Zompist Bboard Again

Realistically, saints of technology/reason/philosophy would be added. The real obstacle is - how do you get the average person interested -- maybe a religious spin to Space Colonization and the social/anthropological functions of religion without the supernaturalism. The sorts of people into this ar...

Thorne @ExistentialEnso in b4 the worst type of dudebro starts identifying as Paul, even though the broader Dune canon is a story of how even well-meaning authoritarians just create more problems n Dune Messiah (1969), Paul has been Emperor for twelve years. His jihad has killed sixty billion peopl...

Thorne @ExistentialEnso in b4 the worst type of dudebro starts identifying as Paul, even though the broader Dune canon is a story of how even well-meaning authoritarians just create more problems n Dune Messiah (1969), Paul has been Emperor for twelve years. His jihad has killed sixty billion peopl...

What would a new religion that aims to be rationalist, like a “ Temple of Reason ” defined as: 1) No supernaturalism - no gods, afterlife, reincarnation, nirvana 2) Ultimately guided by Value Rationality (the rational ends, not means) like perpetuating the human race 3) Involving emotions in their p...

My brother left driving the car.

Slso mom said she was sorry for upsetting me but I still should attend my church as long as it follows biblical doctrine because you can’t escape encountering fallen people in every church

Pastor Gordon terrified my brother when he described how he punished his daughters for not helping his wife when she had a knee injury by making them sleep in the garage (like Amy Chua, Tiger Mom). My brother was afraid dad would kick him out of the house and force him to freeze to death in the stre...

I just believe most "second tier" languages will go extinct e.g Polish, Swahili in several centuries as nations inevitably become less important and state support for these languages follows, and that in certain places "first-tier" languages will replace other first-tier languag...

Creyeditor wrote: ↑Sun Oct 24, 2021 7:26 am IIUC, maybe Egyptian Arabic is what you are looking for?

Probably although since I'm not an Arabophone I don't know how much modern culture is produced in it

In China and the Arab world, there is a de facto diglossia between the "standard" language and mutually unintelligible topolects. The governments of these areas prefer the Standard language and in China's case, promote it at the expense of topolects. To what extent is there a "high cu...

Cape Verdean Crioulo, the oldest surviving Creole, seems to retain tense/aspect inflectional markings. The base form of the verb in the present tense lacks any markings. However, the past tense has a mandatory -ba marker. For example, note the past tense-perfective aspect: M' dába 1sg. give-PST.PRF ...

The church wants us not only to get married but also have kids and generally be 'heads of the household' which sucks. And mom only wants me to marry han protestants whose parents have never divorced

He is a repressed gay - mom threatened to kick him out if he came out, and she has prohibited him from discussing the subject

Esoteric theory aside, my brother just proclaimed so and so will go to hell for leniency against "sodomites" - as the preacher Mark Driscoll claimed "Hate the sinner and hate the sin"

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How does Malayalam derive words for modern technologies?

Linguoboy wrote: ↑Sat Oct 23, 2021 4:07 pm

Ares Land wrote: ↑Sat Oct 23, 2021 2:44 pm

Nachtswalbe wrote: ↑Fri Oct 22, 2021 12:02 pm Singlish morphology isn’t too different from English

There are several registers: the 'highest' registers aren't terribly different from standard English, but others are closer to a creole.

Is like dat one ah?

Point taken

You do realize that Twitter is not a place from which reasonable political views come forth, right? Likewise, science fiction usually should not be taken as a model on which society ought to function. But I didn't make a social circle for fear that 1) the previous social circle I alienated in high ...

Nachtswalbe, you have managed to construct a utopia that is highly objectionable to as many people as possible, myself included, no matter what their political positions. Well then, if it isn't the consequence of guzzling bizzare ideologies from twitter and beyond (the ban on gendered clothing from...

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: (...) Evidently not for the US, but leave the transhumanism aside and you could make quite a career in Fran...

Anyways, you seem to have an obsession with replacing the world's languages with English or English-based creoles... I just believe most "second tier" languages will go extinct e.g Polish, Swahili in several centuries as nations inevitably become less important and state support for these...