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- Wed Feb 16, 2022 10:48 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Random Thread
- Replies: 4009
- Views: 564785
Re: Random Thread
Might be partly just because evolution is the newest of those ideas. The round earth was already established in the Hellenistic world before Christianity even existed , so most of Christian academia has been fine with it all along; and heliocentrism has been established for nearly 400 years, while t...
- Tue Jan 04, 2022 4:59 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Kinda Sorta Theological/Philosophical Conundrum
- Replies: 92
- Views: 31145
Re: Kinda Sorta Theological/Philosophical Conundrum
Oh what the heck, I'll try answering this. The first thing I'd say is that moderately improbable (as opposed to astronomically improbable) coincidences are still likely to happen to someone, somewhere , at some time. If there's a one in a million chance of an event happening to someone, then it's pr...
- Thu Aug 26, 2021 1:13 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Innovative Usage Thread
- Replies: 574
- Views: 682688
Re: Innovative Usage Thread
I find that some patterns of strong verb are more spready than others. I had to stop myself the other day from saying "He prode himself on being on time" (class 1), and I've said "twoze" as the past tense of tweeze before (class 2). But some other classes don't spread. I never a...
- Mon Aug 23, 2021 3:43 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: What can we do about the phonology hurdle?
- Replies: 44
- Views: 32387
Re: What can we do about the phonology hurdle?
As someone whose phonologies so far consist of phoneme inventory + syllable structure + maybe some allophony, I would definitely be interested if anyone who knows more about the topic posted some tutorials on this board. For example, I've never heard anything about stress patterns having any deeper ...
- Mon Aug 23, 2021 3:22 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Pronunciations you had to unlearn
- Replies: 805
- Views: 558332
Re: Pronunciations you had to unlearn
/dɨ.tir.i.ejt/, I believe.
- Sat May 29, 2021 7:39 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Innovative Usage Thread
- Replies: 574
- Views: 682688
Re: Innovative Usage Thread
anyone here besides me say hamburg to mean ground beef? is it a New England localism? Might it even be all traceable to a single supermarket chain that one day decided to trim its label just a tiny bit so they could make the text stand out more? I'm familiar with this usage, and I'm also in New Eng...
- Wed May 26, 2021 10:03 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Innovative Usage Thread
- Replies: 574
- Views: 682688
Re: Innovative Usage Thread
It means "how the situation will look to other people", the implications other people will take from the situation. Usually in terms of public image, but in this case it seems to just mean how the police will see the situation.
- Wed Apr 28, 2021 8:18 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Innovative Usage Thread
- Replies: 574
- Views: 682688
Re: Innovative Usage Thread
Due to the above discussion, I just noticed that I always say I'm sitting "in" a chair (regardless of the size or shape of the chair), but "on" a couch. But apparently sitting "on" a chair is standard for some people?
- Mon Mar 22, 2021 8:09 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: What languages are you particularly interested in, and why?
- Replies: 29
- Views: 20833
Re: What languages are you particularly interested in, and why?
Well, I've never had the patience to sit down and learn a whole language, but languages I'm interested in on some level include Quechua (I read zompist's page on it a long time ago and liked the aesthetics of it), Japanese (I watch anime and like how it sounds), Irish and other Celtic languages (aga...
- Sun Feb 14, 2021 12:50 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: The Computer And General Tech Thread - Software, Hardware, Questions, etc.
- Replies: 566
- Views: 296575
Re: The Computer And General Tech Thread - Software, Hardware, Questions, etc.
You're welcome! One note though is that, on the other hand, there are many programs that process text files which do not handle the BOM as one would expect and which may function incorrectly as a result (e.g. many compilers). Yes, character encodings are a mess and what one program requires, breaks ...
- Sun Feb 14, 2021 10:29 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: The Computer And General Tech Thread - Software, Hardware, Questions, etc.
- Replies: 566
- Views: 296575
Re: The Computer And General Tech Thread - Software, Hardware, Questions, etc.
But the other problem is that Japanese text and ÅÄÖ get replaced by random strings. Is there some way to define encoding in the file, or should I give up on this? After the <head> line, put: <meta charset="utf-8"> Thanks for the reply. I tried this now, but it made no difference. :| Hmm.....
- Fri Feb 05, 2021 3:28 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: The Computer And General Tech Thread - Software, Hardware, Questions, etc.
- Replies: 566
- Views: 296575
Re: The Computer And General Tech Thread - Software, Hardware, Questions, etc.
After the <head> line, put:
Code: Select all
<meta charset="utf-8">- Fri Feb 05, 2021 7:33 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Random Thread
- Replies: 4009
- Views: 564785
- Wed Feb 03, 2021 8:14 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Word assimilation survey *FINISHED*
- Replies: 27
- Views: 17583
Re: Word assimilation survey
I did both lists. I really had no clue for most of the words. 1. SETRANTE 2. TERIK earth 3. URETU 4. SEPRUS Cyprus 5. EPLAGKE 6. KERAFTE coffee 7. ESKERUTRAIWE 8. MULSIYA 9. SETREGFE 10. EKESPOSE 11. KERESNAYARESKE 12. ETWOF 13. ESKERIC 14. PALFE 15. PELOT 16. KAREMEN caramel 17. EKRASTE 18. SELPIST...
- Sat Jan 23, 2021 10:34 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Random Thread
- Replies: 4009
- Views: 564785
Re: Random Thread
I always thought the western part of the Mediterranean Sea looks like the head of a crocodile.
- Sat Dec 05, 2020 7:35 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4885
- Views: 2342887
Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
I have read that using "12 AM" and "12 PM" can lead to confusion and so are best avoided. Is this really true? Do people get confused when they hear those and wonder what time is being referred to? If people consistently use "12 AM" for midnight and "12 PM" f...
- Wed Nov 25, 2020 3:36 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4885
- Views: 2342887
Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
Does anyone know how a possessed case usually works, in terms of syntax? Wikipedia doesn't have much info about the languages that have a possessed case,* and googling "possessed case" mostly turns up stuff about possessive case (or demonic possession) instead. In particular, I'm wondering...
- Wed Oct 14, 2020 4:52 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: How's my climate map?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 8592
Re: How's my climate map?
And actually, the area between the two mountain ranges is supposed to be a high plateau, so it should probably have a climate more like Tibet, though I'm not sure if being so close to the west coast would change that? Yes, I think so. The climate would be wetter and colder than surrounding areas, t...
- Tue Oct 13, 2020 9:58 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Some Verdurian typos
- Replies: 98
- Views: 127602
Re: Some Verdurian typos
I've been reading through the Arcél atlas--good stuff by the way--and found a couple of issues: This page looks like it's supposed to have some pictures of Uytainese logograms inline in the text. There's also a picture missing from Tlan ("Right: Tlan’s empire at his death") Actually, there...
- Tue Oct 13, 2020 8:04 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: How's my climate map?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 8592
Re: How's my climate map?
Oh, hi! OK, I'm not terribly good at climate but a few things strike me as weird: Mediterranean climates are a little too far south: typically these range from 45° to 30° (from Southern France to Cairo, or from Oregon to Sonora). It also tends to border ocean, so parts of that Maritime climate on t...