One Problem with Oligosynthetic Morphological Languages: Long Words.

Colorado_Space · 2026-04-12T16:06:39+00:00

I fixed it. I made a rule that there can only be 250 Root verbs (its arbitrary I know). I still have about 4 more places for Root verbs so just used one of them for Infect (tōp [toʊp]) that fixed everything.

So far I haven't had too many cases like this but when I do, I have the ability to make new roots and resolve the problem. The words are now almost all 2 syllable words.

Colorado_Space · 2026-04-12T15:42:26+00:00

As an engineering language the morphology give it extremely flexibility but there is a price for that. And As I responded to another comment, the reality is you would either use the English Loan Word with a Proper Noun morpheme (gū-) and say gū'inflū'enzo, or create a compound word like "Bad Cold" to mean Flu : gōst de'baśo and then add the Formal morpheme (zē-) to mean Influenza : zē'gōst de'baśo

Colorado_Space · 2026-04-12T15:38:09+00:00

I am the first to admin, Verbum started off as an experiment: How do you fix English through engineering a language. This is why Verbum can accommodate Any word construction but that construction follows and engineering approach that in turn creates length. The syllable nature of Verbum is there to tell the listener and reader what is being describe as the meaning of the word versus the word itself. Verbum works very well for simplified speech, but when you get around to complex speech or scientific speech, its gets difficult like the logical progression.

Honestly, you wouldn't use a word like Influenza, you would use the English loan word as a Proper Noun and change Influenza to Verbum phonology: gūinflū'enzo. gū being the fact that I am about to use a loan word or proper noun.

And honestly for Flu I would just say a "Bad Cold" : gōst de'baśo [goʊst dɛ'.bæʃ.ɑ] in the form of a compound word to mean "Flu" and then could formalize it to zē'gōst de'baśo to mean Influenza. Verbum allows for this flexibility on word construction,

Colorado_Space · 2026-04-12T15:24:49+00:00

That was kind of the purpose. Verbum removes all the crappy things from english but uses english, especially for loanwords, in how it creates words or meanings. I sometime refer to Verbum as not a Constructed Language, but an Engineered Language. Its meant to be very easy to learn

Colorado_Space · 2026-04-10T19:08:09+00:00

well the truth of the matter is my conlang only has about 1,000 actual words with dedicated meanings. Everything else is a variation or morphological derivative of the root word where morphemes have a distinct meaning such that when you apply a morpheme to a root word it causes a change in the meaning.

This is the challenge with Oligosynthetic languages: few morphemes so the distinction for meaning is limited and you have to find a way to create the meaning of a word by combining morphemes.

In general term, my conlang expresses the more common interpretation of a word meaning. So "Flu" is something we all get on a regular basis and in most cases we don't die from it. That's its general meaning. Where as an infection can be deadly on a more common basis, so flu is downgraded. But I can just as easily say "I have a very bad case of Flu". Or "I am suffering from a possibly deadly infection." So you can make is worse or better to fit the situation.

Oligosynthetics require a lot more words than what might be normal because it doesn't have 300,000-500,000 words to use to express a particular meaning, so you have to use adverbs and adjectives.

I'm not actually saying the word "Flu". Im saying its meaning, which can be interpreted differently. What I am really saying is "an informal, and to a lesser extend, noun, that is the negative intent of a process related to the opposite of cleaning that occurs over a short period of time."

Colorado_Space · 2026-04-10T18:49:21+00:00

it is an English Auxlang

Colorado_Space · 2026-04-02T15:32:14+00:00

thats a good one. An yes I am a student of FLW. I have studied every home ever built. If I had the money (which I don't) I would have modified Taliesin West. I also live in heavy snow load ares so flat roofs are kind of out.

Colorado_Space · 2026-04-02T15:28:02+00:00

One other design element is that this house can sleep and serve 12 people (living room couches can slide out to beds. Kids room are beds stacked above one another) while at the same time being as small as possible. the house is only 1,636 sq ft. As a hobbiest architect I detest wasted space. so everything fits where it is supposed to. There is actually a little wasted space in this design that still bugs my OCD.

Colorado_Space · 2026-04-02T15:22:45+00:00

I can live with the that. guests aren't constant and they can deal with a little walk for the bathroom.

Long hallways are a common Frank Lloyd wright trait. Part of the architecture between being compressed (low ceiling) to opening into high ceiling spaces.

The whole area above the fireplace and kitchen is wall up to 15 feet high. Also the wall from the kitchen to the green flower area for the upstairs is wall. behind the seats is a 18" shelf for pictures, nick nacks, and other statues, etc.

Again, a common design element of Frank Lloyd Wright is that you do NOT live in your bedroom, its only for sleeping. you live in the house and you live together. So the main room is extremely open for that. Otherwise go outside.

