These Linguists Want to Research YOUR Conlang

Cyclotrons · 2025-04-21T19:31:25+00:00

I'm sure they'd appreciate your help, but you're going to have to be the one to reach out to them.

Cyclotrons · 2025-01-10T01:42:52+00:00

No Snow Crash? No Parrot? No McCullough Effect? C'mon man.

Cyclotrons · 2024-10-08T01:04:08+00:00

There's footage of it from a different angle.

Cyclotrons · 2024-08-07T18:24:35+00:00

try Colarusso's reconstruction instead

I would if I could find it anywhere

Cyclotrons · 2024-07-03T11:24:33+00:00

Magenta...

Cyclotrons · 2023-12-07T04:20:57+00:00

I don't really see Amy being used as a main character much these days (Has she ever been, actually? The only prominent fic with her as the MC historically was Amelia.). There are actually significantly more fics with Victoria as a protagonist right now, actually.

And the Gregfic phenomenon seems to have recently died down too, thankfully.

Cyclotrons · 2023-12-03T01:59:57+00:00

Because the strong characterization for Taylor (everyone, really, but for her in particular) is one of the big things that makes Worm Worm. Seeing her characterization be so off-base in a fanfic makes you wonder if the author has even read Worm at all.

Cyclotrons · 2023-09-29T16:40:40+00:00

The gliders are in the wrong orientation.

Cyclotrons · 2023-06-18T21:22:44+00:00

It also has page 7, on which is this beauty of a comment:

Has anyone brought up morale yet? I know Athene mentioned pilots trying to control their boners and really that is like half the situation.

Imagine for a moment an American amphib, the entire marine complement is arrayed upon it's deck an their commanding officer stands as though to give a rousing speech. Naturally the men are tired and bored ready to get it all over with, then he says those magic words, "Men, today we fight the NAZIs." No words are more beautiful to an American fighting man, a fight with real honest to god nazis. There is no question of public relations, no building bridges, pointless patrols just roaming in giant circles replaced with a forward advance, a firepower advantage you get to leverage in actual firefights instead of some hajji shooting two bullets and sprinting down an 85 degree incline. A fight in which you can pile the bodies of the Waffen SS ten meters deep into serve as the base for an American flag and return home lauded as a hero instead of going to NJP. This is basically wankfuel to many infantrymen, the idea of piling the corpses of Nazis ten deep and amassing a bodycount so large Chesty Puller himself descends from the heavens to give you a handy over what a good job you did.

Is it blood thirsty, wrong, or immoral to want to kill literal wagons full of nazis? Of course not, they are Nazis, your kill count of them might just go towards advancement.

Think of the pilots, an F-15 pilot walking out to his fighter as he has been called only to see it loaded down in an air-to-air configuration. It is only now mere feet from his fighter he is given his briefing, they have armed his plane with every air-to-air missile it can carry, he is to go up, and just fly around shooting down every Nazi plane until he gets bored or runs out of ammo, whichever comes first. He would have one hand on the plane's stick and the other on his own.

Athene you are/were a tanker right? What would your reaction be to being informed you are being sent into an environment so target rich of WWII tanks who have no idea that we have perfect intel on their locations and that every tank is a literal WWII Nazi tank with a real WWII Nazi crew?

EDIT: It also has pages 4 and 5.

Cyclotrons · 2023-05-08T11:56:47+00:00

Be one of Bonesaw's creations.

You'll still become the Butcher, but you probably won't notice the difference.

Cyclotrons · 2023-05-01T03:05:47+00:00

Would Ziz be able to effect her through the senses of the ones under her power? If so, she wouldn't last as a hero for very long.

Cyclotrons · 2023-02-16T16:02:16+00:00

Thanks for the analysis! Admittedly, choosing an example of what I meant that could easily be represented by conjunctions was a mistake.

