Zompist Bboard Again

When I was a little kid, like 5-6 years old, I watched cartoons (mostly American cartoons dubbed into Spanish) so much that my speech was strongly influenced by the dubbers' neutral Spanish accent, and people meeting me at school would sometimes ask me what country I was from... I learned the local ...

I've actually seen "transitive" used for this sometimes in certain syntax textbooks, even when the complements have some oblique marking such as a preposition, but I dislike that usage.

I gotta say that conversely I've never understood the exact nuances between 終於, 最後, 究竟, 總算 and 到底 in Mandarin... All of them usually said to mean "at last ~ finally ~ in the end" in dictionaries.

I'm really surprised by this conversation. I've lived here in Vancouver for nearly 15 years now and I don't recall ever hearing this sike!/psych! interjection. Let's see if the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon ends up applying to me too. Or maybe it just isn't used here. I made a silent bet that I could b...

I'm tyring to learn about the pre-Hangeul writing systems of Korea, especially Idu and Hyangchal. But I'm struggling to find anything that lays out everything we know about these systems. Wikipedia links go to generic survey textbooks that say nothing. Academia.org has nothing. Google books has not...

Trying to parse something about English dialects: 1. How does the NURSE vowel differ from the LETTER vowel, in dialects that have it? The NURSE vowel is usually higher in General American, Canadian English and SSBE (Southern Standard British English), effectively [ɵɹ] ([ɵ˞ ]) or [ɵː] (and you can f...

Is that the actual explanation for "Maplestory"?

I support this. "Data" is just the internet molecules you get by subscription, as opposed to the internet molecules you get at home, or the ones you can forage in public places. Calling them both wi-fi just eliminates an arbitrary distinction. Do you ever need to ask someone "do you ...

As for free-of-cost font-making software, FontForge exists but even in 2022 I've still heard people complaining about its learning curve. Birdfont, I've heard, is easier but buggier. And GlyphrStudio is rather laborious in terms of UX (though it's entirely online, a curious convenience!), with kerni...

I have a question... OK lots of questions for creators of logographic scripts, syllabaries and other non-alphabetic scripts. If you draw these on the computer, do you use any specific programs, ie do you use Photoshop/GIMP or a font creator? And if you have a font creator, do you have any recommand...

Mainly because 'page' is 'Seite' in German, which sounds a lot like 'site', right? Hmm, I don't see the logic. Both Webseite and Website are used as well, but a lot of people seem to prefer the word Homepage just as the word for an entire website. Moreover, the terms Webseite and Website , differin...

WarpedWartWars wrote: ↑Tue Jul 26, 2022 5:17 pm

Travis B. wrote: ↑Tue Jul 26, 2022 4:51 pm It has no meaning in "ordinary English"!

Yes, but what would it mean if it did?

The political meaning referred to above, most likely.

I'm really surprised by this conversation. I've lived here in Vancouver for nearly 15 years now and I don't recall ever hearing this sike!/psych! interjection. Let's see if the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon ends up applying to me too. Or maybe it just isn't used here.

"Kant can't"

US: /kɑnt kænt/
UK: /kænt kɑːnt/

That makes me wonder if the reverse(ish) exists somewhere: other than English, are there languages which replace a number with an...___? (the word escapes me; sorry) ie, Bob put one cup of sugar in the bread mix. Tom is going to make double bagels. instead of Tom is going to make two bagels. Is thi...

Clearly the cool way to go is to state the surname both at the beginning and the end.

"Bond, James Bond."

A Hungarian in a chat observes something about his language: Just be like Hungarian, have no gender at all anywhere ever. Also have the dual merge into the singular rather than the plural. Everything that comes in pairs is in the singular. Glasses, jeans, eyes, legs are all singular. If you lose an ...

(We know that the Assyrians often had two scribes involved in royal affairs, one writing Aramaic, one writing Akkadian.) I have the perfect illustration of this phenomenon: https://i.imgur.com/uCmmWhU.jpg ^Part of item 118882 at the British Museum, depicting a scribe writing in Akkadian (on clay) a...

We can say they were not mutually intelligible, for the simple reason that there were translations between them. The targumim were written down in the first centuries CE, but are thought to date back to the time of Ezra (-5C). Ezra 4:7 refers to a letter written in Aramaic "and translated"...

Pareixo l'extrany, com l'únic aquí que no entén alemany. I feel like the odd one out, being the only one here who doesn't understand German. Theodiscē volō discere, ut sunt multa hāc linguā composita quae legere velim, sed parum mihi placet. Conmaereāmus. I want to learn German, as there are many t...