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- Fri Mar 29, 2024 5:10 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: The world with a surviving Milesian school
- Replies: 12
- Views: 489
Re: The world with a surviving Milesian school
logical thinking, empirical observation and rational explanations for phenomena. I'm pretty sure Aristotle thought he was doing this. There's hardly a more charged word in Greek philosophy than logos (reason). What inventions/achievements would the Milesians make had they survived for several centu...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 4:20 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Survival of Greco-Roman paganism
- Replies: 26
- Views: 4485
Re: Survival of Greco-Roman paganism
I like to play with alternate history now and then... That's not quite the main focus of the board... then again I always appreciated the sound advice I got here. Some recent talk about religion got me thinking. Would a scenario where 'paganism' in whatever form would survive to the present day mak...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 3:50 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Settler colonialism in action
- Replies: 183
- Views: 5825
Re: Settler colonialism in action
imagine a situation where israel ceases to be as a country, succeeded by the Republic of the Holy Land: the RHL has totally different laws, is not an ethnostate, all the checkpoints and legal ethnic barriers are gone, everyone in the territory in question has immediately the same legal rights, incl...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 3:24 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Settler colonialism in action
- Replies: 183
- Views: 5825
Re: Settler colonialism in action
I don't think these differences are essential or hardwired, tho: the brits are perfectly able to conquer a territory and incorporate the inhabitants into the lower class of a new regime, ask the scots, irish and hongkongese, but things went how they went. an interesting piece of evidence for this d...
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 3:32 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Settler colonialism in action
- Replies: 183
- Views: 5825
Re: Settler colonialism in action
I'm not like a super expert on the history of colonialism but it seems to me exceedingly similar, especially anglosaxon colonialism, we're talking a) invading non-white peoples land and b) giving it to white people c) with military backing and d) justifying it as bringing civilization, punishing ba...
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 5:19 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Random Thread
- Replies: 3731
- Views: 452158
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 9:59 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4692
- Views: 2063752
Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
So, it looks like this person has a true diphthong [ɪ͡ə], going smoothly from [ɪ] to [ə]. Still, that yields a more distinct [ə] than the last person had. Thanks for looking! My impression is that he has [jɪn] while ausg has [jn]. It's pretty clear that he has a longer and more gradual vowel and a ...
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 3:46 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Maybe pruning?
- Replies: 128
- Views: 12061
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? Wow, that's extremely weird. That makes me think the bots a...
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 3:40 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4692
- Views: 2063752
Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
I had a listen to this, and couldn’t quite decide what’s happening in it, so I made a spectrogram. Here’s what I eventually came up with (sorry for the large image): Very interesting! I wonder if you could do the same for one of the others, especially the ones I said didn't come close to mine? (E.g...
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 3:34 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Could this work as a collaborative project?
- Replies: 36
- Views: 6231172
Re: Could this work as a collaborative project?
We both have always known US currency but never understood US coinage. Ooh, don't get me started on your old system... pounds, guineas, farthings, half-farthings, groats, shillings, ha'pennies, mites, coppers, pence, tuppence, thruppence, fuppence, bobs, nobs, florins, crowns, fivers, pieces of eig...
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 3:27 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: AIs gunning for our precious freelancers
- Replies: 733
- Views: 137578
Re: AIs gunning for our precious freelancers
Your news is sadly out-of-date: they’ve now read the whole scroll , with more to come. Not quite, they say they can read 5% of the scroll. But the achievement is amazing. They did CT scans of the carbonized scroll, then went digitally slice by slice, tracing where the papyrus sheets lay; then assem...
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 3:05 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Could this work as a collaborative project?
- Replies: 36
- Views: 6231172
Re: Could this work as a collaborative project?
Just to broaden things a bit, here's a list of German and French TV shows that most Americans would know: Movies and books would be a longer list, especially for France. Though I'm not sure if any French novelist is known here past Camus. Houellebecq, I guess, though I think he's obscure. Very rarel...
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 3:34 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4692
- Views: 2063752
Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
Hey zompist, sorry for keeping nagging you, but which one of these is close enough to your idiolect? Maybe e.g. the one by ausg? And is it just me, or does ynarakit pronounce onion as [ɐnjɛ]? I think ausg is closest to what I'm talking about. bananaman, Matt3799, and Neptunium all come close. The A...
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 2:57 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4692
- Views: 2063752
Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
I grasp the concept of [n̩] - but how do you articulate [jn̩] without it being realised as say [j ə n̩] or [j ɪ n̩]? If there's no adjacent vowel, is [j] really a [j] anymore? At the phonetic level, [j] and [ĭ] are really two different notations for the same things. It’s trivial to articulate [jn] ...
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 1:29 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4692
- Views: 2063752
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 11:24 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4692
- Views: 2063752
Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
Regarding the second syllable of "onion", what seems relevant to me is that whether pronounced slowly or quickly, in isolation or in context, there's a change in articulation between the "schwa-ish" part and "n-ish" part. At some point there's closure of the oral cavit...
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 5:23 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4692
- Views: 2063752
Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
Now I wanna hear a recording of 'onion' pronounced with a syllabic [n̩]. ([ˈʌn.jn̩]?.. [ˈʌn.n̩]??) [ˈʌn.jn̩]. "Nation" and "onion" end in the same sound. ([n̩], I mean— the [j] is just in onion.) I got what the transcription would be, but what does it sound like? How acousticall...
- Fri Mar 22, 2024 8:00 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4692
- Views: 2063752
Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
[ˈʌn.jn̩]. "Nation" and "onion" end in the same sound. ([n̩], I mean— the [j] is just in onion.) [jn̩] is a weird syllable, sonority-wise. Why is it any odder than "cure"? Or for that matter "strike"? Perhaps this is a stupid question, but how do you know it’...
- Fri Mar 22, 2024 3:18 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4692
- Views: 2063752
- Fri Mar 22, 2024 1:21 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4692
- Views: 2063752
Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
One of my pet peeves is when people treat the word "schwa" as an alternate name for the STRUT vowel https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/schwa.png I'm not sure I can out-pedant you, but I can sure try. I count five separate vowels in xkcd's text: ə in was, a, of, obs- ʌ in up, Doug, stuck, etc. s...