Zompist Bboard Again

From listening to the video now that I'm at home, Rick Beato's [s] sounds awfully like the non-palatalized [s] I am familiar with in the dialect here.

In this case Hua is my coworker's given name rather than surname.

I had a professor for a Gen Ed class in college and her /s/ was quite noticeably dental. Sorry for going off topic, but what is on the syllabus in a General Education class? The entire contents of an encyclopedia? "General Education" means an intro course to cover the sort of stuff they e...

For some reason YouTube isn't working at my work right now (it's not blocked per se, it just waits with a spinny thing forever), so I will describe what happens in my dialect -- all coronals other than /θ ð/ have two pronunciations, an unpalatalized one and a palatalized one, but this is by far most...

Linguoboy wrote: ↑Tue Nov 19, 2024 5:13 pm Willing to bet cash money that the corresponding character is 华/華.

You're probably right, because the wiki says that that character is huá (hua2), and I can distinctly recall perceiving Hua's name being pronounced with what sounded like a rising tone to my uneducated ears.

[kʰae̯ˈjo̞ɾi(ː)] Probably the same, though I'd just write [ka jo ɾi]. I distinctly perceive it as having a diphthong phoneme in the first syllable followed by a semivowel in the second syllable rather than as having a monophthong phoneme in the first syllable. In this way it is like lawyer /ˈlɔɪjər...

Someone created a raycaster (think Wolfenstein 3D) using zeptoforth, my S15.16 math routines, and my 8-bit ST7789V graphics driver which runs on the Tufty 2040, and after a small bugfix (a number specified was out of the range of possible S15.16 numbers) it worked perfectly. I could walk around the ...

Nortaneous wrote: ↑Mon Nov 18, 2024 7:05 pm Trhä - dájbulëhh ámhëlcoma taomseg Imhajl ëf Olbi gunahh

When I first read the title my immediate, first-second gut reaction was "what kind of mutant Gaelic is that?".

On a team I have recently joined at work, there is a Chinese guy by the name of Hua, and one thing I noticed is another Chinese guy on the team consistently pronounces his name what sounds like [kwa], with an actual stop. Is this typical Mandarin or Cantonese pronunciation thereof? (Edit: Since post...

Bug report: It seems it doesn't want to parse certain things. The following rules aren't producing the outputs they ought: Rule: j / / _ L ʔ (where L is all the vowels; it's not V for reasons) k / x / _ i j] Expected output: ʃeʔsje [west] mxjeʁ [fiefdom, tributary area] Actual output: ʃjeʔsje [west...

Denying the reality of gender is like denying the reality of race ─ just because it is a social construct does not make it any less real. And if one wants to truly deny the reality of gender, one does not get to pick and choose whom one wants to deny its existence for. This is where TERF's err ─ the...

Buh-bye, bros. Rage-quitting, but taking the opportunity to accuse those you disagree with of being MRA sympathizers and referring to them with an anti-male slur on the way out... Meh, MRA is as much of a slur as TERF is, which is to say, it's not. Actually, the slur I was referring to was "br...

Fundamentally, the difference between these two gender-essentialist positions is that the TERF one wants the traditional rights and roles of men to be available to biological women, while keeping the traditional rights and roles of women for biological women alone (which is why I think claiming that...

Quick and final thoughts -- The people being described as "gender essentialists" are, of course, "gender abolitionists". That would only be the case if you really wanted to abolish the categories of male and female altogether. But obviously TERFs don't want to do this -- rather ...

There’s a guy on Threads who is complaining that we call it “Havana” and not “La Habana” in English. People are replying to him talking about intervocalic lenition in Spanish and he is trying to deny it exists, citing his birth in Puerto Rico and doubling down when presented with evidence to the co...

From the position Nort was speaking of, it seems that in it the whole of one's gender role and position in society is inherent in one's biological sex and one ought to live by such biologically-determined roles, and that, say, not only can only biological women give birth to babies but that they sho...

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There’s a guy on Threads who is complaining that we call it “Havana” and not “La Habana” in English. People are replying to him talking about intervocalic lenition in Spanish and he is trying to deny it exists, citing his birth in Puerto Rico and doubling down when presented with evidence to the co...

I don't see how transwomen could marginalize ciswomen, since transwomen are so much more marginal in society than ciswomen are, are only a small percentage of the female population, and experience so many more hurdles than ciswomen do. Transwomen would have to be dominant over ciswomen to marginaliz...

Linguoboy wrote: ↑Tue Nov 12, 2024 12:59 pm

Lērisama wrote: ↑Tue Nov 12, 2024 10:51 am I think that's some some kind of bottle opener, but I'm not familiar with the design

Yeah, I'm not even sure how I would use that.

I presume you insert the top of the bottle through the wide end of the larger opening, pull the opener until it is snug against the cap, and then yank upwards.