Zompist Bboard Again

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...

OK, your Verdurian is correct!

As a reminder, this being poetry, you can rearrange words if necessary to fit the meter.

alice wrote: ↑Tue Apr 02, 2024 2:27 pm

Ares Land wrote: ↑Sat Mar 30, 2024 3:33 pmAlso, rickets were very common.

Actually, "rickets" is singular; I can't imagine what a single "ricket" would be.

A small rick.

Yes, one ricket can't kill you, but don't underestimate a rick. It'll never give you up, never gonna say goodbye.

I'll look at the text a bit later! (Tiny query ‒ in some Verdurian texts, e.g. The Lord of the News, is to be found a punctuation mark transcribed as ⟨--⟩. Is this in general use? I’ve been avoiding our uses of dashes and plumping usually for a kešaš ‒ but this dash-like thing is probably useful! Do...

1) There is not "no one to negotiate with," according to Netanyahu's administration, who negotiated with Hamas over such administrative things as work permits. And no matter who's responsible -- and the Israeli government still bears a huge bit of that responsibility -- fact still remains...

The LCNAF (Library of Congress Authority File) has a lot of names, 11 million of them. One Matt Miller figured that a lot of names must be anagrams of each other, and lo, found 4000 sets of at least 5 names.
He created a web toy to show them off.

I’ve just been pointed to this truly excellent article by Scott Aaronson: https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=7845 . It’s well worth a read. Ugh. He lost me when he tells us that Israel really really needs to starve civilians to death. No, Scott, if you want to commit war crimes, you can't also complain ...

Would it be strange to add ya in the last line (ket Almea ya estae) ‒ it’s not exactly a perfective meaning I’d be going for, but more the kind of intent that it will be perfective...? Sure. I think it'd be taken as future perfect. (Also, don't tell the non-poets, but it's just the sort of word you...

How about orestán instead of telcan? Ok, though isn’t it a bit odd for Eleďî to suggest that theirs is the ‘true’ sun? ... But perhaps it’s just a bit of vague flattery towards Ënomai. Orest means 'true' but also 'loyal'. So it's aimed at Calto worshippers: look, the sun is not a god, but a loyal v...

I'm just going to look at the verse translation. Your Verdurian is good, the problem is the alliteration. You really want to avoid alliterating on the same word. Ä zula s elta, | s elta cuelzulë Maybe "Ä sye l ë selta, cuelzu l ë (er) čistë" i so nëron b r ac | soán Řou r isen Piron, so͜ O...

Would you even mention someone you know closely coming out to you, without knowing that anyone else you or they know also know already, and without them giving you permission to tell anyone? Why do you want to tell other people about it? If they talked to you privately, I'd assume that's how they w...