Zompist Bboard Again

zompist wrote: ↑Thu Sep 27, 2018 7:16 pm I'd rhyme it with "skull".

Same.

For whatever reason, that one strikes me as extremely funny. "We're gonna take a dog, right--" "Right." "and this 3D printer--" "Uh-huh" "and we're gonna PRINT CANCER CELLS and STICK 'EM IN THIS DOG'S HEAD" "...that's brilliant!"

Janko can read the posts about it on the old board, the same as we all did.

Uhhhhh Sal did you read a different comment than I did? Methru was comparing the Dothraki to two other in-book cultures, not saying the Dothraki were paragons of virtue or whatever. Out of three bad things, it is possible to say that one of them may be the least-bad, without denying that all three a...

I dunno, I think /ts/ is one of the easier "foreign" phonemes for an English speaker to pick up. /x/ is certainly trickier, though.

i feel like the translations take longer to make than the actual music Indeed. I've done a couple of Tirina songs, and the actual singing/audio editing/video editing is significantly faster and easier than doing the translation part. The problem with songs is that you can't just do a direct transla...

Ahhh, Reaper Man! Love that one. I understand why some people might not like it, but I don't feel that way at all. I think it's marvelous. Death is such a great character.

Some Discworld thoughts: For some reason I've never been a fan of Moving Pictures . It's not that it isn't well-written--and it includes a bunch of characters I love, like Detritus--but it just doesn't grab me the way many of his other books do. I haven't read it for quite awhile, but in my memory, ...

As someone who quite enjoyed reading ASOIAF, your review sounds quite accurate. ;) I've been reading the John Carter books lately! Never read them before, but they're delightful adventure books and excellent at manipulation. It's quite clear they were originally serialized (EVERY CHAPTER must conclu...

I should think the US was primarily settled by people from the East Coast. English speakers were pretty thin on the ground west of the Mississippi two hundred years ago.

It [the verbal usage] definitely seems to be increasingly widespread.

Today I heard "YouTube" as a count noun meaning "video available on YouTube". (E.g. "There's a YouTube you can watch.") Interesting. I've only heard "a Youtube" to mean "a Youtube channel". I think I'd also be ok, though, with it meaning a youtube v...

Though tbf it is arguably harder to cheat with than a system of buttons built into desks like in American legislatures where people can press your button for you if you're not there when the vote happens (which highlights the need for a division-bell system). That's not how it works. There are a nu...

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