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@Robusto Historically there have been plenty of weird "castration cults" with ritual castration or equivalent sterilization for religious or ideological reasons. Not all of these are from ancient history, either: remember Heaven's Gate? It's as though there's something about human nature making these castration cults keep cropping up again and again.
 
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@tchrist Let's promote desenshittificationism!
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> Once things got just a little worse, advertisers and users started to quit, and the long-delayed MySpacing of Facebook and Beboizing of Twitter began.
Humanely pacing the mice was a long time coming for Zuckerborg, who prefers his hamster wheels to seem like perpetual motion machines to outsiders. Think how many murine lives have been lost inside his Mechanical Turk!
11:48
> Q: Using only well-established English letter-patterns, how should the word pronounced [utqe.ɑʁvik] be spelled in English so that monoglot English speakers intuitively know how to say it correctly when first reading it on the printed page?

1. Ootkhayarvick
2. Hootkeyyarffic
3. Yutekeigharrhvique
4. Barrow
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@tchrist Simple. It's "out" as in "outré", "chao" as in "chaos", "rvy" as in "scurvy", "que" as in "unique". Outchaorvque.
Definite improvement there.
Outquéorvique
See? Even French can spell this word! But English? No. Because we are complete and total idiots arrogant beyond measure who import foreign words spelled in some other system without respelling them to match our own and thus demanding that everyone know the foreign system, which they will not, thereby consigning all imports into guaranteed mispronuncifiations. See also nayeeve fassade.
They've been doing this in Colorado as well, renaming toponyms that had been given those English names by evil colonial imperialists and genociders by changing them to some long-ass Indian name using a spelling system that nobody knows and will never be able to say.
That's not honoring anybody. It's insane.
They'll also never be able to type them because of all the magical diacritics they pull in.
The temerity of the élitely overrighteous knows no bounds. It tacitly but quite deliberately puts down others who don't know the specialist rules.
Just more bullies proclaiming how clever they are and how stupid everybody else who isn't them is. I'm so past sick of this.
Language should not be a casualty of the culture wars, but it always is.
12:45
@tchrist I'm glad to live in a country without arrogant idiots. Hmm, wait...
The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Alaskan Inuit pronunciations in Wikipedia articles. For a guide to adding IPA characters to Wikipedia articles, see Template:IPA and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation § Entering IPA characters. See Inuit phonology for a more thorough look at the sounds of Inupiaq and other Inuit languages. == Notes == == See also == Category:Pages with Inupiaq IPA (25)
In 2021 they renamed Squaw Mountain in Colorado to Mestaa’ėhehe Mountain. How's your Cheyenne Tsėhesenėstsestȯtse phonology? Besta fluck!
More English enshittificationalism.
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@jlliagre Is it on Mars?
> á, é, ó – high tone
ȧ, ė, ȯ or â, ê, ô – voiceless or whispered
Good luck with that one. Let me know how it turns out for you.
> /hohkoʃ/ hohkȯxe 'ax';
/tétahpetáht/ tsétȧhpétȧhtse 'the one who is big';
/mótehk/ motšėške 'knife'
Lots of silent s's.
> /mahnohtehtovot/ mȧhnȯhtsėstovȯtse 'if you ask him'
> /émóheeohtéo/ émôheeȯhtseo'o 'they are gathering';
/náohkeho'sóe/ náȯhkėho'soo'e 'I regularly dance';
/nápóahtenáhnó/ nápôȧhtsenáhno 'I punched him in the mouth'
13:20
@Vikas Which is why Gallic martialism is so infamous!
@Araucaria-Him I've reöopened the question you edited and asked be reöpened. Were you going to answer it? :) He also seems to be confusing the past inflection with the past participle one, which I suppose is understandable since "regular" verbs use the same form for both: slept, dreamt etc. But there are so many verbs with distinct past participles that I'm surprised he missed this. Not to mention the four-ways like drink, drank, drunk, drunken.
Weak verbs are weak, I know, I know.
Drunk by the bottle and drunken by noon.
Quick, which one of those two is the passive? :)
It's 28 degrees outside this morning.
Does anyone here deal with fantasy languages, or is this the wrong r00m for that?
And how weird can I get with language in here?
Discussions about conlangs don't come up super often here, but they do arise from time to time.
Atefr all tihgns are azmanig in egnslih :)
Alright, I guess conlang is a bit difficult.
You need to get a new modem, one with built-in error correction.
F̡̨̫̬̥̖̥̬̟̠̯̣̄̓̂̑̌̅̒̕̚ọ̟̟ŗ̇̌̋̌ y̨̨̬̬̙̙̪̫̮̦̠̔̉̉̏o̜̦ṳ̧̦̩̫̫̥̍̀̏̑̚̕r̢̫̣̖̞̮̃̔̑̂̑s̘̓̔̋̑̈̈ į̘̗̞̫̙̥̫̇̎́̐̊̀̑ŝ̨̠̘̠̘̯̊̉̎̀̚ f̧̛̦̘̙̂̔̐̕̚ạ̡̠̈r̩ t̬̠̗̣̜̟̂̔̌̏̇o̮̭̦̍̒̓ơ̤̣̄̊̎̕ n̨̠̥̞̙̦̦̬̭̬̝̠̅̒̄̍̋̕ớ̞̣̅̀̕i̧̦̘̩̤̅̐̅̊̐̉̚ṣ̫̪̩̯̩̯̤̉̈̂ẏ̧̝̯̗̪̫̪̗̗̆̔̆̆̆̊̓̚.
Heralding Helios, Aurora comes calling frostily in the gloaming.
13:43
Ah, I enjoy the humor here. :)

