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- Wed Mar 20, 2024 12:58 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: AIs gunning for our precious freelancers
- Replies: 734
- Views: 137815
Re: AIs gunning for our precious freelancers
It's not really that I disagree with you, jcb, but I kind of wonder who you think you're talking to - someone who approves of outsourcing and union-busting?
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 5:50 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: English questions
- Replies: 1406
- Views: 450493
Re: English questions
Oddly, neither of the two "incorrect" pronunciations he gives is /ˈn(j)uː.fənd.lənd/. And I have never, ever heard the "incorrect" pronunciation given with /faʊnd/. I haven't heard that one, but until very recently, I would have assumed it was the "right" one, based on...
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 5:41 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: AIs gunning for our precious freelancers
- Replies: 734
- Views: 137815
Re: AIs gunning for our precious freelancers
Then again, that whole children's super fun Oompa Loompa experience disaster thing seems to have been a failed attempt at doing that. Or at least at doing that with the jobs of middle management.
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 10:48 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: AIs gunning for our precious freelancers
- Replies: 734
- Views: 137815
Re: AIs gunning for our precious freelancers
Ultimately this resulted in zeptoforth, which gave me added satisfaction when it started being used by other people, which also gave me something that I had never had before -- a sense that there were people who used and benefited from my work instead of the loneliness of developing things no one e...
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 10:36 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: The New ZBB Quote Thread
- Replies: 318
- Views: 339686
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 10:06 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: The New ZBB Quote Thread
- Replies: 318
- Views: 339686
Re: The New ZBB Quote Thread
WeepingElf wrote: ↑Tue Mar 19, 2024 8:21 am R. M. W. Dixon once quipped about incomprehensible grammars that in many of them, the theoretical framework needed to understand them will probably be extinct long before the language described is.
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 6:59 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: "Experiencer"
- Replies: 40
- Views: 4729
Re: "Experiencer"
I'd say there should be a distinction between a naturalistic conlang and a naturalistic conlang grammar.
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 6:12 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: AIs gunning for our precious freelancers
- Replies: 734
- Views: 137815
Re: AIs gunning for our precious freelancers
I don't think being generally critical of technology makes you a Nazi, but I still fundamentally disagree with general hostility towards technology. I think that the technological developments of the last 300 years have, all in all, been great for humankind. I wouldn't want to live in a world where ...
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 7:43 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Russia invades Ukraine
- Replies: 444
- Views: 113048
Re: Russia invades Ukraine
And Putin has talked about how we're shortly before World War 3 again. Is it it this time?
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 2:26 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Random Thread
- Replies: 3734
- Views: 452819
Re: Random Thread
Thank you!
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 1:41 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Random Thread
- Replies: 3734
- Views: 452819
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 1:40 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: English questions
- Replies: 1406
- Views: 450493
Re: English questions
Why is the apparent standard pronunciation of "Newfoundland" so weird?
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 10:30 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Random Thread
- Replies: 3734
- Views: 452819
Re: Random Thread
The schools around here have just started spring break. As you can see, the weather is appropriate:
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 10:10 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Happy things thread!
- Replies: 1211
- Views: 716857
Re: Happy things thread!
Big news on my side: I’m going to Paris! Specifically, for the Université Paris-Saclay, where I’ve organised to do a research internship for four months. I may have mentioned this once or twice already, but now I have my visa and it looks like everything’s confirmed, which is nice. Of course, I’m m...
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 7:12 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: What are you reading, watching and listening to? - All languages
- Replies: 998
- Views: 3638621
Re: What are you reading, watching and listening to? - All languages
Yesterday, I watched a wildlife documentary about the courtship displays of various species of tropical birds - Dancing With The Birds - which was, oddly enough, the first thing I found on Netflix in a few weeks that I watched all the way to the end.
- Wed Mar 13, 2024 12:32 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4692
- Views: 2064434
Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
I once read a comment somewhere - I don't remember, perhaps it was even on the ZBB - that some Catalan language activists supposedly put some effort into studying historical developments in Ireland, and they came to the conclusion that Irish was probably doomed once it lost Dublin, and they're there...
- Wed Mar 13, 2024 12:20 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Random Thread
- Replies: 3734
- Views: 452819
Re: Random Thread
Noticed this at my local supermarket:
Made me wonder if it's aimed at the aspiring supervillains among their customers...
Made me wonder if it's aimed at the aspiring supervillains among their customers...
- Wed Mar 13, 2024 12:09 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The "How Do You Pronounce X" Thread
- Replies: 1782
- Views: 4936498
Re: The "How Do You Pronounce X" Thread
Thank you!
- Wed Mar 13, 2024 10:39 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The "How Do You Pronounce X" Thread
- Replies: 1782
- Views: 4936498
Re: The "How Do You Pronounce X" Thread
Can you determine, with any kind of certainty, to which syllable an intervocalic consonant belongs?
- Wed Mar 13, 2024 6:34 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4692
- Views: 2064434
Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
I'm not sure how much to buy this explanation that I read once, but basically Irish was doing reasonably okay up until it was made an Official Language of Ireland. (I'm not sure what the reasoning was, if thats true ...maybe individuals en masse thinking "well, if its official and got governme...