Zompist Bboard Again

I'm not an artist, but I felt the urge to draw a couple of things today. Weird dragony things, and magical children.

I was listening to You Can't Kill Rock and Roll by Ozzy Osbourne, and I had previously misheard the line "Cause rock 'n roll is my religion and my law" as "Cause rock 'n roll is my religion and my love", and apparently I am not the only person to do this. Thing is, Ozzy pronounc...

Until today, the only meaning I knew for the phrase "nip and tuck" was that it was slang for plastic surgery. Then today I was researching something and learned from Wiktionary that it can also mean "evenly matched", like in a competition where it's very close between two contest...

I kept forgetting to come back to this thread and mention it, but I was listening to episode 341 of the Elis James and John Robins podcast (sometimes when I have no new podcast episodes to listen to I go back to ones from before I started listening), and they played a game using dice, and they repea...

I went through a phase of calling a single one a "die" out of prescriptivism, but "dice" is the only one that's ever sounded natural to me.

Re dinner etc.: "dinner" for me is my biggest meal of the day, regardless of whether I'm eating it at lunchtime or dinnertime. "I'm having my dinner at lunch" isn't too weird of a sentence for me. On days when I've had dinner at lunchtime, anything I have at dinnertime is just a ...

For you, do -aught and -ought generally represent the same sound? Yes. I would say "taught" and "fought" always rhyme. The idea that the -ought in thought would not be identical to the -ought in fought is really interesting to me. Well like I said, those vowels are identical whe...

I'm from East London.

Are you not horse - hoarse merged? Horse and hoarse are homophones for me. So what's the difference in vowel then between the pairs? I'm not good at IPA so here's a clip: "fort" then "fault" . Bear in mind this is me intentionally trying to emulate casual speech - if I was enunc...

It's hard to analyse it because thinking about it changes it, but I'm pretty sure, for me, in casual speech: fought = fort thought = fault And neither pair matches the other. I have no idea why this would be the case, because fought and thought definitely look like they should rhyme, and f and th mo...

I don't think I have political dreams, but I've noticed that my dreams lag my everyday life by decades. So for many years after graduating from college I had dreams about going to class (and inevitably missing some of them). And though I haven't had a computer job in years, I still dream that I do....

Interestingly, for me: "Which chair is he sitting on?" - He's sitting on a chair, right now, and I want to know which one "Which chair is he sitting in?" - He may or may not be currently sitting on a chair, but one of the chairs in the room has been designated as his for the purp...

quinterbeck wrote: ↑Wed Apr 21, 2021 4:32 am I know very few Brits who still use the term "chemist('s)" for the local dispenser/ary. They're nearly always called pharmacies nowadays.

Where in Britain? I'm in East London and would only ever use "chemist" - I've only heard "pharmacy" from foreigners.

This comment made me think - how about you name each language after a word where that language famously uses a completely different word from most other languages? My first thought for English was "pineapple". Idk, pineapple sounds pretty close to piña to me. Yeah true. It's just a bit of...

This is really random and unlikely to get a response, but does anyone remember an avatar of a waffle with a face made of fruit that I'm pretty sure I would have used on the old incatena forum early on? EDIT: Looks like this was the one! This was the highest quality version I could find, though. http...

This does show one of the problems with naming related languages after a cognate set: you get a lot of very very similar names! This comment made me think - how about you name each language after a word where that language famously uses a completely different word from most other languages? My firs...

Shakespearean comedies can probably give you some laughs if they're actually being acted out, rather than read in script form.

Ah, that would make sense. Thanks!

Sorry if this is the wrong place to ask this, but I'm just playing with SCA2 and I'm not sure why something isn't working the way I expect. It might just be me rather than a bug, though. I have the categories V=aiou and C=ptkfshlmnyw, and the rule y//#(C)_V. I'm expecting this to cause: pyara -> par...