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- Mon Mar 25, 2024 3:22 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Seeing past your cultural worldview
- Replies: 28
- Views: 319874
Re: Seeing past your cultural worldview
A couple of specific examples: As part of a recent post about ancient floor mosaics , she discusses how ancient people viewed art and artists (i.e. primarily as a form of manual labor that served a purpose, rather than a form of individual expression.) I kind of have the impression that in that reg...
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 9:29 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Settler colonialism in action
- Replies: 183
- Views: 5690
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 12:17 pm
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Almeomusica
- Replies: 142
- Views: 11641918
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 11:08 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Maybe pruning?
- Replies: 128
- Views: 12035
Re: Maybe pruning?
As I write this, the forum claims that there are more than six million views for my Could this work as a collaborative project?-thread in Ephemera. That thread is less than a month old, and has 30 replies. What on Earth is going on there?
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 8:36 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: AIs gunning for our precious freelancers
- Replies: 733
- Views: 137271
Re: AIs gunning for our precious freelancers
It seems to have caused quite a stir among scholars of classical antiquity.
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 7:24 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: AIs gunning for our precious freelancers
- Replies: 733
- Views: 137271
Re: AIs gunning for our precious freelancers
For his achievement, the student, 21-year-old Luke Farritor, has won $40,000. But he should probably share the prize with AI as it helped him to identify a single word on the scroll: Should people who do scholarship by analysing photographs share any prizes they win for it with the concept of photo...
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 5:21 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Venting thread
- Replies: 1920
- Views: 15027984
Re: Venting thread
I feel like I don't find much joy in doing anything anymore. I mostly only engage in my hobbies as a means to relieve my misery. But even now I have too low motivation to engage in my hobbies anymore rather than lay in bed all day sleeping or watching videos. I hope this somehow gets better. Depres...
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 1:52 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Survival of Greco-Roman paganism
- Replies: 26
- Views: 4442
Re: Survival of Greco-Roman paganism
This makes me wonder, has anyone here read Catherine Nixey's The Darkening Age (I haven't), and if you have, what do you think of it?
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 12:23 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4687
- Views: 2061929
Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
work -> things where your exert yourself -> pre-modern travel?
- Fri Mar 22, 2024 5:44 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: A Uyseʔ beetle?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 279
Re: A Uyseʔ beetle?
The fact that "ʔ" looks a bit like a question mark makes this thread's title look interesting to me.
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 12:58 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: English questions
- Replies: 1401
- Views: 447314
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 8:20 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
- Replies: 909
- Views: 1083554
Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
Good luck getting that sorted out!WeepingElf wrote: ↑Thu Mar 21, 2024 8:18 am I can't give you references since my PC has died and I am on my phone now,
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 12:58 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: AIs gunning for our precious freelancers
- Replies: 733
- Views: 137271
Re: AIs gunning for our precious freelancers
It's not really that I disagree with you, jcb, but I kind of wonder who you think you're talking to - someone who approves of outsourcing and union-busting?
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 5:50 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: English questions
- Replies: 1401
- Views: 447314
Re: English questions
Oddly, neither of the two "incorrect" pronunciations he gives is /ˈn(j)uː.fənd.lənd/. And I have never, ever heard the "incorrect" pronunciation given with /faʊnd/. I haven't heard that one, but until very recently, I would have assumed it was the "right" one, based on...
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 5:41 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: AIs gunning for our precious freelancers
- Replies: 733
- Views: 137271
Re: AIs gunning for our precious freelancers
Then again, that whole children's super fun Oompa Loompa experience disaster thing seems to have been a failed attempt at doing that. Or at least at doing that with the jobs of middle management.
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 10:48 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: AIs gunning for our precious freelancers
- Replies: 733
- Views: 137271
Re: AIs gunning for our precious freelancers
Ultimately this resulted in zeptoforth, which gave me added satisfaction when it started being used by other people, which also gave me something that I had never had before -- a sense that there were people who used and benefited from my work instead of the loneliness of developing things no one e...
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 10:36 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: The New ZBB Quote Thread
- Replies: 317
- Views: 339373
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 10:06 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: The New ZBB Quote Thread
- Replies: 317
- Views: 339373
Re: The New ZBB Quote Thread
WeepingElf wrote: ↑Tue Mar 19, 2024 8:21 am R. M. W. Dixon once quipped about incomprehensible grammars that in many of them, the theoretical framework needed to understand them will probably be extinct long before the language described is.
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 6:59 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: "Experiencer"
- Replies: 40
- Views: 4429
Re: "Experiencer"
I'd say there should be a distinction between a naturalistic conlang and a naturalistic conlang grammar.
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 6:12 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: AIs gunning for our precious freelancers
- Replies: 733
- Views: 137271
Re: AIs gunning for our precious freelancers
I don't think being generally critical of technology makes you a Nazi, but I still fundamentally disagree with general hostility towards technology. I think that the technological developments of the last 300 years have, all in all, been great for humankind. I wouldn't want to live in a world where ...