Zompist Bboard Again

Did you forget an /r/ in the gen pl of "beard"?

Obviously, it's YAML, but YAML for what? And when you've worked that out, what would you do better? Have fun! props_with_cats: str: "stop aff fric nasal lat trill tap glide hi himid mid lomid lo" required_props: place: 12 forbid: - "str>=9 place<=7" - "str>=9 place>=11"...

Nice!!! This brings back some memories of when I used Gothic as the ancestor of one of my conlangs; I notice that you've done many of the things I did.

Trump has pulled off a major paradigm shift in US politics. If nothing else, that is what he will be remembered for.

If Trump is found guilty of something and is put in jail, but then goes on to be elected as president, would there be a means by which he could get himself out of jail? I guess as long as it's for one of the federal charges, he can pardon himself, if necessary from his jail cell, as soon as he's ta...

If Trump is found guilty of something and is put in jail, but then goes on to be elected as president, would there be a means by which he could get himself out of jail?

A bit of AI-related fun which might belong in its own thread: what might an AI-generated conlang look like, if (as is likely) it was trained on a very imperfect (in the usual sense, not the linguistic one) corpus?

Travis B. wrote: ↑Fri Jul 28, 2023 11:06 am Note that "carbon" here can also include methane, another major greenhouse gas.

Except that you don't usually fart coal or diamonds, unless there's something horribly wrong with your insides.

Does anyone else with a modicum of scientific knowledge get really riled when people talk about "carbon footprints" and "carbon capture", when they mean carbon dioxide, which is something very different?

In general, Star Trek is creepy as hell. Routine suicide followed by usurpation by a copy (but don't forget cloning is icky!), holoprograms where you can fuck your coworkers (but make room for gay panic!), and of course, the fact that at any time another you could show up and yoink your girl out fr...

Niiiice!!!

That's not all that surprising if you consider that the metric system was introduced by Napoleon, alongside the ten-day week. To be precise, it was introduced during the French revolution. Napoleon himself was quite reluctant to adopt the system, and in fact slowed down its adoption. alice is enlig...

In real life, I am a staunch defender of the metric system. But even I have to admit that it sounds out of place in a heroic fantasy setting. When I'm the GM in a Dungeons & Dragons game, I'm a bit iffy about using metric units, at least when speaking in-character as an NPC. That's not all that...

Raphael wrote: ↑Sun Jul 16, 2023 12:48 pmAren't 500 g already an "unofficial metric pound", in France, in Germany, and in some other places as well?

I used to buy "een pond" of things in Belgium forty years ago.

Data transfer over my TCP implementation (part of zeptoIP, for zeptoforth on the Raspberry Pi Pico W) is just starting to become reliable, finally! Your progress with zeptoforth both warms ny heart and makes me envious that I am no longer able to pursue my hobby electronics. It's really too bad tha...

Travis B. wrote: ↑Fri Jul 14, 2023 11:23 pm Data transfer over my TCP implementation (part of zeptoIP, for zeptoforth on the Raspberry Pi Pico W) is just starting to become reliable, finally!

Your progress with zeptoforth both warms ny heart and makes me envious that I am no longer able to pursue my hobby electronics.

What do you guys think of my vowel Sandhi system? By the way, I have a typical five-vowel system plus phonemic length plus the diphthongs /eu/, /au/ and /ai/. (etc) I’m particularly worried about rules 3-5, so comments are appreciated. No need to worry; I do that kind of thing all the time. It migh...

I have very little patience for the people who are ideologically or philosophically opposed to them. If they don't want to use them, that's their choice, but asserting that it's somehow universally bad or wrong to take them? Your fucking philosophical musings are pretty weak tea compared to the raw...

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