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- Sun Nov 10, 2013 12:31 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The Contradictory Feelings Thread
- Replies: 933
- Views: 237899
Re: The Contradictory Feelings Thread
I think the record for reuses of a modern composition is probably John Murphy's Sunshine Adagio in D Minor; check out the list. You'd think they'd just hire Rank 1 and get it over with.
- Sat Nov 09, 2013 10:57 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Racist words for White People
- Replies: 61
- Views: 14455
Re: Racist words for White People
Wikipedia gives four citations for the 'whip-cracker' etymology : Smitherman, Dr. Geneva (2000), Black Talk: Words and Phrases from the Hood to the Amen Corner, Houghton Mifflin Books, 100 pp. Herbst, Philip H (1997), The Color of Words: An Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Ethnic Bias in the United State...
- Sat Nov 09, 2013 2:24 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The Contradictory Feelings Thread
- Replies: 933
- Views: 237899
Re: The Contradictory Feelings Thread
Also worth adding to the list: Edward Shearmur's K-PAX soundtrack. Somehow a movie about a guy who goes crazy and thinks he's from another world and has worked out the orbital mechanics for it seems fitting for conworlding.
- Sat Nov 09, 2013 1:33 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Help your conlang fluency (2)
- Replies: 6633
- Views: 926766
Re: Help your conlang fluency
Apes saní veshekhíes, venes dútessos, mí atshovifa íé asitha alzessoníha vizé kai. Imralú... dí? apes s-a-ní vesh-ekhí-es, venes dút-ess-os, mí atshov-if-a íé a-sith-a alzess-o-ní-ha v-izé kai. Imral-ú... dí? within 1-SG.F.LOC-ADJ being-process-LOC.N.SG under sorrow-echo-LOC.M.SG a day-ARCHAIC_NOM-...
- Sat Nov 09, 2013 12:13 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: English as Fusion of French and Anglic
- Replies: 54
- Views: 13489
Re: English as Fusion of French and Anglic
Well, the phylogeny still holds true for a few very well-conserved genes—well enough at least to build the taxonomic tree—but not all of the core genes agree with each other on some details. Most of the diversity doesn't result in appreciable structural similarities, though—many bacteria are just ro...
- Sat Nov 09, 2013 4:04 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Racist words for White People
- Replies: 61
- Views: 14455
Re: Racist words for White People
A lot of people don't realise that 'cracker' comes from 'whip-cracker', so it loses some strength by that alone. It's easy to misread it as meaning 'saltine' because of the long-standing white-bread stereotype: maximally bland (and starchy.)
- Sat Nov 09, 2013 12:27 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: English as Fusion of French and Anglic
- Replies: 54
- Views: 13489
Re: English as Fusion of French and Anglic
I'm not mixing Linnaean and cladistic systems—I'm comparing them. As someone who works primarily with prokaryotes I'm naturally inclined to regard Carl Linnaeus a non-Avian member of Dinosauria , as it were, due to the hilariously high amount of horizontal gene transfer that's made most phylogenetic...
- Fri Nov 08, 2013 8:00 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: ZBB Census 2013
- Replies: 221
- Views: 65117
Re: ZBB Census 2013
Cheeky. Seriously, though, the later Myst games are glorious and impossible to overrate.Nesescosac wrote:Meh, I prefer Chipaya.KathAveara wrote:Yay! There are others around!Rhetorica wrote:Favourite game: Uru
- Fri Nov 08, 2013 4:19 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The Contradictory Feelings Thread
- Replies: 933
- Views: 237899
Re: The Contradictory Feelings Thread
Writing English essays is dull, and not at all enjoyable at 22:00, but, if you have to, do it while listening to the Inception soundtrack. (And finish it off with the Chariots of Fire theme.) Hmmm, the Inception soundtrack... Me takes note of it. It was something new (usually I listen to the Moon s...
