Zompist Bboard Again

... that the brain is finite is not one of his many errors. Chomsky does insist on the infinite nature of language, because that rules out some dumb-but-possible ways to produce language. The hoary old one in comp.ai.philosophy was the Humongous Lookup Table: a list of every possible sentence. ...

... random. The Dead Sea Scrolls rewrote our ideas of when many texts go back to, and gave us an entirely new Jewish sect, but were only discovered by dumb luck in 1946. The Nag Hammadi scrolls, which give us a lot of info on the Gnostics, were found at about the same time. This would seem to undermine ...

Fun fact: in Kumzari, a SW Iranian language, دُمب [dumb] means 'stupid person'. Not cognate with English 'dumb', but cognate with the Farsi word for 'tail'.

(From a linguist on Twitter.)

... but if anything his stories are worse. At least Lucas had a theme. 7 works because it's a rethread of 4, and 9 fails because the basic idea is dumb as shit. (Kudos however for Finn's origin in 7, which was a good enough idea it should probably have been a whole movie.) I think Hulk almost but ...

... Plan. In reality, Morgan relies on an exceptional ability to roll with the punches." That's insightful, I think! I don't think of Morgan as dumb, but rather as being— usually— better at improvisation than planning. But, for one thing, the role of the Incatena cruisers in orbit around Okura ...

... he has "arisch" for Indo-Iranian. Besides being tainted by misuses of the word "Aryan", "Indo-Aryan" is kind of a dumb term: what is the "Aryan" part supposed to contribute that "Indo-" does not?

... can come up with something. Weird scenarios make for good stories! But stories are about things going wrong, and if actual space agencies made the dumb design decisions people make in stories, their civs are unlikely to last very long.)

... woman is in critical condition. "Trump kept saying it was basically pretty much a cure," she told reporters. A lot of his lies are just dumb. His lies about the pandemic literally kill people.

See here: http://www.verduria.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=177 (It's a dumb term-- "Standard Average European". One of the links in that thread suggest the more intriguing "Charlemagne Sprachbund". It mostly seems to come down to French + ...

... and horse anatomy-- since you're duplicating the parts of the body that have rib cage / heart / stomach / intestines. It honestly looks pretty dumb. So I like the giraffe idea: don't put a whole torso in place of the horse's head; place an extended neck. We still have a lot of segmentation ...