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- Sun May 05, 2024 7:12 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang Random Thread
- Replies: 2957
- Views: 2847570
Re: Conlang Random Thread
I still can't figure out which clauses, the condition or the consequent, is supposed to be marked counterfactual and which is not. Or if they're both supposed to. [condition] [consequence] 1.a) [irrealis] [irrealis] 1.b) [irrealis] [counterfactual] 2.a) [irrealis] [irrealis] 2.b) [counterfactual] [...
- Sun May 05, 2024 2:53 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: The New ZBB Quote Thread
- Replies: 317
- Views: 339271
- Sun May 05, 2024 10:28 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang Random Thread
- Replies: 2957
- Views: 2847570
- Sat May 04, 2024 6:33 pm
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: "Experiencer"
- Replies: 40
- Views: 4321
Re: "Experiencer"
I think you’re both right! Some parts of language are very conscious, and other parts are so automatic as to be practically invisible to the untrained speaker. I saw a neat example of this when I read about classifiers in Lao (in Enfield’s grammar). Lao has two classification systems: numeral classi...
- Sat May 04, 2024 5:56 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Syntax random
- Replies: 195
- Views: 114121
Re: Syntax random
So… yeah, maybe you’re right, and I’m overthinking these questionable edge cases. (It is something I tend to do when thinking about syntax.) Oh, you're not alone. Any sentence, or word, can start to sound dubious if you stare at it too long. Actually, what I have is the opposite problem. Every sent...
- Sat May 04, 2024 5:06 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Syntax random
- Replies: 195
- Views: 114121
Re: Syntax random
We didn’t see [only the Louvre]. ⇒ We only didn’t see the Louvre. Yet, the first sentence exists in surface structure with a completely different meaning! For you, that meaning is unambiguously different; for me it’s ambiguous, and can be the same under highly marked circumstances. But, apparently,...
- Sat May 04, 2024 4:34 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: War in the Middle East, again
- Replies: 417
- Views: 73889
Re: War in the Middle East, again
if memory serves, Bradrn has repeatedly pointed out not being a Zionist...thats kinda the point being made in rebuttal to your points. I don’t understand what you mean here. I most certainly consider myself a Zionist. Sorry...when i was typing, I couldn't recall if you were not a Zionist, or a Zion...
- Sat May 04, 2024 4:33 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: The Contradictory Feelings Thread
- Replies: 666
- Views: 753551
Re: The Contradictory Feelings Thread
Can you send the organizers a message explaining your situation? Orléans is quite close to Paris; if you're actually interested in the conference it seems a bit strange not to at least try to go... Hmm, fair point. Maybe I will. (Of course I can also understand not wanting to commit to something ex...
- Sat May 04, 2024 3:53 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: The Contradictory Feelings Thread
- Replies: 666
- Views: 753551
Re: The Contradictory Feelings Thread
Whaat, why miss out on that opportunity? Because I’m barely coping as-is, and I’m worried I won’t cope if I do anything more stressful on top of this. Is there some draconian punishment if you don't show up after having confirmed? Er… I doubt it! But surely the whole point of confirming your attend...
- Sat May 04, 2024 3:36 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: The Contradictory Feelings Thread
- Replies: 666
- Views: 753551
Re: The Contradictory Feelings Thread
I submitted a poster to ICON2024 (advertised earlier on this board), and my submission got accepted! Yet, I’m having second thoughts on whether to confirm my attendance or not. I’ve now been living in Paris for a month, and I‘m still struggling to get used to it; I’m not sure whether further travel...
- Sat May 04, 2024 3:27 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: War in the Middle East, again
- Replies: 417
- Views: 73889
Re: War in the Middle East, again
2) Related to point 1). If we learned something over the last ten years, it's that when women complain about sexism and sexual assault, you believe them (and in fact the reality is probably far worse.) Now, you know what? When Jews mention antisemitism, you believe them. I appreciate your support, ...
- Sat May 04, 2024 1:59 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: War in the Middle East, again
- Replies: 417
- Views: 73889
Re: War in the Middle East, again
it is perfectly understandable why someone whose people are being massacred would speak in anger against those who subscribe to the ideology that drives that massacre. violence, or the call to violence, against an oppressor by a member of the people it is oppressing is fundamentally, qualitatively ...
- Sat May 04, 2024 12:43 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: War in the Middle East, again
- Replies: 417
- Views: 73889
Re: War in the Middle East, again
In addition to all the violence I’ve already mentioned in my previous posts, which you clearly didn’t read. ok, fair enough, i hadn't. so i just did this and the closest thing to "violence" you brought up by protesters at american universities were not acts of physical violence but simply...
- Sat May 04, 2024 11:11 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: War in the Middle East, again
- Replies: 417
- Views: 73889
Re: War in the Middle East, again
the violence in the US demonstrations has been almost entirely instigated by zionists and police, not the protesters themselves, what the fuck are you talking about? I’m talking about, for instance, the way that they forcibly occupied a university building. In addition to all the violence I’ve alre...
- Sat May 04, 2024 10:30 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: The Contradictory Feelings Thread
- Replies: 666
- Views: 753551
- Sat May 04, 2024 6:29 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: The Contradictory Feelings Thread
- Replies: 666
- Views: 753551
Re: The Contradictory Feelings Thread
I submitted a poster to ICON2024 (advertised earlier on this board), and my submission got accepted! Yet, I’m having second thoughts on whether to confirm my attendance or not. I’ve now been living in Paris for a month, and I‘m still struggling to get used to it; I’m not sure whether further travel ...
- Sat May 04, 2024 6:25 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Syntax random
- Replies: 195
- Views: 114121
Re: Syntax random
The curious thing here is its precise application, when you have negation in the mix. If you apply Quantifier Hopping twice , you move it all the way back to the beginning of the VP, and it has the intended meaning. But if you only apply it once , the meaning flips to something which is very nearly...
- Sat May 04, 2024 4:01 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Syntax random
- Replies: 195
- Views: 114121
Re: Syntax random
Other way around: what's happening in We only didn’t see the Louvre is Quantifier Hopping. We are planning to see only the Louvre. > We are planning to only see the Louvre. > We are only planning to see the Louvre. The trick is to note the semantics: what's limited is what we're seeing, i.e. the Lo...
- Fri May 03, 2024 8:13 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Syntax random
- Replies: 195
- Views: 114121
Re: Syntax random
Reviving this thread to mention an interesting observation about English quantifiers (discovered in the process of conlanging): 1. We only didn’t see the Louvre ⇒ It was only the Louvre that we didn’t see Under focalisation (I think this particular construction is clefting?), the quantifier seems to...
- Fri May 03, 2024 3:28 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Confusing headlines
- Replies: 701
- Views: 551299
Re: Confusing headlines
Two in one day! This one isn’t from a newspaper, but manages to be tremendously confusing all the same:
A portable Common Lisp toolkit for building inspectors
(As one commenter put it, ‘I was excited to learn how building inspectors were using Common Lisp’…)
A portable Common Lisp toolkit for building inspectors
(As one commenter put it, ‘I was excited to learn how building inspectors were using Common Lisp’…)