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the goal is off the grid and environmental sustainability...

I think this lack of understanding of computer technology by the media has been revealed time and time again, especially in cybersecurity. 10 years ago with Anonymous, and now perh…

Semantics is never fully unambiguous, because of its interface with pragmatics, which Lojban doesn't deal with at all. There is no systematic way to unambiguously convey tone, regi…

This article fails to mention the vast amount of money the US poured into Japan to make Japan a base of US influence in Southeast Asia. Domestic peace, maybe, but the other side of…

recursion and embedded structures has been posited by some linguists as one possible explanation for similarities between languages cross-linguistically, however, controversially, …

I believe what makes the voices robotic is due to the little amount of audio they need to generate a "usuable" voice from the system. Speech models usually use triphones, which tur…

pragmatic*, placing stress is less a problem of word meaning than it is of speaker adaptation for listener comprehension, emphasis, and prosodic tendencies. Even then, I don't beli…

What difference would that make? If different time zones give the same time, that makes no difference, as the time needed would be the local time. The local time could be in a twil…

no, but I doubt that if I ask him what X-bar theory is, that he'll have any clue what I'm talking about, and that he would even think I'm talking about a theory of generative synta…

it's a much easier way to say, I significantly doubt your credentials as a person educated in both Mandarin Chinese and linguistics

the weak form isn't debunked, but the hypothesis as a whole is debunked to a degree of being common sense, of course psychology, sociology, and anthropology may argue for stronger …

You're speaking out of your behind. Of course the signs are arbitrary with respect to their signifiers, that's any language, but there are still mappings between signs and their si…

I meant the development of written languages happened independently across different regions of the world, and of course at some point, languages became mutually unintelligible, an…

No, he has opinions on language, not knowledge of linguistics. He is a science fiction writer. It's an actual academic discipline, you know, not just people harumphing in armchairs…

I've seen this sentiment a lot in Chinese-Americans that are not educated in linguistics, along with other self-loathing sentiments. First, literacy isn't completely related to the…

Is it really a HUGE market? Here's some trends noted from the 2016 NCDT, which they do admit have only appeared within the past few years: "Behaviors that are slowly growing includ…

Who is your target? If people want good tasting coffee, like a connoisseur, one would like the option of selecting the type of bean, where it is sourced from, how it's roasted, how…

It would be interesting to see the epigentic effects of generations of alcohol use. Kind of like Terence McKenna's "stoped ape" theory.

I totally agree! Without suffering and war, what kind of technology would we have? We would be sitting around with sticks and rocks.

The mixtape which this man is presenting is veritably fire.

Aren't you stating the obvious? Hasn't anyone in this thread heard of Charles Darwin? If a female wants to procreate then she will have to force herself to lose weight, which fat s…