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- Fri Jun 02, 2017 7:37 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: How do boards of directors function in multilingual settings
- Replies: 26
- Views: 7914
Re: How do boards of directors function in multilingual sett
I may often look at things too much from the sociolinguistic position of the French state (see below with the Toubon law), but what surprises me about this embrace of English in major Norwegian (or Danish, or even France with Renault as someone earlier said, etc.) businesses is that people would ev...
- Thu Jun 01, 2017 7:58 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Swearing in (Parisian) French
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4185
Re: Swearing in (Parisian) French
Among racial slurs there was un paki for un nightshop ie. a liquor store on the corner often owned by Pakistanis. I guess you call these tabac in France? Arabe du coin is the closest equivalent I think. They do sell liquor (but not cigarettes) but they're a bit more like mom and pop grocery stores....
- Thu Jun 01, 2017 7:19 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: A Very Brief Explanation of the British Election
- Replies: 323
- Views: 97774
Re: A Very Brief Explanation of the British Election
That's a great thread, thanks.
One thing that's unclear is why May called for an election at all (Commenters over here mentioned she wanted a stronger majority; but if party discipline is good, why should it be an issue?)
One thing that's unclear is why May called for an election at all (Commenters over here mentioned she wanted a stronger majority; but if party discipline is good, why should it be an issue?)
- Mon May 22, 2017 6:30 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: How can magical birth control affect matriarchal society?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2787
Re: How can magical birth control affect matriarchal society
Citation neededmèþru wrote:Not possible if humanity is larger than 200,000 people.Sharad9 wrote:Humanity is united under one confederacy
(Though I'd worry about what I'd call narrative issues; no conflict, no stories, in other words)
- Mon May 22, 2017 6:23 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Loanwords with a more specific meaning
- Replies: 63
- Views: 14979
Re: Loanwords with a more specific meaning
A few IT-related one in French: commit(er), merge(r), push(er)
(Funnily enough, I hadn't realized until today that those qualified even though I use them almost daily)
(Funnily enough, I hadn't realized until today that those qualified even though I use them almost daily)
- Mon May 22, 2017 6:17 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Venting thread that still excludes eddy (2)
- Replies: 2639
- Views: 318983
Re: Venting thread
It's not about vested interested groups whining to the government because the world is changing. Apparently it is when those interest groups stand to lose their profit margins because their industry is obsolete. That could be what annoys me the most about some conservatives: they're all for the fre...
- Mon May 22, 2017 4:48 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Venting thread that still excludes eddy (2)
- Replies: 2639
- Views: 318983
Re: Venting thread
(or purposeful disinformation for climate change agenda) Yeah but how do we know it's anthropogenic? It's so early to tell whether it is humans or something that happens cyclically on Earth such as the wobbling or reorientation of the planet's tilt, a change in orbit eccentricity, and things like t...
- Wed May 10, 2017 3:17 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Happy Things Thread
- Replies: 969
- Views: 377323
Re: Happy Things Thread
Congratulations!vampireshark wrote:Happy thing: my second publication just went online. Took some time, but feels pretty good.
- Tue May 09, 2017 11:00 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Archaisms and curiosities in well-known language families
- Replies: 31
- Views: 9518
Re: Archaisms and curiosities in well-known language familie
Okay, this just in: There are certain varieties of Franco-Provençal that preserve a nominative-oblique case distinction in the singular , marked on the article, rather like in German. This means these varieties are: The only modern Western Romance languages to preserve a case distinction. The only ...
- Tue May 09, 2017 4:22 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Happy Things Thread
- Replies: 969
- Views: 377323
Re: Happy Things Thread
I've checked BBC news out of curiosity, did they really call him the Big Mac?alice wrote:Ars Lande wrote:Le Pen lost. That's a happy thing.
The number of commenters on the appropriate page of the BBC website who aren't happy is slightly less happy, however.
- Tue May 09, 2017 3:05 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Happy Things Thread
- Replies: 969
- Views: 377323
Re: Happy Things Thread
Le Pen lost. That's a happy thing.
- Tue May 02, 2017 3:02 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Venting thread that still excludes eddy (2)
- Replies: 2639
- Views: 318983
Re: Venting thread
Ditto everyone else, have him see a doctor, and the sooner the better. I've seen this happen to elderly relatives - it turned out to be from organic causes (and fortunately, the symptoms were easily treated);Pole, the wrote:
I feel genuinely concerned. Is there anything I could do?
- Thu Apr 27, 2017 2:24 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Venting thread that still excludes eddy (2)
- Replies: 2639
- Views: 318983
Re: Venting thread
Because, you know, a vaguely centrist candidate is just as evil as a right-wing extremist. What is even the point of being a Centrist? Nothing ever gets done. I'd rather have a Pinochet-esque despot throw insurgents out of a helicopter than an apolitical wimp who puts his head in the sand while we ...
