Zompist Bboard Again

Dogma by KMFDM

Hell, the fact that many American 'founding fathers' were slaveowners does not make liberal democracy bad either, a conclusion one would come to if one followed your logic.

malloc, just because something has had people who have had objectionable views associated with it does not make it bad in and of itself. Computing is not bad just because Charles Babbage was pro-capitalist by any means.

There is one other example of final /æ/ I can think of -- /wæ/, which is onomatopoeia for the sound of a crying baby.

Raphael wrote: ↑Fri Mar 28, 2025 2:17 pm

Travis B. wrote: ↑Fri Mar 28, 2025 2:07 pm and what I would spell as neah (this is not really a written word)

What is that? Some kind of local version of "no"?

Yeah, neah is a negative interjection, just like nah and the standard no.

They're Trumpists -- what do you expect. It is one thing to try to convert people who are on the fence, but even arguing with dyed-in-the-wool Trumpists is a lost cause. A better approach is to show everyone else how idiotic these people are.

The thing is that final /æ ɑ/ outside of monosyllables (and then mostly interjections) or possibly some learnèd French loans are forbidden in the English here. The only two words that end with /{/ that I can think of are BAA (the sound a sheep makes) and YEAH. Are there any others? For me I have /æ...

Random unrelated question: Does the 1995 movie Apollo 13 count as any kind of science fiction? Yes, I know, it's not in a fictional future, or any kind of fictional setting. It is, in fact, based on a true story, and one decades in the past when the movie was made. But, that said, it is about space...

For just some perspective here, as much as Trump et al are doing their damnedest to turn the US into an authoritarian clusterfuck as fast as possible, the administration still managed to get a major pie on its collective face in basically the entire mainstream media ─ even Fox News couldn't cover it...

Does anyone actually pronounce kindergarten in English with a /t/, rather than doing what I am familiar with and pronouncing it like 'kindergarden'?

rotting bones wrote: ↑Thu Mar 27, 2025 3:10 pm Get better soon.

We'll see when the naproxen wears off.

rotting bones wrote: ↑Thu Mar 27, 2025 3:10 pm I worked without sleep all night. I still didn't finish writing this dumb research draft.

Ugh. Just having to work on something all night without sleep for your job sucks, regardless of whether you manage to complete it or not.

I haven't looked into it, but from what I understand, a new executive order effectively allows Musk to purge voters he doesn't like. No he's not because elections are organised and administered at the state level, not the Federal level. As someone pointed out on the socials, an EO isn't a law, it's...

People's World is having a funding drive. I just donated. I'm tempted to switch over to it as my primary newspaper while I'm here. I'm worried it carries the pro-Russian agenda that Putin's money has poisoned the international Marxist movement with. To me anyone who is pro-Russia is an enemy, and s...

And now a lot of servicemembers and veterans are not happy about this one bit, as if this were due to one of them they'd've been stripped of their clearances and've most likely landed themselves in the brig practically immediately. As they say, "different spanks for different ranks"...

The Signal scandal gives me a bit of hope about people waking up about how bad the Trump administration is, even though it is not in the way I expected -- apparently while people don't care about civil liberties, they do care about national security, and through that lens they can see how utterly in...

Ugh... woke up with a sore throat, but worse yet, a post-nasal drip that made me feel like vomiting at times (even though I managed to not actually vomit). I feel a bit better now, but am still skipping physically coming into work (after all, they have signs up saying to not come in if you're sick....

Ugh... woke up with a sore throat, but worse yet, a post-nasal drip that made me feel like vomiting at times (even though I managed to not actually vomit). I feel a bit better now, but am still skipping physically coming into work (after all, they have signs up saying to not come in if you're sick.....

At my job, a lot of the codebase is made of functions like prepare_breakfast_and_vacuum_the_room() , where both tasks are intricately woven together. It means that if you want to vacuum a rug... well, you can't really re-use this function unless you (1) initialize some dummy breakfast data, or (2) ...

If you made me choose X or Y, I would say that you probably intend on getting X rather than Y, but I'd have to deduce which you meant by context to be sure.

Linguoboy wrote: ↑Wed Mar 26, 2025 2:40 pm If I tell someone "substitute X for Y", does that mean that I want the final outcome to contain X or to contain Y?

(Concrete example: "Substitute regular mayo for chipotle mayo.")

I have had the same thought as you here, and this usage always confuses me too.