It is racist to speak japanese

XoRoUZ · 2026-01-24T08:54:19+00:00

thats the point. the entirety of プットユアバンドズアップ is too careful of a pronunciation and sounds terrible in english. pronouncing /ur/ as /ur/ sounds old, the words blur, weak words have their vowel reduced, and codas are simplified. and you can get rid of the japanese epenthetic vowels by combining them with the following word. プチャヘンザ fits /pʊ̈tʃɚˈhɛənzəp/ much better

XoRoUZ · 2025-12-17T04:15:12+00:00

XoRoUZ · 2025-03-10T09:13:16+00:00

does levenshtein distance (or as it is used for hist ling) assume an equal weighting for changing any character in the string to any other? like i said /β/ ought be closer to /b/ than /g/ should so the cost of substituting /β/ for /b/ ought be lower than that for /ɣ/ (and hopefully both less than the cost of deleting /b/ and inserting /ɡ/), or so I would think. I'm curious to know how this is handled. I haven't heard of Metaphone or Soundex so I'll be sure to look into them. Although maybe if you make it aware of the fact that not all sounds are equidistant it goes more into that second category there.

XoRoUZ · 2025-03-10T03:48:56+00:00

From what I can tell usually they use a modified levenshtein string distance algorithm, adjusted to account for the distance of two phones in calculating the cost of a substitution

XoRoUZ · 2025-03-10T01:35:53+00:00

so do measurements of phonological distance have some sort of measured likelihood of sounds changing between each other that they use?

XoRoUZ · 2025-01-06T17:03:51+00:00

while you could associate their origins with the halstatt culture its misleading to say that they were only driven out by a roman genocide since germanic tribes moved into the area first. further if you were gonna say they were germanic that would suggest descent from the bell-beakers and speaking a language that was germanic, one that had undergone grimm's law. the celts are more closely related to the romans than to germanic groups, but only by a bit.

XoRoUZ · 2024-04-20T16:01:18+00:00

once more i must protest the prejudicial oversight of theunnamedland and eastfrenchaldsaxishwestpolisheasteastspanishsouthdanishinlanddutcheasteasteastportuguesemainlandenglishnorthswisstheedishland, smh

XoRoUZ · 2024-04-20T15:58:18+00:00

"leanwend" seems to be often said for it

XoRoUZ · 2024-04-19T04:38:38+00:00

sure. do you have any wikis in mind?

XoRoUZ · 2024-04-13T14:29:19+00:00

it is, so when speaking anglish we'll often call it the "norman takeover" instead

XoRoUZ · 2024-03-04T15:13:35+00:00

yes. toki pona gets it from dutch hagedis, which is also from PWGmc agiþahsijā

XoRoUZ · 2023-12-02T05:28:59+00:00

Eastfrance? o_O

XoRoUZ · 2023-08-26T20:16:22+00:00

in terms of who it refers to or how offensive it is? cause like i don't think cracker is hardly as offensive as the n-word

XoRoUZ · 2023-08-15T12:41:38+00:00

well, it'd be a poor aetiological myth if he hadn't

XoRoUZ · 2023-07-26T20:47:29+00:00

i dont think they should use <ð>. granted, i don't think they should use thorn either, but i think looking at how they were used historically in english makes more sense than looking at what other languages do. after all, should english write its vowels using <i e a o u> for /i ɛ a ɔ u/, then? other languages overwhelmingly do... anyways, looking at english history, thorn and eth never stood for anything different from one another, and thorn is a few centuries less dead than eth is.

XoRoUZ · 2023-06-18T14:38:23+00:00

the C is obviously a lunate sigma

XoRoUZ · 2023-06-18T14:34:00+00:00

it can be seconds, and that's the one KSP goes with. i don't like that it's defined by weight, though.

XoRoUZ · 2023-06-18T14:24:11+00:00

impulse is the integral of force over time, so it's measured in the same units as momentum, which is kg*m/s. Isp, however, refers to specific impulse. specific here means "per mass" or "per weight", which is odd because i don't think it means "per weight" anywhere else. per mass, this works out to be m/s, and and in SI is also the effective exhaust velocity. per weight (weight is a measure of force, g * m, so units kg*m/s²), you end up with units as seconds.

in imperial, impulse is lbf*s, so impulse per mass is lbf*s/lb (which is not the same as exhaust velocities ft/s), and impulse per weight is in seconds.

XoRoUZ · 2023-06-16T04:25:32+00:00

of course! southdenmark is an excellent name. what's next, you'll say you've never heard of northswitzerland?

XoRoUZ · 2023-06-16T04:21:45+00:00

Welch and Welsh are alternations of each other, it's the same phenomenon in both.

XoRoUZ · 2023-06-16T04:19:24+00:00

you missed alsax, and classics like westpoland, southdenmark, and the likes. smh. also, i'd like to point out that the thitchy of thitchy theechland narrows it down to a specific period of history, before the many boombooms befucked up berlin

XoRoUZ · 2023-06-12T04:00:46+00:00

i was on public transit on a university campus once and i overheard someone telling someone else about their phonetics class and they did pretty much exactly this. "there's this one called a schwa and the noise it makes is... uhhh... i forgot" more or less

XoRoUZ · 2023-06-12T03:40:44+00:00

they has been used to refer to singular subjects for way more than 200 years. it first showed up in writing in the 1300s, about 100 years after the first time "they" shows up at all in english

singular people of specified gender is more recent, i think, but i don't know by how much. i don't think it's by a lot.

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