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I was thinking on names in Christianity in general. Again, not a small thing, but I'll give it a try... A lot of what some people treat as divine names in Christianity, are better grasped if you uncapitalise them, whence you can see they are mostly job descriptions, telling what roles that God (and...

Say what? I can't think of any Christian denomination, wherein you could say "the holy name of God's Only Begotten Son is Bob, not Jesus" or "...is Richard Nixon" and not be stared at in disbelief until you walk away. I know. I noted that I realized I was wrong what I said about...

I'm skeptical whether a language would ever have a convention as specific as requiring all nouns to be accompanied by adjectives of material and position in all instances, though. Imagine: "help, a shark is eating my leg!" - "I'm afraid your sentence is ungrammatical child, and so I ...

Everything named has a name etc. Judaism, Islam, and Sikhi off the top of my head care a lot about Names - though each in different ways. I tried to illustrate that a little above - though that wasn't my main point. You claimed it, but you haven't illustrated it. In what way is the precise name we ...

Not trying to go full philosophical here, but couldn't you say that a singular entity contrast with other potential but non-existent entities if the same kind? I was thinking of stuff like "There is only one god and his name is X", which implies that any claim that something with name Y i...

(I posted this here instead of C&C Quick Questions because I’m asking about RL monotheisms.) In a monotheistic religion, where it’s believed only one god exists at all (rather that only one is served or worshipped, as in monolatry or henotheism), why does such a god need a name? (Especially in ...

a priori in the strong sense languages, measure their success by the smallness of their lexicon... No they don't. oh you are adept at the new use of "a priori" for "with invented lexicon", There is less than no reason to be rude about things. note that I specified "in the s...

Whereas in a syllabary you have to learn all of the hundreds of syllable symbols independently. hundreds? what happened to the use of this? __ | -e | -a | -o | b- | t- | n- | Well, that's still 9 different unrelated symbols to learn. ?? Unrelated? The point of such charts, for languages like Hindi ...

I'm sorry if my last post sounded aggressive; I'm just frustrated with myself, because after writing hundreds and hundred of words to explain something that to me seems incredibly obvious and originates in about two sentences on wikipedia, evidently I'm still speaking gibberish that nobody can unde...

I'm sorry if my last post sounded aggressive; I'm just frustrated with myself, because after writing hundreds and hundred of words to explain something that to me seems incredibly obvious and originates in about two sentences on wikipedia, evidently I'm still speaking gibberish that nobody can unde...

In English, the symbolic representation of the SYLLABLE consists of (at least) TWO PARTS. One part represents the ONSET CONSONANT. The other part represents the VOWEL NUCLEUS. The SYLLABLE-SYMBOL can be "decomposed" into two parts - that is, it can be analysed of consisting of two parts. ...

Okay, replying to this before reading your more recent post. Systematic means having a coherent system. So, for instance, if you have the syllable-symbol BA and add a mark to make it BAN, and you have a syllable-symbol PA and add the same mark to make it PAN, that's a systematic relationship between...

Well, let's get conceptual! I need to be sure I understand... Another is to distinguish different syllables with the same onset but different nuclei in a non-systematic way: Option D. Or, there could be some systematic way in which syllables with the same nucleus are ALSO linked. Okay, when I hear ...

According to wikipedia: - in an abugida, the consonant symbols must have an unwritten 'inherent vowel'; an explicit vowel diacritic is used when the actual vowel differs from the inherent vowel - in an alphasyllabary, there are symbols for both consonants and vowels (whether or not an inherent vowe...

“it'd be like a Roman author inventing really fancy swords” But some people like fancy swords. I’m not worldbuilding for a book or a TTRPG campaign. This is nothing more or less than a playground for me to get lost in while daydreaming. Which is fine, but in a dream it makes no sense to really ask ...

Could you achieve self sustaining agriculture in a zero-G environment? pretty much yes. About 95 thousand years. Then the answer is Yes ...or they'd have figured out a viable long-term alternative to agriculture. remember: the biggest problem (or danger) in zero-G, is stuff! bits of soil, water, gr...

By complete accident, the Commonthroat words for "to find" and "to lose" are homonyms: <fCq> [early falling strong whine, huff] I know autoantinyms are a thing, but they're usually a little more niche ("sanction" = approve or interdict, "cleave" = cling to or...

Visions1 wrote: ↑03 Jan 2024 20:47 I just realized this could be used for other stuff like Muskogean. But it breaks as soon as it hits more than 4 vowels.

Maybe have a line running through the triangle? (a strikethrough)...or underscoring it? Or just use a square/diamond instead of a triangle?

Visions1 wrote: ↑01 Jan 2024 10:40 Or more accurately Southern Athabaskan.

My gosh this looks terrible. But it could work.

most impressive.
(and it doesn't look terrible)

Mandarin contains 4 tones, and each of them represents a different level of pitch, so this lang has cadence and sounds more like music. But English doesn't. English is a Germanic language; have you never heard the joke about how romance in German sounds like a death threat, while death threats in F...