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Exempt-Medic

Oct 6, 2022 15:03

So I'm gonna go ask the people I know are more qualified than me on this matter for their thoughts

Exempt-Medic

Oct 6, 2022 15:00

For context/experience, my sister was/is fully and partially deaf and so the family all learned some sign language, though she then got a cochlear implant and hearing aid. Sign fell out of use for her and the rest of us, though she started learning it again senior year of highschool and is doing so now in college. My linguistics advisor knew sign language and most of her research was in the intersection of physical disability and hearing impairment

Exempt-Medic

Oct 6, 2022 14:55

Whether that was Chinese, Japanese, Mongolian, ASL, or anything else

Exempt-Medic

Oct 6, 2022 14:54

I used to be very worried about people thinking I was appropriating languages because I felt I needed to know the details and be as accurate as I could, but every user I've talked to has been very grateful for my respect and enthusiasm to learn and learn well

Exempt-Medic

Oct 6, 2022 14:54

I at least think it'd be fine and good to learn some ASL and incorporate that into the story/world. Quite frankly, I trust you not to make a caricature out of it and, at least in my experience, people have been very happy when I've included bits of their languages in the things I do

Exempt-Medic

Oct 6, 2022 14:47

Yeah, there's a lot of stuff on gesture v.s. sign and how that translates across languages and how useful and accurate the terms are

Exempt-Medic

Oct 6, 2022 14:43

Oh, of course

Exempt-Medic

Oct 6, 2022 14:41

@vicky_molokh-unsilenceMonica It's interesting though that some sign languages actually include a lot more pantomime than others. And there's also some research into code-switching between the two in various cultures

Exempt-Medic

Oct 6, 2022 14:34

@linksassin Whereas I'm wondering whether you should change the way you treat other languages. I'll throw in words of Elvish, Primordial, etc... into interactions similar to how Lord of The Rings does at times

Exempt-Medic

Sep 28, 2022 02:52

Random facts about my speech: I apparently never learned the dark/velar L in English properly and my brain decided it made sense to instead use the uvular nasal. My brain also decided to pronounce cat's and cats' differently and generalizes the -en of soften, harden, darken, etc... to regularly produce words like colden and warmen

Exempt-Medic

Sep 28, 2022 02:45

@Draconis Yeah, I majored in mathematics and linguistics with focuses on nonlinear dynamics and phonetics/phonology respectively

Exempt-Medic

Sep 28, 2022 02:44

It will take me a while to figure out what words in the pronunciation guide are actually in Mwangi/Polyglot , but there's at least these ones: "jukamis - joo KAH mihs" "Mwangi - MWAN gi" "Sargava - sahr GAH vah"

Exempt-Medic

Sep 28, 2022 02:41

Yeah, same, and I majored in sounds XD

Exempt-Medic

Sep 28, 2022 02:40

They certainly tried

Exempt-Medic

Sep 28, 2022 02:40

The "pronunciation guide" is... less than perfect though. With such wonderful entries as "Styx - STIKS" "Shax - SHAX" "djinn - JIHN"

Exempt-Medic

Sep 28, 2022 02:37

"Mwangi: Language: Polyglot"

"Polyglot: The countless dialects of Garund’s Mwangi tribesfolk share enough remnants of a mysterious root language that members of different tribes from vastly divergent regions of the Expanse can generally understand one another even though they appear to be speaking completely different languages."

"Zenj names are usually short and clipped, with hard consonants and many glottal stops and clicks that cannot be easily transcribed in written languages (! equals a velaric clicking noise in the back of the throat or velum and ‘ is used to denote a glottal stop).…

Exempt-Medic

Sep 28, 2022 02:34

@Draconic I have the Campaign Setting book for Pathfinder 1e pathfinderwiki.com/wiki/Campaign_Setting which includes a pronunciation guide on various words and describes Mwangi to a certain extent

Exempt-Medic

Sep 26, 2022 20:11

Though, I suppose, that's partially what the tag description is for

Exempt-Medic

Sep 26, 2022 20:07

I wonder about what happens if they release another RPG (or have already released one) that is very different from those

Exempt-Medic

Sep 18, 2022 01:16

@Kirt In case you come here, I removed the tag because it is the only question with that tag. In my person opinion, if it were a more useful tag, it probably would have been added to other questions earlier on besides just that one. I can definitely see it being added, though a large multitude of other questions should probably be slowly edited to include that tag over the next long while

Exempt-Medic

Aug 28, 2022 11:53

I think the edit added them as a comparison/example, not really anything with real content

Exempt-Medic

Aug 28, 2022 11:39

@ThomasMarkov Did it not pop up on the front page because it was edited?

