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Grrr Thread (2014-08-29 11:50:36) :
[quote Torco][quote Nessari][quote Torco][quote Nessari]The pension one is rather stupid, on second glance. You can't have plausibly-funded defined-benefits retirement schemes without a constantly increasing population, which is impossible to guarantee (especially when you have any form of immigration limitation.)[/quote]
really? =/[/quote]
It [i]might[/i] work out with a perfectly stable population, ie birth rates perfectly mirror death rates [edit: or more accurately entry-in...
[quote Torco][quote Nessari][quote Torco][quote Nessari]The pension one is rather stupid, on second glance. You can't have plausibly-funded defined-benefits retirement schemes without a constantly increasing population, which is impossible to guarantee (especially when you have any form of immigration limitation.)[/quote]
really? =/[/quote]
It [i]might[/i] work out with a perfectly stable population, ie birth rates perfectly mirror death rates [edit: or more accurately entry-in...
owned by Nessari, last edited 2014-08-29 11:52:34.
The Historical Linguistics Thread (2014-08-29 11:05:48) :
Yeah, I first ran into it in like 1998, and the only thing that's changed since then that wasn't cosmetic so far as I could tell is the url and the [http://nuristan.info/Current.html|local situation update.]
[quote]Nort: I think what I'm recalling is that I'd been advised by several sources that I could not realistically get away with having č j as reflexes for *ḱ ǵ in an a posteriori IE language. Seems I'll have to rethink that... [/quote]
o_O do you mean people saying 'don't do th...
Yeah, I first ran into it in like 1998, and the only thing that's changed since then that wasn't cosmetic so far as I could tell is the url and the [http://nuristan.info/Current.html|local situation update.]
[quote]Nort: I think what I'm recalling is that I'd been advised by several sources that I could not realistically get away with having č j as reflexes for *ḱ ǵ in an a posteriori IE language. Seems I'll have to rethink that... [/quote]
o_O do you mean people saying 'don't do th...
owned by Nessari, last edited 2014-08-29 11:07:51.
Grrr Thread (2014-08-29 10:43:01) :
[quote Morrígan]So apparently getting a legal name change (in NY) is more involved than I was lead to believe. I don't just need a petition, but also an Application for Judicial Index Number and a Request for Judicial Intervention (in triplicate). To make things worse, these forms don't make any sense, like as in I don't understand what needs to go where.
On the other hand, I took the day off, so I got to have lunch with one of my friends who I haven't really hung out with in a while. S...
[quote Morrígan]So apparently getting a legal name change (in NY) is more involved than I was lead to believe. I don't just need a petition, but also an Application for Judicial Index Number and a Request for Judicial Intervention (in triplicate). To make things worse, these forms don't make any sense, like as in I don't understand what needs to go where.
On the other hand, I took the day off, so I got to have lunch with one of my friends who I haven't really hung out with in a while. S...
owned by Nessari, last edited 2014-08-29 10:43:01.
The Historical Linguistics Thread (2014-08-29 03:27:49) :
[quote dhok]I had been intending to make this for a while, but I have been browsing T. Burrow's [i]The Sanskrit Language[/i] (an excellent reference work for all diachronic things Sanskrit), and stumbled upon the following intriguing passage:
[quote]
The intermediate forms [i]ś, ź, źh[/i] will explain most of the Indo-Iranian developments, as they will the Balto-Slavonic, but it is likely that before complete assibilation there was an affricate stage. Evidence of this is preserved i...
[quote dhok]I had been intending to make this for a while, but I have been browsing T. Burrow's [i]The Sanskrit Language[/i] (an excellent reference work for all diachronic things Sanskrit), and stumbled upon the following intriguing passage:
[quote]
The intermediate forms [i]ś, ź, źh[/i] will explain most of the Indo-Iranian developments, as they will the Balto-Slavonic, but it is likely that before complete assibilation there was an affricate stage. Evidence of this is preserved i...
owned by Nessari, last edited 2014-08-29 03:31:06.
Romanization Thread (2014-08-28 10:44:33) :
[quote Nortaneous][quote Nessari][quote I]That just makes it look Burmese.[/quote] Or maybe Thai.
Then again…
[table]
[tr][th]Mine[th]Pole[th]Nort
[tr][td]ȟēṇa[td]xeṇa[td]xhenha
[tr][td]ṭʷūƛoṇʷ[td]ṭvudłoṇv[td]thwudlonhw
[tr][td]qʷazeλī[td]qvazełi[td]qwazetli
[tr][td]ʔaʕīṣkʷi[td]‘aĝiṣkvi[td]'aghishwi
[/table]
Maybe not either. But dammit Nort how many times to I have to tell you I hate digraphs with a fiery unending passion?
(I have absolutely no idea ...
[quote Nortaneous][quote Nessari][quote I]That just makes it look Burmese.[/quote] Or maybe Thai.
