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- Tue Oct 10, 2023 11:41 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Venting thread
- Replies: 1945
- Views: 15033095
Re: Venting thread
My apologies, but my English is pretty poor and I frequently slip in Gallicisms I've studied French. I know French folks. I follow French speakers on multiple platforms. None of them follow every utterance with "...". This type of lazy excuse diminishes any sort of empathy to almost absol...
- Mon Oct 09, 2023 5:24 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Venting thread
- Replies: 1945
- Views: 15033095
Re: Venting thread
I am sick and tired of seeing how xxx gets treated on the board. Maybe put everyone on ignore that does something you don't like? Will that improve your experience? I am well aware of xxx’s unorthodox method of engagement on the board…but shouldn’t he be given the benefit of the doubt, especially w...
- Mon Oct 09, 2023 5:14 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: United States Politics Thread 46
- Replies: 1459
- Views: 450843
Re: United States Politics Thread 46
Third party candidates (in the US) never seem to realize they are messing with the very thing they purport to want to save/fix.
This guy is one of the worst because his antics are painfully obvious as publicity...not unlike several of the GOP ""candidates"".
This guy is one of the worst because his antics are painfully obvious as publicity...not unlike several of the GOP ""candidates"".
- Mon Oct 09, 2023 3:11 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: United States Politics Thread 46
- Replies: 1459
- Views: 450843
Re: United States Politics Thread 46
Could someone explain the basic structure of a major US federal government cabinet-level department to me? Well, they're not all exactly analogous to each other, so we'd almost have to go through them one-by-one. I have no idea how each of these ranks compares to each other rank. And that makes fol...
- Mon Oct 09, 2023 3:06 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: War in the Middle East, again
- Replies: 455
- Views: 78362
Re: War in the Middle East, again
In all the breathless media coverage of the recent outbreak of hostilities between Israel and Hamas into open warfare, I'm not finding much in the way of analysis. I'm not interested in judgments of the morality of Hamas' actions [...] but in what they are trying to accomplish with them. One possib...
- Mon Oct 09, 2023 3:00 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang fluency thread
- Replies: 2510
- Views: 1488076
- Sun Oct 08, 2023 2:16 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang fluency thread
- Replies: 2510
- Views: 1488076
- Sun Oct 08, 2023 9:05 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang fluency thread
- Replies: 2510
- Views: 1488076
Re: Conlang fluency thread
𝒌𝒖𝒅𝒊𝒚𝒂 𝒏𝒊𝒚𝒆𝒌 𝒃𝒊𝒏𝒅𝒂 𝒂𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒃𝒘𝒂 𝒂𝒓𝒂𝒌 𝒔𝒉𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒃𝒂
/kuːdija niːjɛk bɪndaː aʃaːbwa aɾak ʃuːrabɑ/
kud-iya niy-ek bin-da ashab-wa ar-ak shur-ab-a
ʙᴇ.ᴀʙʟᴇ-ABST sᴘᴇᴀᴋ-INF ᴄɪᴛʏ-LOC ᴋɴᴏᴡʟᴇᴅɢᴇ ᴛɪᴍᴇ-COM ɢʀᴏᴡ-DUR-3s
𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑏𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑎𝑘 𝑖𝑛 𝑝𝑢𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑐 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 𝑠𝑘𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑑𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑙𝑜𝑝𝑠 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒.
/kuːdija niːjɛk bɪndaː aʃaːbwa aɾak ʃuːrabɑ/
kud-iya niy-ek bin-da ashab-wa ar-ak shur-ab-a
ʙᴇ.ᴀʙʟᴇ-ABST sᴘᴇᴀᴋ-INF ᴄɪᴛʏ-LOC ᴋɴᴏᴡʟᴇᴅɢᴇ ᴛɪᴍᴇ-COM ɢʀᴏᴡ-DUR-3s
𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑏𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑎𝑘 𝑖𝑛 𝑝𝑢𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑐 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 𝑠𝑘𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑑𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑙𝑜𝑝𝑠 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒.
- Fri Oct 06, 2023 6:46 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Star Trek (spoilers are likely)
- Replies: 116
- Views: 75226
Re: Star Trek (spoilers are likely)
They made a big deal of Sisko's promotion from Commander to Captain, though, without changing his functional position as the commanding officer of Deep Space 9. Sometimes the writers use these ideas of rank for dramatic effect. Tom Paris gets a multi-episode arc about being demoted and then repromo...
