Zompist Bboard Again

Another Trump term would only help spread fascism even more than it has already spread around the world. Remember, Trump was cheering on people like Viktor Orbán and Vladimir Putin. Conversely, the Dems have been against the further spread of fascism. And the position you are espousing here is very ...

The key thing is that GA is effectively a descendent of older versions of what became SSBE, but without the development of non-rhoticity or things such the trap - bath split, and with its own vowel mergers (such as the marry - merry - Mary merger). As a result, GA and SSBE are actually quite close t...

When did do support first appear in English? according to Dr McWhorter, back in the days of Welsh, Cornish, and other Celtic languages. (it was brought into English from there, so its been here the whole time) Key thing there is according to -- it seems that this position may not be universal.

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 ...

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...

Raphael wrote: ↑Tue May 07, 2024 5:29 am Shouldn't this be in L&L?

Agreed - this is very much a topic for L&L.

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.

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...

[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...

[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...

I am getting sick of voiceless palatal affricates...

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,...

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...

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, ...

There's been (often masked) Zionists actively attacking encampments here in the US, as Emily states.

[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...

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...

bradrn wrote: ↑Sat May 04, 2024 10:30 am

Travis B. wrote: ↑Sat May 04, 2024 9:55 am I implemented what I thought were continuations for zeptoscript..

Is this not a matter for the Computing thread?

It would be if it were not for the fact that I am bummed I can't have real continuations...

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?

You do know there is no good answer for that.

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...