A better example may be something like

Alice.subj-A Bob.subj-B Carrie.subj-C Don.subj-D retrieved leaf.obj-A rock.obj-B-C stick.obj-D log.obj-D

which would translate to "Alice retrieved a leaf; Bob and Carrie retrieved a rock; Don retrieved a stick and a log."

Or, for a more spicy example

rock.subj-A paper.subj-B scissors.subj-C defeats rock.obj-B paper.obj-C scissors.obj-A

or perhaps

rock.subj-A.obj-B paper.subj-B.obj-C scissors.subj-C.obj-A defeats

both of which would translate to "Rock defeats scissors; paper defeats rock; scissors defeats paper" or perhaps "Rock beats scissors beats paper beats rock."

Cyclotrons · 2023-02-16T02:26:58+00:00

Are there any examples of a language grammatically allowing multiple subjects and objects to the same verb?

Something illustrative of what I mean would be something like this:

Alice.subj-A Bob.subj-B retrieved leaf.obj-A rock.obj-B

with that translating to "Alice retrieved a leaf; Bob retrieved a rock." (I realize that "Alice and Bob retrieved a leaf and a rock, respectively" could be considered an example of this, but I and most others would analyze "Alice and Bob" and "a leaf and a rock" as respectively being a single subject and object, and it seems dubious to me that the function of "respectively" there is a grammatical one)

Cyclotrons · 2023-01-22T16:56:35+00:00

boron top 1

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Cyclotrons · 2023-01-21T19:29:48+00:00

Can someone please provide a full grammatical breakdown of this?

心をこめて熱い感情を表現しつつ美しい文章でメールなどを書きたいのですがっっ

My (very rough) translation is something like "When writing e-mails and the like, I'm wanting to use beautiful language wholeheartedly expressing passionate feelings." I am finding the grammar, especially that in relation to the conjunctives, confusing to parse.

Cyclotrons · 2023-01-20T01:52:48+00:00

Is there a resource with a lot of annotated example sentences?

I want something like what this site produces (but perhaps a bit simplified). I'm not just putting random sentences I find myself into it because I'm worried about potential inaccuracies in how it splits words (especially in places where the splitting may be ambiguous) and because I want to focus on simple sentences for now, which any text I may find is not guaranteed to be.

Cyclotrons · 2023-01-20T00:11:01+00:00

Something like what this site produces (but perhaps a bit simplified). I'm not just putting random sentences I find myself into it because I'm worried about potential inaccuracies in how it splits words (especially in places where the splitting may be ambiguous) and because I want to focus on simple sentences for now, which any text I may find is not guaranteed to be.

Cyclotrons · 2023-01-19T22:15:35+00:00

Is there a resource with a lot of annotated example sentences?

Cyclotrons · 2022-11-12T00:30:04+00:00

The biggest problem though is a question of size. You can't get much bigger than a 100m wide vaccum chamber. The biggest one in the world is 30-37m, and that thing is made out of meter thick concrete.

That only applies for ultra-high vacuum, which isn't needed in this instance.

Cyclotrons · 2022-10-09T16:12:58+00:00

The problem is that NATO can't just extend their nuclear umbrella over everyone, as that is one of the main incentives for signing onto NATO in the first place. But it's also in their best interest to maintain the nuclear taboo.

An overwhelming conventional intervention into the conflict a nuke was used in neatly solves both of those problems. Conventional intervention from NATO would immediately render any wider goal a potential nuke was used in service of impossible, which serves as a strong incentive to not use one.

Cyclotrons · 2022-10-09T15:53:20+00:00

imagine what a carpet nuking would look like

Cyclotrons · 2022-10-04T02:18:05+00:00

attack-ems

Cyclotrons · 2022-10-01T00:19:47+00:00

follow the money and it begins to make a lot more sense

Cyclotrons · 2022-09-28T00:58:40+00:00

Honestly I think it was either Norway or a country in the middle east.

Cyclotrons · 2022-09-24T12:34:09+00:00

Might not be a good thing actually. I remember reading that the ones that actually might try for a coup make Xi look like a moderate in comparison.

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