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Quick question ‒ does Caizu (the Karazi language still spoken in Caizura in 3480) survive through the modern era? And... Do you have any notes on it / plans to work it out, one day? That's a good question... modernism has a tendency to do what medieval kingdoms could never do: push the nomads out o...

I didn’t realise you D&Ded in K'aitan! That’s cool ‒ was it with the original group? Were you Verdurian characters travelling there (in which case, how did you go about crossing the Zone of Fire?), or did you make K'aitanese characters? Are there any notes about what you got up to? This was the...

Yes indeed it is ‒ “the huge map” of Eretald from 1981 ‒ not as huge, I guess, as the one from the college-room wall, but it is exceedingly detailed. I may be wrong in this, but I think it’s the earliest still-fully-canonical map of Eretald (at least which is accessible publicly?). I think you're r...

That’s not what the problem is. Essentially: we predict that the Big Bang should have produced an equal amount of matter and antimatter, in the past. The question is: given that initial state, why do we see more matter than antimatter today? If there was more antimatter, wouldn't it of blown up all...

Sure, happens all the time, if you're an elementary particle. In quantum mechanics, a particle can go back in time... we call it an antiparticle. Hang on, I thought that was exotic matter?? Tachyons (faster-than-light, but that itself still has a strange relationship with time) and whatnot. No, tac...

For those who haven't heard of it before, Neg-Raising or Neg-Hopping refers to the negative moving to the highest verb or auxiliary, as in I believe Klima has been not mentioned today. > I believe Klima hasn't been mentioned today. > I don't believe Klima has been mentioned today. It has to be unlea...

Sure, happens all the time, if you're an elementary particle. In quantum mechanics, a particle can go back in time... we call it an antiparticle. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f4/Feynman_Diagram_of_Electron-Positron_Annihilation_v2.png E.g. in this Feynman diagram, space is the ho...

Not quite: the old lower-class Chicago accent, the one they were reacting to, was [æ]. You can hear an example at 0:12 in Yuri Rasovsky's Chicago Language Tape . Note that this is an actor's rendition, not his own dialect. I do not think I have ever heard the old lower-class Chicago accent, since I...

Which pronunciation of Chicago do you favor (I have been listening about "End of Beginning" by Djo, i.e. Joe Keery, on repeat today), which prominently has THOUGHT in Chicago while from hearing people from Chicago speak I generally hear it with a clear centralized or even fronted LOT (i.e...

As ever, I recommend Thomason & Kaufman's Language Contact, Creolization, and Genetic Linguistics. They have an extended study of Norse influence on Old English. It's way too long to go over, but their main points are: * The Norse influence was strong but not overwhelming. Norse-influenced diale...

A girl at a local coffee shop couldn't understand my pronunciation of "Arnold Palmer" (I was ordering the drink of the same name) with me repeating it more and more carefully until I pronounced it very slowly carefully and added "like the golfer". Seriously, what part of [ˌɑ̃ːʁ̃...

zompist: Re: your report that polls say that 14 percent of Republicans have a positive view of socialism - keep in mind that a certain share of people give joke answers to pollsters, as in, "Yes, dear Person from Gallup, I completely approve of foot fungus!" A small number telling pollste...

hwhatting wrote: ↑Tue Apr 09, 2024 2:59 pm This made my day today.

Then you should appreciate Justin Rye's comment that Star Trek could get past Einstein using dilithium.

('two stones')

Another difficulty is that we probably don't mean the same thing when using 'capitalisme'. We think we're a capitalist country; pretty sure an American Republican would think France is a socialist dystopia. Yes, but they think the US is, too. :P Wait... you mean there used to be Republican liberals...

The key thing is that the vast majority of Americans don't know what socialism is and confuse "socialism" with either social democracy or Soviet big-C Communism (not surprising consider that's what they have been told as being "socialism" their whole lives); actual socialism is ...

I'm kind of confused— we supposedly had 95% totality here, so I was expecting to see the sun with a big bite out of it. But I went out at the maximum, and just saw a full circle. I used my iPad for this, and even took a picture; the sun looked quite normal. Probably the Trisolarians are involved.

Does anyone else struggle with coming up with a word for something which sounds right? I know we can simply come up with roots and derivations and apply them arbitrarily and build a lexicon fairly quickly; but for me, I too often think "but that doesn't sound like 'grass' to me"; or "...

WeepingElf wrote: ↑Sun Apr 07, 2024 2:53 pm

Ketsuban wrote: ↑Sun Apr 07, 2024 8:24 am सपति

Would you mind transcribing that for those of us who are not familiar with Devanagari?

sapati

Can I ask a completely unrelated question - but this is a miscellany thread after all. How do direct-inverse systems handle indirect objects? I get the general idea that if the agent is higher than the patient in a person-hierarchy so 2nd person is higher than 1st in Algonquian languages you have a...

One question I have -- but that probably betrays my ignorance of American politics -- is why nobody on the Democrat side has seriously challenged Biden's bid for reelection. There seems to be little enthusiasm for Biden, and besides he is, indeed, not getting younger. Running for president means go...