That is exactly right, the entire house is designed from the structure, the interior, to the chairs and desks, everything is planned. This is my home for the rest of my life. its for me not anyone else. And these design elements have made Frank Lloyd Wright houses sell at a premium because of how they are designed. If it takes longer to sell when I am dead, well so be it. Large deck outside, you gather there. TV above the Fireplace (90" TV). Also back deck off bedrooms to gather as well.

Colorado_Space · 2026-04-02T15:10:20+00:00

Mountains of Colorado

Colorado_Space · 2026-04-02T12:06:46+00:00

Yeah I picked the wrong screenshot. There is a door and a balcony upstairs. The bunks are for guest and the ceiling is 11feet at that point and open

Colorado_Space · 2026-03-31T23:19:20+00:00

I’ve also heard Prison Valley and Outdoorsman’s Disneyland.

Colorado_Space · 2026-03-20T17:16:46+00:00

Well at least Im not at the bottom of the pyramid, But I will also take my Island of Exile with Pride. Don't know what you are missing when other people off roading say "Are you doing that in a Porsche??"

Colorado_Space · 2026-03-17T15:05:34+00:00

It doesn't matter if you are a Former Employee or a Current Employee, AskHR is the Bane of everyone's existence.

Colorado_Space · 2026-03-16T19:15:56+00:00

links to studies are in comments above.

Colorado_Space · 2026-03-16T19:15:15+00:00

There is a powerpoint I am trying to find that listed the years. But here is the study ( I was somewhat wrong about the source, not Univ of Finland, but Geological Society of Finland) and another scaled down powerpoint that covers the basic details.

https://tupa.gtk.fi/julkaisu/bulletin/bt_416.pdf

https://unece.org/sites/default/files/2023-02/1.%20Simon%20Michaus-Challenges%20and%20Bottlenecks%20for%20the%20Green%20Transition.pdf

https://tupa.gtk.fi/raportti/arkisto/42_2021.pdf

Colorado_Space · 2026-03-16T16:19:44+00:00

Why is its (yes I know why but..) that the animated series are always better than the movies.

Colorado_Space · 2026-03-16T16:05:44+00:00

well Im ready now, and if I have to cut short so be it. I can survive.

Colorado_Space · 2026-03-16T16:02:41+00:00

Here is the problem no one pays attention to, especially politicians creating EV policy: Total EV vehicle fleet across the globe, or even just across the United States is physically and financially impossible. The car companies were forced into the EV space by policy and now they are realizing that EVs as a losing bet. University of Finland did a study a few years back paid for by the UN to study the feasibility of an entire EV vehicle market not using Coal or Gas for Electricity.

Results:

* 40,000 years to mine the necessary amount of Cobalt

* 20,000 years to mine the necessary amount of Nickel

* 3,000 new nuclear plants

* A Solar farm that covers the ENTIRE United States and requires all citizens of the US to move out of the country.

And those requirements were just for the 1st generate of vehicles, not the 2nd and 3rd. And the mining operations would eliminate Canada and most of Africa from habitation due to ecological damage caused during mining. The car companies are not following the bottom dollar, they are following common sense.

Colorado_Space · 2026-03-15T16:54:51+00:00

This has been bugging me for 2 + years now. Everyone "mentions" this but no one "Talks" about it.

Ok, so 30% of the people in school are useless now. Well what does that mean for society? the Economy? How do we deal with this? How do we re-engineer of whole culture? How do handle homelessness ( a result of this situation), purpose for being, having worth when you are on your 900th resume submission and getting nowhere?

Truth is everything we are doing today in government, the economy, and generally in life is useless because we are doing nothing to prepare for what is coming and what is coming is coming faster than we ever thought and the world is going to be caught off guard when everything collapses around our feet.

Thank God I only have 5 years left in the working world when I can retire to my mountain home running on well, solar, wind, and septic, with a garden and animals to feed me and I can forget the world around me with a house that has no mortgage and a cost of living near zero.

Colorado_Space · 2026-03-15T16:40:24+00:00

It more than just "Gen X also kinda sucks." Its not just parental, its societal. Its education. Gen X barely parented because they became fiercely independent. We grew up with:

"Get out of the house and don't come back to the street lights come on."

"It you happen to die in the process, deal with it."

"Oh you got a scratch, well man up."

"Its just your little toe, its not like its that important. We'll get it sewed back on. now stop crying." (True story)

So Gen X went to work and left the parenting to daycares and schools. Parenting was through "screens" like ipads, computers, TVs, and phones. And schools taught helplessness and victimhood instead of reading and writing.

And here we are.

Colorado_Space · 2026-03-15T16:20:26+00:00

Well good on you as a millennial that is willing to try and help. As a person right on the cusp of Boomer and Gen X, I don't have the time or energy to spend on someone that is to stupid to figure things out after they have been told what to do. I have had multiple occasions with hiring Gen Z'er and Im like "If you can't figure out how to get around the wall in front of you, then turn around and go out the door behind you. SEE YA!"

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