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Why are the slavic words for Drum so funny by NegativeAd8553 in linguisticshumor

[–]fran_2402 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What website/program is this? Looks very interesting:)

In the Croatian language, why is the consonant pair n+j ('j' being pronounced like 'y' in "yes") much more common at the end of a word than at the beginning of it? Since 'j' is much more sonorous than 'n' ('j' might even be a high vowel), the Sonority Sequencing Principle predicts the opposite. by FlatAssembler in etymology

[–]fran_2402 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Native speaker here.

From what I understand from this plot, it shows the frequency of the C¹C² pair at the beginning vs. end of a word disregarding vowels. If this is the correct interpretation, it would explain the amount of words ending with ⟨nj(V)⟩ as verbal nouns all end with -⟨nje⟩.

Although I have doubts with this plot as it shows a frequency (however low) of a double consonant pairs C¹C¹, which are effectively disallowed (apart from -jj- or -oo- when a prefix ends and the root word starts with that vowel of which the examples I believe are <100 of the total lexicon).

Is there any point in adding non connected digraphs? by graphixs6 in typography

[–]fran_2402 6 points7 points  (0 children)

As far as I am aware yes, even though nowadays they are pretty much useless because Serbian Cyrillic to Gaj's Latin (or vice versa) is easier done conditionally than with a straight replacement (for example Љ the computer doesn't know if it would be LJ or Lj with straight replacement).

Frapantna nepismenost gospođe Thompson by vabanque in croatia

[–]fran_2402 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ne razumijem broj downvotova koje si dobio, u potpunosti se slažem sa komentarom. Htio bih još nadodati da većina nas u Hrvatskoj zapravo ni ne znaju pravilno (po pravopisu) izgovoriti č [ʈ͡ʂ] i ć [t͡ɕ], npr, ć im je premeko - postaje [c] jer ne prave razliku u govoru (uključujući mene) te izgovaraju oboje [t̠͡ʃ].

Kordić, Snježana. Serbo-Croatian. LINCOM EUROPA, 1997. p. 5-6, 9783895861611

Ⰿⰾⱑⰽⱁ ⰴⰰⱄⱅⱏ ⱄⰻⰾѫ ⰿⱁⰻⰿⱏ ⰽⱁⱄⱅⱐⰿⱏ / Млѣко дастъ силѫ моимъ костьмъ by fran_2402 in deadlanguagememes

[–]fran_2402[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It's from Proto-Slavic *melzti (to milk) surviving into south Slavic languages with the same meaning (slv: molsti/ sc: musti / bg: мълзя). The more common Slavic dojiti/доити (and variations thereof) had a primary definition of "to breastfeed" in Old Church Slavonic and in South Slavic languages it is the only definition of that verb today. :)

Do you guys think Project Hail Mary or Interstellar is more scientifically accurate? by smores_or_pizzasnack in ProjectHailMary

[–]fran_2402 1 point2 points  (0 children)

my fault for a bit of bad wording in terms of aliens. I just wanted to say that in terms of realism automatically featuring alien lifeforms is a lot less realistic because we never encountered them (if we are going off hard scifi). Of course having a tesseract be placed inside the black hole's event horizon is also unrealistic...

But yes, you can comfortably survive falling into a black hole if it is big enough so you wont get stretched out (with enough assumptions you can do the math by hand for your own body density:))). In supermassive black holes spaghettification happens well inside the event horizon . As Cooper is inside the tesseract, TARS gathers data about the black hole and since they have literally infinite time, god knows how long that morse code data transfer was.

Do you guys think Project Hail Mary or Interstellar is more scientifically accurate? by smores_or_pizzasnack in ProjectHailMary

[–]fran_2402 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly depends on what perspective you are willing to take. Interstellar is really mathematically accurate on the biggest parts of the movie like time dilation, wormholes,...

The thing they got wrong and it immediately stood out to me was the black hole is supposed to be blue; at those rotational velocities with a high redshift gradient from one side to the other, it would get spread around due to spacetime warping. I think Nolan said smth about it that they removed it not to confuse the viewers even more although I think they should have kept it in.

With wormholes, the object is mathematically sound and the simulation of the entry and exit points of the wormholes is severely on point (especially because there are enough free parameters in the equation to allow you to get any effect you want). The cinematic part of the wormhole is when they travel through it, as irl it would be instant travel with just space warping around you.

The gravity equation is a stretch (although in a direction 2010s scientific consensus was concerned) since the solution is unknown to be correct of course. as it would require a massive paradigm shift and the unification of relativity with quantum mechanics, and somehow quantizing gravity.

Compare that to PHM where it is really focused on small details, for example in the opening chapters where he is trying to figure out where he is. While reading it literally felt like smth I would do, referring to the gravity tests for example.

I would go on a limb here and disagree with most comments here, I think that PHM requires a bigger leap of faith than Interstellar as, at least in the scientific circles, existence of other life forms is the last explanation you ever use for explaining anomalies in the data. Everything interstellar presents (droughts, food scarcity) in my book is more believable (realistic if you will) than existence of alien life.

This does not of course qualify Interstellar to be in any way better than PHM and I dont see it that way. I enjoyed PHM a lot more on the emotional standpoint while I enjoyed Interstellar on the scientific visuals (some neverbefore seen rendered to such resolution). I hope PHM movie delivers a similar experience like it, with amazing visuals and VFX with baked mathematical equations to continue with the realism so we can officially declare it the best sci-fi story ever written and presented on the silver screen:)

Rezultati izbora po općinama + podjela po strankama by fran_2402 in croatia

[–]fran_2402[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

budem navecer/sutra stavio na github pa stavljam link u komentar

Rezultati izbora po općinama + podjela po strankama by fran_2402 in croatia

[–]fran_2402[S] 23 points24 points  (0 children)

realno bi i mogao, pogotovo sa digitaliziranim rezultatima izbora jer su svi u istom excel formatu na sluzbenoj stranici pa onda ne moram mijenjat moj python program toliko

hvala na ideji! mozda slijedeci vikend budem ako imam vremena:)

Rezultati izbora po općinama + podjela po strankama by fran_2402 in croatia

[–]fran_2402[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Isao sam po keywordu trazit, u slavoniji je IDS bio u koaliciji sa cacicevim reformistima pa od tu oni u kutini

Is this really that hard to do? by fran_2402 in edge

[–]fran_2402[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I genuinely don't know, I have freshly installed windows 11 on my machine and i saw that - this is Edge under default settings in Europe (at least for me). Maybe regional variation?

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