alyssa @alyssa@cat.family
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Joined May 2022
i was forgetting to look at the chapter titles but now that i am, they really look like alternate-universe mountain goats song titles
recommended ghost town to my wife after she finished the fic she was reading and now i'm rereading ghost town
(she is also reading ghost town but not re-reading it for obvious reasons)
oh hey vincent price is in this columbo episode
poképosting
mawile is such a cutie
ttrpgposting
due to backer rewards having been delivered for the far roofs i now have jenna moran's poetry game about farmland financialization. hype
ricardo darín’s kinda hot
a problem: how to keep track of the fact that the analogue to the reconstructed proto-indo-european sky-god in this conlang's speakers' ancient religion is (loosely speaking) a trans woman when i'm not currently really recording facts about the culture of its speakers (except insofar as they might be inferred from the lexicon or sample texts)
solution:
nobihél (b-h-l): nf. a sort of priestess to Bihêl that will be so popular among tw if this setting ever develops a tumblr-analogue
awkward moment where i realized that a bunch of my derivational patterns violate my phonotactic rule against having a coda in syllables with long vowels
just saying that was not the best choice of examples to follow with the comment about some languages utilizing both
«English places adjectives before nouns, as in black cat, while a language like Spanish places adjectives after nouns, as in gato negro, literally “cat black.” There are a number of languages that utilize both orderings.»
yes, like, spanish. and english.
@Lady you should have included a “… well now i’ve backed myself into a corner” option on these polls
nice thing about triconsonantal-root and pattern morphology in this conlang is that every root gives me dozens of words. bad thing about triconsonantal-root and pattern morphology is ever root require me to decide what the dozens of words mean.
@Lady yeah seems reasonable. for 2 yeah the derived stems are indeed considered words (a speaker of the language would be aware of the root and pattern and what each tend to mean but the specific meaning of each combination has to be learned separately). so i guess i’ll go with not marking the root or pattern explicitly and glossing for the meaning of the particular stem. (if people need to know the root they can look up the stem in the lexicon)
@Lady kinda.
i think the main points i'm undecided about are:
- should i mark the pattern morpheme within the Midêkʰ text? is that worth the ugliness of ending up with "
gn-\<hi>m\<i>dkʰ\<í>-k" (glossed as perhaps "DAT(F)-word-PL")... - well, i hadn't thought about this problem before yours but, the question of whether to include a gloss for the meaning of the derived stem or that of the root or both...
@Lady do you have thoughts on notating Semitic-style triconsonantal root morphology in glosses
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Joined May 2022
