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- Mon Mar 25, 2024 1:32 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Seeing past your cultural worldview
- Replies: 28
- Views: 320875
Re: Seeing past your cultural worldview
Well it's been a while, but I wanted to thank everyone who recommended books in this thread. I also wanted to share a resource that I've come across. Tales of Times Forgotten is a blog by a history student, who often touches on how people in ancient cultures viewed the world. A couple of specific ex...
- Mon Sep 04, 2023 8:11 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Uses of the octothorp. (#)
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1876
Re: Uses of the octothorp. (#)
I mean, programming languages repurpose existing symbols for all sorts of things anyway--see the use of a period for struct fields / object methods / etc. - raising of a musical note by a semitone (yes, this is pushing it a bit) No, that’s very specifically a sharp sign ♯, not a hash #. And yet, the...
- Sun Jul 02, 2023 7:29 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Pronunciation of Standard English in America (1919)
- Replies: 164
- Views: 346934
Re: Pronunciation of Standard English in America (1919)
words ending in -ile (servile, febrile, tactile, reptile, hostile) are generally pronounced [-ɪl], with [-aɪl] as a relatively common alternate form; in england [-aɪl] is standard with [-ɪl] being dialectal. agile, fragile are always [-ɪl], and gentile is always [-aɪl] — i have [-əl] for most of th...
- Wed May 03, 2023 10:07 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Seeing past your cultural worldview
- Replies: 28
- Views: 320875
Seeing past your cultural worldview
(Responding to a discussion that started in the Speculative Fiction Thread; this seemed different enough to warrant its own topic) I've sometimes called this "the Ren Faire effect" and it annoys me no end. The trappings are all period, but the way people talk (not necessarily the precise w...
- Fri Oct 14, 2022 3:46 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The "How Do You Pronounce X" Thread
- Replies: 1858
- Views: 4990412
Re: The "How Do You Pronounce X" Thread
[tʃ] in picture (it's a homophone with pitcher for me), [pʃ] or maybe sometimes [ptʃ] in capture.
I remember deliberately pronouncing [kʃ] in "picture" as a child after I learned how it was spelled, but [tʃ] feels easier/more natural.
- Fri Oct 14, 2022 3:39 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: How's my climate map?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 8610
Re: How's my climate map?
Well, exactly two years later, I've finally gotten around to making some adjustments: rodal_v2_climate2.png (You can right-click on it to see it full-size. I also cleaned up the legend and labeled the continents and oceans.) I probably won't put much effort into getting every little detail exactly r...
- Thu Oct 06, 2022 10:45 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The "How Do You Pronounce X" Thread
- Replies: 1858
- Views: 4990412
Re: The "How Do You Pronounce X" Thread
How do you avoid getting this confused with the fish?
- Tue Oct 04, 2022 8:14 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The "How Do You Pronounce X" Thread
- Replies: 1858
- Views: 4990412
Re: The "How Do You Pronounce X" Thread
Does anyone else's varieties have phonologically odd pronunciations of already and all right with /l/ elision which allow normally phonologically disallowed vowel-consonant sequences? /ɔ.ˈɹɛ.di/ and /ɔ.ˈɹait/, yes, with the /ɔ/ definitely different from the rhotacized version in NORTH/FORCE. It wou...
- Sat Sep 10, 2022 4:00 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang Random Thread
- Replies: 3257
- Views: 2992700
Re: Conlang Random Thread
These sound very similar to relational classifiers in possessive constructions: e.g. Boumaa Fijian has a four-way system which distinguishes between possessed nouns ‘relating to the possessor’, ‘owned by the possessor’, ‘drunk by the possessor’, ‘eaten by the possessor’ (Aikhenvald 2000, Classifier...
- Sat Sep 10, 2022 10:05 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang Random Thread
- Replies: 3257
- Views: 2992700
Re: Conlang Random Thread
Here's a feature I came up with for a conlang awhile back. (Note: The speakers of this language are a race of sentient reptiles called serulir , singular serul ; that word is from a different language than the one I'm talking about here.) Nouns in Chehûshan always take a suffix indicating something ...
- Tue Aug 09, 2022 7:47 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conworld random thread
- Replies: 309
- Views: 172635
Re: Conworld random thread
As long as our air isn't actually poisonous to them, I'd think it would work fine.
- Mon Aug 08, 2022 10:03 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: United States Politics Thread 46
- Replies: 1909
- Views: 528146
Re: United States Politics Thread 46
So, I wonder if the Democrats actually getting something done for once will help their chances of holding on to Congress this November.
- Wed Jul 20, 2022 10:12 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Šɯk grammar
- Replies: 22
- Views: 7133
Re: Šɯk grammar
There's something in the kinship terms that I found a little bit confusing: mɤly is the daughter of any pa — i.e. your sister, or your cousins from a maternal aunt umɤ is the son of any na —your brother, or your cousins from a paternal uncle From the description alone, it seems like there's no terms...
- Wed Jul 06, 2022 7:33 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Pronunciations you had to unlearn
- Replies: 805
- Views: 558718
Re: Pronunciations you had to unlearn
Northeast U.S., and I always say /eɪt/. I associate the /ɛt/ pronunciation with... I don't even know what particular dialects, more just a general feeling that it's an "unsophisticated" pronunciation. I definitely wouldn't have thought of it as British. Wiktionary has several examples of a...
- Mon Jul 04, 2022 8:08 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: United States Politics Thread 46
- Replies: 1909
- Views: 528146
Re: United States Politics Thread 46
More worryingly: where do you think it's going? All-out civil war and a split into two or more mutually hostile new countries? Realistically, more of what we have now: a division into liberal blue states and ultraconservative red states. That would persist indefinitely even if they go full fascist ...
- Sun Jun 19, 2022 7:27 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: English questions
- Replies: 1481
- Views: 502800
Re: English questions
Get an unabridged English dictionary, and a complete grammar of English, and a complete reference to English idioms. Put them on a scale together. That's how much English weighs.
- Fri Apr 08, 2022 7:36 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Random Thread
- Replies: 4119
- Views: 571512
Re: Random Thread
I doubt the Republicans care much if the Democrats have three justices, as long as they can make those three votes meaningless by keeping firm control of the other six seats. They're counting on taking the Senate back in November, after which they'll block any further Biden appointees--especially if...
- Sat Apr 02, 2022 9:58 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Random Thread
- Replies: 4119
- Views: 571512
Re: Random Thread
Is attempting to normalize membership in your community throwing them under the bus? Not automatically, I wouldn't say, but there are many, many cases of "less queer" people fighting for their own rights, and then stopping once those are achieved. Gay people who only wanted the right to h...
- Thu Mar 17, 2022 7:50 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Random Thread
- Replies: 4119
- Views: 571512
Re: Random Thread
So, the U.S. might do away with annual time changes next year, instead sticking with Daylight Saving Time year round.
Getting rid of the clock changes is definitely a good idea, but I'm honestly torn on whether DST or standard time is the better one to switch to permanently...
Getting rid of the clock changes is definitely a good idea, but I'm honestly torn on whether DST or standard time is the better one to switch to permanently...
- Wed Feb 16, 2022 12:58 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Random Thread
- Replies: 4119
- Views: 571512
Re: Random Thread
Another thing is that, to my knowledge, it says nowhere in the Bible directly that the Earth is flat - you have to interprete it to come to such a conclusion. But evolution directly contradicts a literal interpretation of both creation myths. That's a big difference for literalists. Also, a lot of ...