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TIL that the phrase "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery" is actually only the first part of a quote by Oscar Wilde: "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness ." For what it's worth, I actually disagree with that second part. Every...

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What did the musician say to his colleague who messed up? “Don’t worry. Accidentals happen.” This joke was inspired by this recent post , right? You know…I don't actually recall. It wouldn't surprise me if it was, but I don't remember seeing it (and even then that assumes my memory isn't incorrect).

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lurker wrote: ↑29 Sep 2024 03:25 Looks like my number is up shortly :D

The way this relay is going, that may be true only geologically.

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Famous linguist, grammarian, philologist, translator, and scholar of all languages niche and unusual: Anna Dew.

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The first relay of this kind was held last century, in 1999 . They probably carved it into stone tablets or something. Point of order: While it is Stone-Age technology, the tablet was not stone but some form of Nokia polymer, which allowed it to function as a digital recording device in addition to...

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DV82LECM wrote: ↑20 Sep 2024 06:58 I'm curious, what is everyone's backgrounds in this field/interest? Mine? Wikipedia.

I have a bachelor’s in it. I actually got into it through conlanging.

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Heisenberg wrote:1SG COP DEF person REL knock-SGAC

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Does anyone have the templates for the flag icons? I’d like to make some for Twin Aster (I know the onus for hosting them is on me), but want to keep consistency with what the board already has.

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Many people are religious nowadays. They just call their religion an “ideology”.

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I know we say there's no necroposting on the CBB, but it kind of annoys me when threads last posted on when I wasn't yet two months old are revived. The user who necro’d it is a recent registrant whose profile and linked web site heavily promote a business. I’m not convinced she’s not a spammer. Al...

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What did the musician say to his colleague who messed up?

“Don’t worry. Accidentals happen.”

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A thought occurs. Now we get to play "How much of this will be recorded before I pass out and how much will be comprehensible". A tricon, but with vocalic roots and consonantal transfixes. This has undoubtedly been done before, but I thought of some ways I might handle it. This language is...

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Khemehekis wrote: ↑11 Sep 2024 02:25Wow, so you made that? Looks like an old video game!

Enjoy.

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Probably won't get much worse than heavy rain, though. It had its flaws, yes, but to use it as a comparand to gauge how awful something is is to a) sell it short, or b) to disregard entirely the— Oh. You meant “heavy rain” literally, not the eponymous PS3 game… which is what my brain was telling me...

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He was hilarious and touching both in an episode of Frasier and in The Lion King , able to find the fun side of the Force in The Big Bang Theory 1 , and never there in The Hunt for Red October . 1. My Babcia, for whatever reason, loved that show and would talk about it a lot . It brought her joy in ...

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I am dubbing this “the Gursed Relay”, on basis of this:

Dormouse559 wrote:
GamerGeek wrote:On the topic of asking questions about the forum:
What relation does the CBB have to the ZBB?
The CBB is the ZBB with the following sound change:

z > s / #_

(i.e. a voicing reversal from “Cursed Relay”)

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Status of Ring A? kiwikami?

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Arayaz wrote: ↑27 Apr 2024 19:13
Creyeditor wrote: ↑27 Apr 2024 19:11 [...] the time when spambots discovered kitchen-sink (conlangs) and tried to sell us kitchens

And then we made a conlang out of it.

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Quoting this whole thing to include useful context: :lat: Latin NUNC "now" :esp: Spanish nunca "never" < NUMQUAM It's nunc or nunca ... Venī strictē mē tentum :wat: Google Translate suggests that this is Latvian? Goes to show how much it knows; I am sure it is Latin. Yet is this ...

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