Oh, very much so. It has nothing whatsoever to do with most kinds of Scottish nationalism, for example.
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- Sun Jan 21, 2024 2:22 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: What are you reading, watching and listening to? - All languages
- Replies: 997
- Views: 3638380
Re: What are you reading, watching and listening to? - All languages
- Thu Jan 18, 2024 2:49 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: So - what do we do about economic growth?
- Replies: 83
- Views: 2379849
Re: So - what do we do about economic growth?
One thing I love about being a Linux user is that I have far less impetus to "keep up with the latest tech"; for instance, my laptop dates to 2017, and I feel no need to throw it out and buy a new laptop, whereas if I were a Windows user and I had a computer that could not "upgrade&q...
- Thu Jan 18, 2024 2:47 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Venting thread
- Replies: 1929
- Views: 15028372
Re: Venting thread
I don't know anything about cars either, but if I was in your situation I would consult a few garages or auto repair shops where someone with the appropriate knowledge is likely to live.
- Wed Jan 17, 2024 3:14 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Suppletions for "to be"
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1266
Re: Suppletions for "to be"
Another is "Iba" in Spanish, for the imperfect, which has a converse in English "I've been to...".
- Mon Jan 15, 2024 2:57 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: What are you reading, watching and listening to? - All languages
- Replies: 997
- Views: 3638380
Re: What are you reading, watching and listening to? - All languages
Congratulations indeed; that's when you know you've made it.
- Mon Jan 15, 2024 2:55 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: AIs gunning for our precious freelancers
- Replies: 733
- Views: 137434
Re: AIs gunning for our precious freelancers
Here's something to sober y'all up: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-67977967
- Fri Jan 12, 2024 3:04 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Random Thread
- Replies: 3731
- Views: 451642
Re: Random Thread
"I shall call it... The Earth!"rotting bones wrote: ↑Fri Jan 12, 2024 2:04 pm I know which classical element the world is really made of. All phenomena are reducible to geometry. Geometry is the measurement of earth. Therefore, all phenomena are essentially earth-like. Q.E.D.
- Fri Jan 12, 2024 3:07 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: The Contradictory Feelings Thread
- Replies: 666
- Views: 753863
Re: The Contradictory Feelings Thread
I know it well. It's why I never get anything done.
- Wed Jan 10, 2024 3:05 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Suppletions for "to be"
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1266
Suppletions for "to be"
This is a thread for verbs and other words which have supplied suppletive forms of "to be" in various languages. To start with, in IE alone there are "to sit" and "to stand" in Italic, "to remain" in Germanic, and perhaps most oddly "to arise" in Old...
- Sun Jan 07, 2024 2:20 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: 101 pronunciation.
- Replies: 17
- Views: 95900
Re: 101 pronunciation.
The LORD mandates "one hundred and one", and allows "a hundred and one" in some cases.
- Fri Dec 15, 2023 3:13 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: AIs gunning for our precious freelancers
- Replies: 733
- Views: 137434
Re: AIs gunning for our precious freelancers
I wondered where all the horses had gone.
- Wed Dec 13, 2023 2:47 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: The Contradictory Feelings Thread
- Replies: 666
- Views: 753863
- Thu Nov 30, 2023 2:42 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Random Thread
- Replies: 3731
- Views: 451642
Re: Random Thread
Yes, at least twice, although neither got very far, and thus no "product lifecycle" to speak of.Nachtswalbe wrote: ↑Wed Nov 29, 2023 9:39 pm Has anyone actually made a programming language on their own and what is the product lifecycle?
- Wed Nov 29, 2023 2:26 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Idea for conscript
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2362
Re: Idea for conscript
Comes with FREE! digital* delay!!!Moose-tache wrote: ↑Wed Nov 29, 2023 6:09 am What would be the internal explanation of a system that writes every word twice?
* as in "operated by fingers"
- Tue Nov 28, 2023 7:46 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: The <language> of <something>
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1590
The <language> of <something>
How about the Lojban of cuisine? Something characteristic of every culture, put together in such a way that three quarters of it looks like it's from another planet. in response to "The Esperanto of cuisine". Are we uncovering a new idiom where an IAL stands in for a particular set of cha...
- Mon Nov 27, 2023 2:23 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Acronyms in non-suffixing languages
- Replies: 34
- Views: 5735
Re: Acronyms in non-suffixing languages
Maybe it's a continuum?
- Fri Nov 24, 2023 2:37 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: The Computer And General Tech Thread - Software, Hardware, Questions, etc.
- Replies: 557
- Views: 271519
Re: The Computer And General Tech Thread - Software, Hardware, Questions, etc.
alice thinks you're correct
- Fri Nov 24, 2023 3:04 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: The Computer And General Tech Thread - Software, Hardware, Questions, etc.
- Replies: 557
- Views: 271519
Re: The Computer And General Tech Thread - Software, Hardware, Questions, etc.
Well, I've learned enough in the past day in this thread to make me seriously reconsider.
- Thu Nov 23, 2023 3:00 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: The Computer And General Tech Thread - Software, Hardware, Questions, etc.
- Replies: 557
- Views: 271519
Re: The Computer And General Tech Thread - Software, Hardware, Questions, etc.
It has a nice font , too. The font would be better if it had a slashed zero! But aside from that, it looks quite nice. On the subject of Julia, could you recommend a good book* which is thorough, reasonably complete, and recent, ideally less than a year old? *i.e. something on the archaic medium of...
- Tue Nov 21, 2023 2:32 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: What if a smartphone somehow ended up in 1940?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1326
Re: What if a smartphone somehow ended up in 1940?
Sorry but I can't read this without thinking of the episode of Doctor Who where they end up helping Churchill, and Amelia Pond is wearing a short skirt which somehow nobody takes any notice of at all.