it "to work" I would recommend against trying it.
by gestaltist
Mon Feb 08, 2016 4:10 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Use space swell
Replies: 17
Views: 4477

Re: Use space swell

Buran wrote:Reddit's /r/keming has plenty of good examples, among them "Bon Ape tit", "Le tItS now", "Faculty o fArts", and "The Wig and PenIs Open for Business".
Yeah.

"Penis mightier than the sword" is a well-established one.
by gestaltist
Fri Feb 05, 2016 3:20 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Gestaltist's Conworlding Scratchpad
Replies: 4
Views: 2171

Re: Gestaltist's Conworlding Scratchpad

A few words about the reincarnation process in golempunk. Every living creature has a soul. If no spirit enters a fetus at an early stage, it results in a miscarriage. Some inanimate things (like the wind in the snippet above) also attract spirits but this is more an exception than a rule. When the ...
by gestaltist
Wed Feb 03, 2016 3:17 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Gestaltist's Conworlding Scratchpad
Replies: 4
Views: 2171

Re: Gestaltist's Conworlding Scratchpad

Golempunk story number 2. I sometimes try to remember what I used to be. It comes to me in flashes. A face of a woman, a starry sky; a bout of depression, a jolt of joy; weeping violins, and screams of pain. How do I know what they are? I don't have eyes that could see, I don't have ears that could ...