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- Wed May 15, 2024 8:28 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Elections in various countries
- Replies: 1099
- Views: 608884
Re: Elections in various countries
Does anyone know enough about the situation in Ireland to make an educated guess about how big the risk is that the far right actually gets somewhere in the next Irish election?
- Wed May 15, 2024 5:35 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: British Politics Guide
- Replies: 1936
- Views: 1018968
Re: British Politics Guide
Wow, thank you for the work that went into that!
- Tue May 14, 2024 9:25 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: British Politics Guide
- Replies: 1936
- Views: 1018968
Re: British Politics Guide
Thank you!
- Tue May 14, 2024 5:22 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: War in the Middle East, again
- Replies: 447
- Views: 74698
Re: War in the Middle East, again
The idea seems to be quite popular as a kind of thought game among some people these days, but I don't see who would have made such a decision in the 1940s, either.
- Tue May 14, 2024 5:19 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: British Politics Guide
- Replies: 1936
- Views: 1018968
Re: British Politics Guide
Why is the collection of built-up areas that serves as the capital of the UK generally called "London" and not "Westminster"?
- Mon May 13, 2024 5:05 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Random Thread
- Replies: 3731
- Views: 451317
- Fri May 10, 2024 9:58 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Random Thread
- Replies: 3731
- Views: 451317
Re: Random Thread
Anyone interested in reading about Irish/British history in German? Perhaps your first language is something else, and you want to brush up on your German, or specifically on a pseudo-scholarly register of German? Earlier this year, for no good reason, I wrote this it-was-meant-to-be-brief-but-ended...
- Fri May 10, 2024 9:36 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Random Thread
- Replies: 3731
- Views: 451317
- Fri May 10, 2024 8:44 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Happy things thread!
- Replies: 1211
- Views: 716347
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: 597
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: 263
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: 1920
- Views: 15028077
Re: Venting thread
Get better, malloc!
- Mon May 06, 2024 8:47 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: The New ZBB Quote Thread
- Replies: 317
- Views: 339400
- Mon May 06, 2024 8:44 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: AI in conlanging - present and future
- Replies: 24
- Views: 449
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: 447
- Views: 74698
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: 447
- Views: 74698
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: 753794
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: 447
- Views: 74698
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: 271433
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: 1419
- Views: 445075