Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Promotor] Distribution of Propositions 9125-9133

[Quadrantal via agora-discussion]

On 2024-06-29 02:37, secretsnail9 via agora-discussion wrote:

Can I ask why you prefer "last"?


Mostly just vibes, if I'm honest. I find "past" tends to disrupt my flow 
of reading.



In my opinion, this just makes searching the rules for relative dates
easier, as "last" is already used to instead refer to previous actions
(last change, last election, last ratification) which is a bit annoying.
Other uses of "past" seem to just refer to "the past" as a concept, which
is easier to separate out.


That's a reasonable argument, enough that it would override my personal 
preference if that sort of searching was something that was something 
being done regularly. I'm not entirely convinced that that's the case in 
this specific context though; personally, when I ctrl+F the rules, I 
tend to be searching for mentions a specific office or switch. There is, 
of course, some value for theses, but they're relatively uncommon.


Overall, if the broader consensus is that "past" makes things easier, I 
certainly won't mind; at the moment, I don't really see much value in 
standardizing either way, hence my vote.


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Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Civic Duty (Absurdor)

[Quadrantal via agora-discussion]

Hah! Even here, I'm not safe from linguistics; I suppose I brought þis 
on myself.


My limited knowledge of phonology would agree wiþ you, though I'm no 
expert. Unfortunately for linguistic accuracy, however, my use of þe 
þorn is mostly currently limited to replacements by an autohotkey 
script, for which analysis of context is pretty much out of þe question. 
Hmm... guess I have a new project!


On 2024-04-13 10:28 p.m., ais523 via agora-discussion wrote:

On Sat, 2024-04-13 at 22:11 -0400, Quadrantal via agora-business wrote:

I push þe boulder.

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Isn't that "th" actually a ð rather than a þ? Admittedly they were
pretty much used interchangeably in Old English (and ð ended up dying
out even before þ did, and before the distinction was commonly made),
but when writing the "th" sounds using historical letters, it makes
sense to give the two different sounds two different letters.

(IPA confuses the matter by using ð and θ for the two sounds, rather
than ð and þ, but the latter pair were both historically used for "th"
sounds in English and are rather easier to type.)



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