Zompist Bboard Again

Another alternative: it’s possible to make a bow out of a single rosined stick of wood, without any hair (attested with the yazheng and ajaeng). The hurdy-gurdy uses a similar technique. So the hair may not be needed at all: you might be able to get away with bowing with just a stick. I can instant...

If nothing else, it'd be super rude to create a fully sentient AI, which is not that far away from a person, if anything, and condemn them to the life of being an AC thermostat. I'd want to kill all organics too!

Still, my feeling is that people are surprisingly good at following the rule; then again, I'm probably not in the best position to judge, since, you know, I practically never get out of the house. Honestly, I think the response to this worldwide pandemic has been quite excellent in light of a) peop...

naturalism necessarily aside, it seems like an extremely impractical thing for a human speaker to have no way of disambiguating the relationships between these constituents (adjuncts?). If i've understood yo well this language literally only grammaticalizes dependency, which means every other nuance...

it's either that or echo vowels, and those aren't everyone's cup of tea. that's what's the weirdest about x (and other such glyphs that represent clusters): it's just a "let's add a touch of funk for funk's sake" on the part of the divine conlanger.

Fair point. I wonder if we could do something with Frank Zappa's proposal, which was some sort of interactivity. E.g. the voters say they want single payer health. "Fine," the government says. "It'll cost this much. Do you still want it?" Legislatures are supposed to do this sor...

Yeah, totally. It's not like an unattested thing, but I thought it always was kinda marginal … I always thought this was restricted to Iberian, but from what you say here it sounds like there’s some other scripts which do this — could you give some examples please? oh, nothing off the top of my hea...

Yeah, totally. It's not like an unattested thing, but I thought it always was kinda marginal. until I saw You’re talking about the Iberian scripts here, right? Except it’s the other way round: ‘Continuants … were written with distinct letters … but the non-continuants … were written with syllabic gl...

I'm honestly more concerned about the jacking up. people tend to think their job is Very Important, and bureaucrats show surprising consensus that their thing should get more money. even in systems with very high polarization, such as yours, there's a remarkable amount of consensus with politicians ...

Anarchism does not mean deregulation of private enterprise, please don't believe the "an"caps. The thing is that regulation means some sort of authority, as of course that means enterprises needs to be subordinated to some body from above. Of course, for anarchists it is the authority of ...

so X is weird right? we have k and we have s and they're both perfectly workable letters each of which means their respective consonants. but for what are very likely fascinating historical reasons we have this letter x in a lot of languages that means the concatenation of those two particular sound...

This last part is where I get more suspicious, since while we all like checks and balances each check is a possible place for jam, or some stable gridlock kind of situation. I agree, though I see it as sort of positive. Sometimes, gridlock is good. I do believe that when there's no clear consensus ...

This is essentially, the unholy child of capitalism and communism, and should ideally offend people on both sides. okay you have my attention I'm not sure the needs of a family scale linearly with the amount of children.) I can see it going either way. I myself lean towards 240.000*life expectancy/...

aporaporimos wrote: ↑Sat Feb 06, 2021 4:02 pm

ahu

brother

arumone

3s.I-2sPOSS-PL-ACC

The noun and its determiner don't have to be adjacent in the sentence. It's completely normal to have a sentence like this:

ahu

brother

reusasumo

see-1sSBJ-3plOBJ

arumone

3s.I-2sPOSS-PL-ACC

meaning "I see your brothers."

Oooooh, I like that! I think I'll steal it.

Sounds like there's some social democracy and distributism going on, too. sure, it's meant to be relatively soon after revolution, not full communism. I'm not even sure such a thing can be arrived at, what is full liberalism anyway. I think it's at least a not uncommon view among reds that while wo...

communism: the conworld

Imagine yo wake up. you're in a house of some kind, that you probably had to apply for to some local housing committee which now, by virtue of living in that area, you can attend the meetings for. almost nobody does cause, mñe, who cares. Your aunt goes to her housing committee meetings (they call t...

I've seen exactly one thing from the gamestop thing that gives me hope, and it's the strengthening of the 'fuck wall street' thing. who knows, maybe in a couple more millenia people will come to see "the economy" is bullshit. Many people (mostly leftists) already see "the economy&quo...

I've seen exactly one thing from the gamestop thing that gives me hope, and it's the strengthening of the 'fuck wall street' thing. who knows, maybe in a couple more millenia people will come to see "the economy" is bullshit.

I don't think the writers hate the vulcans, but this is television we're talking about. episodes, you know, with quick, snappy stories. and each one of those episodes has to have a bunch of quick, snappy beats that weave together thematically on top of making sense (this is I guess just how tv is wr...