Zompist Bboard Again

alice

BTW, for more uses: # is sometimes used in phonology to mark word boundaries, which is why I support that in the SCA. I did actually already say that :-) For those who were confused by zompist's reference to the "typewriter", it was a mechanical device somewhat like a laptop with a built-...

alice

Programming Languages: - heading marker (in markdown) (Maybe this is derived from IRC too ?) - comment marker (in some programming languages) Also in shebang lines in Unix scripts. And comments in Unix scripts generally. Also: - C and C++ preprocessor directives - catenation in C macros - length op...

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I noticed this bilingual description of a programme on S4C in my EPG: <names of presenters> sy'n crwydro tref lan mor Fictorianaidd Llandudno y tro ma. <names of presenters> explore the VIctorian town of Llandudno this time. Now my Welsh is not up to much, but I do know that (1) Welsh is typically V...

alice

And when he has done that, to find out how to turn a pearl into a ruby, and then how to make a python rust.

alice

bradrn wrote: ↑Thu Aug 31, 2023 8:07 pm
alice wrote: ↑Thu Aug 31, 2023 2:24 pm I've successfully ported my SCA library to Python.
What was it in before?

Ruby.

alice

I've successfully ported my SCA library to Python.

alice

This is a very minor, trivial vent, but for some reason byte streams in zeptoforth are getting corrupted if one uses two byte streams simultaneously in different tasks - but not if I use a single lock protecting a pair of semaphores, just like a byte stream does, alongside an actual byte stream sim...

alice

But just to confirm, does anyone here not recognize the word "malloc"? I am a second person who assumed it was likely a word from a conlang you had created and not any word in a specific irl language. Third. I know what it means :-) By some standards it is in fact a word in a conlang, but...

alice

zompist wrote: ↑Sun Aug 27, 2023 8:43 pm I mean, letting go a helium balloon is a little like the Apollo program, but not much and not in any interesting way.

alice

Don't forget: science-fiction is, despite its pretensions, all about the world now, often projected into the future, but still about today's issues and concerns.

alice

The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion. Effectively the footnotes to the putative annotated edition. Fascinating!

alice

It wasn't the anaesthetic, funnily enough, just the very strange feeling of sitting there with my mouth wide open for half an hour and someone poking around inside it.

alice

Went to the dentist for the first time in ages on Saturday, and he said I didn't have any cavities (even per the X-ray), but just quite serious wear that's very manageable (and some need for cleaning). Very pleasantly surprised with this outcome. This reminds me, there have been some times in my li...

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Moose-tache wrote: ↑Tue Aug 15, 2023 2:01 am Using sin for is replaces one ambiguity with another. Do Middle Gothic speakers ever get confused by sentences like “Jack showed John what was left of his book?”

Since this is precisely what happened in Dutch and German, I don't think so.

alice

Returning to my second point, do speakers of French consider avez to be syllabified /a.ve/, /av.e/, or /av.ve/? How does this apply to languages with strong preferences for CV syllables, such as Italian or Finnish?

alice

Thanks everyone, even if it's a long way of saying "It's complicated"

It's good to know my suffering yesterday morning was not in vain.

alice

I woke up this morning, and this was rolling around my head. I woke up this morning, and this was rolling around my head. I couldn't work it out, so I thought I'd ask the ZBB instead. How, in English, does the trained linguist syllabify a word like sitting , where the first syllable contains a lax ...

alice

We're rapidly heading towards the unanswerable questions of "But what is Art really?" and "How does it differ from 'art'?". And that way madness lies.

alice

foxcatdog wrote: ↑Thu Aug 10, 2023 3:30 am Where's the dual number?

It didn't survive into the Gothic noninal declension, only in the first and second person in verbs and some pronouns.

alice

The Conlanger's Lexipedia. Why haven't you bought a copy yet?

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