Zompist Bboard Again

Here's something to sober y'all up: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-67977967

rotting bones wrote: ↑Fri Jan 12, 2024 2:04 pm I know which classical element the world is really made of. All phenomena are reducible to geometry. Geometry is the measurement of earth. Therefore, all phenomena are essentially earth-like. Q.E.D.

"I shall call it... The Earth!"

Raphael wrote: ↑Thu Jan 11, 2024 3:04 pm

Travis B. wrote: ↑Thu Jan 11, 2024 2:49 pmThese feel like really stupid corner cases, and it'll bug me to no end until these issues are resolved. So I have to work on it even though it's really stupid actually.

Ah, that feeling.

I know it well. It's why I never get anything done.

This is a thread for verbs and other words which have supplied suppletive forms of "to be" in various languages. To start with, in IE alone there are "to sit" and "to stand" in Italic, "to remain" in Germanic, and perhaps most oddly "to arise" in Old...

The LORD mandates "one hundred and one", and allows "a hundred and one" in some cases.

I wondered where all the horses had gone.

Travis B. wrote: ↑Wed Dec 13, 2023 10:56 amOf course, (almost) all software has bugs somewhere...

The first rule of software: the software which does not have bugs is not the true software.

Nachtswalbe wrote: ↑Wed Nov 29, 2023 9:39 pm Has anyone actually made a programming language on their own and what is the product lifecycle?

Yes, at least twice, although neither got very far, and thus no "product lifecycle" to speak of.

Moose-tache wrote: ↑Wed Nov 29, 2023 6:09 am What would be the internal explanation of a system that writes every word twice?

Comes with FREE! digital* delay!!!

* as in "operated by fingers"

How about the Lojban of cuisine? Something characteristic of every culture, put together in such a way that three quarters of it looks like it's from another planet. in response to "The Esperanto of cuisine". Are we uncovering a new idiom where an IAL stands in for a particular set of cha...

Maybe it's a continuum?

Travis B. wrote: ↑Fri Nov 24, 2023 11:17 am

bradrn wrote: ↑Fri Nov 24, 2023 3:13 am

alice wrote: ↑Fri Nov 24, 2023 3:04 am Well, I've learned enough in the past day in this thread to make me seriously reconsider.

…reconsider what?

I think alice means reconsider using Julia.

alice thinks you're correct

Well, I've learned enough in the past day in this thread to make me seriously reconsider.

It has a nice font , too. The font would be better if it had a slashed zero! But aside from that, it looks quite nice. On the subject of Julia, could you recommend a good book* which is thorough, reasonably complete, and recent, ideally less than a year old? *i.e. something on the archaic medium of...

Sorry but I can't read this without thinking of the episode of Doctor Who where they end up helping Churchill, and Amelia Pond is wearing a short skirt which somehow nobody takes any notice of at all.

It has a nice font, too.

But English is a long way from Arabic - Every Arabic word has a basic meaning, a second meaning which is the exact opposite of the first, a third meaning which refers to either a camel or horse, and a fourth meaning that is so obscene that you'll have to look it up for yourself. This is not too far...

To quote someone else: "Yesterday's Man for Tomorrow's Future!".

Man in Space wrote: ↑Thu Nov 09, 2023 5:46 pm

zompist wrote: ↑Wed Nov 08, 2023 5:19 pm

sasasha wrote: ↑Wed Nov 08, 2023 4:13 pm And ok, elcarin music... Yes! I need to break in to the nearby quarry with some mics in the dead of night.

Wear a hard hat!

Is it…is it literal rock music

(drumroll)

Obstruent consonants: an endangered species?