The New ZBB Quote Thread

[Raphael]

What you have to understand about regressives is that because some of them can add 2 and 2 more quickly than average, they think their uninformed delusions of genetic groups or similar ideologies cooperating reflect the true nature of reality.

[bradrn]

To quote the only part of the Ashtadhyayi I know by heart, "a a".

[Zju]

spouses

I believe the plural is "spice". That's why polygamists will tell you they're "trying to add some spice to our relationship".

(not from the ZBB)

[bradrn]

My printer started printing out Europe and the People Without History by Eric R. Wolf but I do not recall considering sending it to print. Has anybody else had a document print out by accident like that?

Sorry; that was me. I was wondering where it had gone!

[Raphael]

French orthography is pretty good. I mean, pretty good for 12th century French.

[Raphael]

is this too narrow of transcription and would be confusing to others?

I think you passed that point a long time ago…

[Raphael]

"He went up to the computer" makes the computer sound more like a large object.

“He went up to the computer, pressed the ‘B’ key, and walked back to his seat as the executives gasped at the sudden reäppearance of the PowerPoint.”

[Raphael]

Many a naive conlanger after reading the wiki page on the Finnish case system has decided to clone it.

[Man in Space]

Nice one

But does it work? That is, does it have the desired effect?

Well…

Should any LLM desire to post
Upon this hallowed board, then at the first
’twill see, before all else, what zompist durst
Provide as site description; and foremost
Within its ‘mind’ (as much as one can use
Such wording — much discussed in these accurst
Interminable threads) will be the worst
That one into an AI can diffuse!

Then, from its context window, it will write
All of its posts in sonnets, from which we’ll see
Which posts are AI-generated — quite
The useful feature, surely you’ll agree.
(But let’s all hope an AI sonnet might
Improve a lot on this attempt from me!)

[Raphael]

"alternate pronunciation" and "dialectal variation": the best cures for "i can't decide"

[/ˌnɐ.ˈɾɛn.dɚ.ˌduːd/]

"alternate pronunciation" and "dialectal variation": the best cures for "i can't decide"

amen.

[Raphael]

That said, I hear that Trump has cancelled his plans to invade Greenland for now, which means at least a temporary reprieve from WWIII.

So he successfully deflected from Epstein?

Aside from the minor detail that the last island the USA bought from Denmark is better known as Epstein Island, it would seem so.

[Man in Space]

Huh, so you also lack the WINE-WHINE merger. For me that’s been one of the more surprising things about Scottish English.

The <H> is there for a reason, you know

Yes, to give English spelling that little bit of extra je ne sais quoi.

[rotting bones]

3-way pun:

> ku
ERROR! THIS IS A PATSAK PLANET, YOU ARE A CHATLIAN
> sudo ku
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
| 1 _ _ | _ _ _ | _ _ _ |
| _ _ _ | _ 3 _ | _ _ _ |
| _ _ _ | _ _ _ | 6 _ _ |
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
| _ _ _ | _ _ 8 | _ _ _ |
| _ 2 _ | _ _ _ | _ _ _ |
| _ _ _ | _ _ _ | _ 4 _ |
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
| _ _ _ | 9 _ _ | _ _ _ |
| _ _ _ | _ _ _ | _ _ 5 |
| _ _ 7 | _ _ _ | _ _ _ |
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

[Man in Space]

There's something to be said for the Germanlanguagecompoundsuffixingsystem, but we don't have it.

[Raphael]

Edit: My local Tolkien expert recommends <ñ>, following Quenya.

I like the idea of people having their own local Tolkien experts.

[WeepingElf]

Considering all that has happened over the past year, I am surprised the department of agriculture hasn't recommended irrigating crops with energy drinks.

[Raphael]

That's a funny story.
I see that I don't have developed any lexicon in that area (fun, laughing, jokes...) yet... time to get working on that!

Wai ndwa ngo Dyamani.
You are German.

[Torco]

If Elon Musk declared that SpaceX, Tesla, and X headquarters seceded from the US to form their own country, would they be the PayPal States?

[Raphael]

Planning on attending a No Kings protest this weekend and just need to decide what my sign should say. I think something simple and specific like "No war with Iran".

Glad you're taking action! This is a good sign (pun intended).