zompist bboard

There's hints of it in Kebreni and Elkaril, but I'd like to do a full-fledged vowel-changing system. I've thought about doing so for Tzhuro, or perhaps Dhekhnami. Nifty. I don't know what state you live in, but in many license plates are a fine method of randomizing your roots. :) --Neon Fox Here w...

Antipassive is a bit tricky to explain; it's like passive the other way round. In a passive sentence what would be the object (I read the book) becomes the subject (the book was read by me); with antipassive the ergative noun phrase becomes absolutive. Hmm. This makes me wonder: is there any weird ...

pharazon wrote:Drydic_guy is right, I did mean retroflex. Maybe there're some areas with d_>, but I don't know about them.

Yeah, I thought the original was pretty fucked up-looking.

I'm pretty sure that's a palatal approximant. Maybe not as palatal as in some other languages, but it's definitely too far forward to be velar. You could be right. I've seen it grouped with the velars in English phonology charts. It's with the alveolar-palatals in the chart on zompist.com. I'm real...

In Latin, I get the two past tenses (perfect and imperfect) mixed up a lot; eg I'd write navigavit for "he was sailing" rather than navigabat , an) :? I used I also tend to mix y use that sort of construction instead of infinitives in Latin, eg porcum cibantem volo for "I want to eat the pig" inste...

I'm all from Oklahoma and shit.

Ho-oly Mount Zion... Ho-o-ly Mount Zion... Jah seated in Mount Zion... He rules all creation...

We jammin'.

I also read /flejd/.

I am wearing plaid right now. ("Lounge pants", AKA "pajamas, but the pants part only", aka "pyjamas, but the trousers part only".)

pharazon wrote:Excellent! Naturally the first thing I thought was, "Can I make a program to do this?". The answer was, "Probably not, but what the hell", so I think I will. Plus it'll go in reverse. Expect it in several decades.

Creating such a program would be much easier in Python.

Upcoming projects: The lawn gnomes of Viminia Diabetics' guide to Verduria Boy bands of Kebri From the Salon of Sculpture: Inexi plumbing standards Uytainese knock-knock jokes Ghee: A polyunsaturated language ():o(|.)E - Representing Elkar?l using emoticons Helpful hints for writing Almean slashfic...

con quesa wrote: I use Opera version 7.23, but the text looks normal again.

Whoa, me too! Well, with a few customizations.

/}ktSu@li/, the "God bless you thing" ties back to the Black Plague days. At least that's my understanding. Supposedly, the Church began telling people that the only medcine they needed was a blessing, and that the will of God would drive the plague out of them. So, everytime someone sneezes, "[God]...