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I spend way too much time on the Ribbonfarm sphere of mechanical engineer-turned-philosopher for VCs Venkatesh Rao , a self-proclaimed both-tongue-in-cheek-and-literally sociopathic amoralist whose adherence to a modified version of High Modernism (" English, Spanish and Chinese are adapted to...

I spend way too much time on the Ribbonfarm sphere of mechanical engineer-turned-philosopher for VCs Venkatesh Rao , a self-proclaimed both-tongue-in-cheek-and-literally sociopathic amoralist whose adherence to a modified version of High Modernism (" English, Spanish and Chinese are adapted to ...

Plenty of people from all linguistic backgrounds manage to learn English (complex phonotactics, lots of vowels) and French (nasal vowels, liason) so phonological simplicity of romlangs isn't necessarily a realistic goal.

Why not loan more heavily from languages w CCVC structure like Hindi (with modifications), Italian/Portuguese/Spanish?
e.g joko for game from gioco, kella from quella and so on

Why not borrow prefixes from many languages e.g the "prefix" mu- from Arabic.
I.e mujiswanes for computers from ji₄suan for to computer, or mi'ekris from French "ecrir" and Arabic "mi-" for the place where something occurs?

Normally IALs favor simple syllable structures of (C)(C)V(C)(C) and relatively small phonetic inventories. The issue with Mandarin words is that the relatively complex phonotactics would result them being altered heavily. For example take the following inventory: /p b t d k g/ /f v w s S tS dZ h/ /m...

How would the gender roles of Belesao be affected by modernization?

A tweet about how female protagonists in superhero comics are portrayed as still being conventionally feminine:
https://twitter.com/aalleexxllaaww/stat ... 8397092864

Indian food in the United Kingdom dates back to the late 18th century, and modified versions of foreign cuisines are not just a product of the 20th century as 'fusion cuisine'; kedgeree dates back to the Victorian era

I have added more posts not related to the topic. I am not Bob

Wouldn't it make sense to use some sort of decimal place marker to reduce this ambiguity in spoken language?

Rotokas because it should be pronounced as <Dotokat>

I learned in my variationist class that expectations of gender/race/nationality can actually distort auditory processing e.g a stuffed koala and a kiwi can influence perception of /fIS &nd tSIps/ as /fiS &nd tSips/.

How does magic interact with digital and post-digital technologies and industrial economies of scale?

Twitter is a minefield of competing factions tearing each others' members up over beefs . The corner I am familiar with consists of several types of intellectual, grifter-as-intellectual and several types of generalist too sui generis to classify as academic, grifter, popularizer etc. An issue on Tw...