Then again…
[table]
[tr][th]Mine[th]Pole[th]Nort
[tr][td]ȟēṇa[td]xeṇa[td]xhenha
[tr][td]ṭʷūƛoṇʷ[td]ṭvudłoṇv[td]thwudlonhw
[tr][td]qʷazeλī[td]qvazełi[td]qwazetli
[tr][td]ʔaʕīṣkʷi[td]‘aĝiṣkvi[td]'aghishwi
[/table]
Maybe not either. But dammit Nort how many times to I have to tell you I hate digraphs with a fiery unending passion?
(I have absolutely no idea ...
owned by Nessari, last edited 2014-08-28 10:44:34.
Bugs, Requests, and Changes (2014-08-28 10:38:25) :
[strike]So a cheese whiz grater that only shows new car smell on the Hoover Dam?[/strike]
*So a page with only threads with new posts in them?
(I really have no fucking clue how or why I came up with the first version of this post.)
[strike]So a cheese whiz grater that only shows new car smell on the Hoover Dam?[/strike]
*So a page with only threads with new posts in them?
(I really have no fucking clue how or why I came up with the first version of this post.)
owned by Nessari, last edited 2014-08-28 10:40:41.
Quote Thread (2014-08-28 10:34:01) :
[box]<slereah> "EXAMPLES OF THINGS THAT ARE NOT BUILDINGS: Ducks, M&Ms, cars, the Sun, cuttlefish, microchips, Macklemore, lightning, goat blood, zeppelins, tapeworms, pickle jars, those sticks you use to toast marshmallows, alligators, tuning forks, minotaurs, Perseid meteors, ballots, crude oil, sponsored tweets, and catapults that throw handfuls of engagement rings."[/box]
[box]<slereah> "EXAMPLES OF THINGS THAT ARE NOT BUILDINGS: Ducks, M&Ms, cars, the Sun, cuttlefish, microchips, Macklemore, lightning, goat blood, zeppelins, tapeworms, pickle jars, those sticks you use to toast marshmallows, alligators, tuning forks, minotaurs, Perseid meteors, ballots, crude oil, sponsored tweets, and catapults that throw handfuls of engagement rings."[/box]
owned by Nessari, last edited 2014-08-28 10:34:01.
Bugs, Requests, and Changes (2014-08-27 19:51:32) :
Please to be describing this further.
Please to be describing this further.
owned by Nessari, last edited 2014-08-27 19:51:32.
Absences (2014-08-27 14:53:45) :
[quote Kereb]I don't know if this side of the border counts for anything in this discussion but the /u/ among the very few in Vancouver who grew up in Vancouver is more back than Californian /u/ or what I think of as "Keanu u". It's not "back back, way in the back" but it's definitely not fronted as much as what you're talking about[/quote] So far as I'm concerned, yes it does count in this discussion. My dialect is a hell of a lot more similar to yours than it is to the EST folks'.
...
[quote Kereb]I don't know if this side of the border counts for anything in this discussion but the /u/ among the very few in Vancouver who grew up in Vancouver is more back than Californian /u/ or what I think of as "Keanu u". It's not "back back, way in the back" but it's definitely not fronted as much as what you're talking about[/quote] So far as I'm concerned, yes it does count in this discussion. My dialect is a hell of a lot more similar to yours than it is to the EST folks'.
...
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Grrr Thread (2014-08-27 14:22:50) :
[quote Torco][quote Nessari]The pension one is rather stupid, on second glance. You can't have plausibly-funded defined-benefits retirement schemes without a constantly increasing population, which is impossible to guarantee (especially when you have any form of immigration limitation.)[/quote]
really? =/[/quote]
It [i]might[/i] work out with a perfectly stable population, ie birth rates perfectly mirror death rates [edit: or more accurately entry-into-contribution-scheme rates...
[quote Torco][quote Nessari]The pension one is rather stupid, on second glance. You can't have plausibly-funded defined-benefits retirement schemes without a constantly increasing population, which is impossible to guarantee (especially when you have any form of immigration limitation.)[/quote]
really? =/[/quote]
It [i]might[/i] work out with a perfectly stable population, ie birth rates perfectly mirror death rates [edit: or more accurately entry-into-contribution-scheme rates...
owned by Nessari, last edited 2014-08-27 14:30:22.
Grrr Thread (2014-08-27 12:18:51) :
The pension one is rather stupid, on second glance. You can't have plausibly-funded defined-benefits retirement schemes without a constantly increasing population, which is impossible to guarantee (especially when you have any form of immigration limitation.)
The pension one is rather stupid, on second glance. You can't have plausibly-funded defined-benefits retirement schemes without a constantly increasing population, which is impossible to guarantee (especially when you have any form of immigration limitation.)
owned by Nessari, last edited 2014-08-27 12:18:51.
