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- Sat Oct 23, 2021 12:46 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: United States Politics Thread 46
- Replies: 1575
- Views: 479135
Re: United States Politics Thread 46
Also the actually existing Transhumanist Party under Zoltan Istvan is a shitshow, but I'd really like to see the NSF set aside money for mechanical augmentation (healthy individuals replacing their body parts with superhuman mechanical equivalents)
- Sat Oct 23, 2021 12:24 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Imminent language death of Icelandic
- Replies: 46
- Views: 29965
Re: Imminent language death of Icelandic
Switzerland, for instance, is often touted as an example of successful stable multilingualism. But, practically speaking, most Francophones live their lives entirely in French and most German-speakers predominately speak dialect. Francophones regularly complain that the Swiss Standard German spoken...
- Sat Oct 23, 2021 12:16 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: United States Politics Thread 46
- Replies: 1575
- Views: 479135
Re: United States Politics Thread 46
Thought experiment: What if a radically socially liberal but anti-identity politics movement emerges, a hard center analogue of the Claremont institute, advocating for the following policies: Official ban on the use of ethnic and racial identifiers e.g (Black, Asian) and a One-Nation policy that &q...
- Sat Oct 23, 2021 11:40 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Another IAL
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2044
Re: Another IAL
Names Names of countries and people are adapted to fit the OTHER IAL’s phonetics e.g Wiwek Codri Vivek Chaudhry Yaropolka Morosof Yaropolk Morozov Xe Baujai Xie Baozhai Direnci Girsel Direnç Gürsel Cenci Gintar Zenzi Günther Barat India Doiclanda Germany Names of technologies are formed by compound...
- Sat Oct 23, 2021 9:05 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: United States Politics Thread 46
- Replies: 1575
- Views: 479135
Re: United States Politics Thread 46
Thought experiment: What if a radically socially liberal but anti-identity politics movement emerges, a hard center analogue of the Claremont institute, advocating for the following policies: Official ban on the use of ethnic and racial identifiers e.g (Black, Asian) and a One-Nation policy that &qu...
- Sat Oct 23, 2021 4:38 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: United States Politics Thread 46
- Replies: 1575
- Views: 479135
Re: United States Politics Thread 46
Apparently pro-Blob types may have a hardon for genocide, especially if it's 'retaliatory' and nuclear: https://twitter.com/Theophite/status/1451796079511420930 speaking of folk beliefs common among the Blob, "planning to kill a significant fraction of the world's population isn't a crime again...
- Sat Oct 23, 2021 3:35 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Venting thread
- Replies: 1986
- Views: 15060238
Re: Venting thread that is tentatively once again all-inclusive
I wonder what you would make of Scottish nationalism. Jan Smuts advocated for “Holism” nations: "the unification of the four provinces in the Union of South Africa, the idea of the British Commonwealth of Nations, and, finally, the great whole resulting from the combination of the peoples of t...
- Sat Oct 23, 2021 3:19 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Elections in various countries
- Replies: 1216
- Views: 629114
Re: Elections in various countries
The problem with seeking a "technocratic"/"non-ideological" state is that reality is not neutral - there is no way to be truly non-ideological, because anything put forward as "non-ideological" contains baked-in assumptions that are, indeed, ideological. What does the ...
- Fri Oct 22, 2021 9:01 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4753
- Views: 2242009
Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
Venkatesh Rao wrote:Prediction: tailwinds of digitization, auto-translation, robust street use, and demographics notwithstanding, most 2nd tier languages are going to die of stupidification because they are below critical mass of creatives working in high culture and keeping it close to low culture
- Fri Oct 22, 2021 9:00 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4753
- Views: 2242009
Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
Yes, of course there are plenty of endangered languages in the world today, and Malayalam is not one of them! But I still have certain concerns about its future, and I'm not the only one. As soon as those languages die, Malayalam is only one of those languages that is next in line. I cannot oversta...
- Fri Oct 22, 2021 8:36 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Elections in various countries
- Replies: 1216
- Views: 629114
Re: Elections in various countries
A justification for why the PAP is truly pluralist, more so than any one-person-one-vote many-party system: https://twitter.com/Aaaaaaaaah_nice/status/1441307236765036544 I wonder why no mainstream op-ed type has argued for the US to become a PRI/PAP style technocratic/"non-ideological" do...
- Fri Oct 22, 2021 8:01 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Another IAL
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2044
Re: TOK ALAM
Questions are indicated as follows: Polar questions are preceded with: si ya no that is "yes or no" Si ya no cikitsak? yes or no doctor "Are they a doctor?" Interrogative questions are indicated through the ma particle: Ni pode dauda ma 2sg. be.able run Q "Can you run?"...
- Fri Oct 22, 2021 7:16 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Another IAL
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2044
Re: Another IAL
Mine is just closer to the global average phonetic inventoryTravis B. wrote: ↑Fri Oct 22, 2021 7:11 pmRinkwa awkasi ma kowati???Moose-tache wrote: ↑Fri Oct 22, 2021 6:47 pm I appreciate that you didn't just make the phonology ptkmnsh (C)V like every other cowardly IAL.
My auxlang is cowardly???
Ni tok no jaban
2sg. language no coward
- Fri Oct 22, 2021 6:54 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Another IAL
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2044
Re: Another IAL
I appreciate that you didn't just make the phonology ptkmnsh (C)V like every other cowardly IAL. One detail, though: most Koreans don't really pronounce the [w] in the word mouse. It comes out sounding more like /ts\i/ or dz\i/. EDIT: Wait, it's SVO, not SOV. Whoops. Am too stupid for English-based...
- Fri Oct 22, 2021 6:19 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Another IAL
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2044
Another IAL
Phonology <p b t d c j k g q> /p b t d tS dZ k g ?/ <f s x h> /f s S h/ <m n ny ng> /m n nj N/ <w r l y> /w r l j/ <a e i o u> /a e i o u/ Phonotactics (C1 (C2)) V (C3) C1: Any consonant except ng C2: /w r l j/ C3: everything besides vcd obstruents Nouns Nouns do not mark for number ek serir one lo...
- Fri Oct 22, 2021 6:05 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Random Thread
- Replies: 3838
- Views: 511069
Re: Random Thread
My brother is laf at Gran Changas kil todo ninhe
- Fri Oct 22, 2021 2:52 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Random Thread
- Replies: 3838
- Views: 511069
Re: Random Thread
Attended my first Dutch Ph.D. defense in person today. Quite a different experience compared to other defenses I've been to in other countries (well, two), with lots of ceremony and formality. Remember that you aren’t arguing points when you defend your work. Instead, a proper thesis defense gives ...
- Fri Oct 22, 2021 2:05 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Random Thread
- Replies: 3838
- Views: 511069
Re: Random Thread
"Alright," said the priest, "I talked it over with the Man Upstairs and worked out a deal. You keep your mouth shut about what you saw in that grotto and He will reduce your eternal damnation to ten million in Purgatory." "Ten million!" snapped Tannhäuser, "That's...
- Fri Oct 22, 2021 1:57 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Random Thread
- Replies: 3838
- Views: 511069
Re: Random Thread
It's possible for Xunzi to have been right about the need and effectiveness for moral instruction and for moral instruction in school and church to produce no discernible effect - one way to harmonize the two positions is to say that it just can't be industrialized - there's no reliable, standardiz...
- Fri Oct 22, 2021 12:02 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Creoles' Morphology
- Replies: 42
- Views: 16755
Re: Creoles' Morphology
Singlish morphology isn’t too different from English