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I was a member of NationStates. Maybe I still am.

Raphael wrote: ↑Wed Jun 11, 2025 4:28 pm I don't think that proofreaders are obsolete just because now people can always use they're autocorrect.

I think you mean “there autocorrect”. Amirite?

I posted a (set of) question(s) about, I think, an example of the linguistic Localist hypothesis.

(I think the questions in this post, might require too much space to answer, to include it in the Linguistic Miscellany subtopic.) I’m considering two Latin phrases from the Requiem. From the Dies Irae com es “solvet saeclum in favila”. From the Lacrimosa comes “resorgit ex favila”. Also, two Englis...

Shit a Brick Obnatlang How many of us, and who of us, have a similar expression in the natlangs in which they are fluent? And which natlangs are those? And what are the expressions? ObConLang Which conlangs, and whose conlangs, have such an expression, or an equivalent expression? What are those Co...

There’s a “Native Plants” movement—(sorry, it has a real name, but I can’t recall it at the moment)—that helps people re-populate their land with plants that are native to North America (particularly the parts of the continent that are in the territories of the contiguous United States). There’s a w...

Richard W wrote: ↑Thu May 15, 2025 1:31 pm …..
Even for the 'short armed' Troodontid Linhevenator it's been suggested that the forelimbs were used for digging or climbing! Possibly Therizinosaur forelimbs were too far gone in their specialisation.

Who was first to inspect their short arms?

“Glenn” wrote: This is all a rambling digression from your original question;

in my opinion that’s very much to the point, @Glenn!

suffice it to say that as I reflected on the discussion above, I found it to be an interesting one.

Thank you!

@keenir: I remembered about the following from Google’s AI; so I thought I could post it for a better clarification, in case anyone else reading this thread might need one. AI Overview Learn more Meaning of Double Descent in Anthropology | Anthroholic Double unilineal descent, also known as double d...

doctor shark wrote: ↑Mon Mar 31, 2025 6:28 am I've moved between a lot of climactic zones,

Maybe you mean “climatic”, referring to climates?
Maybe you don’t mean “climactic”, referring to climaxes?

…when my eyes cooperated, i saw matriclans and patriclans - which confused me, as i wasn't sure if you meant, for example, matrilocal or matriarchal or something else. No. Matriarchal means ruled by mothers; it’s typically misused as a synonym for gynocracy. Matrilocal means that at least some adul...

What do you know about Helen Folasade Adu CBE (Yoruba: Fọláṣadé Adú [fɔ̄láʃādé ādú]; born 16 January 1959), known professionally as Sade Adu or simply Sade (/ˈʃɑːdeɪ/ SHAH-day or /ʃɑːˈdeɪ/ shah-DAY), is a Nigerian-British singer-songwriter who is the lead vocalist of her band Sade. :) ? And what do ...

xxx wrote: ↑Thu May 01, 2025 7:38 am Apparently, none of her songs are in an imaginary language...
Only the word "batonga" seems to have been traceably coined by her...

Hmm… kinda disappointing.

Maybe your compass rose is a better representation of what we’re often trying to do here*. Did you forget to write a footnote you were planning to write? Maybe. I guess that with "your compass rose" he means my avatar, but I have no idea what he thinks it represents - it is actually just ...

Ahzoh wrote: ↑Mon May 12, 2025 3:22 pm 3rd day of digging, I found my first artifact, a tertiary flake made of taconite

I didn’t even know tacos could be fossilized!

Maybe your compass rose is a better representation of what we’re often trying to do here*.

(Maybe this post should go in Conlangery.)
According to the currently updated Wikipedia, Angélique Kidjo speaks six languages;
3 African natlangs,
2 European natlangs,
and a conlang she herself created, and in which she sometimes sings!

Did anyone else on board already know that?

Some cultures employ both matriclans and patriclans, for different purposes. Why? Is there something in their environments or modi vivendi that is common to all of them, but not to any cultures that employ only patriclans, or only matriclans?

xxx wrote: ↑Fri Feb 28, 2025 11:27 pm Fionnuala Murphy
https://slate.com/transcripts/NGZ4cm9Vc ... RJK09GZz0=

Right! Thanks!

* In the first two seasons of Foundation: the TV series, there are at least two conlangs; Anacreontic (sp?) and Thespin (?). In Asimov’s book Anacreon and Thespin were two of the four “planets” (that is, inhabitable stellar systems with at least one major inhabited planet) that surrounded Terminus a...