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I'd be willing to read it and give feedback but I don't know how soon I'd get through it, between work, the offspring's care and general health stuff. But it does sound up my alley at least.

Yeah, while it's awful you had that experience and I'm sure you're very shook up, I wouldn't jump straight to PTSD. But you also don't seem to have the best coping mechanisms for stress generally. It might be good to find techniques for turning off or at least down regulating the fight or flight sid...

bradrn wrote: ↑Thu Oct 08, 2026 8:28 am

Raphael wrote: ↑Thu Oct 08, 2026 8:27 am But sometimes it's a good idea to follow style conventions.

You can choose which style convention you follow, you know…

Yep as long as you're consistent, you can do whatever in writing.

There have been and are plenty of peoples and religions who have believed that gods are not inherently good, or all powerful, or all knowing. Or at least if some god is one of these, they are not all of these. Or they might believe the gods have different sides that can be appealed to in different s...

Has anyone else heard of /ɛə(r)/ or like being used for there pronounce hundred (...) I will hear /ˈhʌndərd/ [ˈhʌ̃ːndʁ̩ˤːt]. I think your English is gravitating towards Dutch :mrgreen: Yesterday I learned that "longevity" is supposed to be lon-gevity, not long-gevity, though the latter pr...

Also those inconsistencies in pronunciation are exactly the kind of thing I look for to avoid AI voiced videos. If one word is pronounced weirdly but it's pretty consistent in the weirdness, I give it a pass. People pronounce things differently from other people but are pretty consistent in their o...

I hope I am talking of the right technology. Is the conversion of text to speech now likely to be done by AI? I heard, at 0:28 in the Youtube video entitled "Her Family Sold The Orc Girl As Useless But I Built Her A Small Home She Could Finally Call Own", two very different pronunciations...

In other words you have no evidence that AI has matched human intelligence and you can't think of a single thing that has changed. If you're really interested, I could point to numerous examples of AI mastering cognitive skills once considered exclusive to humans. Not quite the same thing as AI mat...

but I so far hadn't heard of racism accusations against her. She supports and defends the main accuser against Arday who calls himself a "race realist" and I believe from the Dave video she hints at supporting the validity of race as a biological reality rather than a social construct. Sh...

malloc wrote: ↑Fri Sep 04, 2026 8:30 pm It's already September and the sun has set and yet it's still 90°F / 32°C outside. Global warming has definitely arrived.

Oh mood. During the summer, I was seeing temps that I was used to in SoCal back in the 90s. Now, in Northern Utah and Idaho.

malloc wrote: ↑Fri Sep 04, 2026 10:03 am OpenAI claims to have achieved AGI with their latest model, ChatGPT 6. So much for suggestions that AI would hit a wall in advances before seriously challenging humans.

I promise you they haven't, it just sounds good to the shareholders.

alice wrote: ↑Sat Aug 29, 2026 2:33 pm

A pedant wrote: What's the difference between "orc" and "ork", besides spelling?

An orc is in a fantasy story, an ork is in a scifi story. Don't ask me how to spell it if it's in a science fantasy story.

Back when I studied Japanese in middle and high school, I specifically pronounced what is written in romaji as ⟨r⟩ as a lateral flap, but when I see it described in most contexts I see it being referred to just as a flap, without any mention of lateralness or at most mention that it is sometimes la...

The recent discussion in the "How Do You Pronounce X" Thread makes me curious: how often do Anglophones have a need to pronounce the word " currywurst ", anyway? I guess it depends on how often they eat it. For me, not often, but not never. Oh, Utah has currywurst these days? In...

Raphael wrote: ↑Mon Aug 10, 2026 9:26 am The recent discussion in the "How Do You Pronounce X" Thread makes me curious: how often do Anglophones have a need to pronounce the word "currywurst", anyway?

I guess it depends on how often they eat it. For me, not often, but not never.

Well it's pretty much indisputable that AI works these days. It has pretty much achieved parity with humans in terms of cognitive abilities with even mathematicians facing stiff competition from it these days. People keep predicting that AI will hit some wall of development and stagnate yet it just...

In Nyango, /ni/ に is much like Japanese, the locative particle although it has other uses.

As an ex-Catholic, the idea of there not being a soul is against the teachings of "The Church", and if you can posit that "God" is outside our universe and can interact with the universe directly (though rarely does), then you can also posit that souls, whatever else they are, ar...

Anyone studying or having studied Classical Chinese: Tell me your preferred reconstruction of Middle Chinese, and why? I've been using Pulleyblank's which is fine, but it's based strongly one on'yomi from Japanese and isn't as interesting for the conlang I'm working on. My problem with Middle Chine...

Anyone studying or having studied Classical Chinese: Tell me your preferred reconstruction of Middle Chinese, and why? I've been using Pulleyblank's which is fine, but it's based strongly one on'yomi from Japanese and isn't as interesting for the conlang I'm working on.