Zompist Bboard Again

Huh! Interesting. I thought TRAP as a diphthong in NCVS was well-nigh universal. It definitely is diphthongized for me regardless of whether a nasal is involved or not.

Hold up, Travis, your TRAP is just plain [ɛ]? It's not a diphthong?

Also I also have the NCVS and my <ketchup> is definitely DRESS (which is also [ɜ]-ish for me). It's homophonous with "catch-up" (as in "playing catch-up") for me.

brotha one month of late rent will not "destroy" your rental history or credit history. it was late by less than a week and a half, I'm not even sure they can report it to credit agencies until it's over 30 days overdue. just come up with a strategy so you don't forget it in the future. fo...

Relevant personal anecdote on the "are the vacant houses in the same place that homeless people want to live": my uncle was for an extended time homeless in San Diego, California, while owning two (!!) houses in Michigan (about 2000 miles away as the crow flies). Certainly this doesn't app...

There is a very big difference between "humans become cogs in the machine of industrialization but are very much still an integral part of the process, including performing almost all of the creative work in the field, which pre-industrialization was honestly still only rarely done by ordinary ...

Realistically though, how much of our clothing and pottery comes from traditional artisans? 100% of the clothing you have ever worn in your entire life was sewn by someone directly operating a sewing machine. Every piece of fabric and trim was assembled by a human being. Every side seam was run thr...

I would interpret calling non-relatives "uncle" or "auntie" a feature of Chinese, South Asian, or Caribbean cultural influence, and probably a few others I'm not aware of. I never hear it from "native born" Americans. I'm not sure about that. I know a number of New Eng...

This is clear flyer erasure. (which to me is basically the same as brochure , but is always a single folded piece of (probably glossy) paper Interesting. For me, flyers need neither be glossy nor folded. That photocopy of a picture of a dog with the caption "HAVE YOU SEEN ME?" stapled to ...

I think so, although when spoken I would expect "how" to be stressed to convey that meaning. If not stressed, then I would be inclined to interpret it as a statement of ability.

This is clear flyer erasure. (which to me is basically the same as brochure , but is always a single folded piece of (probably glossy) paper rather than having individual pages like a booklet , for advertising purposes. I'm actually not sure whether leaflet can have multiple pages for me or not, but...

Their police department must be so excited. At last! Crime!!

That being said, the folks up the road from my parents' took down their Trump 2024 flag! I was ever so proud of them for replacing their Trump 2020 flag last year, and now they've got no Trump merch outside at all. Of course, as my sister pointed out, folks who have Trump flags are one of the least ...

Truthfully, I am completely unfamiliar with such an object. If I had to pick a word for it, I would probably describe it as a tray, but I agree that it's not at all a prototypical tray. It's just not something we have in the US, generally. (also not entirely certain of the purpose of it! Is it just ...

I use cash for two purposes: church giving on Sunday (we're respectably behind-the-times; while we can handle checks, we don't have any sort of electronic deposit system set up) and if I find myself at a farmers' market or obscure shop where for some reason they aren't set up with Square (a popular ...

Agreed, these are quite normal in Michigan as well. (with the exception of "welp = yes". I do say "welp" but it's more of an expression of giving up or "I dunno", I think)

Re: the Reddit situation: the most frustrating thing for me is the realization that I'm not sure I can fully break away from Reddit. During the early part of the protest, I wanted to look up some product reviews, and realized that for the particular subject, I could not find another place that had w...

Come now, the man was a conlanger. He probably started speculating about it for fun and decided to go with it. If one of us did this, I wouldn't blink twice. It's just the sort of thing we do. Beyond that, there's a metanarrative about his legendarium, that it was sort of the forgotten myths of Euro...

One thing I would probably buy, if I would live in an universe where both a) it would be on the market, and b) I would have a shitton of money, would be a computer-like gadget that would be physically incapable of letting you do anything else than working on text files. Like this ? Or an Alphasmart...

Peacock is a paid streaming service.

That's hardly new, with Ukraine. The US has been somehow at fault for everything since the beginning, in the eyes of the Russian government.