Zompist Bboard Again

There are a lot of characters pronounced huá . LB is referring to which of them are likely to be a surname. Not just a surname, but also as an element in a given name. (Either the sole element in a monosyllabic name or the second element in a bisyllabic name, and thus the one that the bearer is mos...

/ˈkaɪ.joʊt/

Willing to bet cash money that the corresponding character is 华/華.

Hm, they are too informal to really count as "sayings" (English) or "Sprichwörter" (German) (or at least the first is). Not sure what term to use instead. In English, perhaps "turns of phrase"? "Idiom" perhaps, since the meaning isn't recoverable from a liter...

phone tree Thanks, "phone chain" just didn't sound right to me at all. A chain might not be a tree, but then again a series of phone calls is neither. I don't think I've ever seen an English-speaker make this sort of distinction. (Googling "phone chain" finds mostly hits for bli...

Travis B. wrote: ↑Sun Nov 17, 2024 1:46 pmActually, the slur I was referring to was "bro", which I see used so much with negative connotations that it is essentially a slur by this point.

LOL, I just self-designated as a "bro" for the purpose of a snarky comment to a FB post.

whether its huge hyperbole or close to accurate, I heard an off-the-cuff estimate that 1/3 of the US voters simply didn't vote - some because they didn't like either canidate, others for other reasons. With few uncounted votes still outstanding, University of Florida's election lab currently has 63...

Maybe they don't believe in the concept of gender identity Seems to me on a par with doubting the concept of racial identity. Such a thing definitely exists, whether or not you believe "race" does. In both cases you have a spectrum of biological realities that is condensed into a handful ...

Then again, arguably one main reason why swings of a few points among suburban white women are often sufficient to decide all manner of elections is that so many other voter groups, including rural and urban ones, go reliably to the one or other party. Or perhaps it's just a function of them being ...

Speaking as someone I gather this forum as a whole would designate a TERF, the argument that "gender identity" is incompatible with feminism makes a lot more sense. I'm not sure why "gender identity" is in quotes. I think it's inarguable that that cis men and women have a strong...

I admit that surprises me a bit. I'd have thought TERFs would be happy about recent events? The enemy of my enemy is not always my friend. It doesn't surprise me one whit. Unless you explicitly make your feminist/womanist movement pro-trans and boot out those who dissent, TERFs will infiltrate and ...

It might be cities vs. small towns, though. This gives the threshold at 5,000 which isn't much: https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2022/urban-rural-populations.html (also, I'm really not familiar enough with the US to see how they define an 'area'. Is it a county? Town? Something else e...

Basically it's MGTOW but women. Women who choose to be volcel. In the Advocate , Marcie Bianco called it "a hetero version of lesbian separatism minus the lesbianning". Though, it probably will end up just being reactionary just like MGTOW is. Well, it's off to a good start by being incre...

Lērisama wrote: ↑Tue Nov 12, 2024 10:51 am I think that's some some kind of bottle opener, but I'm not familiar with the design

Yeah, I'm not even sure how I would use that.

Glass Half Baked wrote: ↑Mon Nov 11, 2024 5:37 am You have あ, which stands in for ㅎ, then モ for ㅌ, and finally レ for ㄴ. The result is of course gibberish in Japanese, but I guess it gives the proper vibe.

I also se ト standing in forㅏ.

Neat!

Why would the Russians suddenly become competent? Maybe because they suddenly get an influx of classified intel from someone who has shown complete disregard for guarding US military secrets (if he isn't, in fact, simply passing them out in return for cash and influence or just because it makes him...

This is why I think that people will punish the Republicans at the midterms once they realize that things aren't any cheaper, in the very least, and may very well be even more expensive, particularly if Trump implements his plans for tariffs. I hope you're right, but I can't be confident given that...

Thank you, that's all very interesting to know. Just to add to this, according to the NBC exit polls , Trump took a whopping 90% of voters who said immigration was the most important issue for them and 80% who said it was the economy. He also won three-quarters of those who said the most important ...

Incidentally, I don't understand the whole "city people vs country people" side conversation going on here. The US population is over 80% urban. A third of all rural residents voted for Harris; 40% of urbanites voted for Trump. Harris also lost the suburbs (albeit narrowly). It wasn't the ...

(A Chilean friend saw the large swing in Latino men to Trump and blamed "machismo", but (1) this shift has been in progress for a while That doesn't rule out machismo as a factor, IMO. It doesn't rule it out, but I've seen too many people argue that it was the deciding factor, as if no fu...