Zompist Bboard Again

I'd suggest trying DeepSeek, since it uses less resources to run but I've found it has a hard time with things like sound changes and the like at least when I tried it. But you could still look into it. I mean unless you hate the Chinese but that would be a political issue.

Malloc, I live in a red state, and I promise you, even people who were diehard Trump supporters election day now hate the guy, or at least aren't as open about their support. They might STILL hate the Dems, but they aren't going to be voting Rep again if they can help it. This is a perfect time for ...

Thank you, those are all interesting perspectives, but most of you seem to subtly shift things around to view things from the perspective of the inexperienced professionals, in witch case it becomes a classic Catch-22, I was more wondering about the whole problem from the perspective of the larger ...

Duolingo (for the small part that I tried using it,) told me that "Douzo yoroshiku" is what means "Nice to meet you", but now that I ask google, apparently it has the same meaning as "Yoroshiku onegaishimasu" , and "Douzo yoroshiku" is slightly easier for my ...

konnichiwa, kona desu. kona-san, konnichiwa! korin desu. korin-san, konnichiwa. hoteru wa doko desu ka? (I don't know how to reply with "no, I don't know where the hotel is") :D Hey welcome! You did very well for a beginner here. I do have some notes: When it's a first meeting and after i...

This is accomplished via evaporative cooling, also known as sweating. Or just stay in water until things cool off. Unless the water gets too hot¹ – then you have no way of cooling down ¹ Admittedly I do not live in a hot country and struggle with temperatures over ~25°C, so I have no idea how reali...

109° today. I know I could say 42.8 but in this case the Americans are right, 109 sounds cooler (or perhaps hotter). So human bodies have to somehow keep themselves cooler than the surrounding air , or else they die? This is accomplished via evaporative cooling, also known as sweating. Or just stay...

Well first off, my dialect (idiolect?) is rhotic. I have the START vowel in both for quality but bard is short and barred is long. Otherwise, at least as far as I can tell, they are pronounced the same. I''d try to record it but I'm pretty sure I'd be too conscious of it now and over emphasize the ...

I have a difference in length, but not quality. Please describe this more. Well first off, my dialect (idiolect?) is rhotic. I have the START vowel in both for quality but bard is short and barred is long. Otherwise, at least as far as I can tell, they are pronounced the same. I''d try to record it...

I forgot last night but I have a related question. It's my understanding that where OC had second syllables, they were more constrained than the first/primary syllable. Are there other languages where this occurs? What are common constraints if so? Am I confused about how that worked in OC itself? ...

I have a difference in length, but not quality.

Yeah I was meaning like a bogolang. Since I knew OC did have at least some non-monosyllabic words, maybe instead of umlaut I could have some other change there that was similar. I forgot last night but I have a related question. It's my understanding that where OC had second syllables, they were mor...

I'm suddenly wondering what Old Chinese would look/sound like after going through English sound changes from over the same time period (or approximations to that)?

I don’t know what ‘chili con carne’ is. Tex-Mex stew traditionally of just beef, chilis, and tomatoes; within Texas itself there is fierce debate over whether including kidney beans is appropriate, while up north there's usually also macaroni involved. The kind I am used to has kidney beans but no ...

You know there's already internal fighting in the Republicans, between that Maga Repubs, the rich Repubs and the "normal" mostly centrist Repubs. They are not nearly as united after the cheetoh's inauguration as they seemed before it.

Also malloc, it doesn't matter how soft or hard your heart is if you won't do anything to help. It is functionally the same if you harden your heart and do nothing or if you feel bad the entire time. And I'm not talking fixing the entire US government, you could literally just make and share some fo...

The situation may not be grounds for optimism, but it isn’t grounds for panic or depression either. Why not? If ever panic and depression were justified, it would seem to be now. ... Name one thing you've done to make your situation on any level better for yourself. And did panic and depression hel...

Also malloc, you do this for every situation at every level. Any little setback has you start spiraling into despair, so of course things on a country-wide or world-wide scale are even worse. But that's not healthy, and it's not helpful. As others have said recently and I have said in the past, go t...

If you're arguing for fun, hopefully both sides see it that way. But also in that case you're not really trying to change anyone's views. If it happens, then that's secondary. It's more a matter of sharing different points of view so that you can understand them better, even if you don't agree. On t...

malloc, I don't think we're living in the same world if you think that a lot of people who voted for Trump were hardcore supporters in the first place, or if you think even some of those hardcore supporters haven't started thinking he's a moron since realizing tariffs will cost them more money. Any...