But I think talking about Phyrexian language might be a bit much for the fleshy ones here.
@tchrist That was a Heaven's Gate thing too? I thought they were just suicidal.
I'll head out
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@Robusto It was indeed.
@tchrist Yeesh.
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@tchrist I had a plan to write one but it'd take a while to write it up properly. Basically: the difference between the plain past tense form and the past-participial form isn't active vs. passive but finite vs. non-finite; this isn't any more of an issue than the fact that a verb's non-3rd-sg. present tense form is nearly always identical to its bare infinitive form.
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@Vikas Is Mars a country?
@jlliagre No, it's a city (town? borough?) near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Mars is a borough in southern Butler County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 1,458 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Pittsburgh metropolitan area. == History == In 1873, Samuel Parks constructed a home and a water-powered gristmill along Breakneck Creek. Parks decided to have a post office placed in his home, so he received help from his friend Samuel Marshall to help establish it. The name of the post office became Overbrook. In 1877, the Pittsburgh, New Castle and Lake Erie Railroad was constructed through Overbrook, and had a station built there. In 1882, the name of the...
@Robusto Oh, that's a big city. He is ours:
Mars est une commune française, située dans le département de l'Ardèche en région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Elle s'appelait Saint-Romain-le-Désert jusqu'en 1909. == Géographie == La commune de Mars est une commune de montagne, à l'aspect encore fortement rural et située dans la partie orientale du Massif central. Elle est traversée par le 45e parallèle nord. === Situation et description === Située sur le bord du Lignon, Mars est limitrophe avec le département de la Haute-Loire et notamment de la commune du Chambon-sur-Lignon. Son altitude moyenne est d'environ 1 020 mètres. Elle fait partie...
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@Vikas In French, it's also a month.
Mars est une commune française située dans le département de la Loire en région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. == Géographie == === Localisation === Mars est une commune du nord du département de la Loire dans l'arrondissement de Roanne et appartient au canton de Charlieu. Elle est limitrophe de la Saône-et-Loire puisqu'elle a une frontière avec la commune de Coublanc située dans ce de département. Les autres communes voisines de Mars sont, au sud-est Arcinges et Cuinzier, au sud Villers, à l'ouest Chandon, au nord-est Saint-Denis-de-Cabanne et au nord Maizilly. Sa situation place Mars sur le plan humain...
Petit-Mars [pə.ti.maʁ] est une commune de l'Ouest de la France, située dans le département de la Loire-Atlantique, en région Pays de la Loire. Le village se situe au sein du pays nantais et de la Bretagne historique. Elle se trouve à environ 21 km au nord de la ville de Nantes et à 38 km au sud de Châteaubriant. == Toponymie == Le nom de la localité est attesté sous les formes Villa Marcio au IXe siècle, Marz en 1287. Petit-Mars possède un nom gallo, la langue d'oïl locale : Petit-Mâr ou P'tit-Mâr selon l'écriture ABCD, ou Ptit Mârr selon l'écriture MOGA. En gallo, le nom de la commune se prononce...
Mars est une ancienne commune française située dans le département du Gard, en région Occitanie, intégrée en 2019 dans la commune de Bréau-Mars. == Géographie == === Localisation === Le village est situé dans les Cévennes gardoises à quelques kilomètres à l'ouest du Vigan. La commune est arrosée par le Souls, rivière affluente du Coudoulous. == Toponymie == Provençal Mars, du bas latin Martium. == Histoire == === Moyen Âge === Jusqu'au commencement du XVIIe siècle, Mars est un hameau dépendant de la paroisse d'Aulas. === Époque contemporaine === Le 1er janvier 2019, elle fusio...
@jlliagre And a TV show.
Veronica Mars is an American teen noir mystery drama television series created by screenwriter Rob Thomas. The series is set in the fictional town of Neptune, California, and stars Kristen Bell as the eponymous character. The series premiered on September 22, 2004, during television network UPN's final two years, and ended on May 22, 2007, after a season on UPN's successor, The CW, airing for three seasons total. Veronica Mars was produced by Warner Bros. Television, Silver Pictures Television, Stu Segall Productions, and Rob Thomas Productions. Joel Silver and Thomas were executive producers for...
And a candy treat:
Mars, commonly known as Mars bar, is the name of two varieties of chocolate bar produced by Mars, Incorporated. It was first manufactured in 1932 in Slough, England by Forrest Mars Sr. The bar consists of caramel and nougat coated with milk chocolate. An American version of the Mars bar was produced which had nougat and toasted almonds covered in milk chocolate; later, caramel was added to the recipe as well. The American version was discontinued in 2002, then revived in a slightly different form the following year under the name "Snickers Almond". == Versions == === UK and worldwide === In most...
Marseille or Marseilles (French: Marseille; Provençal Occitan: Marselha; see below) is the prefecture of the French department of Bouches-du-Rhône and of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Situated in the Provence region of southern France, it is located on the coast of the Gulf of Lion, part of the Mediterranean Sea, near the mouth of the Rhône river. A resident of Marseille is a Marseillais. Marseille is the third-largest city in France by urban area (when combined with Aix-en-Provence), and its second-most populous city, with 873,076 inhabitants in 2021 (Jan. census) over a municipal territory...
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Marseille was officially renamed Ville-sans-nom (Unnamed-town) from the 6 Jan. to the 12 Feb. 1794.
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@jlliagre March?
> March

