Zompist Bboard Again

The night before last night, though it was probably actually during the day because my sleep schedule is really messed up, I had a dream where I was in a house with at least two floors. At first, I was on the lower of the two with a bunch of other people, and someone told me I was dreaming but that ...

For books and movies: Game of Thrones, which I'm currently waiting until I can go to the library to get season 3 of; Wolves of the Beyond, same but book 2; and Dave the Villager, which I have the next book of (book 38), but I haven't started reading it quite yet. For music, a bunch, but especially J...

I tried typing "≈", but when I typed the sequence for it, G-= G-x, I got ⊗. I then looked at the documentation, and it seems the two have the same sequence:

Equality and inequality:
...	...
G-= G-x	≈
...	...
Haskell:
...	...
G-= G-x	⊗

I'm listening to myself hum and sing.

Ironically, "August 7–10" would be fine if it appeared at the front of the sentence, or after "Utah". Even those sound off to me. I only ever use a date by itself if I'm omitting something like "The day is". E.g., "The day is August 7th, and X is about to happen.&...

may i suggest beautifulsoup? manually parsing html is possible, i've done it, but it's almost always simpler to just have someone else's code do it for you. Ideally I'd use a headless browser, preferably one that supported JS, in a way that I can both control it from the Python program (likely not ...

Update 2 for today: it's much improved and weird things like "urls" like "blah" are ignored (no dot), and it also uses already-downloaded files if possible: import os from urllib.request import urlopen from urllib.error import HTTPError, URLError from http.client import InvalidUR...

Update: I updated the code recently and it at least mostly works now: import os from urllib.request import urlopen from urllib.error import HTTPError, URLError from http.client import InvalidURL import sys import re def istextlike(url): return any(url.lower().endswith(ext) for ext in (".txt&quo...

I just wrote the English translation of a letter from one king to another, though I haven't written much of the source conlang yet (just "gyterendr", one of the characters in the script; "gyt", translation: "fox", plural "gytr"; and a couple names, used in the...

keenir wrote: ↑Wed Jun 07, 2023 3:25 am Okay, if i understand the instructions, here is mine...if i misunderstand, i apologize.

You understood them fine.

keenir wrote: ↑Wed Jun 07, 2023 3:25 am <clip>

Interesting take on it.

I.e., one person gives a sample text, and others make conlangs where that text (or a small variation thereof) is an actual proper sample text. First sample text: Ẑoðeŕ vinuŕ decjun driac fyrbet gendyr gestiŕ Ŕinac fyndri denzoc fȳrben Ŕenyndr getȳr, devrynden, dicað dezut denduŕ Zendric dvendiŕ dezu...

Are "doll" and "dal" (as in "dal makhani", etc.) homophones? I actually don't know. If there's a pom-palm split, "doll" has the "palm" vowel and "dal" has the "pom" vowel, I think? I seem to have that pom-palm split (plus even if...

Various songs by Peter Hollens, The Wellerman, The Bass Gang, and Colm McGuinness. Also Diggy Diggy Hole by Yogscast.

Darren wrote: ↑Mon Feb 20, 2023 2:45 am I'd call it your gait.

bradrn wrote: ↑Mon Feb 20, 2023 4:14 am So would I.

Thanks!

What do you call ways of walking? E.g., one way has one's feet next to each other like when standing normally, and each step brings one foot straight forward, so after two steps, one is standing again. Another way sort of takes the phrase "put one foot in front of the other" literally, whi...

Does anyone have a font for Cyroman?

I don't use Libreoffice, but not for any of the reasons given by other people--I don't use it because it takes up too much space on my computer.

foxcatdog wrote: ↑Sat Dec 17, 2022 11:12 pm ['tæ.ɬi]
tæłi
"eye"

[æ] gets raised to [e]:
['te.ɬi]
tæłi

jal wrote: ↑Fri Dec 16, 2022 6:34 am And another one I was kinda familiar with, but also kinda forgot: ascertain. Used to pronounce the last part like "certain" as a spelling pronunciation. I sometimes still do .

Same here.