Zompist Bboard Again

alice

Just feeling incredibly hopeless with everything political happening recently plus the midterm elections this fall which will give the worst people a clear shot to take untrammeled power outright. This year seems on track to match 2016 and 2019 (when my mom passed away) in terms of catastrophe. I h...

alice

Travis B. wrote: ↑Sun May 01, 2022 10:53 am I personally am quite straight, but I likewise have often been strongly attracted to solitary activities, which likely has similarly influenced my interests.

This describes me too.

alice

Something else I get in dreams a lot is being in a large house with lots of bedrooms and geometry-defying "secret passages" (usually door-sized pieces of heavy paper you have to walk through) between rooms.

alice

I also have such dreams. I am often back in school, but then I have problems I did not really have back then: can't remember the schedule, can't find the rooms, running out of paper for taking notes, etc. This is weird. I often get dreams of being back in school too, except that I'm forever missing...

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zompist wrote: ↑Sun Apr 24, 2022 4:55 pmBut I understand the frustration... not only having a fascist get a total that high, but having the alternative be a centrist, and the most boring of diacritical marks.

Not for nothing is he known in these parts as "Monsieur Circonflèxe".

alice

For those of you who can identify a particular Slavic language when hearing someone speaking it, what do you listen out for?

alice

In trivial vents, wasp season has definitely started here. It is, of course, perfectly understandable that just when the weather gets pleasant enough that you might want to spend more time outside, the insects get the same idea, but it's still a bit annoying. "Wasps: The skinheads of the anima...

alice

For what it's worth, ser and estar derive from the latin for "sit" and "stand" respectively.

alice

Vardelm wrote: ↑Thu Apr 14, 2022 10:29 am This is basically Spanish ser vs estar, no?

Or for that matter Irish is vs tá. A lot of my conlangs have this.

alice

An interesting exercise on this topic might be to hypothesise a Culture Test for 2301. Two entries go without saying: - there sure are a lot of lawyers - you think your kind of people aren't listened to enough in <appropriate-seat-of-government> A cynic might also add: - Donald Trump will still be c...

alice

Is there a coherent explanation for initial /ps/, /ks/, and presumably an older /ts/? Obviously these come from /p t k/ + s, but it seems to be more complicated than just zero-grading.

alice

Just finished reading The Fabric of Civilisation: How Textiles made the World, by Virginia Postrel. Very interesting with lots of relevance to conworlders. Recommended.

alice

WarpedWartWars wrote: ↑Fri Apr 08, 2022 3:41 am
alice wrote: ↑Fri Apr 08, 2022 3:13 am Looks very much like a Python version issue.
I'm using 3.10.2. What might it be that's causing it?

This error message:

Code: Select all

TypeError: TextIOWrapper.write() takes no keyword arguments

suggests that mocha's version of TextIOWrapper is not the same as yours. That's pretty much all I can say.

alice

Looks very much like a Python version issue.

alice

I don't know if any of you are Halo fans, but I'm gonna humble brag. I helped make the conlang that the characters are speaking. I'm pretty proud of it and I hope anyone that check's it out enjoys it. Congratulations! I'd be interested to know how, or even if, regular (i.e. non-conlanging) viewers ...

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I can't help but be reminded of this sketch from long ago.

alice

If you want to download an entire site (ie., hundreds of pages), it would probably be faster to just use a web scraper. Not actually sure what that is. It's a program that basically does this: (1) Download webpage (2) Look for links on webpage (3) Goto (1) with new webpage(s) Fairly simple to code ...

alice

Long story short, any group that simultaneously has a) its own identity and culture, and b) a political struggle for equality, will also have c) gate keeping about how much of one you can have without the other. See also: Fake Geek Girls, and Socialists/Democrats/Republicans In Name Only. And certa...

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zompist wrote: ↑Thu Mar 31, 2022 3:30 pmIn India, even scholarly works like the Laws of Manu were written in verse. I'm pretty sure Panini's grammar was, too.

Now that's a way to make your conlang grammars more exciting.

alice

This was written shortly before Russia invaded Ukraine, but it gives a very good analysis of the Russia-Ukraine war from a socialist perspective which is not some sort of apology for Putin or useless pleading for peace. It's very good indeed, and level-headed, which is unusual for the Marxist Left ...

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