Exempt-Medic

Aug 28, 2022 10:34

Does anybody else think this edit is a bit too much for an edit? I was about to revert it but seeing as nobody else has yet, I figured I'd drop a question in here

Exempt-Medic

Aug 23, 2022 01:24

Yes stackstatus.net

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Exempt-Medic

Sep 27, 2022 15:30

Better, though I edited the comment shortly after. It is generally a bad idea to just link to something as proof. It would be better to quote it and also make an argument yourself so the reader doesn't have to go elsewhere and infer what you were trying to say

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Exempt-Medic

Sep 22, 2022 12:12

@SeriousBri FWIW, I don't think it's clear that this isnt an XY-Problem. Furthermore, I personally find the generalized versions of most questions are significantly harder to understand, answer, and actually apply to tables. Obviously they can be asked still, but an example use-case is always helpful

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Exempt-Medic

Aug 22, 2022 19:52

The extreme majority of these are "What are the ways to accomplish X?" and not "What are the times X happens?"

Exempt-Medic

Aug 22, 2022 19:50

Yeah, that's number... 142

Exempt-Medic

Aug 22, 2022 19:48

Well, in my list of 234 list question it took until question number 65 for me to find one I would say is purely from curiosity. The previous 64 have actual problems described within them, so yeah... we handle that kind of a thing a lot less than I thought

Exempt-Medic

Aug 22, 2022 19:39

@NautArch Oh definitely, I regularly remind myself of that

Exempt-Medic

Aug 22, 2022 19:37

@NautArch I'm also disproportionately more likely to like those kind of questions, as I moderate Wikis

Exempt-Medic

Aug 22, 2022 19:37

That one is good, imo, because it helps answer something about canon

Exempt-Medic

Aug 22, 2022 19:37

I had a list of these things and now I can't find them...

Exempt-Medic

Aug 22, 2022 19:36

Agreed, and I have a hard time pinning down why

Exempt-Medic

Aug 22, 2022 19:36

And then there's char-op and cheese building XD

Exempt-Medic

Aug 22, 2022 19:35

We do have open questions that are problem-less though

Exempt-Medic

Aug 22, 2022 19:34

And maybe this really is just a curiosity question, with no real reason other than bookkeeping/data-logging, in which case... I don't really know what we do

Exempt-Medic

Aug 22, 2022 19:34

@NautArch That's a really good point, like, obviously there are features that effect any of the three, but even then, why do you only care about d20 rolls?

Exempt-Medic

Aug 22, 2022 19:33

modules and campaigns... my nemeses

Exempt-Medic

Aug 22, 2022 19:31

Just gotta... write a comment

Exempt-Medic

Aug 22, 2022 19:31

Yeah, I'm about to close it

Exempt-Medic

Aug 22, 2022 19:30

Hmm, maybe I'll just say I'm unsure why they're mentioning d20 Tests, whether it's for context or for content

Exempt-Medic

Aug 22, 2022 19:29

I'm blanking; what's an alternative way to interpret this question?

Exempt-Medic

Aug 22, 2022 19:28

@NautArch Oh? I'll check that out shortly

Exempt-Medic

Aug 22, 2022 19:27

And, if the OP never returns, it can never get cleaned up and duplicates won't work right and... yeah, I totally see where you're coming from. Tie to cast a vote

Exempt-Medic

Aug 22, 2022 19:27

And, thinking through it more, I'm realizing that if we leave open unclear questions that can lead to question X getting answered in two very different ways at the same time and requiring cleanup

Exempt-Medic

Aug 22, 2022 19:26

Yeah, I see where you're coming from

Exempt-Medic

Aug 22, 2022 19:25

Right, whereas I think it's fine to answer the wrong question and have them re-ask the one they wanted originally

Exempt-Medic

Aug 22, 2022 19:25

Fair enough, though the OP is gonna come back to a whole heck of a lot of comments, hopefully that gets answered in the midst of it all

Exempt-Medic

Aug 22, 2022 19:24

I do think that's the actual question, yes: "I tagged both systems since this is a question about 5e that is contextually relevant to one D&D"