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- Wed May 01, 2024 6:06 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang Random Thread
- Replies: 2923
- Views: 2844834
Re: Conlang Random Thread
No, because that's not how language contact works. Vocabulary is in most situations the easiest thing to change. I'm going to disagree by proxy. I've read that there's two situations in which languages might influence each other. The first is contact where speakers of language A have contact with s...
- Wed May 01, 2024 2:15 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: War in the Middle East, again
- Replies: 383
- Views: 72914
Re: War in the Middle East, again
How many millions of Israelis need to participate in protests before you stop saying things like this? I, personally, have called out this behaviour many times in this thread alone, and more elsewhere on the Internet. Perhaps I should just keep on repeating that Zionism is not Netanyahu-ism , in th...
- Wed May 01, 2024 11:30 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang Random Thread
- Replies: 2923
- Views: 2844834
Re: Conlang Random Thread
Anyone ever wondered (in conlanging terms) what English might have looked like if the Norman conquest had exerted more influence on English phonology and grammar but less on vocabulary? No, because that's not how language contact works. Vocabulary is in most situations the easiest thing to change. ...
- Wed May 01, 2024 3:37 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: War in the Middle East, again
- Replies: 383
- Views: 72914
Re: War in the Middle East, again
Meanwhile , in Sydney, texts from a teenager who carried out a terror stabbing a couple of weeks ago have revealed that who he really wanted to attack was ‘a bunch of Jews’ (though the person he eventually ended up stabbing was an Assyrian Orthodox bishop). The texts explicitly link this desire to ...
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 5:49 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: War in the Middle East, again
- Replies: 383
- Views: 72914
Re: War in the Middle East, again
Thank you for clarifying. I should point out, though, that the term ‘intifada’ is generally associated with violent resistance to Israel. (I feel like I see this kind of ambiguity a lot… pro-Palestinian people using terms which are widely associated with violence, then claiming that no, actually , ...
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 5:09 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: War in the Middle East, again
- Replies: 383
- Views: 72914
Re: War in the Middle East, again
So calling for resistance to oppression is "antisemitic" when the oppressors happen to be Jewish? ‘Burn Tel Aviv’ and ‘Zionists don’t deserve to live’… those are ‘calling to resistance to oppression’? I was referring specifically to "encouraging children to call for 'intifada' [i.e. ...
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 5:14 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: War in the Middle East, again
- Replies: 383
- Views: 72914
Re: War in the Middle East, again
The points made in the back-and-forth between bradrn and Linguoboy illustrate fairly well why, while I absolutely don't support Israel, I'm not really interested in supporting the pro-Palestinian movement, either. No, I don't care if people think that that's the worst kind of bothsidism. When one s...
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 5:13 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: The Computer And General Tech Thread - Software, Hardware, Questions, etc.
- Replies: 557
- Views: 270815
Re: The Computer And General Tech Thread - Software, Hardware, Questions, etc.
I don't really know enough about programming to follow this, but - wasn't the original point of zeptoforth to go back to the basics with a bare metal rather than higher level language? I will admit to having the same query. To me, the attraction of Forths generally is their low-level–ness — I don’t...
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 5:12 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: United States Politics Thread 46
- Replies: 1411
- Views: 443389
Re: United States Politics Thread 46
Australia has quite an interesting ‘superannuation’ system to solve this particular problem. Essentially, each superannuation provider is a private investment fund, independent from the government (but well-regulated). It is mandatory for a certain amount of your income to be directed into your chos...
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 6:11 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: War in the Middle East, again
- Replies: 383
- Views: 72914
Re: War in the Middle East, again
you see, in most protests there are different people with different thinking. seems like most attendants, and the organizers and leaders or whatever, are not there out of antisemitism. that's what the jew guy there is saying, this isn't an antisemitic protest, even though we have some cunts (heheh)...
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 5:37 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: War in the Middle East, again
- Replies: 383
- Views: 72914
Re: War in the Middle East, again
On the other hand , you get students chanting ‘burn Tel Aviv to the ground’, or the protest organiser who said ‘Zionists don’t deserve to live’. (And we all know who they mean by ‘Zionists’: the linked article makes it quite clear that they mean ‘anyone who is identifiably Jewish’.) Even in my own ...
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 3:09 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: War in the Middle East, again
- Replies: 383
- Views: 72914
Re: War in the Middle East, again
[…] many explicitly tie the violence there to violence being perpetuated elsewhere (e.g. "From Palestine to the Philippines, Stop the US War Machine!", "From Gaza, to Congo, to Sudan, to Kashmir, to Haiti, to Tigray, NONE of us are free till we're ALL free.") This is quite inter...
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 2:20 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: War in the Middle East, again
- Replies: 383
- Views: 72914
Re: War in the Middle East, again
It's hard not to take these arguments as disingenuous when Israel and Palestine are so much more obviously connected to the rest of the developed world than whatever failed state is tearing itself to shreds this week. Why Israel? Because my government just voted to spend $26 billion of my tax dolla...
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 1:35 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4646
- Views: 2055179
Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
I have noticed that at least here /l/-coloring manifests itself in part as blocking vowel fronting, as seen below: too : [ˈtʲʷʰy(ː)] tool : [ˈtʲʷʰu(ː)ʊ̯] toe : [ˈtʰɵ̞(ː)] toll : [ˈtʰo̞(ː)ʊ̯] I have this too (though obviously the precise phonetics are different). But I tend to interpret it as, not b...
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 7:48 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Do you think it will ever be possible to go back in time?
- Replies: 42
- Views: 870
Re: Do you think it will ever be possible to go back in time?
Maybe time travel is more like going by train. You have to build tracks and stations before you can go somewhere. This could mean that you cannot travel to a point in time where time travel was not invented yet. Et voila, no time travel to our present. This is precisely what our current theories pr...
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 6:44 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: "Experiencer"
- Replies: 29
- Views: 4011
Re: "Experiencer"
Well, natural languages are nothing more than conlangs reworked by a very large number of fans, This is not true I rarely ever agree with xxx, but they have a point there. Natural languages were created by human beings, after all, so you could interpret them as a form of collaborative conlangs. I t...
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 3:37 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: "Experiencer"
- Replies: 29
- Views: 4011
Re: "Experiencer"
I think you all have missed the main reason congrammars are written in plain terms. The conlanger is trying to communicate, while the linguist is trying to prove to their employer that they are on the cutting edge of their field. I think this is overly cynical. I’ve seen plenty of academics who jus...
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 3:12 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Venting thread
- Replies: 1909
- Views: 15026166
Re: Venting thread
Sounds thoroughly miserable… you have my sympathy.
- Sat Apr 27, 2024 5:56 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: bradrn’s scratchpad
- Replies: 114
- Views: 79640
Re: bradrn’s scratchpad
Another phonetic rule On the other hand, processes like nasal assimilation (on which I’ll say more later) do apply across the boundary. I just realised I completely forgot to mention nasal assimilation in my last post on phonetic rules . So let’s fix that before it’s too late… Anyway, there’s not m...
- Sat Apr 27, 2024 5:24 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: War in the Middle East, again
- Replies: 383
- Views: 72914
Re: War in the Middle East, again
Thats why I said spoken human languages. :) In that case, it’s just a tautology… Tautologies are facts, right? (i'm serious - I asked a few times over the course of my life, and nobody wanted to give me an answer) Well, this is ultimately a question of definition, hence a somewhat useless question....