FlatAssembler

I've made a video about the basics of programming language design and implementation in the Latin language: youtu.be/hlw72oFlKZA

Anyway, I've published a video about programming language design and implementation in the Latin language: youtu.be/hlw72oFlKZA

@Arfrever No.

@Arfrever Brother... I hope what you are saying is true, but I see no particular reason to think that other than optimism.

@Arfrever I am not saying a nuclear war is certain. After all, the world survived the Cuban Missile Crisis. And the trend in violence around the world is definitely downwards. But I would argue that it is possible, if not probable.

@Arfrever My point remains: nowhere is safe these days due to nuclear winter.

@Arfrever Sure, it's probable that some people would survive, let's say, in Australia, but it will not be life worth living. There will be a nuclear winter and most of those who do survive will starve to death.

@Arfrever What? Why would Putin care about his own survival? He has cancer and has has mere months to live.

Living as if you will live for another 50 years and planning for the future, much less educating yourself about things that do not interest you, is a wrong way of spending what's left of our lives. I hope I am wrong, and it's nice to have hope, but it's not nice to behave as if you know that hope is true.

Whom are we kidding? Putin has no chance of winning the war (given the vast differences in GDP between Russia and Europe), and he will probably resort to nuclear weapons. And, most likely, a year from now, we will not be alive. And we should be living not as if only we are going to die tomorrow, but as if there will be an armagedon tomorrow.

@Cerberus I've asked a question about some sentence from that video: latin.stackexchange.com/q/24664/8533

OK, I hope I am not breaking any rules by informing you that I published a YouTube video about my theories about river names, and it's in Latin with English subtitles: youtu.be/2VRH4e-Us_w

@cmw I thought "vaccine safety" referred to the claims such as that Moderna causes myocarditis more often than COVID does, or similar claims, not to the things I said.

@cmw Why did you delete my message? Is there some rule against anti-vaxxism in the chat?

Today, I made a YouTube video against gun control in Latin, attempting to emulate Late Latin (for example, by using "quia"+indicative where possible instead of AcI, by using "quoniam" for "because", and so on): youtu.be/Lh3qBwQcSEo

I have started a thread about the Illyrian language on r/latin: reddit.com/r/latin/comments/1crr0jj/…

@Matthew Your arguments are outright incomprehensible. How does it follow from the Big Bang Theory that other planets do not have a magnetic field? How does it follow from the Creationism that other planets do have a magnetic field?

@Matthew Your "problems" are less convincing to me than the arguments made by Flat-Earthers.

@Matthew What argument would you use to contradict the "evidence" for the Earth being flat? Like this argument: "If the Sun were really 150 million kilometers up in the sky, the crepuscular rays would appear parallel. But they appear to converge. Therefore, the Sun must be very close, perhaps 3'000 miles up in the sky."?

@Matthew But there is plenty of "evidence" that Moon Landings were fake. Like the intersecting shadows on the photographs, suggesting artificial light was being used, rather than that the photographs were taken on the sunlight on the Moon. Which argument would you use to refute that, if you don't accept scientific consensus as a valid argument?

An obvious explanation is that the Bible makes no such claim.

@Matthew So, tell me, why was Saint Bede proclaimed a heretic for claiming the Scripture claims the Earth is 5'000 years old?

@Matthew Why do almost all scientists who are Christian accept evolution? It's not because of their atheism, obviously.

@Matthew The Bible isn't remotely keeping such track of time.

@Matthew So, all major scientific bodies (many of which are full of religious people) have been fooled into accepting evolution?

@Matthew The Scripture also doesn't explicitly say there were 4'000 years between the Creation and Jesus'es birth, it is your interpretation of the scripture that says that.

@Matthew So that the government gives them money for space exploration. If the Earth is flat, space exploration is impossible (the Second Cosmical Speed implies round Earth).

@Matthew Well, very few people have done that. Perhaps they are all in a conspiracy.

@Matthew Well, some verses in the Bible can be interpreted as saying the Earth is flat, even in the New Testament. You know, the mountain so tall you can see all the kingdoms on the Earth from it...

@Matthew How is it observable?

@Matthew Then why do you believe the Earth is round?

@Matthew Which is easy to reject as it is not mainstream science. The overwhelming scientific consensus is that they are invalid.

@Matthew Like I've said, you may reject glottochronology and claim that Proto-Indo-European started existing right after the Tower of Babel. But to claim that Proto-Afro-Asiatic existed at that date, you need to reject much more science than just glottochronology.

@Matthew Glottochronology does not rely on assumption that any particular chronology of the ancient world is correct. Glottochronology is based on the measurements of the rate of the replacement of the words on the Swadesh List in the attested Native American languages, that that rate is constant for languages all around the world.

Of course, even for Indo-European, that view (that different languages came to exist only at the time of the Tower of Babel) is problematic. You need to reject glottochronology to accept that. Glottochronology places the Proto-Celtic language at 3000 BC (before the flood), and Proto-Indo-European even earlier (by a few millennia). But for Afro-Asiatic, it is even more problematic.

And that Proto-Indo-European and other proto-languages came to exist after the Tower of Babel.

That there were no different languages before the Tower of Babel.

As far as I understand it, that's what YECs believe.

@Matthew Did people before the Tower of Babel speak one language?

Most linguists today, as far as I can tell, think that there was once a universal language, but which existed so long ago it cannot be reconstructed.

@Matthew Maybe because there was never a universal language. Or, if it did exist, it existed so long ago it cannot be reconstructed.

@Matthew So, how it is that only some languages, but not all of them, appear to be descended from it?

@Matthew I thought YECs believed Proto-Indo-European (or some ancestor of it) started existing at the Tower of Babel, along with other reconstructed proto-languages. But the problem with that view is that Proto-Afro-Asiatic is demonstrably much older than Proto-Indo-European.

@Matthew So, Proto-Afro-Asiatic existed before the Tower of Babel?

@Matthew OK, so, that's around the time of the earliest Akkadian inscriptions. Akkadian and Egyptian were not closely related languages, there were obviously thousands of years of linguistic evolution separating them. So, when was Proto-Afro-Asiatic spoken, according to YECs?

@Matthew And radimetric dating is a hard science, so that's why scientists (including historians) trust it more than archaeological evidence.

@Matthew You can perhaps reject the radiometric dating and claim Narmer lived, let's say, in 2000 BC. But you cannot claim he lived in the 6th century BC.

@Matthew Dude, Breasted thought, before the radiometric dating, that the Early Dynastic Period (AKA, the time of Narmer) begun at around 3400 BC, that is, the 35st century BC. Shaw thought, and radiometric dating was available to him, that it started around 3000 BC. You can see the table here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_chronology#Overview