Zompist Bboard Again

Insane numbers of paradigms are entirely naturalistic. Go check that article: http://mvtabilitie.blogspot.com/2008/09/also-known-as-most-demanding.html for an idea of how bad these things can get. Some of my favourite quotes: "describing the Old Irish verbal system as 'complex' is like referri...

Nobody yet has mentioned "somewhat" as a rather daffy alternative to "something".

Let's charitably assume that the "few beers" inadvertently reversed his polarity.

A pertinent misleading headline, courtesy of my copy of The Complete Plain Words:

Sections of the population are being squeezed flat by inflation

mèþru wrote: ↑Mon Oct 29, 2018 11:29 am This is big news!
http://www.bbc.com/news/live/business-45991505

The Chancellor can say what he likes. It'll all be rendered irrelevant when we leave the EU without a deal anyway.

To me it sounds like an Americanism, like "zee" or "food to go".

(stuff) Thanks--that actually sounds like it would work nicely, perhaps with some manual tweaking to get some specific constellations along the ecliptic ("zodiac," if you will). It wouldn't be too difficult to do as an online application. Perhaps somebody with more energy and knowledge th...

as well as if a program exists to create fictional skies. I wrote one a while ago. It's actually pretty straightforward to understand the basics, which I'll explain here if you want. I'm pretty programming-illiterate, but I'd still be interested in hearing it, see if I could figure it out. OK. To g...

Zaarin wrote: ↑Sun Oct 21, 2018 10:39 amas well as if a program exists to create fictional skies.

I wrote one a while ago. It's actually pretty straightforward to understand the basics, which I'll explain here if you want.

That looks really lovely!

How did you cope with the storm which was heading your way, btw?

Lots of cleavage, eh Sal? Seriously, posts like yours are why I said the new ZBB needs you. I learn something new every time. As for senile dementia, I was of course speaking metaphorically. I wonder what someone from, say, 1950 (when the Conservatives had a majority share of the vote in Scotland) w...

To what extent would the members of the ZBB agree with the proposition that the United Kingdom is now entering a (probably terminal) state of senile dementia? We have a Government which is seemingly incapable of governing, an Opposition which seems unwilling to oppose, and fanatics driving the polit...

Linguoboy wrote: ↑Wed Oct 10, 2018 12:32 pm I've finally gotten around to watching Garth Marenghi's Darkplace and it is glorious.

Are you watching it for the acting, or for the truth???

Salmoneus wrote: ↑Tue Oct 09, 2018 5:12 pmThe Liberal Party, the continuity splinter wing of the Lib Dems, who refused the merger with the SNP.

I think you have a redundant nasal articulation in that acronym

The passive voice has a place in scientific discourse, but otherwise it is generally avoided because it sounds clumsy, contrived, and awkward.

Salmoneus wrote: ↑Thu Oct 04, 2018 2:36 pmI'm always amused these days at the people complaining about young people these days these days.

Aye, young people were *proper* young people when I were young...

Running around in a field of wheat screaming "look at me, look at me!" may just be his natural psychological defence (/self-destruction) mechanism at this point... Wasn't it actually grass? However, why in the almighty fuck the Prime Minister was up on stage "busting moves" (as ...

Returning to current events, could Sal describe at an appropriate level of some detail what he thinks Boris is trying to achieve, beyond building up profile for a potential leadership bid?

Ser wrote: ↑Tue Oct 02, 2018 11:36 pm "-bong" refers to the sound of Big Ben.

No that's "dong". "Bong" is something you boil interestingly-scented water in.