zompist bboard

(where student is inclusive of "being less than 18 years old but not necessarily enrolled in any school, college, university, academy [Socratic, Confucian or Football], lyceum, stoa, madrassa, maktab, seminary, technicum, gurukul, juku, shul or what have you", but *not* of being a postgraduate student)

fuck you, I used the GIMP. It's just as good as Photoshop ;__;

NE: plus... Official Image Manipulation Software of the Language Creation Society? Do I have a second?

Is there really a need for a conlanging vanity press?

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But the river tripped on her by and by, lapping
as though her heart was brook: Why, why, why! Weh, O weh
I'se so silly to be flowing but I no canna stay!

But Salmoneus, any organization representing the larger conlanging community has to start somewhere with a small group of people. What's wrong with what they're doing?

I don't understand some peoples' anti-LCS histrionics, either. It is just as Donald says, if you feel that the LCS does nothing for you, just don't get involved with it but ignore it. I personally see not much benefit I could get from the LCS, hence I haven't joined; but I also don't see the LCS doing any harm to the conlanging community at. At least, it has succeeded in organizing major meetings of conlangers, as well as at least one case of mediating a deal between a conlanger and the TV industry.

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Tha cvastam émi cvastam santham amal phelsa. -- Friedrich Schiller
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Hmmph, it might be related to the reason many conlangers have anti-Esperanto histrionics, whatever that may be.

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Quis vult in terra stare,
Cum possit volitare?

I believe it is time to repost

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"It will not come by waiting for it. It will not be said, 'Here it is,' or 'There it is.' Rather, the Kingdom of the Father is spread out upon the earth, and men do not see it."
– The Gospel of Thomas

This probably belongs in another thread, but as I've said before, I think Klingon is quite well done, and often witty. The phonology is the one aspect of the language that attempts to be alien; when it's trying to be exotic it seems odd to criticize it for being exotic. The grammar isn't at all exotic for a linguist (it's very much like many Amerindian languages, Okrand's specialty), but it will seem so to English speakers, without burdening them with complex morphology.

The one thing I don't like is the orthography. It's clever to use upper case for non-English sounds, but I find it ugly and unnecessary.

Of course, if you want to say I could do a better job, I wouldn't argue.

I just want to say I really love what you've done with Dothraki. It's difficult to produce something so detailed and interesting whilst not descending into the boring trap of just 'this language is SVO with adjectives following nouns'. I particularly like all the glossing you've done.

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كان يا ما كان / يا صمت العشية / قمري هاجر في الصبح بعيدا / في العيون العسلية

tà yi póbo tsùtsùr ciivà dè!

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But the river tripped on her by and by, lapping
as though her heart was brook: Why, why, why! Weh, O weh
I'se so silly to be flowing but I no canna stay!

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...brought to you by the Weeping Elf
Tha cvastam émi cvastam santham amal phelsa. -- Friedrich Schiller
ESTAR-3SG:P human-OBJ only human-OBJ true-OBJ REL-LOC play-3SG:A