- Fri Nov 08, 2013 4:08 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: ZBB Census 2013
- Replies: 221
- Views: 65117
Re: ZBB Census 2013
Interestingly, 'English' and 'British' are generally not interchangeable, and you can probably guess with a high degree of accuracy which a person living in England would pick. Someone whose family has lived in England for numerous generations will likely identify as 'English', whereas a person who...
- Fri Nov 08, 2013 3:34 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Help your conlang fluency (2)
- Replies: 6633
- Views: 926766
Re: Help your conlang fluency
Trúhinzé, sei olíes viteia.Imralu wrote:Na i sehenu hu cem na zeua si ka olaz.
I'm really sad and I don't know who to tell.
see-3.SG.PRES.IMP, 1-N.PL.NOM be-1.PL.PRES
Well, we're here.
- Fri Nov 08, 2013 3:26 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Confusing headlines and other trips down the garden path
- Replies: 1058
- Views: 256782
Re: Cheese that smells
All-time favourite (I'm sure it's already been posted, but still): Foot Heads Arms Body, after Michael Foot got involved in nuclear disarmament.
- Fri Nov 08, 2013 12:37 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: ZBB Census 2013
- Replies: 221
- Views: 65117
- Fri Nov 08, 2013 11:40 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Lexicon Building
- Replies: 4308
- Views: 913200
Re: Lexicon Building
Lilitika: shúkhristíu, /ʃuːxɹɪstiːʌ/, wind-hair-pen. (Yes, I know, the phonology is boring. I'm working on a new one.)
Next: prescriptivism.
Next: prescriptivism.
- Fri Nov 08, 2013 11:32 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: English as Fusion of French and Anglic
- Replies: 54
- Views: 13489
Re: English as Fusion of French and Anglic
This is what I get for reading history of science papers for too damn long. ("paraphiletic with" doesn't mean anything; a group is just "paraphiletic", or it isn't) Not quite—a parent group is paraphyletic with respect to the monophyletic groups that have been removed from it. Try Googling the phras...
- Thu Nov 07, 2013 5:53 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: English as Fusion of French and Anglic
- Replies: 54
- Views: 13489
Re: English as Fusion of French and Anglic
What Legion said. You don't stop being part of your grandmother's family because you have a family of your own. A taxon is not a lineage, nor is it a family. Birds aren't dinosaurs, even though they evolved from them, and you are not a fish, even though you evolved from an aquatic vertebrate genera...
- Thu Nov 07, 2013 1:34 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: English as Fusion of French and Anglic
- Replies: 54
- Views: 13489
Re: English as Fusion of French and Anglic
Drydic wrote:You're saying birds aren't dinosaurs even though birds are dinosaurs.
- Wed Nov 06, 2013 11:17 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: A language game
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3859
Re: A language game
I've been able to get up to 850 or so, but I think that was mostly dumb luck. Damn you, Hausa.
- Tue Nov 05, 2013 1:28 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: English as Fusion of French and Anglic
- Replies: 54
- Views: 13489
Re: English as Fusion of French and Anglic
I could've sworn there was a circumflex there... sigh. I guess my third-grade French teacher was Belgian or something.hwhatting wrote:Merde de quoi?Rhetorica wrote:merde de vachê is
- Tue Nov 05, 2013 1:58 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: English as Fusion of French and Anglic
- Replies: 54
- Views: 13489
Re: English as Fusion of French and Anglic
No, in French you say foutaise or connerie, although merde de vachê is gaining some traction (unlike merde de taureau, which remains the sole purview of fancy-talkin' Americans.)ol bofosh wrote:Right, bullshit. Which isn't French.
- Mon Nov 04, 2013 6:20 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Help your conlang fluency (2)
- Replies: 6633
- Views: 926766
Re: Help your conlang fluency
http://records.l5.ca/misc/alphabet-difficulty.png Ilú noví litshai il aporafebektíe, saraví títina tshentúekhíenú ílizé kai. like other element-PL-S.N.NOM of alien_language-make-RESULT-S.N.Ø, refined letter-set-S.F.NOM postwork-ACTION_OF-S.N want-3S.PRES GNO. Like other aspects of language creation...