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- Mon Nov 27, 2023 1:37 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Flaws with the Metric System
- Replies: 84
- Views: 14501
Re: Flaws with the Metric System
None of these have caused any issues to me.
- Mon Nov 20, 2023 2:43 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: The Computer And General Tech Thread - Software, Hardware, Questions, etc.
- Replies: 557
- Views: 272595
Re: The Computer And General Tech Thread - Software, Hardware, Questions, etc.
My view of Rust is that it is the language C++ should be but isn't. That said, there are plenty of use cases where using C++ (or Rust) is pure insanity - they are just too complex and give you few benefits for very many things. Of course I think that there are better high-level languages than Pytho...
- Mon Nov 20, 2023 9:53 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: AIs gunning for our precious freelancers
- Replies: 736
- Views: 138965
- Mon Nov 20, 2023 3:36 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Word evolution game
- Replies: 2698
- Views: 285248
Re: Word evolution game
Word formation by reduplication:
['k͡pejæða]
pcoagha
"valley, fault"
['k͡pek͡pejæða]
pcopcoagha
"gorge, sheer cliff"
['k͡pejæða]
pcoagha
"valley, fault"
['k͡pek͡pejæða]
pcopcoagha
"gorge, sheer cliff"
- Sun Nov 19, 2023 2:01 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Word evolution game
- Replies: 2698
- Views: 285248
Re: Word evolution game
Vowel breaking of long vowels:
['k͡pe̯æða]
pcoagha
"valley, fault"
['k͡pe̯æða]
pcoagha
"valley, fault"
- Sun Nov 19, 2023 1:53 pm
- Forum: End Matter
- Topic: Aesthetic Considerations
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2749
Re: Aesthetic Considerations
If the design was up to me, I'd remove borders between areas of different colours, and I'd replace 90deg corners of said areas with rounded corners. Some greater padding and nicer to the eye font wouldn't hurt, either. I can’t imagine how that would result in anything other than a totally illegible...
- Sat Nov 18, 2023 2:07 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The "How Do You Pronounce X" Thread
- Replies: 1782
- Views: 4939164
Re: The "How Do You Pronounce X" Thread
Is there any dialect which merges the pronunciations of 'chancellor' and 'transfer'? Or is there always at least the opposition between /l/ and /f/?
- Sat Nov 18, 2023 1:59 pm
- Forum: End Matter
- Topic: The Index Diachronica
- Replies: 221
- Views: 384946
Re: The Index Diachronica
So, at this point I’ve posted a few mockups, and we seem to have decided on what the final result should be like, more or less. Now we just need to build this thing. At the moment, I’ve been handwriting an HTML page for each family. This is annoyingly laborious and boring. It also limits the capabi...
- Sat Nov 18, 2023 1:58 pm
- Forum: End Matter
- Topic: Aesthetic Considerations
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2749
Re: Aesthetic Considerations
If the design was up to me, I'd remove borders between areas of different colours, and I'd replace 90deg corners of said areas with rounded corners. Some greater padding and nicer to the eye font wouldn't hurt, either.
- Thu Nov 16, 2023 2:22 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Random Thread
- Replies: 3735
- Views: 455542
Re: Random Thread
I'm mildly annoyed that I think I vaguely recall a non English song by a single lyric [ɡa'mɛɾs], but if I were to ever try to look it up, I'd be flooded by 57894621 results about gamers.
- Mon Nov 13, 2023 1:50 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: German questions
- Replies: 163
- Views: 50565
Re: German questions
And here was I thinking that German and English plural markers -er and -s were cognates, what with rhotacism and such.
- Mon Nov 13, 2023 9:43 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: German questions
- Replies: 163
- Views: 50565
Re: German questions
Probably a long shot, but does anyone know how did Proto-Germanic *ajjō 'eggs' become Proto-West Germanic *aijiʀu 'id.'? Going off wiktionary here: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/ajją https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-West_Germanic/aij I guess I'm ulti...
- Fri Nov 10, 2023 2:21 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: The New ZBB Quote Thread
- Replies: 319
- Views: 340707
Re: The New ZBB Quote Thread
- Fri Nov 10, 2023 2:18 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: How do you return to college as a 30-something in the US?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1513
Re: How do you return to college as a 30-something in the US?
Indeed, aren't student loans pretty hefty over there? I second that you should maybe just keep applying for jobs and not be let down by the inevitable rejections until you get hired. Although you do know better than me how that would work out.
- Mon Nov 06, 2023 12:55 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Random Thread
- Replies: 3735
- Views: 455542
Re: Random Thread
Wasn't there a phenomenon of activity moving mostly to Discord after a server is created for certain forums and boards? And it's still chit-chat, at that.
ouch2971 words short
- Sat Nov 04, 2023 12:45 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Great Unsolved Mysteries of Lingustic Terminology #416
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1313
Re: Great Unsolved Mysteries of Lingustic Terminology #416
And here was I thinking that the mistery was "why isn't it called rereduplication?". Maybe it was subjected to haplogy.
- Sun Oct 08, 2023 7:19 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4731
- Views: 2095748
Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
Came across a cute example of taboo deformation today in--of all languages--Catalan. Apparently maleta "suitcase" in the meaning of "saddlebags" was altered to boneta to avoid the association with mal "bad". ( Maleta , from Old French malete , could be reanalysed as a ...
- Fri Sep 15, 2023 3:07 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The "How Do You Pronounce X" Thread
- Replies: 1782
- Views: 4939164
Re: The "How Do You Pronounce X" Thread
How about mitian? Would that be closer to mission or to me-T-an?
- Sun Sep 10, 2023 8:04 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4731
- Views: 2095748
Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
I am aware of the Mitian hypothesis, though I was left with the impression that it's just pastime speculation without any substantive research to back it up, other than the pronouns and the odd suffix here and there (and a dozen or so alleged PIU roots (and some research into Altaic, if you count th...
- Sun Sep 10, 2023 3:42 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4731
- Views: 2095748
Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
This paper makes the case for Proto-Uralic-Eskimo look pretty reasonable. 95 alleged cognates and multiple sound correspondances, including some other than between initial consonants. Genealogic relationships have been established with much less. Even Ante Aikio doesn't shy away from the idea of PU...