zompist bboard

perhaps that could be replicated: someone might have like a moderately developped conworld and surrender it for others to build upon it... perhaps there could also be like a system for determining a few degrees of canonicity, perhaps where the imperator of that conworld <or the community or whatever...

I've seen a few collabworlds die: they mostly die cause someone stops posting and then someone else does and then people lose confidence in the collabworld such that it becomes the zeitgeist that no one else is going to post: It's a bit like a stock bubble deflating, I suppose? Perhaps that's why co...

http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.t ... 201958.pdf

Xpost from the facebook omniglot group, a mid-20th century textbook on chinese cursive script.

As for nannalu's, while d and D, g and G are not like phonemic pairs, i like the solution of ci for tS.

rxason? idgi Spanish without eñe? unthinkable! Otherwise yeah, i agree, the slavic c is bad for spanish... Oooh, i get it now, he didn't list d and D, he just listed d *as* D... okay, then... some people render ch as x, x can be h and you end up with. Finally, b and B are not distinct phonemes, I th...

Spanish /m n ɲ/ <m n ñ> /p b t tʃ k/ <p b t č c> /β f θ ð s x ɣ/ <v f ŝ z s ç g> /l ʎ/ <l lj> /ɾ r/ <r rh> /j w/ <j w> /a e i o u/ <a e i o u> Tozos los seres umanos naŝen libres e igwales en dignizad i derečos i, dotazos como estan de rhason i consjensja, deven comportarse fraternalmente los unos ...

if you're gonna copy a real island, copy one people don't know... for example, chiloé or some island russia, china and japan are fighting over?

I experienced a period of segmented sleep for a few months. it came and went, and during it i woke up during the night and ate something, went to pee, maybe had a wank and a read, and then went back to sleep. I didn't notice more well-being than otherwise.

While I'm not on board with the whole "natural" thing <the natural thing is, after all, to die at 23 from an infection you got>, I have to object to the dualism here: the brain is a chunk of the body, and sleep does not like... happen exclusively there: there's many aspects of sleep that are essenti...

could you provide reasons for your request of the metadiscussion to cease? I can't think of any right now.

#meta^3

8 gigs of high speed RAM, R7 graphics card, ASUS motherboard, solid state harddrive... man, that's the nice thing about this whole adulting having a job thing: I've just fulfilled little 18 year old torco's dream of buying an idiotically expensive gaming computer.

achievement unlocked.

Sure! maybe not even conquer, but definitely put under their SOE

So it's a movement that believes that the free market and all that jazz is all well and good, but key areas with too big externalities that the market doesn't or can't reflect should instead be state-run? [or perhaps run at a supra-state level, like some Global Taskforce for the Environment] that so...

In case someone has a use for it... It's already hosted on my dropbox so might as well share https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/19348113/%E6%96%B0%E7%89%88%E7%8E%B0%E4%BB%A3%E8%A5%BF%E7%8F%AD%E7%89%99%E8%AF%AD%E7%AC%AC%E4%B8%80%E5%86%8C%20.pdf this is a scan of a spanish textbook for native mandari...

Consider, however, that societies only get more homogeneous in terms of ethnicity and language and political systems as they grow more and more sophisticated internally: that is to say, you can have a planetwide market and a planetwide culture if you will, but only at the cost of industry, sector, c...

Well pragmatic environmentalism isn't enough to name a polity, i think. UPIC sort of suggests a soviety-style structure of nominally independent coops that federate together under a sort of big leviathan, but it could as well be a vanilla-style burgeois-democracy capitalist state which simply enforc...

well i'm not sure an alien wouldn't be able to tell the difference between chinese people and americans. Besides the fact that we don't really know how differently an alien would think (since we don't have very much experience as to the kinds of minds that are possible), i'm sure that after some stu...

It's supposed to be a post-vanguardist yuxtaposition with the fancy shirt
i'm misunderstood =P

Matrix wrote:Okay, I've seen you do this multiple times, Torco. Juxtapose has a J. Not a Y.

thanks. i get j and y mixed up all the time cause a lot of stuff spanish does with a y eng does with a j.

.... wait.... that video is looped? i'm not *that* high, right ? i could swear that it's the same minute or so of video looped a few times

he was, i thought, transparently lampshading the whole "basque is ETA" thing. i mean, he even yuxtaposed it with the whole euskerra was invented by monks to annoy spaniards thing XD but i guess the heart has its reasons, as pascal said: if it offended you then it did and feelings don't need justific...

Oh, i'm not sour about it, it ain't offensive or anything, it's just not funny

... oh, the construction not fucking funny does imply some degree of "and you shouldn't have said it" innit ? never mind, then :v

^seconded