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by bradrn 5y ago
Well, Sino–Tibetan is one of the only places I would expect to see pharyngealisation in the first place. I can easily imagine a scenario in which vowels had a uvularisation or pharyngealisation contrast, which then was transphonologised o
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by bradrn 5y ago
A video sample: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyaFKnUumAM . I find myself quite liking the sound of it, in particular the poem which is recited — the writers of the Shijing (from which the poem is taken) paid a lot of at
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by bradrn 5y ago
I agree, which is why I avoid Unicode for anything someone else will need to type in, or at least give ASCII alternatives when possible. I use it mainly for things like local variable and parameter names.
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by bradrn 5y ago
> If we could intergrate with keyboards, we'd definitely take advantage of it. From my own personal experience this is extremely true. A while back I made myself a custom keyboard [0] which can enter lots of characters, mostly for l
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by bradrn 5y ago
Thanks for the recommendations! I was having trouble finding resources, so I’ll have to check those out. (Further question: do you by any chance happen to know of a good textbook? I personally find that I learn better from textbooks than I
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by bradrn 5y ago
Not learning anything just yet, but there’s quite a few things I’ve been wanting to learn when I get the time: • I’d quite like to learn how to do ‘low-level stuff’, particularly microcontrollers — I rediscovered an old Arduino which I’ve h
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by bradrn 5y ago
Follow-up question: how do I learn systems programming on Windows ? I know it’s pretty easy to just set up a Linux VM or use WSL2, and I’m prepared to do that if I must, but it would be even easier if I could work in the same Windows envir
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by bradrn 5y ago
Thank you!
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by bradrn 5y ago
Well, more generally speaking comonads encode costate i.e. context, but I haven’t yet seen them being used represent time. Do you have a link to the paper?
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by bradrn 5y ago
I quite liked that blog post as well. Unfortunately, I discovered recently that it is, if not wrong, then at least misleading. For one thing, it misrepresents Clendinnen: when she states that the incoming tlatoani is called ‘our lord, our e
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by bradrn 5y ago
Um, because they also were proto-socialist, had better healthcare and hygiene than Europe of the time, and had social norms stressing unfailing politeness? I mean, it’s true their morals seem alien and inhuman to us, but that doesn’t actu
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by bradrn 5y ago
I’ve never lived in South Africa, but I have two South African parents and have visited the country several times, and can confirm that the parent comment is exactly correct. SA can come as a shock if you’re not expecting it: even just driv
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by bradrn 5y ago
As it happens, I did this in a physics lab just a couple of weeks ago. The basic setup is that if you pass a collimated beam of light through a mask and then focus it with a lens, the focus will contain the 2D Fourier transform of the patte
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by bradrn 5y ago
Yes, we are. The only surprising thing about this is that one wouldn’t prima facie expect a loan into any European language from a New Guinean language before the Age of Exploration, and this particular word went through more intermediate
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by bradrn 5y ago
I’m pretty sure I saw somewhere that it was borrowed into Latin in ancient times, though perhaps I was wrong. Still, a TNG→Arabic borrowing is nearly as good as a TNG→Latin one.
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by bradrn 5y ago
There’s at least one loanword which arrived in Latin from a Trans–New Guinea language [0]. Latin→Indonesian doesn’t sound at all implausible to me, though equally it may be just coincidence. [0] https://www.academia.edu/2561
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by bradrn 5y ago
Interesting — I’ll have to look into this. Thank you!
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by bradrn 5y ago
> There's a rule in linguistics, that the more often a word is used, the shorter it will be I’m really interested in linguistics, but I’ve never heard of such a rule. Could you give a source please? I’d be curious to know if this is
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by bradrn 5y ago
Because sign languages are languages. Sign languages were not designed by anyone; they develop and evolve organically like any other language. (With the notable exception that we’ve seen totally new sign languages come into existence in iso
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by bradrn 5y ago
Sure, but to me the best things about monads are precisely those ‘other uses’. And if that means you still need monads, then why not use them for IO as well? That then gives you the advantage of unifying everything under the same abstractio
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by bradrn 5y ago
One question for the author: monads are not just a tool for IO but form a coherent abstraction over all side-effects. In my Haskell code, I personally have used monads for applications including parsing, fallible operations, IO, random numb
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by bradrn 5y ago
Ah, thank you! I had assumed the white lines were present in the original image.
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by bradrn 5y ago
I’m curious to know where you found this image? Because I looked through the paper ( https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.00465 ) and couldn’t find it…
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by bradrn 5y ago
> There is actual research in the domain of language complexity! (Which, to be fair, is still a somewhat more niche topic in linguistics) I know little about this as well, but there’s been some research done by…… John McWhorter, I think?
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by bradrn 5y ago
> I think that cross-linguistically, these might be a bit extreme? You’re very probably right, though such ‘extreme’ examples are at least more representative of world languages than English is. Possibly more representative is something
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by bradrn 5y ago
> if you know the language, it's easy to figure out since you can see the individual words inside the big word This happens to be correct for those Yimas and Wichita examples I gave, but in many languages the relationship between th
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by bradrn 5y ago
It always amazes me somewhat when people talk of languages like Polish as having complex words, because Indo–European languages generally have pretty simple words compared to most languages outside Europe. Consider, for example, the avera
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by bradrn 5y ago
You know, I did very nearly mention this, but decided not to in the end. You are of course entirely right, and this is indeed a major reason why I use GADTs myself.
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by bradrn 5y ago
Thank you! So it looks like most of my post does indeed work, except for the GADT itself. (Also, I had not known about Rust Playground, so thanks for introducing me to that too.)
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by bradrn 5y ago
Thanks lalaithion! I don’t know Rust, so it’s interesting to see how different it is compared to Haskell. A question: how much of this would actually compile in Rust?

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