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I just saw perf for "performance (of a web application)": Note Any single buffered file exceeding 64KB will be moved from RAM to a temp file on disk on the server. The resources (disk, RAM) used by file uploads depend on the number and size of concurrent file uploads. Streaming is not so much about ...

Salmoneus wrote: whereas there are few distinctively Roman myths or memorable Roman works - the Aeniad and the Metamorphosis are much less known these days.

Aeneid. Metamorphoses.

They truly are. :(

I was successful at finding someone to transcribe (and translate) the Amharic lyrics.

And now here's the lyric video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oD5WVnZChMQ

Do you guys think the font size is a little too small? I could make it bigger...

Since three years ago I've been interested in making a lyric video for Idan Raichel's song Mima'amakim (ממעמקים) to put it on YouTube, and I would love to have somebody's help transcribing and translating the two Amharic parts of the song. Here's a link to the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a...

Spanish: a - to, towards e - allomorph of y 'and' (used before a word starting with /i/: padres e hijos /"pad4es e "ixos/) i - 'go!' (Central American dialectal imperative of ir 'to go') y /i/ - and o - or u - allomorph of o 'or' (used before a word starting with /o/: siete u ocho /"sjete u "otSo/)

Pretty scripty implementationy!

Do you guys know of any language that has adpositions (and I mean true, particle-like adpositions, not verb-like things), and that allows placing the adpositional phrase before a noun modified by it? That is, such a language would allow things such as, literally, word by word, "of hers a doll" (mean...

From "A native grammar of Caďinor": UT BAN TELNEMAI ER CUM CASSIA RENLODAI! May I find the way and return with the helmet! 1. Why is the word for helmet "CASSIA" here? The word is listed as CASSIS in the lexicon, and all the examples of CUM in the "Cadhinor through the ages" page are followed by a n...

When I was studying aspect for some research I was doing, the only languages I could find that were marked solely for aspect that research had been done on were Semitic languages. Surprising, considering Chinese. If we're doing book recommendations, I'd recommend Xiao and McEnery's Aspect in Mandar...

You could also simply not have aspect distinctions in the copula. Both Mandarin and Cantonese have verbal aspect markers in general, but don't have any for the copula.

On a brighter note, looking at sales, I found that five copies of Against Peace and Freedom were sold in December. That’s just enough to make the 200 sales for which I said I’d make an Incatena conlang. It only took four years. So, Hanying it is! (Not immediately, but it’s on the to-do list.) At va...

One of the instructors at my school has this posted on the wall of his office: http://i.imgur.com/xhHHh2K.jpg (1150x1009 jpg image) I've been curious to find out what it says, but unfortunately, after transcribing the first words of the first line (།འཇིག་རྟེན་བདེ་བ་ཇེ་) the string of letters seems t...

I feel as if I've been working on Quebric for a rather long time, and I'm kinda thinking that some of it may be over-complicated, maybe it isn't... I dunno. Now I have revisited some things more than once to revise them or completely redo them, so that's taken some time, but I feel like it's never ...

I also don't think it's feasible to have a column for Vulgar Latin. Vulgar Latin basically refers to the spoken sociolects of Latin across various centuries (especially between the 1st c. BC and roughly the 8th century) and places, a concept particularly useful when a word is attested in Romance in ...

Eh, only 216 items, I'll help you filling out the Spanish, French and Latin columns.

I'll use accusative forms of words for Latin though, e.g. nigrum for 'black' instead of niger, since that's the form that Romance words (almost always) come from.

I sent you a request for getting editing powers.

Today I was thinking Classical Chinese might be another language without a nice equivalent of "or". My handbooks of Classical Chinese grammar actually don't say anything about disjunction, but after a bit of searching I found the following in Joseph Needham and Christoph Harbsmeier's Science and Civ...

Uhhh standard average European.

The phonology test is viewtopic.php?f=4&t=38945 I believe.

deque /dɛk/ - in computer science, a double-ended queue

Maniq and Mam having no word nicely equivalent to "to eat", but rather a group of words chosen depending on the food, as mentioned in:

viewtopic.php?f=7&t=44462

How was medieval Greek romanized by their contemporaries? Specifically, in the Latin Empire and its fiefdoms? Did they continue to impose the Roman system, transcribe in an ad hoc manner, or had another standard based on contemporary Greek pronunciation? A quick perusal of some three online catalog...

bradrn: http://choosealicense.com/no-license/ For users If you find software that doesn’t have a license, that generally means you have no permission from the creators of the software to use, modify, or share the software. Although a code host such as GitHub may allow you to view and fork the code, ...

Ancient Greek had a different pitch accent for words with the pitch accent on the last syllable when they were found before a pause. E.g. the word for 'god/goddess' would normally be θεὸς within a sentence, but it would change to θεός (notice the acute accent) before a pause.

Pretty scripty!

1. There exists an excellent etymological dictionary for Spanish, namely Joan Coromines's (in something like 12 volumes), but to my knowledge nobody has put it online, not even illegally. Whenever I want to check where a word comes from I just check what appears in the DRAE (not entirely reliable, m...

zompist wrote:(Someday I should really redo the page on Caďinorian paganism. That was the first one I wrote, and I think the mythology side has always been weak.)

Yes, you really should. I'd be excited to see a revamped version of Cad’inorian paganism.