Important Philosophical Questions + POLLS

[bugcat]

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• ?!
• !?
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Do you double-space at the end of a sentence?

• Yes
• No

Is it ok to use more than three dots in an ellipsis?

• Yes
• No

[Lys]

Definitely… grrr! Discourse is censoring my dots!!!

[stone.defender]

本因坊

本 - ‘hon’ ほん
因 - ‘in’ いん
坊 - long ‘bo’ (bō) ぼう
ほん and いん are in separate kanji
んい (‘n i’) and に(‘ni’) are not same sounds
by the way, ‘n’ before ‘b’ usually sounds like ‘m’
and ん is often barely heard
so its ‘ho imboo’

[yebellz]

Should this poll (and other general polls in this thread) be closed after 24 hours from when they are posted?

• Yes
• No

Should this poll be big?

• Yes
• No

Should this poll be small?

• Yes
• No

[Gia]

It depends on the poll, some are time-relevant, some are relevant to whoever visits in the future.

[mark5000]

[yebellz]

Did you vote in this poll?

• Yes

[Vsotvep]

@stone.defender

and ん is often barely heard
so its ‘ho imboo’

I disagree with this, the first ん is pronounced as the “ng” in the english “king” here. If I would have to write it in phonetic English, I’d say “hongeembo” would be pretty close, with the added note that each English syllable should take the same length “hong-eem-bo”.

[stone.defender]

we hear world differently
Japanese people have problems distinguishing R and L
in Russian N is very clear sound, we don’t have “ng” thing

[bugcat]

the class: honinbo
the homework: hon’inbō
the test: hong-eem-bo

[Vsotvep]

Should be said that the Japanese ん is a little further back in the mouth than the English “ng”. It’s also more nasal, a bit more towards how a Frenchman would pronounce Orléans.

[Barbanaira]

While I think the á is closer to the ancient apex, I’m very much accustomed to see the ā now. Maybe I should write more Latin. Anyway, capital U are a no-no for me, lowercase v are okay when used as consonant, but not as vowel, except for diplomatic transcriptions in word-initial position.

[yebellz]

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[Leira]

IVLIVS VARVS

[bugcat]

Interesting that none of us double-space after a sentence. Perhaps it’s a particularly old-fashioned British English feature.

[bugcat]

I gave you an option for that, Write every U as V!

[bugcat]

I find the macron a little intrusive if the phonology of the text isn’t under discussion, but I still value an indication of the vowel’s length (see Stop Stealing Latin’s Vowels! on youtube). So the apex seems like a good halfway house, as well as being more historically accurate than the macron.

[Barbanaira]

It’s also more convenient to type on a keyboard, actually. I’ll continue using the apex until I find it prettier than that macron.

[Old_but_gold]

To the attention of @bugcat.

I downloaded the Complete Works of Samuel Johnson, which also contains his Dictionary. At the Z voice I found this description: “its sound is uniformly that of an hard S”.

At the H voice, though, he says: “The h in English is scarcely ever mute at the beginning of a word”.

This seems to prove that an+h, at least in the past (18th century in the case of Johnson) was considered correct in any case.

[bugcat]

What is pet cats?

• Cats which are pets
• Cats which have been pet
• A command
• A scheduled task
• A present-tense sentence with pronoun elision
• A past-tense sentence with pronoun elision

And to continue the pasta discussion:

Is one grain of rice a rouse?

• Yes
• No