Zompist Bboard Again

Travis B. wrote: ↑Sat May 04, 2024 9:55 am I implemented what I thought were continuations for zeptoscript..

Is this not a matter for the Computing thread?

I submitted a poster to ICON2024 (advertised earlier on this board), and my submission got accepted! Yet, I’m having second thoughts on whether to confirm my attendance or not. I’ve now been living in Paris for a month, and I‘m still struggling to get used to it; I’m not sure whether further travel ...

The curious thing here is its precise application, when you have negation in the mix. If you apply Quantifier Hopping twice , you move it all the way back to the beginning of the VP, and it has the intended meaning. But if you only apply it once , the meaning flips to something which is very nearly...

Other way around: what's happening in We only didn’t see the Louvre is Quantifier Hopping. We are planning to see only the Louvre. > We are planning to only see the Louvre. > We are only planning to see the Louvre. The trick is to note the semantics: what's limited is what we're seeing, i.e. the Lo...

Reviving this thread to mention an interesting observation about English quantifiers (discovered in the process of conlanging): 1. We only didn’t see the Louvre ⇒ It was only the Louvre that we didn’t see Under focalisation (I think this particular construction is clefting?), the quantifier seems to...

Two in one day! This one isn’t from a newspaper, but manages to be tremendously confusing all the same:

A portable Common Lisp toolkit for building inspectors

(As one commenter put it, ‘I was excited to learn how building inspectors were using Common Lisp’…)

Officer accidentally fired gun while clearing Columbia building seizure — NYPD

Politics aside, suddenly running into that word ‘seizure’ at the end nearly gave me one… (no, it’s not that kind of seizure!)

My current proposal is assigning accent regularly like many stress systems but declaring by fiat that it will surface as pitch. Developing interesting rules has proven difficult, however, since the principles involved keep resulting in contradictions. I initially planned on something like the Latin...

but grammars tend to converge anyway, because this is less obvious to the speakers themselves. Iirc there's an African(?) city where two languages are spoken that have almost no shared vocabulary, but almost identical grammar. Can't recall which city, unfortunately, and a quick google doesn't show ...

No, because that's not how language contact works. Vocabulary is in most situations the easiest thing to change. I'm going to disagree by proxy. I've read that there's two situations in which languages might influence each other. The first is contact where speakers of language A have contact with s...

How many millions of Israelis need to participate in protests before you stop saying things like this? I, personally, have called out this behaviour many times in this thread alone, and more elsewhere on the Internet. Perhaps I should just keep on repeating that Zionism is not Netanyahu-ism , in th...

Anyone ever wondered (in conlanging terms) what English might have looked like if the Norman conquest had exerted more influence on English phonology and grammar but less on vocabulary? No, because that's not how language contact works. Vocabulary is in most situations the easiest thing to change. ...

Meanwhile , in Sydney, texts from a teenager who carried out a terror stabbing a couple of weeks ago have revealed that who he really wanted to attack was ‘a bunch of Jews’ (though the person he eventually ended up stabbing was an Assyrian Orthodox bishop). The texts explicitly link this desire to ...

Thank you for clarifying. I should point out, though, that the term ‘intifada’ is generally associated with violent resistance to Israel. (I feel like I see this kind of ambiguity a lot… pro-Palestinian people using terms which are widely associated with violence, then claiming that no, actually , ...

So calling for resistance to oppression is "antisemitic" when the oppressors happen to be Jewish? ‘Burn Tel Aviv’ and ‘Zionists don’t deserve to live’… those are ‘calling to resistance to oppression’? I was referring specifically to "encouraging children to call for 'intifada' [i.e. ...

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 s...

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? I will admit to having the same query. To me, the attraction of Forths generally is their low-level–ness — I don’t...

Australia has quite an interesting ‘superannuation’ system to solve this particular problem. Essentially, each superannuation provider is a private investment fund, independent from the government (but well-regulated). It is mandatory for a certain amount of your income to be directed into your chos...

you see, in most protests there are different people with different thinking. seems like most attendants, and the organizers and leaders or whatever, are not there out of antisemitism. that's what the jew guy there is saying, this isn't an antisemitic protest, even though we have some cunts (heheh)...

On the other hand , you get students chanting ‘burn Tel Aviv to the ground’, or the protest organiser who said ‘Zionists don’t deserve to live’. (And we all know who they mean by ‘Zionists’: the linked article makes it quite clear that they mean ‘anyone who is identifiably Jewish’.) Even in my own ...