Zompist Bboard Again

Ryusenshi wrote: ↑Tue Nov 01, 2022 3:52 amAll programming languages allow you to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ puts a loaded gun in your hand and paints a target on your shoe.

jal wrote: ↑Tue Nov 15, 2022 4:41 am

Travis B. wrote: ↑Mon Nov 14, 2022 12:25 pmdifferent kinds of moral danger

Es gibt sehr viele Arten von moralische Gefahren .
There's many kinds of moral dangers .

Moose-tache wrote: ↑Sat Dec 03, 2022 12:27 am

doctor shark wrote: ↑Thu Dec 01, 2022 2:52 pm I hate it when platforms implement "upgrades" without ways to revert or get rid of them.

Software updates are a useful reminder that we're all living in the personal pleasure gardens of about ten rich psychopaths.

Linguoboy wrote: ↑Wed Dec 21, 2022 4:01 pm

Raphael wrote: ↑Wed Dec 21, 2022 3:04 pm Is "melodramatic" an English word? Back in school, I once used it in English class, and the teacher, who was an exchange teacher from the USA, thought it wasn't.

LOL. It absolutely is. Did you you accent the wrong sylláble or something?

zompist wrote: ↑Fri Dec 30, 2022 4:23 pmGenerally you can't words from a sentence, because then won't understand.

WeepingElf wrote: ↑Wed Jan 04, 2023 5:45 am This sounds like a variation of the popular "Semitic substratum in Insular Celtic" hogwash - and while I don't have it at hand now, I remember that the list of "Semitic" features in Insular Celtic claimed by those scholars contained exactly 17 items. Most of them have since been falsified, and the remaining ones revealed to be typological correlates of VSO word order, found in places as obviously former Semitic-speaking as Mesoamerica or the Philippines.

Moose-tache wrote: ↑Wed Jan 04, 2023 6:43 am The difference in party squabbling is: the Democrats are a bunch of people who should obviously be allies but act like enemies, while the Republicans are a bunch of people who should obviously be enemies. It's a miracle that a party full of hungry tigers and large hunks of meat doesn't have more in-fighting than it does.

Kuchigakatai wrote: ↑Sun Jan 08, 2023 11:41 am I saw someone ask ChatGPT to make an IAL, and it simply started describing Esperanto in Esperanto...

Moose-tache wrote: ↑Tue Jan 24, 2023 11:02 pmI once worked at a university that basically existed to hold a bucket under Chinese grad students and collect the patents that fall out, for resale.

alice wrote: ↑Wed Jan 25, 2023 3:06 pm Given that the idea can be easily disproved in many, many ways, I'd say the chances are quite high.

Moose-tache wrote: ↑Thu Feb 02, 2023 10:38 pm This could be parsing rules favoring a more parsimonious genitive.

Moose-tache wrote: ↑Thu Jan 12, 2023 2:58 pm 2) It was 6 am before coffee.

WeepingElf wrote: ↑Sat Feb 04, 2023 10:23 am It is hardly an overstatement that in Ancient Greek and Sanskrit, all verbs are irregular.

rotting bones wrote: ↑Wed Feb 08, 2023 2:31 pm

Raphael wrote: ↑Wed Feb 08, 2023 12:27 pm As Alex Harrowell once put it in a review of some book about the Soviet Union, Soviet officials who were relying on the state as their pension scheme generally weren't that keen on the idea of their state actually withering away...

I was about to say this, but to its credit, the Soviet Union really did abolish itself eventually.

Ares Land wrote: ↑Fri Feb 10, 2023 7:01 amOn a positive note, decision-making currently requires a huge amount of work sorting bullshit or non-bullshit. Academic papers, political science, economics, philosophy... We all suspect a lot of it is bullshit that happens to sound deep, but we can't be sure, so we spend a lot of time doing the triage. ChatGPT provides an easy test. If ChatGPT can produce something similar; it's bullshit.

Moose-tache wrote: ↑Mon Feb 13, 2023 6:13 pm The accident was less terrible than it could have been because the crew had two people in it, something the railroads have been trying to change for years.

Emily wrote: ↑Thu Feb 16, 2023 12:21 pm

hwhatting wrote: ↑Thu Feb 16, 2023 4:25 am

xxx wrote: ↑Wed Feb 15, 2023 12:12 pm we have Latin and Latin languages,

Ummm,,,, those are usually called Romance languages.

well except for romanian, which is generally classified under the sci-fi/fantasy genre instead

alice wrote: ↑Fri Feb 17, 2023 2:39 pm And therein lies the nub of the gist, the root of the problem, the heart of the matter, nay, even the crux of the debate.

Moose-tache wrote: ↑Fri Feb 17, 2023 6:07 pm "French anti-tobacco advocate" is the most depressing, Sisyphean job title I can think of.

Moose-tache wrote: ↑Fri Feb 17, 2023 6:07 pm EDIT EDIT: OK, apparently French consumption is only 1% higher than the global average, mostly due to the fact that the average Russian is 43% tobacco by volume.

chris_notts wrote: ↑Tue Feb 28, 2023 5:26 pm

Ares Land wrote: ↑Tue Feb 28, 2023 11:59 am

Raphael wrote: ↑Tue Feb 28, 2023 11:49 amFun fact: Justin B. Rye, who's politically very far to the Left, but also very much interested in Linguistics, once expressed his opinion that "Chomsky should stick to politics".

Funny that; I have almost opposite views

I unite the two in the view that Chomsky should probably stick to something outside of both of those areas.