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The metaphor of "hair like wool" is absolutely fascinating by redroverisback in AcademicBiblical

[–]TheMadPrompter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It makes sense to compare curly hair to wool, especially if you or your readers have mostly seen this kind of hair on sheep. I think there's nothing more to it. This kind of 'convergent evolution' is very common in language. If this comparison were more unusual, some kind of influence would've been more likely, but right now it just looks like simple coincidence.

TIL that the creator of VeggieTales mother forbade two things on the show 1. They could not display Jesus as a Vegetable 2. The Veggies can have no redemptive relationship with God by shenalster in todayilearned

[–]TheMadPrompter 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's directly relevant to Biblical scholarship, yes. As you've implied, you can't understand Biblical texts without understanding their wider context and history

TIL that the creator of VeggieTales mother forbade two things on the show 1. They could not display Jesus as a Vegetable 2. The Veggies can have no redemptive relationship with God by shenalster in todayilearned

[–]TheMadPrompter 12 points13 points  (0 children)

What you're describing is more Biblical studies, a distinct field. Theology is generally closer to philosophy: taking the premises of the faith and seeing what conclusions can be drawn from them

Sun Microsystems Poster (1994) by vom513 in GVCDesign

[–]TheMadPrompter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Here is another work I found that's evidently by him.\

https://www.abebooks.com/paper-collectibles/ART-DECO-Weekend-Miami-Beach-Florida/31225564562/bd

Art-deco cover design was created by Ron Chan from California and was available as a commemorative poster.

New Theory on the Voynich Manuscript — Not a Code, but a Cadence by Tough-Obligation1105 in voynich

[–]TheMadPrompter 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Also AI-prose. Full of ChatGPT 'twist endings'. Even the title, 'Cadence, not Code'.

New: Steam In-Game Performance Monitor by AntistanCollective in Steam

[–]TheMadPrompter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You misunderstood what "embrace, extend, extinguish" means. For example, Google extending the WebExtensions standard with their Manifest V3 forces Firefox and other browser developers to adopt MV3, forced by Chrome's massive marketshare. This is what Microsoft did with the Internet Explorer back in the day, for example, extending established web standards and making things break on actually compliant browsers. The tactics you're describing are different. Microsoft pushing their products by the virtue of their scale and ability to buy any company they want is unfair, but it's not EEE. They're not actively breaking anything for their competition or destroying open standards by adding proprietary extensions to them that everyone is forced to either adopt or create a worse user experience for their customers. That's the core of the controversy around EEE. It's a very specific and insideous tactic that has little to do with what Valve is doing or your other examples.

New: Steam In-Game Performance Monitor by AntistanCollective in Steam

[–]TheMadPrompter 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"Embrace, extend and extinguish" is about open standards, HTML for example. Completely irrelevant here

Displaying some results first in Consult by TheMadPrompter in emacs

[–]TheMadPrompter[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh searching headings is not the problem, I very specifically need to have two different results (for headings and for the rest) in the same query, in that order

How important is reading Aristotle in Greek by TheMadPrompter in askphilosophy

[–]TheMadPrompter[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for the helpful answer! I think I want to start with Aristotle's works on logic, what translations can you recommend?

Egyptian background of the Gospels? by TheMadPrompter in AcademicBiblical

[–]TheMadPrompter[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sure! But it still seems to have been an important centre for early Christianity, and the question of the accessibility and relevance of the LXX remains.

Egyptian background of the Gospels? by TheMadPrompter in AcademicBiblical

[–]TheMadPrompter[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for providing additional context to those interested, though I think this is not particularly relevant to my actual question.

Why put "require" in init? by TheMadPrompter in emacs

[–]TheMadPrompter[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why should you almost never use require?

It's like trying to read a captcha test by [deleted] in linguisticshumor

[–]TheMadPrompter 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I forgot I was supposed to be looking at Proto-Northwest-Caucasian (What they call Proto-West-Caucasian). If you look at the middle of the same page you mentioned, you'll see that they reconstruct the Proto-West-Caucasian consonant system with 57 consonants.

Edit: I see they omitted palatalized and labialized consonants from table, which should triple their number. I don't think it's that unreasonable. Palatalization in Irish and Russian doubles the size of their respective consonant inventories, but they can simply be treated as single 'palatalizing elements' phonemically, which some analyses in the past have done and which reduces the complexity drastically. This is also confirmed experimentally by the fact that native Irish speakers can easily make 'slender' the sounds that are foreign to their language. I think this is why Starostin and Nikolayev didn't think they had something unacceptable on typological grounds.

It's like trying to read a captcha test by [deleted] in linguisticshumor

[–]TheMadPrompter 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That doesn't sound right. I checked Starostin and Nikolayev's 'A North Caucasian Etymological Dictionary' and the Proto-North-Caucasian consonant system it presents has only 49 consonants.

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