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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...

I had a professor for a Gen Ed class in college and her /s/ was quite noticeably dental.

The drums are mostly done for the album (I still have to do some programmed drums for part of one piece) and I’ve been doing some preliminary work on the album art and packaging. One thing I’ve been doing of that is typography tests. I have to say, YWFT Avant Modern is fantastic. The only issue I ha...

My favourite is their definition of mec : https://www.dictionnaire-academie.fr/article/A9M1449 For non-French speakers: mec means 'dude', basically. The Académie claims it means 'recognized member of the mob', or maybe 'pimp'. (That meaning may have been current in 19 24) It doesn’t mean ‘Gundam’ o...

bradrn wrote: ↑Sun Nov 17, 2024 6:50 pmI don’t know what could be happening to Man in Space, without him sharing his full Brassica sound changes.

I can send the whole Monty when I’m back at my machine.

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]...

Travis B. wrote: ↑Sun Nov 17, 2024 11:47 amI wonder what his view is of the fact that we call Munich Munich and not München and Florence Florence and not Firenze in English...

If you want to ask him, go ahead. I posted multiple YouTube videos of Cuban Spanish and finally got him to shut up about it.

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...

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 ( EDIT: Cuba) and doubling down when presented with evide...

Zju pretty much asked the question I was getting at in my earlier post in a better manner than I did.

I’m getting the hang of Brassica (or trying to, at least). Two questions: Will we be writing these lists inline in a Brassica document (presumably using the ; flag), or will the Brassica file be like a supplement to some sort of comprehensive page? How do 4 and 5 interplay? I think I'm missing somet...

bradrn wrote: ↑Tue Nov 12, 2024 12:48 am Now I’m curious to know which SCA worked so well for you.

Ultimately, Brassica seems to fit my needs best.

I had an extremely productive day conlanging today—and one of the best experiences I’ve ever had with doing sound changes. (The only reason I halted was because I had to go to the studio.)

I actually got an SCA to work today.

That’s kind of cool, seeing it done in a language other than English.

Does it count when documents with a scholarly bent have untranslated passages? It’s somewhat not rare in linguistics papers—and I have a copy of the Kalevala Latina , which has an English excerpt in a Finnish preface to a work written in Latin (which was the reason I acquired the book from the unive...

Edit: yes, there was more focus on New Orleans with Katrina, but thousands rather than hundreds died there. Thank you for beautifully demonstrating the point. Umm, an order of magnitude more people died, so it is natural that they'd get more attention. Which does not change the fact that New Orlean...

Travis B. wrote: ↑Fri Nov 08, 2024 12:12 pmEdit: yes, there was more focus on New Orleans with Katrina, but thousands rather than hundreds died there.

Thank you for beautifully demonstrating the point.

Did the two of you miss the slides where it talks about how the country folk are punch lines in the popular media (which is dominated by cities) and how the big cities are the places that get focused on in times of disaster? As I mentioned, those slides are contradicted by the very first couple of ...

Yeah, I get that that's the point the slides are trying to make. Thing is, it is simply not true . I don't look down on anyone for being different from me. I just resent people who look down on me (or worse) because I'm different from them. WHICH IS EXACTLY HOW THE RURAL POPULACE FEELS THE URBAN PO...