Zompist Bboard Again

But I think economic policy should generally be based on what is most effective at supplying people with the things they need to live Very much this. Most of the problems capitalism causes stem from the pursuit of profit over the pursuit of satisfying people's needs, so we could solve a lot of prob...

What's wrong with this one?

Well, you don't need morpheme-sensitive rules, you can make do with phonemic syllabification.

John Wells has argued that it's /sɪt.ɪŋ/. Having read through this, I can agree with him under the presumption that syllables are in fact a purely phonological phenomenon, and (as I believe others here have argued before) there is nothing phonetic that corresponds with them. So in English they can ...

Ah, so you'd analyse them as /fɪn.gər/ vs /sɪng.ər/?

but in casual speech i hear /æŋɹi/ and /æŋgəɹi/ much more than /æŋgɹi/. I've never heard those two variants before, and I exclusively say /aŋgri/. The contrast between "finger" and "singer"'s second syllables i have heard, but i've never heard a lack of contrast be marked. I don...

alice wrote: ↑Sat Aug 12, 2023 3:31 am

• /sɪ.tɪŋ/? No; this sounds wrong; lax vowels aren't normally found in open syllables.

For me it is this option.

On what grounds is ŋ not an English phoneme?

Aha. I'd call it a weird platter, then, or a board for the wooden one.

My guess is

I'm likewise unfamiliar with it. How is it actually used in practice?

As I recall, the Hittites themselves claimed to be a recent arrival in Anatolia, having come from across the sea.

The first part does bug me, but the second absolutely does not and is very much reasonable. Obviously, if you can't handle starting or being reasonable during a conflict, i don't blame you as long as you don't prescribe it. The first part bugs me because of the whole "people assuming conflict=...

It is amazing how much can be written to say so little.

It's kind of funny that people keep bringing up Three Mile Island alongside Fukushima and Chernobyl, given that it was the least catastrophic accident possible. All that happened... was they vented radioactive elements into the air. No explosion, no meltdown, and it wasn't even that much radiation! ...

[snip] Thanks, that makes it much clearer! I do agree that that kind of behaviour is broadly detrimental. Can you clarify what you mean by ""averse to conflict""? That's exactly a phrase I would use to characterise myself, but what you're talking about sounds nothing like me. I'...

Meanwhile, we're on course to make the entire planet uninhabitable, but sure, nuclear is the bigger threat.

Probably the main reason I'm still using spreadsheets is that I highly prioritise being able to filter , not just search. And speaking of search, being able to search in just the translations is rather nice, especially if you have a prose discussion as well. Nice semantic extension of the English w...

Lambuzhao wrote: ↑Tue Aug 01, 2023 5:35 amMitanni are Anatolians, ¿no?

No, they were Indo-Iranian/Indo-Aryan.

Poland is in NATO so they'd be morons to.