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- Sat Aug 26, 2023 9:37 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Random Thread
- Replies: 3731
- Views: 452283
Re: Random Thread
But I think economic policy should generally be based on what is most effective at supplying people with the things they need to live Very much this. Most of the problems capitalism causes stem from the pursuit of profit over the pursuit of satisfying people's needs, so we could solve a lot of prob...
- Fri Aug 25, 2023 8:15 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Confusing headlines
- Replies: 701
- Views: 552592
Re: Confusing headlines
What's wrong with this one?
- Wed Aug 16, 2023 10:45 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: What do you call ...
- Replies: 413
- Views: 1018274
Re: What do you call ...
Well, you don't need morpheme-sensitive rules, you can make do with phonemic syllabification.
- Mon Aug 14, 2023 4:24 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: On syllabification
- Replies: 25
- Views: 81726
Re: On syllabification
John Wells has argued that it's /sɪt.ɪŋ/. Having read through this, I can agree with him under the presumption that syllables are in fact a purely phonological phenomenon, and (as I believe others here have argued before) there is nothing phonetic that corresponds with them. So in English they can ...
- Sun Aug 13, 2023 2:35 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: What do you call ...
- Replies: 413
- Views: 1018274
Re: What do you call ...
Ah, so you'd analyse them as /fɪn.gər/ vs /sɪng.ər/?
- Sun Aug 13, 2023 1:43 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: What do you call ...
- Replies: 413
- Views: 1018274
Re: What do you call ...
but in casual speech i hear /æŋɹi/ and /æŋgəɹi/ much more than /æŋgɹi/. I've never heard those two variants before, and I exclusively say /aŋgri/. The contrast between "finger" and "singer"'s second syllables i have heard, but i've never heard a lack of contrast be marked. I don...
- Sat Aug 12, 2023 7:37 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: On syllabification
- Replies: 25
- Views: 81726
- Sat Aug 12, 2023 7:35 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: What do you call ...
- Replies: 413
- Views: 1018274
Re: What do you call ...
On what grounds is ŋ not an English phoneme?
- Tue Aug 08, 2023 5:45 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: What do you call ...
- Replies: 413
- Views: 1018274
Re: What do you call ...
Aha. I'd call it a weird platter, then, or a board for the wooden one.
- Tue Aug 08, 2023 5:36 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: What do you think this is?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 282
Re: What do you think this is?
My guess is
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- Tue Aug 08, 2023 5:34 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: What do you call ...
- Replies: 413
- Views: 1018274
Re: What do you call ...
I'm likewise unfamiliar with it. How is it actually used in practice?
- Sun Aug 06, 2023 11:45 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
- Replies: 909
- Views: 1084001
Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
As I recall, the Hittites themselves claimed to be a recent arrival in Anatolia, having come from across the sea.
- Sun Aug 06, 2023 11:43 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Venting thread
- Replies: 1931
- Views: 15028763
Re: Venting thread
The first part does bug me, but the second absolutely does not and is very much reasonable. Obviously, if you can't handle starting or being reasonable during a conflict, i don't blame you as long as you don't prescribe it. The first part bugs me because of the whole "people assuming conflict=...
- Sun Aug 06, 2023 11:30 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Random Thread
- Replies: 3731
- Views: 452283
Re: Random Thread
It is amazing how much can be written to say so little.
- Fri Aug 04, 2023 2:06 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Random Thread
- Replies: 3731
- Views: 452283
Re: Random Thread
It's kind of funny that people keep bringing up Three Mile Island alongside Fukushima and Chernobyl, given that it was the least catastrophic accident possible. All that happened... was they vented radioactive elements into the air. No explosion, no meltdown, and it wasn't even that much radiation! ...
- Fri Aug 04, 2023 10:11 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Venting thread
- Replies: 1931
- Views: 15028763
Re: Venting thread
[snip] Thanks, that makes it much clearer! I do agree that that kind of behaviour is broadly detrimental. Can you clarify what you mean by ""averse to conflict""? That's exactly a phrase I would use to characterise myself, but what you're talking about sounds nothing like me. I'...
- Fri Aug 04, 2023 10:05 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Random Thread
- Replies: 3731
- Views: 452283
Re: Random Thread
Meanwhile, we're on course to make the entire planet uninhabitable, but sure, nuclear is the bigger threat.
- Thu Aug 03, 2023 10:04 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Lexicon management?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1069
Re: Lexicon management?
Probably the main reason I'm still using spreadsheets is that I highly prioritise being able to filter , not just search. And speaking of search, being able to search in just the translations is rather nice, especially if you have a prose discussion as well. Nice semantic extension of the English w...
- Wed Aug 02, 2023 5:07 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: An adventurous etymology idea
- Replies: 19
- Views: 54326
- Wed Aug 02, 2023 4:46 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Russia invades Ukraine
- Replies: 444
- Views: 113031
Re: Russia invades Ukraine
Poland is in NATO so they'd be morons to.