You can say stuff like "The guy that's standing under that big cherry tree was dating the girl in the bright red sweater and long blue jeans, but she broke up with him because he stole her mom's cat"
@RedwolfPrograms "The guy that's standing under that big cherry tree (call him Bob) was dating the girl in the bright red sweater and long blue jeans (call her Bob2), but Bob2 broke up with Bob because Bob stole Bob2's mom's cat"
@RedwolfPrograms yes, so what i mean here by variable names is just artificial/fake placeholder "names" for someone who you can't name by their real name
@Wezl-acautionarytale I would like to use "it" for people. We already use it for babies, animals, and corpses, and we also say things like " It was him! He was the killer!" where "it" refers to a person
@Wezl-acautionarytale it's not that bad, but I don't think it would be hard to come up with a better system. We could use, for example, birthday modulo two, and everyone just announces that value when they introduce themselves to allow the use of those pronouns
Demonstratives (abbreviated DEM) are words, such as this and that, used to indicate which entities are being referred to and to distinguish those entities from others. They are typically deictic; their meaning depending on a particular frame of reference and cannot be understood without context. Demonstratives are often used in spatial deixis (where the speaker or sometimes the listener are to provide context), but also in intra-discourse reference (including abstract concepts) or anaphora, where the meaning is dependent on something other than the relative physical location of the speaker, for...
chat: pxeger_ has joined the chat pxeger_: My pronouns are no/no. Please do not refer to me. chat: pxeger_ has changed no. Please do not refer to me. name to pxeger
We live in the most powerful age of the Internet, where essentially every bit of content is just screenshots from 4 different websites being posted on each other
You know how sometimes people will say something along the lines of "I don't care what pronouns you use to refer to me, just use what you'd use to refer to yourself"? Imagine if we did that with regular nouns.
@RedwolfPrograms during the static typing discussion I was in class. The problem is that it's a 6-person advanced class where we're all expected to pay attention and answer yes to questions that the teacher asks every 3 minutes
The problem is there are really only two pronouns if you don't go with "they": "he" and "she". That's pretty useless a lot of the time. Neopronouns are kinda nice because there's a ton of them so you're less likely to have two people with the same one, but very few people use them and you need to remember extra pronouns, which is annoying
Temporary pronouns made up on the spot don't force you to memorize them for everyone and allow differentiating between as many people as you want, regardless of their gender/age/name/whatever
Basing pronouns on age would not be terrible, actually. You can have more categories (one pronoun for people 0-10, one for 10-20, etc.), you're not forcing people to pick one pronoun ("he" and "she" don't fit everyone), and there's more classes, reducing ambiguity
whatever we base pronoun categorisation off of, humans will get better at it so they can speak. I'm sure we can integrate this with cryptocurrency somehow :)
@user no, it was a joke because Jay just seems to be a very common choice by NB people (In fact, I know 2 NB/GNC people, both of whom are called Jay; I know two people called Jay, both of whom are NB/GNC.)
@Adám I am acknowledged on one of my dad's papers for helping him with methodology; he wanted to make me coauthor, but the journal wouldn't allow it. So If I consider myself as having authored that one paper (which is not mathematical, btw, so it will take a lot of steps to get to Erdős), then I can have a non-undefined Erdős number
@user I don't want to provide enough information to make it possible to discern the exact paper, because my dad is less private than I am online and it would reveal too much about me
@pxeger I co-authored a research paper with Roger Hui but it was only published by Jsoftware, and in an official real journal. If we count (or publish) that, then I'm a 3.
@user I'm sure that's accurate enough, but I want to see the statistics on how many animals are killed by dogs, for comparison. It's not zero. And some of them are cats. :(
CMQ: Is there a minimal pair for voiced vs. unvoiced th? (That is, a pair of words that are pronounced exactly the same except the th is voiced in one and unvoiced in the other)
Sure, if we can all agree on what features we want it to have. :P
Actually, I think (half-seriously) that Indonesian would make a good universal language.
It's got a reasonably simple sound system, the grammar isn't super-complex, and it's already been somewhat tailored to be a common language for lots of people with different cradle tongues. And tons of people already speak it.
@cairdcoinheringaahing When I was shopping online for an umbrella several months ago, I learned that umbrellas come in two genders: female and unisex. :P I think I ended up buying a female one because all the unisex ones were monochrome and boring.
@RedwolfPrograms I don't know whether this is actual synesthesia or just my imagination, but I used to associate certain pairs of words/things/people with the colors gray and brown. Brown felt rounder, gray felt skinnier.