Zompist Bboard Again

Unfotrunately, using land more efficiently and concentrating production locally are opposites. If you want to grow rice in France instead of shipping it in from Thailand, you have to use more resources, not less. And industry that repeats itself across the landscape will never compete with industry...

The capital costs of vegan meat and discrimination against pastoralist peoples who live in arid environments (Köppen B)
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Would a world government or at least a world where multinational entities render nationstates irrelevqnt contribute to a monolingual world?

Yet another issue is independentist nationalism, that which seeks to create a new sovereign state instead of existing ones stronger. There are certainly stateless nations like the Kurds who generally want their own states, and there are those like Indian Tamils who are generally satisfied with being...

Are there distinguishing features of creoles' verbal morphologies? In general, creoles tend to be distinguished by little in the way of inflectional morphology and very analytic syntax. For example, from Haitian Creole: mwen t ap mache 1P PST PROG walk "I was walking" t ap is a contractio...

Are there distinguishing features of creoles' verbal morphologies?

There will be new cultures and new types of people that aren’t defined by race or geography. You can see seeds of this in Internet cultures. Sometimes I wish all humanity would submit to an Esperantist government like the kind portrayed here and snazzy posters of Lumo Txiuhoma de Humanetso Morgawa

The new internet cultures like Diamond Age phyles:
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Heh, Sal, being a parent of a small child in the 2010’s in the USA, and thus knowing a shitton of other parents of small children in this time and place, both the macroeconomic (relatively worth of capital vs. labor) and microeconomic (career and childcare) reasons for our historically low birthrat...

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Basically customs operators in any country are generally discriminatory (and paranoid)

https://mobile.twitter.com/vgr/status/1447780160531431424 His reaction to anti school Discourse Yeah yeah holy war school is a prison that destroys kids blah blah soap box... ...but don't let criticisms of schooling fool you into thinking everybody would be a genius if it weren't for school ruining ...

Simple English is an attempt to imagine what English might need to change in order to become an easier to learn IAL than it already is. This is inspired by Justin B. Rye's criticism of Esperanto and his suggestions of what auxlangs should do instead. Sometimes it's argued that the big problem with a...

Made progress at work and IDed errors for three boards that had components removed on purpose ahead of schedule even though I was slightly confused about whether to do end-to-end runs for certain boards.

Urdu and Mandarin examples It's true that no one has chosen a conlang per se. But both of these examples show that it's quite possible to pick a language almost no one speaks. The example I had in mind was that the conlang would be promoted as a “neutral” language for the same reason Urdu was, but ...

Aren't 19th century filled-with-native-neologisms standard languages state engineered to an extent? Seems like a good potential starting point to go down the slippery slope. Designs like Anglic which replace non-Germanic roots are an extension of this, although I would prefer using common roots, Ge...

One scenario is where two countries speak the same language but A creates a simplified version of the language to distinguish itself from B and to use as an auxlang.

In certain works of speculative fiction, states may use artificial languages either to make a clean break with the old society, and to better enforce control (Newspeak), or as a replacement for all local languages (Basic English in The Shape of Things to Come , by HG Wells). However I find it unreal...

I can’t move out because I’m on work rotation and don’t have the credit to rent an apartment. I will be in campus housing for the spring semester in 3 months, and for the next rotation in an apartment mom will likely recommend

Also my post-work hours are now officially scheduled as follows:
7-8: help mom research stuff for her new part time job
8-9: 50 push ups etc
9-10: read religious books