- Wed Apr 26, 2017 7:52 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Venting thread that still excludes eddy (2)
- Replies: 2639
- Views: 318983
Re: Venting thread
It's not even kind of like, as far as I can see it's the same or worse.
Also, judging from the demographics of the Mélenchon vote, it's probably the same people that'd get shafted the most by a Le Pen victory. Way to piss your own bed.
Also, judging from the demographics of the Mélenchon vote, it's probably the same people that'd get shafted the most by a Le Pen victory. Way to piss your own bed.
- Wed Apr 26, 2017 7:02 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Venting thread that still excludes eddy (2)
- Replies: 2639
- Views: 318983
Re: Venting thread
Mélenchon voters not voting against Le Pen. Because, you know, a vaguely centrist candidate is just as evil as a right-wing extremist.
So that's why I could never stand the far left.
So that's why I could never stand the far left.
- Thu Apr 20, 2017 10:53 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Will non-English languages make it into space?
- Replies: 30
- Views: 6999
Re: Will non-English languages make it into space?
If space colonization happens, I think it'd be O'Neill space habitats, or asteroids turned into habitats. Solar power is cheap; there are plenty of resources in asteroids and cometary bodies; why bother with planets at all?
- Thu Apr 06, 2017 3:06 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Premise for a theocratic matriarchy I want feedback on
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5306
Re: Premise for a theocratic matriarchy I want feedback on
Sounds good to me. Much would rest on the balance between physical strength (men) and magic (women), but I think you're aware of that already. I have an idea for a setting with a magic theocracy that i would like feedback on. This nation operates as a matriarchy with women in most of the top leaders...
- Thu Apr 06, 2017 2:45 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Will non-English languages make it into space?
- Replies: 30
- Views: 6999
Re: Will non-English languages make it into space?
In the context of a conworld set on another planet some hundreds of years after colonization, I'm currently working out a form of koinéized international English as a proto-language. But could I have anything to work with besides some future form of English? More relevantly to this forum, if space ...
- Tue Mar 28, 2017 3:40 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Øynduyska - A Germanic Language
- Replies: 65
- Views: 17737
Re: Øynduyska - A Germanic Language
(1) is "For thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory, forever and ever (EDIT or any of the variants: world without end, ages of ages)" ða rikji, ða mayt ay ða glǫyr is easy. Vor á ði lieg was a bit harder, but makes more sense rereading the section on predication. I have no idea about atrách a...
- Fri Mar 24, 2017 2:51 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Venting thread that still excludes eddy (2)
- Replies: 2639
- Views: 318983
Re: Venting thread
I'm voting Macron, personally. I don't particularly like the guy, but I don't have much of a choice. It's obvious that Le Pen will win the first round, the only question is who is going to be second. I dread to see Fillon vs Le Pen on the second round: I'd be forced to vote for Fillon, and I really...
- Fri Mar 24, 2017 11:23 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Incorrect pronunciations you have (or have had) to unlearn
- Replies: 669
- Views: 157138
Re: Incorrect pronunciations you have (or have had) to unlea
Actually, I think it also relates to class and education. I think it's more of a middle-class thing and that kind of demographic is over represented in Paris (though it's definitely more common here). I think women do it more than men too; I wish I could find a serious resource on the subject.
- Fri Mar 24, 2017 7:07 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Incorrect pronunciations you have (or have had) to unlearn
- Replies: 669
- Views: 157138
Re: Incorrect pronunciations you have (or have had) to unlea
Interesting. The stereotype that I think I remember about Parisian speakers is that they pronounce word-final e muets in situations where other speakers would not. So "garage" would come out as "garageuh." Is my impression accurate? Maybe I'm misremembering and this is only supposed to apply to wor...
- Thu Mar 23, 2017 4:02 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Venting thread that still excludes eddy (2)
- Replies: 2639
- Views: 318983
Re: Venting thread
My dissertation needs to be finished, like FINISHED finished, in less than three weeks, and I still have a major chapter that's mostly unwritten and still needs research. I really, really don't want to take another semester, especially since I'm not guaranteed funding, but if I can't pull myself to...
- Wed Mar 22, 2017 2:24 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Venting thread that still excludes eddy (2)
- Replies: 2639
- Views: 318983
Re: Venting thread
Though I'd love to visit Poland; but I don't see myself leaving France. I guess I'm not the expat type.
- Wed Mar 22, 2017 7:57 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Venting thread that still excludes eddy (2)
- Replies: 2639
- Views: 318983
Re: Venting thread
Heh, no. Not Le Pen.jal wrote:Well, not Le Pen, obviously.Ars Lande wrote:Also, I still have no idea who to vote for.
JAL
It's probably going to be one of the two left-wing candidates. (Not counting Macron as left-wing).