Zompist Bboard Again

foxcatdog wrote: ↑Thu May 09, 2024 3:45 pm

Travis B. wrote: ↑Thu May 09, 2024 3:43 pm

foxcatdog wrote: ↑Thu May 09, 2024 3:07 pm therapist: objectively evil sound changes do not exist they can't hurt you
cot-caught merger and yeismo: allow us to introduce ourselves

I think the most evil sound change is turning sibilants into laterals myself.

You deny the darkness in your soul, you deny your power.

(edit): also does that mean Amarin is an objectively good language since it changes laterals into sibilants

keenir wrote: ↑Thu May 09, 2024 4:42 pm No, that just demonstrates it knows how to hide its evilicity.

Raphael wrote: ↑Fri May 10, 2024 9:58 am Anyone interested in reading about Irish/British history in German? Perhaps your first language is something else, and you want to brush up on your German, or specifically on a pseudo-scholarly register of German?

Earlier this year, for no good reason, I wrote this it-was-meant-to-be-brief-but-ended-up-being-pretty-long German-language "summary" of British-Irish relations through the ages. I couldn't help making it a bit dry. The very last bit is already outdated. The file is a zip file containing both the pdf version and the epub version.

irl.zip

Ares Land wrote: ↑Mon May 13, 2024 2:02 am
My German is more than rusty, but hey, I'll give it a try

foxcatdog wrote: ↑Tue May 14, 2024 1:01 am Am i right in saying organ meat phobia is less prominent amongst non anglo europeans? See french foie gras and italian tripe sandwiches.

Ares Land wrote: ↑Tue May 14, 2024 3:38 am

foxcatdog wrote: ↑Tue May 14, 2024 1:01 am Am i right in saying organ meat phobia is less prominent amongst non anglo europeans? See french foie gras and italian tripe sandwiches.

I'm not sure. I think it's true but increasingly less so. You still find a lot of people loving tripe here, but less so than one or two generations ago.

foxcatdog wrote: ↑Tue May 14, 2024 4:15 am

Ares Land wrote: ↑Tue May 14, 2024 3:38 am

foxcatdog wrote: ↑Tue May 14, 2024 1:01 am Am i right in saying organ meat phobia is less prominent amongst non anglo europeans? See french foie gras and italian tripe sandwiches.

I'm not sure. I think it's true but increasingly less so. You still find a lot of people loving tripe here, but less so than one or two generations ago.

Judging by that the decline in popularity must have occured much later then similar declines in anglo countries

keenir wrote: ↑Tue May 14, 2024 5:13 am

foxcatdog wrote: ↑Tue May 14, 2024 4:15 am

Ares Land wrote: ↑Tue May 14, 2024 3:38 am

I'm not sure. I think it's true but increasingly less so. You still find a lot of people loving tripe here, but less so than one or two generations ago.

Judging by that the decline in popularity must have occured much later then similar declines in anglo countries

Why is that? Aren't things such as (ox) heart and jellied eels still eaten in countries like the UK?

foxcatdog wrote: ↑Tue May 14, 2024 5:19 am

keenir wrote: ↑Tue May 14, 2024 5:13 am

foxcatdog wrote: ↑Tue May 14, 2024 4:15 am

Judging by that the decline in popularity must have occured much later then similar declines in anglo countries

Why is that? Aren't things such as (ox) heart and jellied eels still eaten in countries like the UK?

I've never heard of ox heart in the uk only peru but from what i understand jellied eels isn't something many people would eat.

You can probably still find liver and tripe enthusiasts in uk/america/here but its not something most people would eat.

Raphael wrote: ↑Sun May 19, 2024 12:19 pm What should, theoretically speaking, happen if an object that has a number of ants on it is brought to a different place, a place that is very far away - at least by ant standards - from the ants' original colony? Let's assume the ants are all workers, with no queens, drones, or larvae among them.

What little I know about ants makes me think that, theoretically, the ants might carry on for a while, but since they have no way to replace their dead, once they've all reached the end of the (fairly short) lifespan of worker ants, they should all be dead, with none left. Could someone who knows more about ants than me tell me whether there's a flaw in my logic?

Raphael wrote: ↑Fri May 31, 2024 2:40 pm Does anyone else have the impression that pool has a weird kind of cross-class appeal? That is, it seems to be stereotypically associated with both a certain kind of upper class person and a certain kind of working class person. OK, upper class pool players stereotypically own their own tables somewhere inside their luxurious homes, while working class pool players stereotypically hang out in pool halls, but, that said, you might think that each group's interest in the game would put off the other group.

Torco wrote: ↑Fri May 31, 2024 2:50 pm at least here, pool halls are either expensive and in a posh neighbourhood or cheap and in street you wouldn't like to park your fancy wheels, so it's likely the two groups won't notice each other.