Zompist Bboard Again

Zju wrote: ↑Mon Dec 27, 2021 9:18 am ʎd > ʎɟ

alice wrote: ↑Sun Jan 02, 2022 4:32 am A combination of good time management and absence of social media distractions?

Travis B. wrote: ↑Sun Jan 02, 2022 5:16 pm

Moose-tache wrote: ↑Sun Jan 02, 2022 5:13 pm Sardines are, in fact, the mythical Sea People.

How would schools of little fish devastate the Late Bronze Age Near East?

zompist wrote: ↑Wed Jan 05, 2022 6:09 pm Quick clarification: I don't answer for God

evmdbm wrote: ↑Wed Jan 26, 2022 8:02 am I have a moon, but I ignored it...

Moose-tache wrote: ↑Fri Feb 04, 2022 7:10 am

KathTheDragon wrote: ↑Thu Feb 03, 2022 11:58 pm

zompist wrote: ↑Wed Feb 02, 2022 8:36 pmAs just one example, "I'm not as fit as a fiddle" or "Are you as fit as a fiddle?" sound odd to me-- they are grammatical, they just arguably lose the idiom.

These are both fine for me as examples of "fit as a fiddle"

"How fit do you take me for? As a fiddle?"
"I prefer metaphors to similes. I am a fit fiddle."
"I need to train more if I'm going to get into full-on fiddle fitness."
"There's only so many fiddles I'm fit as, and that ain't one of them."
"She made a scene when we forced her to wear the violin costume. She had a fit as a fiddle."

alice wrote: ↑Wed Feb 09, 2022 2:53 am And don't forget that doing an internet search for virtually any symptom will turn up numerous results referring to unpleasant, incurable, and potentially fatal diseases, most or all of which are very likely red herrings. We've all been there.

Moose-tache wrote: ↑Mon Feb 07, 2022 6:36 pm How hilarious would it be if, instead of a rubricated Bible, you had one where everytime Jesus speaks it has a little blue check mark next to it?

Ares Land wrote: ↑Thu Mar 31, 2022 4:02 am b) Computers aren't very good at a lot of what our brain does. (With a humongous load of data, a few months of work and constant nursing by a few engineers, you can teach a computer to recognize cats. Babies pick up that skill pretty much instantly.)

masako wrote: ↑Tue Apr 05, 2022 8:12 am

bradrn wrote: ↑Sun Apr 03, 2022 9:01 pm I’m curious to know how you got this opportunity.

There's a monthly meeting on the 2nd Friday, no, wait, I've said too much...

Moose-tache wrote:If trainwrecks could dream, their nightmares would be this conlang.

Moose-tache wrote: ↑Tue Apr 05, 2022 10:08 pm Fuck it, I'm quoting myself.

bradrn wrote: ↑Wed Apr 06, 2022 1:14 am

Moose-tache wrote: ↑Tue Apr 05, 2022 10:08 pm Fuck it, I'm quoting myself.

You’re not allowed to do that!

Moose-tache wrote: ↑Tue Apr 05, 2022 7:00 pm If trainwrecks could dream, their nightmares would be this conlang.

Travis B. wrote: ↑Tue Apr 12, 2022 3:37 pm Glides coalesce with following vowels, lengthening them.

[øːː]

park bom wrote: ↑Tue Apr 12, 2022 4:11 pm[o]

vegfarandi wrote: ↑Tue Apr 12, 2022 5:10 pm [aux]

Linguoboy wrote: ↑Mon Apr 18, 2022 12:26 pm

FlamyobatRudki wrote: ↑Sun Apr 17, 2022 4:38 pmWhy is english such a stupid language?

Because you're using the free version.

zompist wrote: ↑Mon Apr 18, 2022 6:38 pm

Travis B. wrote: ↑Mon Apr 18, 2022 1:42 pm Is English one of those dual-licensed things where there's an ostensibly FLOSS version that's missing vocabulary and syntax and a proprietary version you have to buy to get the full usage out of the language?

Yeah, we call the fully paid version "a college education".

Moose-tache wrote: ↑Mon Apr 25, 2022 5:28 amAh, de Gaulle. The Scrappy Doo of world leaders.

Ares Land wrote: ↑Mon May 09, 2022 9:13 am (As a conlanger, I think it's extremely depressing. I had plan to do a survey of Simbri dialects -- covering an area about the size of France -- but I think I'll go whimper under the bed instead.)

zompist wrote: ↑Sun May 15, 2022 6:24 am

hwhatting wrote: ↑Sun May 15, 2022 6:11 am

Estav wrote: ↑Sat May 14, 2022 10:58 pm There is a lot of prior work on that class of suffixes. Chomsky and Halle's The Sound Pattern of English resorts to analyzing -ic in these cases as underlyingly -ical with omission of the -al. "The Architecture of the English Lexicon" by Jonathan B. Alcántara (1998) instead analyzes -ic as underlyingly /-icə/ (page 3-117).

This is just generative phonology at its usual making up of unattested "underlying forms" to make things look as if they adhere to its stated general rules - instead of just saying "you have to remember that suffix -ic has this or that effect" they say "you have to remember that suffix X is actually underlying suffix Y and then our ingenious rule 22 applies".

Worth investigating: Sound Pattern of English came out in 1968. That's also when the really good weed arrived at MIT.

Travis B. wrote: ↑Sun May 15, 2022 12:46 pm I personally am skeptical about the capabilities of robots themselves in the near future, so I have few worries about a robot apocalypse (just like we haven't seen a cow apocalypse, despite cows being more intelligent than the most powerful AI's in existence today),