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- 31 May 2020 13:42
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1106
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Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
It's strange, yeah, but how can you control your feelings like that? Could you please cut it out with the 'everyone but me is a heartless monster' business, please? I kind of doubt that was the intended interpretation. Again, benefit of the doubt, and all that. Most people probably experience some ...
- 30 May 2020 15:34
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1106
- Views: 282041
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
So *waćV is PU reconstruction for a shamelike thing? What is the PU form for 'stomach'? My understanding of Uralistics is very fragmented. Honestly, I think the only people who have anything more than a fragmented understanding of (historical) Uralistics are those who study it as a full-time job. A...
- 29 May 2020 01:47
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1106
- Views: 282041
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
How is that obvious? "Shame" is a classic example of a thick moral concept - it's a complicated concept that only exists within a particular culture and is extremely difficult to translate. Indeed, I'd say it's only just hanging on to existence in modern Western culture (philosophers have...
- 29 Apr 2020 22:30
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: False friends and other unfortunate coincidences
- Replies: 881
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Re: False friends and other unfortunate coincidences
A false friend that has been causing me some trouble: In (written) Finnish, the 123 singular pronouns start with m~s~h. In the related North Sami, they start with m~d~s, and this change of the initial s- is really throwing me off. Cf. Finnish s(in)ä , s(in)ut 'you-NOM, you-ACK' with North Sami son ...
- 03 Apr 2020 16:49
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: The Sixth Conversation Thread
- Replies: 762
- Views: 193694
Re: The Sixth Conversation Thread
Wow, thank you. Wasn't expecting that. Sorry for snapping. I instinctively react badly to silencing tactics. It's okay. I was too quick on the draw, too. There's been a lot of people sharing bad information on my Facebook feed, so I suppose I'm primed to expect it. Yeah, there seem to have been a f...
- 02 Apr 2020 18:43
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: The Sixth Conversation Thread
- Replies: 762
- Views: 193694
Re: The Sixth Conversation Thread
My parents are insufferable. Literal denialists in the midst of a pandemic and calling me an idiot millennial for actually listening to medical experts who know what they're talking about. Nothing but "why can't we believe what we want to believe" and "well, it's not literally killin...
- 27 Mar 2020 03:25
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: The Sixth Conversation Thread
- Replies: 762
- Views: 193694
Re: The Sixth Conversation Thread
I guess, in the interests of clarity, I'll explain what I disagreed with to begin with, in simple terms. Thanks, this does help clarify a few things. At the very least, it seems to confirm my suspicion that we were approaching this from completely different viewpoints. Thing is, I didn't mean to de...
- 27 Mar 2020 01:37
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: The Sixth Conversation Thread
- Replies: 762
- Views: 193694
Re: The Sixth Conversation Thread
Right. There's also the minor issue that a private business has absolutely no obligation to respect your "freedom of speech" on their platform in the first place. They certainly have a moral obligation! I'd say they also have a moral obligation to, say, not aid in the spread of dangerous ...
- 26 Mar 2020 22:00
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: The Sixth Conversation Thread
- Replies: 762
- Views: 193694
Re: The Sixth Conversation Thread
Right. There's also the minor issue that a private business has absolutely no obligation to respect your "freedom of speech" on their platform in the first place. They certainly have a moral obligation! I'd say they also have a moral obligation to, say, not aid in the spread of dangerous ...
- 25 Mar 2020 17:37
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: The Sixth Conversation Thread
- Replies: 762
- Views: 193694
Re: The Sixth Conversation Thread
We've just had someone at work kick off about how YouTube has started demonetising videos that mention the words "coronavirus" and "COVID-19", saying that it's an "affront to freedom of speech", and how one streaming site has, apparently, completely banned people from ...
- 19 Mar 2020 20:13
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1106
- Views: 282041
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Thank you guys. [:D] I wanted to know after a friend asked me a question about it. He's reading The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich and took note of some German names in the book that seem to employ both strategies, e.g. "Bürgerbräukeller" written as "Buergerbräukeller". I assu...
- 15 Mar 2020 17:17
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1106
- Views: 282041
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Although "bolt" has a short vowel. Like holt, colt, dolt and molt. Wow, I pronounce those words just like "bold", "hold", "cold", "doled", and "mold", except with a /t/ (phonetically a glottal stop) instead of a /d/ at the end, respectivel...
- 15 Mar 2020 01:40
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1106
- Views: 282041
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Well, kind of. In general, though, doubled consonant letters in English are exactly the same as single ones, so <xx> = <x> = /ks/. Doubling a letter can do weird things. Normally C is pronounced /s/ before E, I, or Y, but when you double the C in "tic" or "soc", you get "ti...
- 14 Mar 2020 22:46
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1106
- Views: 282041
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
"Beta-buxxer" (an incel term for settled-down boring straight men with boring wives) has a double X. So does "Maxxinista" (an avid TJ Maxx shopper). I would imagine people avoided doubling the X because X is pronounced /ks/, so writing "Maxx" would really be writing &q...
- 14 Mar 2020 22:15
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1106
- Views: 282041
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Short vowels are followed by doubled consonants, long vowels by single consonants. Its such a good spelling rule that even people who don't consciously know it have generally internalised it. [...] "salixing" (the act of encasing in Latinate willow products) doesn't have two 'x's because ...
- 14 Mar 2020 00:21
- Forum: Teach & Share
- Topic: A soun incàra vîv - Emilian lessons v2
- Replies: 58
- Views: 20895
Re: A soun incàra vîv - Emilian lessons v2
Stêm bein. Yeah, you too. [:|] Kind of puts the issues I've been complaining about into perspective. Not that I didn't sort of know about what was going on over there, but seeing a detailed first-hand description like this somehow makes it feel more... real, I guess. Seriously, take care. And keep...
- 13 Mar 2020 22:50
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: The Sixth Conversation Thread
- Replies: 762
- Views: 193694
Re: The Sixth Conversation Thread
So many live performances have been canceled. I have a lot of theater friends, and these past few weeks it's felt like every single one of them is doing a play somewhere; I've gone to like four since the beginning of February. But in just the last couple days, most of the ongoing shows have been ca...
- 12 Mar 2020 21:56
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: The Sixth Conversation Thread
- Replies: 762
- Views: 193694
Re: The Sixth Conversation Thread
Here in Finland, the government announced today that all events of more than 500 people should be canceled until the end of May; the university reacted by restricting everything to a maximum attendance of 50, and the student council is encouraging its sub-organizations to suspend all gatherings of m...
- 05 Mar 2020 15:41
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: Forum News discussion/feedback thread
- Replies: 898
- Views: 431634
Re: Forum News discussion/feedback thread
Yeah, I knew about the downtime (I think Xonen mentioned it somewhere public), but didn't realise we were switching domain. Uh, I have no conscious memory of knowing about the downtime (probably because I was too busy last week to really check the board, so I missed Ossicone's notification on it), ...
- 20 Feb 2020 19:38
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: Conlang YouTube, Metal Music, Emotions, Etc. [Split]
- Replies: 93
- Views: 59331
Re: (EE) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
if the definition of metal is "heavy music with distorted guitars and all that shit", then that would make either deathcore or drone doom the ultimate metal If that's the definition of metal, then you'd also have to include the Beatles, Hendrix, the Stones and the Who, among many others. ...