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Travis B. wrote: ↑Thu Mar 21, 2024 12:55 pm Any idea why this is so?

The influence of bad fantasy/SF movie/TV conlangs used by evil creatures?

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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,

Good luck getting that sorted out!

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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?

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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...

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zompist wrote: ↑Wed Mar 20, 2024 3:50 amIt would make a lot more sense to automate the CEO jobs away, not the artists.

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.

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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...

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bradrn wrote: ↑Tue Mar 19, 2024 10:24 am Fascinatingly, the Egyptian–Coptic volume I happen to have open right now notes that ‘I stick to the very old appellation Pseudo-Participle, because [… it is] completely void of any semantic or syntactic meaning, which has its advantages too’.

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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.

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I'd say there should be a distinction between a naturalistic conlang and a naturalistic conlang grammar.

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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 ...

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And Putin has talked about how we're shortly before World War 3 again. Is it it this time?

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Thank you!

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Travis B. wrote: ↑Fri Mar 15, 2024 11:19 am
It was raining all today yesterday,

Is that a typo, or some feature of English I wasn't aware of?

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Why is the apparent standard pronunciation of "Newfoundland" so weird?

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The schools around here have just started spring break. As you can see, the weather is appropriate:

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Big news on my side: I’m going to Paris! Specifically, for the Université Paris-Saclay, where I’ve organised to do a research internship for four months. I may have mentioned this once or twice already, but now I have my visa and it looks like everything’s confirmed, which is nice. Of course, I’m m...

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Yesterday, I watched a wildlife documentary about the courtship displays of various species of tropical birds - Dancing With The Birds - which was, oddly enough, the first thing I found on Netflix in a few weeks that I watched all the way to the end.

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I once read a comment somewhere - I don't remember, perhaps it was even on the ZBB - that some Catalan language activists supposedly put some effort into studying historical developments in Ireland, and they came to the conclusion that Irish was probably doomed once it lost Dublin, and they're there...

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Noticed this at my local supermarket:

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Made me wonder if it's aimed at the aspiring supervillains among their customers...

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Thank you!

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