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- Tue May 07, 2024 12:13 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: War in the Middle East, again
- Replies: 411
- Views: 73674
Re: War in the Middle East, again
I’m sorry, but this is not ‘latent’ antisemitism. This is antisemitism. ‘The Jews are coming to kill us all and replace us’ is one of the oldest and most persistent antisemitic canards there is. I’ve been the target of this accusation myself, long before the current events. You have missed Torco's ...
- Tue May 07, 2024 12:01 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Challenge: American English as a separate language
- Replies: 12
- Views: 281
Re: Challenge: American English as a separate language
Plenty of divergent dialects made it to North America in large numbers. Where I grew up, the largest ethnic group was "Scotch Irish," meaning there would have been a time when everyone in the Appalachians sounded like this child . The issue is that those divergent dialects never made up t...
- Tue May 07, 2024 10:32 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: The perception of rhythm in language
- Replies: 11
- Views: 178
- Mon May 06, 2024 12:08 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: AI in conlanging - present and future
- Replies: 14
- Views: 205
Re: AI in conlanging - present and future
To me LLM's are limited for all the reasons people have already stated here. LLM's can only produce content as good as the human-generated content it is trained on, and will get worse once they start getting fed content generated by AI in the first place.
- Mon May 06, 2024 11:02 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Word evolution game
- Replies: 2640
- Views: 273996
Re: Word evolution game
Lengthening of vowels in open syllables ['juː.vɔʃ] ivvos "( to a woman of higher rank than oneself ) Mrs., Ms.; ( of judges, justices ) your honour" u > [y] before front vowels and semivowels. ['iyj̥] ieich "( chiefly archaic ) madam, ma'am" [s], including when geminate, > [ɕ] af...
- Sat May 04, 2024 10:32 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Word evolution game
- Replies: 2640
- Views: 273996
Re: Word evolution game
[ɔː] > [uɔ̯] ['juɔ̯s] iós "(to a woman of higher rank than oneself) Mrs., Ms.; (with titles of office) madam; (of judges, justices) your honour" [ej] > [æj] ['jæjç] ieich "(to a woman of higher rank than oneself) Mrs., Ms.; (with titles of office) madam; (of judges, justices) your hon...
- Sat May 04, 2024 8:57 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Word evolution game
- Replies: 2640
- Views: 273996
Re: Word evolution game
[œ] > [jɔ] ['jɔt͡s] oets "(to a woman of higher rank than oneself) Mrs., Ms.; (with titles of office) madam; (of judges, justices) your honour" [çː] > [jç] / V_ ['ʝejç] giecch "(to a woman of higher rank than oneself) Mrs., Ms.; (with titles of office) madam; (of judges, justices) you...
- Sat May 04, 2024 5:01 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Word evolution game
- Replies: 2640
- Views: 273996
Re: Word evolution game
I am getting sick of voiceless palatal affricates...
- Sat May 04, 2024 4:59 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Syntax random
- Replies: 195
- Views: 114091
Re: Syntax random
We didn’t see [only the Louvre]. ⇒ We only didn’t see the Louvre. Yet, the first sentence exists in surface structure with a completely different meaning! For you, that meaning is unambiguously different; for me it’s ambiguous, and can be the same under highly marked circumstances. But, apparently,...
- Sat May 04, 2024 1:36 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4668
- Views: 2058109
Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
Exactly. And in this case there are no convenient historical events that we can firmly peg a transition in our periodization to (such as how 1066 is used as a demarcation between Old and Middle English). Nitpick: The Old to Middle transition is normally dated to 1200, for which the historical peg w...
- Sat May 04, 2024 11:45 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
- Replies: 888
- Views: 1082650
Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
Dunno if this has been discussed already here, but PIE *Hebl- 'apple' may not be a loanword at all, and instead just be a metastethised form of *meHlom. Can't track down the paper from academia.edu I originally read that in, but the gist is that an intermediate form *Heml- underwent ml → bl. Also, ...
- Sat May 04, 2024 11:00 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: War in the Middle East, again
- Replies: 411
- Views: 73674
Re: War in the Middle East, again
There's been (often masked) Zionists actively attacking encampments here in the US, as Emily states.
- Sat May 04, 2024 10:53 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Word evolution game
- Replies: 2640
- Views: 273996
Re: Word evolution game
[cɕ] > [ɕː] ['œɕː] diórhe "(to a woman of higher rank than oneself) Mrs., Ms.; (with titles of office) madam; (of judges, justices) your honour" [cɕ] > [kj] ['ɟʝe.kjæ̥] gaiciah "(to a woman of higher rank than oneself) Mrs., Ms.; (with titles of office) madam; (of judges, justices) yo...
- Sat May 04, 2024 10:47 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4668
- Views: 2058109
Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
Right, begining of the Old English period , not language. It's not like the ol' Angles went to bed one night speaking Proto-Germanic and woke up the next morning speaking Old English. "English", "Old English" and "Proto-Germanic" are all labels we arbitrarily tack on a...
- Sat May 04, 2024 10:46 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: The Contradictory Feelings Thread
- Replies: 666
- Views: 753465
- Sat May 04, 2024 9:57 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4668
- Views: 2058109
Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
You do know there is no good answer for that.Otto Kretschmer wrote: ↑Sat May 04, 2024 7:01 am Is there a set date when English language became well, English instead of being just Proto West Germanic?
- Sat May 04, 2024 9:55 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: The Contradictory Feelings Thread
- Replies: 666
- Views: 753465
Re: The Contradictory Feelings Thread
I implemented what I thought were continuations for zeptoscript... but it turns out they are not. Reason being that my "continuations" freeze the state of the stacks* in time, for it to be restored verbatim any number of times, but proper continuations apparently allow the stack(s) to be m...
- Sat May 04, 2024 12:35 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Word evolution game
- Replies: 2640
- Views: 273996
Re: Word evolution game
[χ.χ] > [qχ] ['œ.qχi] diórde "(to a woman of higher rank than oneself) Mrs., Ms.; (with titles of office) madam; (of judges, justices) your honour" Hardening of initial [ɣ]. ['gai̯.cæ̥] žiyat "(to a woman of higher rank than oneself) Mrs., Ms.; (with titles of office) madam; (of judge...
- Fri May 03, 2024 11:05 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Word evolution game
- Replies: 2640
- Views: 273996
Re: Word evolution game
[ħ.ħ] > [χ.χ] ['œχ.χɛ] diórde "(to a woman of higher rank than oneself) Mrs., Ms.; (with titles of office) madam; (of judges, justices) your honour" [ei̯] > [ai̯] ['ɣai̯.ɟæh] žiyat "(to a woman of higher rank than oneself) Mrs., Ms.; (with titles of office) madam; (of judges, justices...
- Fri May 03, 2024 10:19 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Word evolution game
- Replies: 2640
- Views: 273996
Re: Word evolution game
[ʕ.ʕ] > [ħ.ħ] ['ðœħ.ħɛ] diórde "(to a woman of higher rank than oneself) Mrs., Ms.; (with titles of office) madam; (of judges, justices) your honour" Coda [s] > [h] ['ɣei̯.jæh] žiyat "(to a woman of higher rank than oneself) Mrs., Ms.; (with titles of office) madam; (of judges, justic...