Romanization Thread (2014-08-27 03:36:37) :
[quote Hallow XIII]you hate digraphs with fiery passion, and yet you must have only symbols that may be easily typed w/ vanilla xcompose
you are a picky mistress[/quote]
Actually I got my IPA input working again. And theoretically I know how Xcompose works now, I just have to figure out why it isn't.
But yeah, I am pretty damn picky at times :s
[quote Hallow XIII]you hate digraphs with fiery passion, and yet you must have only symbols that may be easily typed w/ vanilla xcompose
you are a picky mistress[/quote]
Actually I got my IPA input working again. And theoretically I know how Xcompose works now, I just have to figure out why it isn't.
But yeah, I am pretty damn picky at times :s
owned by Nessari, last edited 2014-08-27 03:36:37.
Romanization Thread (2014-08-27 01:45:27) :
[quote I]That just makes it look Burmese.[/quote] Or maybe Thai.
Then again…
[table]
[tr][th]Mine[th]Pole[th]Nort
[tr][td]ȟēṇa[td]xeṇa[td]xhenha
[tr][td]ṭʷūƛoṇʷ[td]ṭvudłoṇv[td]thwudlonhw
[tr][td]qʷazeλī[td]qvazełi[td]qwazetli
[tr][td]ʔaʕīṣkʷi[td]‘aĝiṣkvi[td]'aghishwi
[/table]
Maybe not either. But dammit Nort how many times to I have to tell you I hate digraphs with a fiery unending passion?
(I have absolutely no idea if vowel length is staying or goi...
[quote I]That just makes it look Burmese.[/quote] Or maybe Thai.
Then again…
[table]
[tr][th]Mine[th]Pole[th]Nort
[tr][td]ȟēṇa[td]xeṇa[td]xhenha
[tr][td]ṭʷūƛoṇʷ[td]ṭvudłoṇv[td]thwudlonhw
[tr][td]qʷazeλī[td]qvazełi[td]qwazetli
[tr][td]ʔaʕīṣkʷi[td]‘aĝiṣkvi[td]'aghishwi
[/table]
Maybe not either. But dammit Nort how many times to I have to tell you I hate digraphs with a fiery unending passion?
(I have absolutely no idea if vowel length is staying or goi...
owned by Nessari, last edited 2014-08-27 01:52:35.
Romanization Thread (2014-08-26 21:32:21) :
That just makes it look Burmese.
That just makes it look Burmese.
owned by Nessari, last edited 2014-08-27 01:45:22.
Bugs, Requests, and Changes (2014-08-26 20:57:25) :
If that is so (and I'm not doubting you by saying this), then I'm quite impressed. My desktop case is 12-14 years old; there's nothing inside it that's still original, and several pieces have been replaced twice or three times.
If that is so (and I'm not doubting you by saying this), then I'm quite impressed. My desktop case is 12-14 years old; there's nothing inside it that's still original, and several pieces have been replaced twice or three times.
owned by Nessari, last edited 2014-08-26 20:57:25.
Romanization Thread (2014-08-26 19:29:03) :
what I've been using
[code]
L D PAlv Retr P V U Ph G
stop p t d ṭ ḍ k g q ʔ
ṭʷ kʷ qʷ
fric s z š ṣ x ȟ ħ ʕ h
&nb...
what I've been using
[code]
L D PAlv Retr P V U Ph G
stop p t d ṭ ḍ k g q ʔ
ṭʷ kʷ qʷ
fric s z š ṣ x ȟ ħ ʕ h
&nb...
owned by Nessari, last edited 2014-08-26 19:29:03.
Sound Change Appliers (2014-08-26 19:19:47) :
You should look into Notepad++. It loses none of the functionality of Notepad[note]frankly something that did would be quite an achievement.[/note] while gaining a whole lot more, without losing the ability to just use it simply. And it's a hell of a lot faster and more stable at opening huge files than Notepad.
You should look into Notepad++. It loses none of the functionality of Notepad[note]frankly something that did would be quite an achievement.[/note] while gaining a whole lot more, without losing the ability to just use it simply. And it's a hell of a lot faster and more stable at opening huge files than Notepad.
owned by Nessari, last edited 2014-08-26 19:19:47.
Grrr Thread (2014-08-26 19:17:23) :
Hey, At least you're not Bulgaria.
Hey, At least you're not Bulgaria.
owned by Nessari, last edited 2014-08-26 19:17:23.
Bugs, Requests, and Changes (2014-08-26 19:15:29) :
Every single part inside it?
Every single part inside it?
owned by Nessari, last edited 2014-08-26 19:15:29.
Sound Change Appliers (2014-08-26 18:51:45) :
I don't think requiring UTF-8 is too much to ask tbh. It's not like it's hard to select
I don't think requiring UTF-8 is too much to ask tbh. It's not like it's hard to select
owned by Nessari, last edited 2014-08-26 18:51:45.
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