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Tue Nov 17, 2015 12:01 pm
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That is also pretty amazing.
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Tue Nov 17, 2015 12:53 pm
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Re: The Chris Thread
This is a high quality 404 type notice:
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Tue Jan 12, 2016 8:37 pm
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Re: The Chris Thread
What the hell?
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Wed Jan 13, 2016 1:35 am
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Re: The Chris Thread
I like the flux capacitor on the lucha libre reindeer, for instance.
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Wed Jan 13, 2016 9:06 am
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Re: The Chris Thread
There is a lot of... of... of... stuff.... going on there.
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Wed Jan 13, 2016 3:51 pm
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Re: The Chris Thread
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Thu Jan 14, 2016 3:59 pm
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Re: The Chris Thread
That's how I'd mic a chicken.
Here's an interesting one. VHS artifacts (they're obvious when they happen) aside, this is a fine demonstration of old-school piano tunings. When I am living somewhere with room for a proper piano- which I don't have at the moment- it's not gonna be in modern equal temperament. The older tunings sound better, IMO. More character.
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That launched me on an interesting wiki romp. Like The Wolf Interval, and other things that never occurred to me to be a problem since we tune how we do.
This chart shows the lexical distance — that is, the degree of overall vocabulary divergence — among the major languages of Europe.
The size of each circle represents the number of speakers for that language. Circles of the same color belong to the same language group. All the groups except for Finno-Ugric (in yellow) are in turn members of the Indo-European language family.
English is a member of the Germanic group (blue) within the Indo-European family. But thanks to 1066, William of Normandy, and all that, about 75% of the modern English vocabulary comes from French and Latin (ie the Romance languages, in orange) rather than Germanic sources. As a result, English (a Germanic language) and French (a Romance language) are actually closer to each other in lexical terms than Romanian (a Romance language) and French.
So why is English still considered a Germanic language? Two reasons. First, the most frequently used 80% of English words come from Germanic sources, not Latinate sources. Those famous Anglo-Saxon monosyllables live on! Second, the syntax of English, although much simplified from its Old English origins, remains recognizably Germanic. The Norman conquest added French vocabulary to the language, and through pidginization it arguably stripped out some Germanic grammar, but it did not ADD French grammar.
The original research data for the chart comes from K. Tyshchenko (1999), Metatheory of Linguistics. (Published in Russian.)
Thu Jan 21, 2016 7:08 am
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Tue Jan 26, 2016 4:52 pm
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Re: The Chris Thread
Excellent!
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Tue Jan 26, 2016 9:17 pm
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This is (part of) how MIT celebrated moving their campus from boston across the river to cambridge in 1916:
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Tue Jan 26, 2016 9:20 pm
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Re: The Chris Thread
Those gentlemen know how to party. I am sure they had an abundance of radium water as well.
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Thu Jan 28, 2016 10:53 am
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Re: The Chris Thread
That is a very classy large beaver, yes.
Zozobra wrote:
I just want to mention this is excellent. Etymology and linguistic history fascinate me. I note the closest thing to English on here is Frisian, and I've heard it stated it borders on intelligible to an English-speaker. I've never heard anyone speaking Frisian, though, so I'm going to have to look into that.
I'm somewhat surprised Finnish is so close to Swedish; it doesn't look very close to much of anything else that I've seen, but my knowledge of the language is limited and mostly gleaned from metal bands. Hungarian, of course, isn't really related to much of anything else. I also note Basque isn't on here at all, and that really, really isn't related to any other currently extant language at all- that might be the closest surviving thing to Proto-Indo-European, at least according to some linguistic scholars.
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Fri Jan 29, 2016 12:46 am
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Re: The Chris Thread
Air pressure at work:
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Fri Jan 29, 2016 4:08 pm
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Sun Jan 31, 2016 5:34 am
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Re: The Chris Thread
Snaxocaster wrote:
Air pressure at work:
Is this a materials test(i see a hose there), or a natural-ish accident?
Also, this is a pretty solid example of why i am likely to avoid travel in submarines in the future. I mean, it would be over pretty quick, but fuck, it would hurt pretty good for that pretty quick.
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