truthexposer

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by truthexposer 9y ago
the goal is off the grid and environmental sustainability...
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by truthexposer 9y ago
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 perhaps with the Russians.
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by truthexposer 9y ago
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, register, etc.
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by truthexposer 9y ago
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 the whole international story is a less happy picture
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by truthexposer 9y ago
recursion and embedded structures has been posited by some linguists as one possible explanation for similarities between languages cross-linguistically, however, controversially, Dan Everett's work on Piraha claims that this does not
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by truthexposer 9y ago
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 turns out to be a huge amount of audio. This is parti
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by truthexposer 9y ago
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 believe the issue is with stress. I believe that the voices
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by truthexposer 9y ago
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 twilight zone that works on a mod43 clock, but if you're sc
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by truthexposer 9y ago
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 syntax.
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by truthexposer 9y ago
it's a much easier way to say, I significantly doubt your credentials as a person educated in both Mandarin Chinese and linguistics
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by truthexposer 9y ago
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 forms to advance their own theories, but most theories
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by truthexposer 9y ago
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 signifiers. English is no difference, am I supposed
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by truthexposer 9y ago
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, and language changes within the languages happened differently
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by truthexposer 9y ago
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. The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, which underlies Arrival,
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by truthexposer 9y ago
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 writing system. Look at Spanish speaking countrie
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by truthexposer 9y ago
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 include lighter coffee consumption (slightly fewer drin
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by truthexposer 9y ago
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's ground, how it's brewed etc. People eve
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by truthexposer 10y ago
It would be interesting to see the epigentic effects of generations of alcohol use. Kind of like Terence McKenna's "stoped ape" theory.
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by truthexposer 10y ago
I totally agree! Without suffering and war, what kind of technology would we have? We would be sitting around with sticks and rocks.
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by truthexposer 10y ago
The mixtape which this man is presenting is veritably fire.
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by truthexposer 10y ago
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 shaming might actually encourage, and to be healthy