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- Fri May 10, 2024 8:44 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Happy things thread!
- Replies: 1211
- Views: 716907
Re: Happy things thread!
a really interesting collection of essays in a rather lovely edition I received my copy of The Philosophy Graduate’s Fallacy and other essays (by Raphael Landeck, ed. Mark Rosenfelder) yesterday and am really enjoying it! Oh, thank you very much! I wouldn't have thought anyone would like the book s...
- Fri May 10, 2024 8:38 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Challenge: American English as a separate language
- Replies: 30
- Views: 779
Re: Challenge: American English as a separate language
Since Travis brought up subtitles: I have the impression that movies, TV shows, etc. rarely get different BE and AE subtitles, while, at least on Netflix, you can apparently often choose between Spanish Spanish, Latin American Spanish, Portuguese Portuguese, and Brazilian Portuguese subtitles.
- Tue May 07, 2024 5:29 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: The perception of rhythm in language
- Replies: 15
- Views: 353
Re: The perception of rhythm in language
Shouldn't this be in L&L?
- Tue May 07, 2024 5:28 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Venting thread
- Replies: 1940
- Views: 15029307
Re: Venting thread
Get better, malloc!
- Mon May 06, 2024 8:47 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: The New ZBB Quote Thread
- Replies: 318
- Views: 339742
- Mon May 06, 2024 8:44 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: AI in conlanging - present and future
- Replies: 24
- Views: 596
Re: AI in conlanging - present and future
This is what AI experts have been predicting for a few years now - and I fully believe AI will be able to write novels by 2030 and will be able to consistently generate Nobel Prize worthy novels by 2034-35. Well, AI experts have a psychological, and in many cases, also a financial motive to overrat...
- Wed May 01, 2024 2:56 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: War in the Middle East, again
- Replies: 455
- Views: 75797
Re: War in the Middle East, again
What movement is that? The movement to hold Israel accountable for war crimes? The BDS movement? The movement to recognise Palestinian statehood? Enlighten me. The people chanting "Jew Jew cowardly pig, come out and fight alone!" (As I don't have to tell you, it rhymes in German.) Oh, and...
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 1:34 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: War in the Middle East, again
- Replies: 455
- Views: 75797
Re: War in the Middle East, again
And, yes, Raphael, frankly that is the worst kind of bothsidesism. There is a massacre going on and it's being perpetrated by Israel on the people of the West Bank and Gaza. Saying "but they would do the same given the chance" is literally the justification used by every committer of mass...
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 4:26 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: The Contradictory Feelings Thread
- Replies: 666
- Views: 754209
Re: The Contradictory Feelings Thread
Trying to motivate myself to do the things I had planned for today.
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 3:28 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: War in the Middle East, again
- Replies: 455
- Views: 75797
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 si...
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 3:15 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: The Computer And General Tech Thread - Software, Hardware, Questions, etc.
- Replies: 557
- Views: 271816
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?
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 3:13 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: United States Politics Thread 46
- Replies: 1431
- Views: 446227
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 6:34 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: "Experiencer"
- Replies: 40
- Views: 4745
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.
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 6:32 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Venting thread
- Replies: 1940
- Views: 15029307
Re: Venting thread
I was on vacation this week, to visit the Norman Music Festival (which runs from Thursday to Saturday). - Arrive on Tuesday. - Catch sick Wednesday night/Thursday morning. - Recover sufficiently by Saturday to do things. - This being Oklahoma, tornadoes and severe thunderstorms occur on Saturday, s...
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 6:31 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Do you think it will ever be possible to go back in time?
- Replies: 43
- Views: 1270
Re: Do you think it will ever be possible to go back in time?
If time travel were possible without requiring causality loops, how was Hitler never assassinated by a time traveler? One potential explanation is raised here - that the world as it exists actually is the best of all possible worlds... say in every timeline without Hitler we get Uber-Nazis or somet...
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 6:27 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: United States Politics Thread 46
- Replies: 1431
- Views: 446227
Re: United States Politics Thread 46
But the real question is, what's the plan? How are old folks supposed to, y'know, eat? Is everybody super enthused at the idea of taking Grandma in? IIRC the idea is to have people invest money before they retire, and then live of those investments once they're retired. One of the many problems wit...
- Sat Apr 27, 2024 5:41 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: War in the Middle East, again
- Replies: 455
- Views: 75797
Re: War in the Middle East, again
My impression is that the antisemitism and other extremism is mostly pushed top-down from the government; of course it’s hard to avoid picking up antisemitic beliefs in that environment, but at the same time people are able to recognise government propaganda for what it is. I suspect that, while ma...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 5:30 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: The Contradictory Feelings Thread
- Replies: 666
- Views: 754209
Re: The Contradictory Feelings Thread
Linguoboy: Wow, just wow. Sorry that you have to deal with such fucked-up shit.
doctor shark: Good luck, and I hope it all works out!
doctor shark: Good luck, and I hope it all works out!
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 5:29 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Venting thread
- Replies: 1940
- Views: 15029307
Re: Venting thread
In my family, it's one main financial hit after another right now.
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 5:28 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: War in the Middle East, again
- Replies: 455
- Views: 75797
Re: War in the Middle East, again
What about the law of return? Okay, fine, we repel it. Let's say then that France elects fascists and immediately dusts off the anti-Jew laws (that's more likely than you'd think). What happens to the French Jews? Less dramatically, France declares it illegal to wear a yarmulke and generally makes ...