Zompist Bboard Again

As others have said, centaurs are more likely if six legs is the norm for your dominant animals. Six legs also offers the option of having dragons-- i.e. four-legged winged creatures. (The usual dragons shape makes no sense, except perhaps on a planet with minimal gravity. But birds with extra arms ...

Globalisation has sped up the replacement of non-standard varieties. It also has helped minority languages find new methods of preservation and communities who spoke now extinct languages find linguists willing to help revive them. This. Everyone gets so worked up over "global English" or...

The dates I found (researching the ICK) were a little later: -1300 to -1000. Wendy Doniger's The Hindus probably has info on this. Indian historians prefer a date as early as possible. A lot of it is attempting to fit it into what we know of Indian prehistory. The Harappans lasted until the -1700s, ...

I think you missed the joke... the thing with focus is that if your vowel is too high (or even too open) you get "fuck us", and with beach that if you lax the vowel you get "bitch". And Ars Lande is quite right that wrong vowels are liable to produce misunderstandings. As just on...

That fixed the loop, but tried to go to the wrong page.

But I fixed the original problem anyway, by making an index.html that redirects to almeo.html.

I do appreciate the help— I never learned how to do .htaccess.

The best analogy I can think of it with modern vs. premodern medicine. Could a society choose to use modern medicine, only throw out the practice of antisepsis? Of course. It could still make use of modern knowledge of anatomy, surgery, genetics, drugs, etc. Only, lots of people would either die fro...

OK, typos should be corrected.

("Dolorai" goes back to before the Great Relexification... that was an error in the old grammar too!)

Thanks, Are Lande! Sadly, though, it doesn't work. Any request just goes to the main page. Any idea what might be going wrong?

Can they wait a year and a half? That will probably be my next project. Your Mexican friend is out of luck, but your Peruvian friend is living in the only place where Quechua resources are easy to find. If they don't live in Lima, surely they know people who do, or who go there. (And if they live wa...

OK, these should be done except for the rewrite rule. Does anyone speak .htaccess? This is what I have now: Options +FollowSymLinks RewriteEngine on # Special handling for search strings # RewriteRule ^Special:Search(.*)$ almeopedia/mediawiki/index.php$1 [L] # Everything else RewriteCond %{REQUEST_F...

I added a special BBCode, bk, to avoid this in the future. (You don't have to use it for all brackets, only for things that can be interpreted as BBCodes, like [i] [u].)

Note: I edited your post to make the IPA work. All I did was check "Disable BBCode". (The board was interpreting [i], [u] as "begin italics/underline"). I'll see about a better solution.

In your analysis, what's the difference between Hard Brexit and No Deal, besides having a piece of paper to sign? You said "some extras", but what are those? Also, if I understand you, soft Brexit is dead. But May hasn't officially admitted that, has she? Has the government tossed the Cheq...

You might enjoy Charlie Stross's predictions on what will happen in the likely case of a no-deal Brexit. Spoilers: nothing good. http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2018/07/that-sinking-feeling.html#more There's also an article on May in this week's New Yorker : https://www.newyorker.com/mag...

Neat question! I have a few of these in Verdurian— e.g. pronoun hopping, tag questions, constituent dislocation. (Search for these in the grammar if you want examples.) Plus slang, of course. There are things that go the other way, too— genteelisms that no self-respecting working person would use, n...

I found this an odd sentence: "Some government officials wonder whether anyone organised the protests—possibly fuel smugglers, political rivals or powerful families that benefit from the subsidies." Using "anyone" in that first clause implies to me that the default assumption is...

Arguably this happens in the Germanic language English:

the house by the sea
that day a few years ago

Admittedly we don't normally think of "ago" as a postposition, but I think we should.

Ah well, haven't done one of these in, as the Brits say, yonks. Basics Username: zompist Name: Mark Rosenfelder Other nicknames (including good stories, if you have any): Horselover Fat (back in the DFC days) Birthplace: Lagrange, IL (my brother likes to say I was born in a barn) Place of residence:...

The main reason I prefer giving the paradigms first is for my own reference. It's annoying to scroll through pages and pages of text just to remember how to form the 3s past form of conjugation III. I also find that if I start to get into usage, it's hard to know when to stop. E.g., cases usually ha...

To reduce confusion, here are my present goals: Retain posts on this board, from now on Make posts from the old board available in some form That is, given last week's experience, I'm extremely reluctant to try anything that messes with the one working board we have. And I'd rather people not be ten...