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All this discussion reminds me of case stacking (Suffixaufnahme). I'm surprised it hasn't (?) been brought up. It seems like quoted phrases would be handled pretty easily in languages such as Kayardild.

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Does anyone have any good resources on glottochronology? It's an area I'd like to explore for conlanging. I don't have any references on hand... but I can assure you that it has at least a few micronylands, as shown by the famous example of English versus Icelandic. Surely you mean at least a few d...

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What are the more plausible internal reconstructions of *éǵh₂ 'I'? I vaguely recall reading a hypothesis that *-om of *éǵh₂om could be connected with the secondary active verbal endings and *éǵh₂ with some pronoun - maybe related to *h₁eǵʰs 'out' - thus originally meaning something along the lines o...

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Plain stops can turn into ejectives spontaneously, conditionally or unconditionally if surrounding languages have them, but the language in question does not.

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So you would say the main obstacle to AGI doesn't stem from the number of logic gates or artificial neurons but rather how those elements connect with each other. Currently we don't know enough about the human brain and how its connections result in general intelligence to replicate it with compute...

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Of course the whole thing would be connected to an SCA. With this, I could use the tool to actually add new entries to the dictionary, by running their ancestors through the sound changes. Perhaps it could use the SCA to detect irregular correspondences too. Thinking this through, there should prob...

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Imagine an alternate timeline where the vast majority of programming languages were written not in Eglish but in something much more highly inflected (ultimately, of course, Latin, Greek, or even Sanskrit). Inuktitut has left the chat. What forms of words would be used? For functions such as 'print...

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alice wrote: ↑Tue Jan 21, 2025 2:50 pm Now imagine you have a program which uses this SCA to automate as many of your conlanging tasks as possible. What tasks would these include?

It would include no hardcoded tasks - it'd allow you to define about any task you'd like as you need it. Still a pipedream, I know...

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How is it going along?

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Croatian who wants to be a millionaire only gives 150000€

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I so so much hope you're right

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I don't really keep up with news all that closely, but hasn't there been a travel of a son of his to Greenland in the past few days?

And it's not like such speeches and "jokes" of a such public person are insignificant in and of themselves.

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So what does everyone think about Trump's efforts to acquire Canada, Greenland and Panama canal?

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sehen, Seen [zeːn̩ ~ zeːən]

Is Seen [zeːn̩ ~ zeːən] as well, or is it just sehen that could be [zeːən]? And what's with the syllabic nasal right after a vocalic nucleus? I know it could be pronounced, but it sounds like so much extra articulatory effort.

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Of course nobody works on second of January. I should have known better than wasting a couple of hours going from a closed shop to a closed service to a closed shop. What I'm extra annoyed about is that two of the places explicitly stated that either they're going to be open on that day, or that it'...

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alice wrote: ↑Thu Dec 26, 2024 2:01 pm
malloc wrote: ↑Thu Dec 26, 2024 9:41 am Today is Boxing Day. That's when everyone punches each other for sport, right?
No; it's a commemmoration of the times when the bourgeoisie would pack the proletariat into boxes and transport them to where they'd be working for the next year.

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Man in Space wrote: ↑Thu Dec 26, 2024 2:49 am schwi

Now I wonder what sound would merit the name schwoo.

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Javanese?

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Only some? Peculiar. I thought all of them were, much like in Sumerian. How come only some were selectively rotated?

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When did Chinese logograms get rotated ninety degrees clockwise? After all, I doubt people would draw animals with their heads pointing up.

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