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- Mon Apr 29, 2024 3:37 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: "Experiencer"
- Replies: 24
- Views: 3387
Re: "Experiencer"
I think you all have missed the main reason congrammars are written in plain terms. The conlanger is trying to communicate, while the linguist is trying to prove to their employer that they are on the cutting edge of their field. I think this is overly cynical. I’ve seen plenty of academics who jus...
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 3:12 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Venting thread
- Replies: 1901
- Views: 15023342
Re: Venting thread
Sounds thoroughly miserable… you have my sympathy.
- Sat Apr 27, 2024 5:56 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: bradrn’s scratchpad
- Replies: 114
- Views: 79585
Re: bradrn’s scratchpad
Another phonetic rule On the other hand, processes like nasal assimilation (on which I’ll say more later) do apply across the boundary. I just realised I completely forgot to mention nasal assimilation in my last post on phonetic rules . So let’s fix that before it’s too late… Anyway, there’s not m...
- Sat Apr 27, 2024 5:24 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: War in the Middle East, again
- Replies: 349
- Views: 70792
Re: War in the Middle East, again
Thats why I said spoken human languages. :) In that case, it’s just a tautology… Tautologies are facts, right? (i'm serious - I asked a few times over the course of my life, and nobody wanted to give me an answer) Well, this is ultimately a question of definition, hence a somewhat useless question....
- Sat Apr 27, 2024 4:11 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: War in the Middle East, again
- Replies: 349
- Views: 70792
Re: War in the Middle East, again
...If I say spoken human languages involve sound , a statement I make despite not having carefully checked that fact in over twenty years...am I wrong? As it happens, this is wrong: you forgot sign languages. Thats why I said spoken human languages. :) In that case, it’s just a tautology…
- Sat Apr 27, 2024 1:18 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: War in the Middle East, again
- Replies: 349
- Views: 70792
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...
- Sat Apr 27, 2024 4:04 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: War in the Middle East, again
- Replies: 349
- Views: 70792
Re: War in the Middle East, again
I’ve only ever known them under the name ‘Kerguelen’, never ‘Desolation’. As for Iran: I have also heard that, compared to the rest of the Islamic world, it has less antisemitism. But ‘less’ is a relative word; I don’t think the Jews there are having a particularly great time of it. Of course, emigr...
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 1:21 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: bradrn’s scratchpad
- Replies: 114
- Views: 79585
Re: bradrn’s scratchpad
I’ve been thinking about revisiting Wēchizaŋkəŋ , once I’ve gotten Eŋes where I want it (and I do actually have a definite plan for it, so keep on reading!). I’ve always liked the aesthetic, and rereading the grammar, there’s definitely interesting stuff in there I’d like to explore further. The maj...
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 12:09 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: The New ZBB Quote Thread
- Replies: 315
- Views: 338655
Re: The New ZBB Quote Thread
hwhatting wrote: ↑Thu Apr 25, 2024 11:18 amHow could cat-like spirits speak any language but Miao?linguistcat wrote: ↑Wed Apr 24, 2024 11:20 pm I'm trying to figure out how cat spirits might speak a variation of Middle Chinese.
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 12:05 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Resources Thread
- Replies: 85
- Views: 69392
Re: Resources Thread
I was linked to this impressively accessible grammar of West Greenlandic: https://oqa.dk/assets/aitwg2ED.pdf . It’s a little eccentric in its presentation, but then again West Greenlandic is a little eccentric too, so it works well. From just reading the first few pages this seems much more "f...
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 6:22 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Resources Thread
- Replies: 85
- Views: 69392
Re: Resources Thread
I was linked to this impressively accessible grammar of West Greenlandic: https://oqa.dk/assets/aitwg2ED.pdf. It’s a little eccentric in its presentation, but then again West Greenlandic is a little eccentric too, so it works well.
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 12:54 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Romanization Challenge Thread v2.0
- Replies: 963
- Views: 475725
Re: Romanization Challenge Thread v2.0
Any time anyone has one to post.
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 7:13 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: War in the Middle East, again
- Replies: 349
- Views: 70792
Re: War in the Middle East, again
I think I may have been unclear in some parts. To address your points in turn: 1) "Israel is no worse than Sudan or Burma" is not a great argument. Maybe Israel should try to be better than some of the worst post-colonial dictatorships in the world. You’re right, but it’s also not the argu...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 5:40 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: War in the Middle East, again
- Replies: 349
- Views: 70792
Re: War in the Middle East, again
I give you that Sudan and Myanmar have not gotten the same level of attention as Israel, and have largely fallen from the public's consciousness (when activism about Darfur was a big thing was some years back, and has largely disappeared), and awareness of Iran has largely centered on the actions o...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 5:21 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: War in the Middle East, again
- Replies: 349
- Views: 70792
Re: War in the Middle East, again
Jesus Effing Christ. If you want people to understand your points clearly, have you ever considered, you know, actually phrasing them clearly ? (And if you ever do decide to take such an approach, please clarify whether your last post was sarcasm or not. Though it’s an essentially correct argument,...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 7:20 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: War in the Middle East, again
- Replies: 349
- Views: 70792
Re: War in the Middle East, again
In this case, Palestine matters right now because the IDF is bombing Gaza to smithereens and starving those it hasn't bombed in a very disproportionate fashion at the very present. And Sudan matters right now , and Myanmar also matters right now , and… you get the point, I hope. I heard plenty abou...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 6:39 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: War in the Middle East, again
- Replies: 349
- Views: 70792
Re: War in the Middle East, again
Everybody else gets to have an apartheid state that's actively committing genocide and lying about it, but suddenly people object when the Jews do it? Nobody makes a peep when there's ethnic cleansing in Sudan or Myanmar (don't google it), or when the AfD tries to do the fourth reich (don't google ...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 5:42 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: War in the Middle East, again
- Replies: 349
- Views: 70792
Re: War in the Middle East, again
Yes, I’m aware that the point was a burqa ban. (In Australia we argued about the idea a while back, but it never went through.) And apparently it bans huge crosses too. But I’d say that Jews are the most affected, because there’s not really any alternative to a kippah, whereas Muslims can at least ...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 4:53 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: War in the Middle East, again
- Replies: 349
- Views: 70792
Re: War in the Middle East, again
Less dramatically, France declares it illegal to wear a yarmulke and generally makes it illegal to be any kind of observant Jew (even more likely). What happens then? Hasn’t it already banned yarmulkes in some contexts? Yes, at school, and if you're a civil servant. I honestly don't know how mandat...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 4:19 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: War in the Middle East, again
- Replies: 349
- Views: 70792