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by Xonen
31 May 2020 13:42
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

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 ...
by Xonen
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...
by Xonen
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...
by Xonen
29 Apr 2020 22:30
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: False friends and other unfortunate coincidences
Replies: 881
Views: 275081

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 ...
by Xonen
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...
by Xonen
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...
by Xonen
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...
by Xonen
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 ...
by Xonen
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 ...
by Xonen
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 ...
by Xonen
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...
by Xonen
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...
by Xonen
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...
by Xonen
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...
by Xonen
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 ...
by Xonen
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...
by Xonen
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...
by Xonen
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...
by Xonen
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), ...
by Xonen
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. ...