Zompist Bboard Again

Moose-tache wrote: ↑Thu Aug 06, 2026 9:22 pm English speakers don't have a "dislike" of pronouncing initial k or g anymore than they have a "dislike" for pronouncing the z in the word "duck."

Raphael wrote: ↑Sun Aug 09, 2026 4:09 pm Is that some kind of triple negative?

bradrn wrote: ↑Sun Aug 09, 2026 4:15 pm Hard to tell. I lost count when I tried to figure it out.

Man in Space wrote: ↑Wed Aug 12, 2026 1:24 am Elrond Hubbard, meanwhile, remained in Middle-Earth and founded the Council of Thetanar. Tom “Crews” Bombadil was a notable convert.

WeepingElf wrote: ↑Mon Aug 17, 2026 4:28 am And if people feel as if the choice was between a restoration of the 50s and Blade Runner, they'll choose the 50s.

Travis B. wrote: ↑Tue Aug 18, 2026 9:59 am Is anyone else here aware of people existing with MOUTH

Raphael wrote: ↑Wed Aug 19, 2026 8:06 am Now I'm going to be a bit mean and quote only the first part of a sentence without the context provided by the rest:

Travis B. wrote: ↑Tue Aug 18, 2026 9:59 am Is anyone else here aware of people existing with MOUTH

WeepingElf wrote: ↑Wed Aug 19, 2026 11:18 am

Raphael wrote: ↑Wed Aug 19, 2026 8:06 am Now I'm going to be a bit mean and quote only the first part of a sentence without the context provided by the rest:

Travis B. wrote: ↑Tue Aug 18, 2026 9:59 am Is anyone else here aware of people existing with MOUTH

This is a rather harmless case, but usually, such mutilations of quotes that deface their meaning is utterly unacceptable. That's a method trolls use, and nobody else. Or do you want a sentence like "I do not think that this is the case" quoted as just "this is the case"?

zompist wrote: ↑Sat Aug 22, 2026 4:18 pm Both parties do this, but the article focuses on the Democrats. Of $390 million raised by the Pascal network of PACs

alice wrote: ↑Sun Aug 23, 2026 2:24 pm
Pascal? You'd think they had at least graduated to Java. This suddenly explains an awful lot.

Travis B. wrote: ↑Fri Aug 28, 2026 6:51 pm Phonetically that guy's Scots seems as far from Standard English as basilectal forms of my native English are ─ and I am most definitely a native English speaker.

bradrn wrote: ↑Sat Aug 29, 2026 6:01 am
I mean, judging from all you’ve said, I have on occasion wondered whether the current Anglic languages aren’t English, Scots and Travis-ese…

WeepingElf wrote: ↑Wed Aug 19, 2026 11:18 am

Raphael wrote: ↑Wed Aug 19, 2026 8:06 am Now I'm going to be a bit mean and quote only the first part of a sentence without the context provided by the rest:

Travis B. wrote: ↑Tue Aug 18, 2026 9:59 am Is anyone else here aware of people existing with MOUTH

This is a rather harmless case, but usually, such mutilations of quotes that deface their meaning is utterly unacceptable. That's a method trolls use, and nobody else. Or do you want a sentence like "I do not think that this is the case" quoted as just "this is the case"?

Raphael wrote: ↑Sun Aug 30, 2026 7:17 am

Richard W wrote: ↑Sun Aug 30, 2026 5:41 am
I have seen an American unmaliciously claim that initial [kn] was not a humanly possible combination. (I successfully counterclaimed that Germans were human.)

Thank you, that's a very generous thing to do for a British person.

Man in Space wrote: ↑Sat Aug 29, 2026 2:08 pm

WeepingElf wrote: ↑Wed Aug 19, 2026 11:18 am

Raphael wrote: ↑Wed Aug 19, 2026 8:06 am Now I'm going to be a bit mean and quote only the first part of a sentence without the context provided by the rest:

This is a rather harmless case, but usually, such mutilations of quotes that deface their meaning is utterly unacceptable. That's a method trolls use, and nobody else. Or do you want a sentence like "I do not think that this is the case" quoted as just "this is the case"?

He explained what he did, why he did it, and what made it funny. Quoting “this is the case” in an actual scientific discussion? Party foul. Quoting the excerpt (which has been done on prior occasions, not just in the case of this comment) in a non-serious thread for comedic effect where it’s obviously a goof? Not utterly unacceptable.

EDIT: I think my issue is, Raphael clearly explained that it’s the linguistic implications from that sequence of words that’s the point there and not attempting to imply anything else about the party being quoted. It’s clearly cited that it’s part of a larger passage and that the specific interest is in that it’s notably out of context (along with the, perhaps amusing, interpretations).

linguistcat wrote: ↑Sun Aug 30, 2026 11:30 am
An orc is in a fantasy story, an ork is in a scifi story. Don't ask me how to spell it if it's in a science fantasy story.

Richard W wrote: ↑Mon Aug 31, 2026 6:20 am
And in one of the stories, I just came across the phrase "speaking in awk", which made me, as a user of the awk program, smile.

Moose-tache wrote: ↑Sun Sep 06, 2026 11:35 pm Wiktionary, circa 2875 CE: "The intrusive velar stop in the modern reflex 'expresso' is unexplained."

Ares Land wrote: ↑Tue Sep 08, 2026 4:55 am More generally, I think the European conservative platform of 'work a shit job till you drop dead' isn't winning heart and minds.

Raphael wrote: ↑Mon Aug 31, 2026 6:24 am

linguistcat wrote: ↑Sun Aug 30, 2026 11:30 am
An orc is in a fantasy story, an ork is in a scifi story. Don't ask me how to spell it if it's in a science fantasy story.

zompist wrote: ↑Sun Sep 20, 2026 10:08 pm I am subject to correction by our German members, but I believe that even under German law, 39 is higher than 32.

xxx wrote: ↑Sun Sep 20, 2026 1:11 am

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(my inability to deny the word of man named like your leg wraps, and my inability to speak like men who frequently eat sausage and liquid seen as piss...)
how could I judge Travis, I who don't speak a word of German...

Man in Space wrote: ↑Wed Sep 16, 2026 11:08 pm

Imralu wrote: ↑Fri Sep 11, 2026 11:39 pm

Travis B. wrote: ↑Tue Sep 08, 2026 7:27 pmMost people today do not realize that computer once referred to a human job.

Now it is time for beach to be an occupation.

According to the Barbie movie, it is.

Qwynegold wrote: ↑Tue Sep 22, 2026 5:29 am This reminds me of, was it Navajo? Which calls Chinese people "they drink leaf soup" (i.e. tea).