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@Khemehekis: As I recall, if I recall correctly, The following two predicted effects of election by sortition were thought to be the main reasons for it: * Eliminates the influence of money on electing office-holders. * Eliminates party-feeling and/or partisanism in election campaigns, because there...

You're saying that in that set of articles, you can't find it? No, I’m about 90% sure that’s not what I meant. Well then, Knox and I are the "progenitors" of something, dare I say, new? (He just seems to do his with an ergative-absolutive alignment.) Below is what it essentially is. wilúh...

I'm not fond of White supremacist genocidal American democracy myself. The only candidates in the 2016 election I liked were Bernie Sanders and Jill Stein. For several years now I have believed that democracy is a failure and should be replaced with a leftist oligarchy. How do you feel about demarc...

* In the first two seasons of Foundation: the TV series, there are at least two conlangs; Anacreontic (sp?) and Thespin (?). In Asimov’s book Anacreon and Thespin were two of the four “planets” (that is, inhabitable stellar systems with at least one major inhabited planet) that surrounded Terminus a...

What an interesting question!

You're saying that in that set of articles, you can't find it? No, I’m about 90% sure that’s not what I meant. Well then, Knox and I are the "progenitors" of something, dare I say, new? (He just seems to do his with an ergative-absolutive alignment.) Below is what it essentially is. wilúh...

Khemehekis wrote: ↑22 Feb 2025 04:13

elemtilas wrote: ↑22 Feb 2025 03:40 This reddit poll might be instructive. Or it might not be.

EDIT: How about we call a naturalistic conlang an isticlang or listiclang?

I have been meaning to ask this for a while but wasn't sure if I ever would: has there ever been any attested language that has exhibited a tripartite plural system like I use? I have never seen one. I have been looking for your description of your tripartite system of marking grammatical number; b...

I have been meaning to ask this for a while but wasn't sure if I ever would: has there ever been any attested language that has exhibited a tripartite plural system like I use? I have never seen one. Look here https://books.google.com/books/about/Number.html?id=7jc-pgAFcE0C . Something similar to y...

Welcome to the CBB, Cammzy !

elemtilas wrote: ↑22 Dec 2024 05:11 Thought this might be of interest here:

Ganz Kleine Nachtmusik - string trio, Mozart

Thank you, @elemtilas !

Are all of your beastfolk more than 50% human, and more than 35% some other species (probably mammal)? or more than 50% some other (probably mammal) species, and more than 35% human? For instance; are otterlings >50% human and >35% otter? Or >50% otter and >35% human? …. I’ve assumed that “beast” ac...

…. Head-marking means that grammatical information is marked on the head of the phrase, which in the case of a sentence is the verb. That means that information such as class, case, and even number could be marked on the verb instead of the noun. …. This post is meant as a clarification or elucidat...

Cute! I don't fit either of those. More like "why am I being invited to dinner? Now I have to make up some excuse rather than just say I don't want to be here. And then end up saying 'okay' anyway so as not to hurt feelings; but then go home and collapse because drained." Or "Nice to...

I think Yoda from Star Wars might characteristically endorse this litany against fear, or some paraphrase of it.
Maybe I’ll try to put this in Yoda-speak!

zyma wrote: ↑24 Jan 2025 11:32


I also find myself wondering sometimes about users like Micamo, Lao Kou, Thrice Xandvii, and many others. I hope they're all doing well, too.

I won’t be able to attend. It’s too far away from Michigan. And I don’t have a car. And I need to retake a driving test.

(Xing started a thread in the Translations subforum on “A man walks into a bar”.
So the question below occurred to me; but I shouldn’t post jokes anywhere but “Jokes”.)

I’d like to see or hear some completions of a story that starts out
“A man walks into an X-bar theory.”

….. ….. ….. ….. ….. Look here https://books.google.com/books/about/Number.html?id=7jc-pgAFcE0C . Something similar to your “tripartite” plural system might be attested by one or more of the languages Corbett discusses. Hey, Eldin, I was always meaning to ask, could you point me to the exact article...

1. Gender, cismale maybe I should follow opipik’s example. Following opipik’s example, maybe I should say: Gender (grammatical): roundish, squishy, and animate. Gender (psychosocial): In lieu of “cis”, maybe I should say: “I am both certain of my sex, and happy with it.” Sex (biological): Male 2. Se...