third month of our year, first month of the ancient Roman calendar, c. 1200, from Anglo-French marche, Old French marz, from Latin Martius (mensis) "(month) of Mars," from Mars (genitive Martis). The Latin word also is the source of Spanish marzo, Portuguese março, Italian marzo, German März, Dutch Maart, Danish Marts, etc.
Oh
@jlliagre Except "unnamed town" is still a name. Curious, huh?
15:25
@Robusto Yes, they figured it out so restored the original one :-)
No name is a registered name.
No Name (styled as no name, French: sans nom) is a line of generic brand grocery and household products sold by Loblaw Companies Limited, Canada's largest food retailer. No Name products are available in stores across Canada that include Loblaws, Dominion, Extra Foods, Fortinos, Freshmart, Maxi, No Frills, Provigo, Real Atlantic Superstore, Real Canadian Superstore, Shoppers Drug Mart & Pharmaprix, SuperValu, Valu-mart, Your Independent Grocer, and Zehrs. Additionally, No Name-branded stores are being piloted starting in September 2024. == Launch == On March 21, 1978, Loblaw launched "No Name...
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@jlliagre The Registered symbol spoils it, though.
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15:42
This is why the world needs us. powerthesaurus.org/lion's_den
Sometimes the only antonym is "penis"
Very professional.
Oh, very similar.
That is, we made the same mistake.
15:46
Yes.
@HippoSawrUs Fixed it for you.
The den de lion.
@Cerberus Thanks. IDK why it pulls up another page. Strange. What's that called?
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16:06
@HippoSawrUs The apostrophe breaks the link on SE.
But you can use the format [text](url) to bypass that.

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