- Fri Oct 06, 2023 6:17 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Standard ordering of IPA characters?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1471
Re: Standard ordering of IPA characters?
I was thinking in general terms, not for a particular language. Unicode order isn't helpful, as WeepingElf points out, since it would be nice to have, for example, <ɛ> after <e> and before <f>. I hold the position that because it is a Latin based system, it should be ordered accordingly.
- Fri Oct 06, 2023 6:03 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Star Trek (spoilers are likely)
- Replies: 116
- Views: 75226
Re: Star Trek (spoilers are likely)
But I also think the likely organizational model is more like an Antarctic base or an oil rig than like a battleship. From what I've read and heard, that's what Roddenberry's goal was when TOS was being pitched. If you watch the original pilot episode, the Captain has a slightly thicker sleeve band...
- Thu Oct 05, 2023 12:04 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Star Trek (spoilers are likely)
- Replies: 116
- Views: 75226
Re: Star Trek (spoilers are likely)
But it's not a military base, just a bunch of scientists. Yes, a bunch of scientists, most of whom are government contractors working on contracts managed by the United States Antarctic Program, which, as a part of the National Science Foundation most definitely has a hierarchy in place. That hiera...
- Thu Oct 05, 2023 11:49 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: United States Politics Thread 46
- Replies: 1459
- Views: 450843
Re: United States Politics Thread 46
The more insidious (and likely) possibility is the Project 2025.Travis B. wrote: ↑Thu Oct 05, 2023 10:21 am For all those not paying attention, this is the threat that faces all Americans today: https://www.alternet.org/red-caesar/.
- Wed Oct 04, 2023 12:23 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: The declining quality of our supply of extremely rich people - a rant
- Replies: 61
- Views: 4074
Re: The declining quality of our supply of extremely rich people - a rant
I kind of wonder how much inflation there would be if the people who own those $2 trillion Microsoft share would try to spend all that money on actual physical objects (no matter what kinds of actual physical objects). Most of that isn't actually cash, so "spending" it isn't a thing. In t...
- Wed Oct 04, 2023 12:21 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Star Trek (spoilers are likely)
- Replies: 116
- Views: 75226
Re: Star Trek (spoilers are likely)
I did read one piece of fiction which used the terminology of nobility to express command hierarchy; I think there was a Lord of Astrogation, to give an example. This is very Dune or Star Wars of them, isn't it? Though, I guess SW was kind of a mix, really. I don't think the US Navy ranks need to b...
- Wed Oct 04, 2023 12:14 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: The declining quality of our supply of extremely rich people - a rant
- Replies: 61
- Views: 4074
Re: The declining quality of our supply of extremely rich people - a rant
Disdain and resentment of the billionaires should not be encouraged. Strong disagree. It moves things from the systemic to the personal, and it's not a personal issue. What species of primate do you think we're talking about here? People take things personally...thinking "systemically" is...
- Wed Oct 04, 2023 9:00 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: The declining quality of our supply of extremely rich people - a rant
- Replies: 61
- Views: 4074
Re: The declining quality of our supply of extremely rich people - a rant
Economic theories are flavors of the same dish. Shocking. What's interesting to me is the disdain that the general populous always has for those at the "top," while simultaneously wanting to be them. Pretty indicative of exactly how unsustainable any system is (given enough time). I wish I...
- Wed Oct 04, 2023 8:51 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang fluency thread
- Replies: 2510
- Views: 1488076
- Sun Oct 01, 2023 10:45 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: The declining quality of our supply of extremely rich people - a rant
- Replies: 61
- Views: 4074
Re: The declining quality of our supply of extremely rich people - a rant
I wonder if feudal lords used enshittification: like the first decade it was all "come to my fiefdom, you'll get land and you can keep *half* of your crop, and the lord keeps the church nice and clean, pretty frescoes in the town, safe roads, good irrigation" and then in the twelfth year ...
- Mon Sep 25, 2023 7:05 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Happy things thread!
- Replies: 1221
- Views: 719799
Re: Happy things thread!
https://kopikon.com/ So, I am absolutely elated to say that I had a blast at Georgetown Univ. presenting during the first ever Kopikon. I got to meet John Quijada, Biblaridion, Sally Caves, Sylvia Sotomayor, and got to eat dinner with Marc Okrand for the third time...the presentations were truly int...