zompist bboard

Chuma

ALC p 57 f: might be worth explaining what "grok" means, or use a different word. p 71, second paragraph: could write "ta te tsi to tsu..." instead of using a c and then explaining it p 75, last paragraph before header: this origin of "long time no see" is apparently doubtful - don't know about the ...

Chuma

have you tried burning money? No. Have you? Are you rich or something? Unless you can find a way to insulate it such that energy can go in but not out and at the same time change the humid air often enough to get fresh dry air in there, then I don't think so. Insulation should just be a matter of a...

Chuma

As for tens of km^2 of greenhouses - no, that seems a bit much. I had hoped that greenhouse heating should be powerful enough that something much smaller would be enough, but that doesn't seem to be the case - from what I've been able to find out, greenhouses don't seem to help evaporation speed not...

Chuma

All problems and no solutions, huh? Okay, I can work with that. :) First, a few clarifications. I imagine this in a bronze age setting, so they would be hanging out with the early Greeks etc. I don't know if medieval technology would have helped much anyway, so perhaps it doesn't matter for realism....

Chuma

I'm working on a little alt-history conworld. The idea is, a people on a little island somewhere in the Mediterranean come up with a method for extracting metal from seawater, which they sell and get rich. I'm having some issues with the technology here; it will probably have to be pretty low on the...

Chuma

This happens in English too: Uni-aged men are guys. Uni-aged women are girls. Indeed, we have those too. This happens with names in general: All the Esther's and Margaret's that I know are my grandmother's age or older. Why some names start to sound old, but others don't, I don't know why. There's ...

Chuma

One thing I can think of from Swedish is words that denote people of a certain age. Presumably young adults don't want to refer to themselves by the terms that were used for their parent generation. Examples: tant aunt -> lady, woman -> stuffy old woman dam lady, noble woman -> lady, woman -> little...

Chuma

Never heard it here, in northern Europe / UK.

Chuma

on second thought, el gato esta bajo la mesa might be more correct in like peninsular spanish? That's what my book says. Interestingly, the Esperanto book I read started with the same phrase, so I'm assuming this must be a very important sentence. As for English, I'm trying to have linking but not ...

Chuma

I'm from the south of Sweden. My native language is Swedish, with a strange hybrid dialect, presumably because my mother speaks central Swedish. I lived two years in the vicinity of London, hoping to learn good posh RP, but with no luck. Now I live in the north of Sweden. I speak English fairly flue...

Chuma

I occasionally try my hand at making programming languages, mostly when I get annoyed by the existing ones, which is basically the same thought process that inspires me to make normal conlangs, or most other art forms for that matter. Since my main conlang is syntactically unambiguous, it's already ...

Chuma

Ooh, I want to see the angels.

Chuma

The "kaye" glyph is awfully popular around here.

Chuma

my dictionary wrote:sound 4 |saʊnd|
noun
• a narrow stretch of water forming an inlet or connecting two wider areas of water such as two seas or a sea and a lake.
• ( the Sound ) another name for Øresund.

so it does make sense, since this particular sound is indeed connecting two wider areas of water.

Chuma

Well, I've made a preliminary version, which is thinking about working. Now I just need lexicon files. For now, the format is as follows: txt file filename is name of language each line consists of: - conlang word, semicolon (no spaces) - nearest English equivalent, semicolon (no spaces) - proper ex...

Chuma

How about this: There are two species, i.e. four genders, which enter a symbiotic relationship. That way you would immediately get a four-gender society with no infertile genders. If you're not happy with the lack of inter-species sex, you could say that they are closely related, close enough that t...

Chuma

I don't know if any such thing has been done before, but I figured it might be fun to make some kind of searchable dictionary with multiple conlangs. You could use it to translate English words to conlangs, or the other way around. You could also type in some random sound sequence and see if it's a ...

Chuma

I like the first one.

Left/right could be nice. I'd use that for boustrophedon, but gender or something might be useful too.

Chuma

Not just the bats? So there would be other glyphs that are upside down too?

Chuma

So... they're supposed to be upside down? I mean, I know bats sleep upside down, but they're not always sleeping. It looks kind of odd.

Chuma

2+3 clusivity wrote:Haha, someone pointed out that my post above shows that I might be color blind.

Red-white colourblind? I think that's just called "blind".

Chuma

a a c a

Chuma

I can only contribute a few from Swedish, which will probably not be very radical compared to English. One that often annoys me in English is "play"; we have spela for sports and music, and leka for playing in the child sense. Similarly for "game", we have spel and lek . Another annoying one is "hat...

Chuma

It's true as Torco says that if A+B can only have A and B children, then it might happen that some genders die out. But it doesn't have to happen (within a reasonable timeframe). Compare with the situation if A can only have children with A; that would just be different species, and of course some o...

Chuma

Anguipes wrote:
Chuma wrote:I guess it'll be a lot of work if you're going to make 4373 symbols, though.
What conlanging project isn't a lot of work?

I have a conscript with 8 symbols. But yeah, I see your point.

The bears are adorable.

The stylised symbols are pretty cool, but the originals are awesomer.

zompist bboard

Search found 382 matches

Re: Zompist books feedback

Re: Preindustrial steampunk island

Re: Preindustrial steampunk island

Re: Preindustrial steampunk island

Preindustrial steampunk island

Re: Other linguistic treadmills?

Re: Other linguistic treadmills?

Re: Does This Happen in Your Part of the World?

Re: Member Countries and Known Languages

Re: Member Countries and Known Languages

Re: Con-Programming Languages

Re: 2L Monumental Style Conscript

Re: Tloko Logoglyphs: Two new charts!

Re: Help me with semantic examples! (from Zomp's blog)

Re: An inter-conlang dictionary?

Re: Genetics/Sex question

An inter-conlang dictionary?

Re: 2L Monumental Style Conscript: Na-na-na-na na-na-na-na..

Re: 2L Monumental Style Conscript: Na-na-na-na na-na-na-na..

Re: 2L Monumental Style Conscript: Na-na-na-na na-na-na-na..

Re: Let's test sound symbolism.

Re: Let's test sound symbolism.

Re: Help me with semantic examples! (from Zomp's blog)

Re: Genetics/Sex question

Re: Second Language Monumental Style Conscript Sketchpad