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- Fri May 31, 2024 2:40 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Random Thread
- Replies: 3737
- Views: 456189
Re: Random Thread
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 somew...
- Fri May 31, 2024 9:38 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Names, nouns and their (phonological) restrictions
- Replies: 45
- Views: 925
Re: Names, nouns and their (phonological) restrictions
but I understand that minorities called upon as they are to assert a right that opposes the majority, that the concept of activism is no longer suitable to depict them, the truth, and its dick, is probably elsewhere... I'm not sure I understand correctly what you're saying there, but - are you sayi...
- Fri May 31, 2024 8:34 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: United States Politics Thread 46
- Replies: 1454
- Views: 449666
Re: United States Politics Thread 46
A world under Trump, Putin and Xi Jinping isn't really multipolar; what ideological difference there may be isn't terribly important. THIS. This, this, this. It's completely ridiculous to support that trio, or any one or two of that trio, and claim that you're doing it because you want a "mult...
- Thu May 30, 2024 2:33 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Happy things thread!
- Replies: 1221
- Views: 719063
Re: Happy things thread!
There were a lot of dishes to do today. And now they're all clean.
- Thu May 30, 2024 2:25 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Names, nouns and their (phonological) restrictions
- Replies: 45
- Views: 925
Re: Names, nouns and their (phonological) restrictions
Ah, thank you!
- Thu May 30, 2024 12:59 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Names, nouns and their (phonological) restrictions
- Replies: 45
- Views: 925
Re: Names, nouns and their (phonological) restrictions
Now I'm wondering why, among Christian or Christian-descended speakers of English and also some other European languages, "Michael" has traditionally been so much more common than "Raphael". I mean, both are names of Old Testament archangels, right?
- Thu May 30, 2024 12:56 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: The New ZBB Quote Thread
- Replies: 321
- Views: 341033
Re: The New ZBB Quote Thread
The priest who baptized my late husband in 1946 refused to accept the name "Cameron" unless it was hyphenated to "Cameron-Joseph" because there is no saint or martyr named "Cameron" recognised by the Catholic Church. Sixty years later, at my nephew's baptism, the pries...
- Wed May 29, 2024 2:34 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: British Politics Guide
- Replies: 1949
- Views: 1022755
Re: British Politics Guide
Wow. I didn't see that coming - Tory backbenchers were trying to un-call the election:
https://davidallengreen.com/2024/05/tho ... to-an-end/
https://davidallengreen.com/2024/05/tho ... to-an-end/
- Wed May 29, 2024 2:32 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: United States Politics Thread 46
- Replies: 1454
- Views: 449666
Re: United States Politics Thread 46
The Democrats may not be ideal, but anyone who thinks that the Republicans are somehow better than them (including the people who think that the Republicans somehow favor the working class or that the Democrats should not be voted for because they are "elitist") [...] I don't have the imp...
- Mon May 27, 2024 9:44 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang Random Thread
- Replies: 3051
- Views: 2866146
Re: Conlang Random Thread
Ah, thank you.
- Mon May 27, 2024 5:59 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Happy things thread!
- Replies: 1221
- Views: 719063
Re: Happy things thread!
This finally went online ! (Took long enough...) Great! Do I get this right that in "It is found that perfluoroalkyl diacids and pillar-[5]-arenes rapidly and strongly complex with each other at aqueous interfaces, forming solid interfacially templated films.", "complex" is the ...
- Mon May 27, 2024 5:49 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Happy things thread!
- Replies: 1221
- Views: 719063
Re: Happy things thread!
This finally went online ! (Took long enough...) Great! Do I get this right that in "It is found that perfluoroalkyl diacids and pillar-[5]-arenes rapidly and strongly complex with each other at aqueous interfaces, forming solid interfacially templated films.", "complex" is the ...
- Mon May 27, 2024 5:46 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang Random Thread
- Replies: 3051
- Views: 2866146
Re: Conlang Random Thread
I had the impression that in US legal English, "whereas" means basically "because".Glass Half Baked wrote: ↑Sun May 26, 2024 6:22 pm Perhaps we could add to the heap the practice of US legal English using "whereas" to mean "here begins a sentence."
- Mon May 27, 2024 5:45 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Names, nouns and their (phonological) restrictions
- Replies: 45
- Views: 925
Re: Names, nouns and their (phonological) restrictions
Isn't it the opposite? Hasn't globalization increased the need for translation, as there is now more information from different parts of the world?
- Sun May 26, 2024 4:01 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: United States Politics Thread 46
- Replies: 1454
- Views: 449666
Re: United States Politics Thread 46
There might be some truth in what you say, jcb, but I don't think your timeline makes sense. The rural white working class jumped ship from the Dems before the betrayal you complain about happened. They voted, three times in a row, first for Ronald Reagan himself, and then for his VP, while the Dems...
- Sun May 26, 2024 3:46 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: British Politics Guide
- Replies: 1949
- Views: 1022755
Re: British Politics Guide
The explanation I have read is that he has given up on winning the general election and instead is focused on winning the Tory leadership election by pandering to the far right. Hmm… OK, yeah, that sounds quite plausible too. (Very sadly.) I don't see even that working, though. Isn't the Tories' fa...
Re: Caizu
I also started learning English at 10 - and like you, I am thus not a native speaker. My point was an attempt at a reductio ad absurdum of the idea that Europe, during the centuries when Latin was a widely used language of liturgy and scholarship, had native Latin speakers. Or that modern Copts are...
- Wed May 22, 2024 1:21 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: AIs gunning for our precious freelancers
- Replies: 737
- Views: 139284
Re: AIs gunning for our precious freelancers
Looking at the main zompist.com page, I just stumbled across this pretty old piece:
http://zompist.com/spoke.html
http://zompist.com/spoke.html
Re: Caizu
If Europe had native Latin speakers in the Middle and Early Modern Ages, wouldn't that mean that, by the same logic, I'm a native English speaker? Were you raised bilingually in German and English? No, I started to learn English at 10. Which is probably not that much later than when medieval Europe...
- Wed May 22, 2024 12:20 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: British Politics Guide
- Replies: 1949
- Views: 1022755
Re: British Politics Guide
Depends on the council (and public schools keep their own timetable) but I checked the website for my local council and their summer term ends on the 24th of July. (Half-term is on the 27th of this month and goes through to the 3rd.) Thank you. I had been wondering if people might be kept from voti...