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That's not the "me" you're familiar with. I don’t see how this would work: to me, that quoted sentence doesn’t make any sense. A: I thought you would never do that. B: But I've changed. I'm no longer the same. A: The "B" I know is way too selfish to do that. B: But the new "...

ban bank panko Context: I saw this post on Tocharian Irredentism, about /æ/ before /ŋ/. https://yeli-renrong.tumblr.com/post/190637512377/alexanderrm-yeli-renrong-there-are-epistemic It claims that in American accents, /æ/ is typically [æj] before /ŋ/ (compared to [eə] before other nasals). I have ...

And how would you analyse, "That's not the me you're familiar with."? I've made that sentence up, but it doesn't feel forced. You could argue that "me" is implicitly quoted here. That's not the "me" you're familiar with. This construction isn't particularly weird other...

I've made a program to create images of the Mandelbrot set. Here are a few of them. mandelbrot.png lace_bz31.png hunt_bz25.png In particular, I think the black and white images came out very well. The whole thing is quite hard on my old laptop, though. I wish I had my desktop with me right now.

Ryusenshi wrote: ↑Tue Apr 28, 2020 8:22 am Shit, my grandmother has Covid19...

Thankfully, she has fully recovered now. They detected the virus in her bloodstream, but she wasn't really sick beyond fever and coughing. We think the virus got afraid of her bad temper.

https://aeon.co/essays/why-repetition-c ... into-music

An interesting article about how music is intrinsically linked to repetition. I particularly urge you to listen to the two sound clips, they're quite striking.

Shit, my grandmother has Covid19...

I think I already said somewhere else that I find the smell and taste of alcohol utterly disgusting. Anything that contains even a relatively small amount of ethanol (say, cider) tastes like denatured alcohol to me. The drink I was talking about was designed to taste similar to an alcoholic cocktail...

I remember trying a "non-alcoholic cocktail" once. They had managed to make it as revolting as actual alcohol, without the alcohol. Needless to say, I didn't try a second time.

I dreamed I was reading some linguistic paper. The author was arguing against Chomsky's "language instinct" hypothesis. Near the end, the author described an experiment when he presented some made-up idioms to people, they read it, and griksitt the meaning immediately. I laughed out loud. ...

As usual, I pronounced it* without /k/ for a long time (you can guess why), until I learned the -c- wasn't silent.

* Especially as part of the band name Sonata Arctica.

Or could it be a class thing, with "regular people" like Astérix and his friends being portrayed as liking beer, while people from the middle and upper classes are portrayed as liking wine? A remark in passing. While drinking habits are certainly influenced by social class, this isn't a s...

Well, a quick Internet search confirms that the French are indeed wine drinkers: https://jakubmarian.com/wine-consumption-in-europe-by-country-per-year-per-capita/ . From personal experience, many people will drink one or two glasses of wine while eating, and possibly more if it's a party or celebra...

@Ser: thank you, that was very instructive. - /o/ from Classical /ʊ o:/ inside closed syllables (curtum 'trimmed down' > cort /kort/ 'short'), /ʊ o/ in unstressed sylables (*dupl‑ā‑tis > doblez /doˈblets/ 'you guys double sth'), and also /ɔ/ in unstressed open syllables (colōrem /k ɔ ˈloːrɛm/ 'colou...

As a reminder, a phonemic reading of an English word often does not work because of its high number of grapheme-to-phoneme possibilities. For instance the grapheme <u> can either correspond to /ʌ/ (as in "hug"), to /ju:/ (as in "huge"), to /3:r/ (as in "cur") or /jU@:/...

I know that intrusive /r/ is perfectly normal in the English variety I try to emulate (SSBE/Estuary). I also know its phonological origin perfectly well. But there's a prescriptive part of me that still finds it "wrong", and is surprised that it has become so natural for me. Going from &qu...

Thinking in terms of "class" isn't really natural for me, but I'm not sure if income is the only factor. If I may quote from SlateStarCodex Staying Classy : [note that in-context, "Gentry" means something like "educated liberal middle-class"] I grew up in a Gentry class...

Once again, I caught myself using an intrusive /r/. Should I be worried?

And then there's the Concerto For Group And Orchestra , an attempt at a crossover between rock and classical, where the album cover features a compromise/combination between the standard rock/pop and the standard classical album naming conventions In this case, I just filed it under "Deep Purp...

A few things really hurt my understanding of the text. The switch from "Venus" to "Great White", and the transliteration of the character names, made the story switch from sci-fi to fantasy, which is why I was reluctant to correct "Girl with the Red Hood" to "Littl...