My Sifu gave me these training swords when he closed his school and I opened mine.
As you can see, they are aluminium (aluminum for you Americans), very well-used, and used to be used for hard sword-sparring. I don't think the original maker is still making them, even if I knew who that was.
Does anyone know an easy way to make new hooks and weld them on?
If time travel is ever realised, will we need a special tense for marking the future past tense, for actions that will have happened in our future but a time traveller's past?
If you are conlanging for a sci fi or fantasy world where time travel is possible, does your conlang have ways of dealing with messy tense complications? Does it distinguish between {my past, your future} and {my future, your past}?
This discussion topic brought to you by my flu medicine at midnight. Apologies if it doesn't make sense to a healthy brain
I'm reviewing the demonstrative determiners in my lang, and hoping for some inspiration from others.
If your conlang has demonstratives (especially determiners), what are they?
At the moment I have distal single and plural (that and those) and proximal single and plural (this and these), and an impersonal pronoun that acts as an indefinite (a/an/it), but that's all.
I'm curious about how other conlangs approach demonstratives. What do you do?
How do your conlangs group or divide colours?
I've decided that my still-unnamed conlang has 6 basic colours:
Black/dark: wani
White/bright: binda
Red/brown/orange: ndenyo
Yellow-green: galo
Green-blue: lengi
Cyan: bundi
Wani and binda can be used just like in English to clarify specific shades: wani ndenyo is a dark red or brown, binda ndenyo is a light red or pink.
But mostly outside of these 6 basic colours, one would simply say "the colour of [noun]", or "[noun] luwi".
How do you handle colours in your conlangs?
I've only seen Act 1 of the pro-shot, so I don't know if this is consistent across shows, but:
Is Heather C canonically racist in the way she belittles, speaks over, and orders around Heather D, who is black in the pro-shot? Or was that an unfortunate coincidence of otherwise race-blind casting? Or is it not canon to the show, but was a deliberate choice for that specific performance of it?
I saw the Australian run of Waitress on the weekend, absolutely stunning. Natalie Bassingthwaighte is an icon of Australian performing arts, and perfectly cast as Jenna. Her chemistry with Rob Mills as Dr Pomatter, and with the other waitresses, was really flawless.
Gabriyel Thomas played Grizabella in last year's Cats, as Becky she has an amazing stage presence and singing voice, and Mackenzie Dunn was perfect for Dawn, especially alongside Gareth Isaac as Ogie.
Keanu Gonzalez did an extraordinary job of making me hate Earl so much. He's a lovely person, but so good at acting the scumbag character.
I had SO much fun going into it completely blind. The jokes all landed well, the sets and props were impressive, the songs were all lovely, the story was well paced and never felt either dragged or rushed.
Very very shocked and disappointed to hear that the rest of the tour was cancelled suddenly because of financial issues, so once it wraps in Melbourne in a few weeks that's it.
I know there are a few other Melbourne Aussies here. If you haven't seen Waitress yet, I highly recommend it while it's still available.
This conversation came up in a non-linguistics setting (library services, for the record).
I've never heard of a frog/bog split, so I'm really curious if anyone else has.
I asked the OP for more examples (if they don't rhyme together, then what rhymes with frog, and what rhymes with bog?), and I'll let you know when or if I get a reply.
Have you heard of frog/bog not rhyming before? Does your accent have this? If so, how do you say them?
Comments I saw on Facebook, on a video of Kevin Lee kicking someone in the chin.
Does your lineage of wing chun have high kicks?
I know a lot of people say no, but there was that movie in which Ip Chun (in the role of Leung Bik) used high kicks against a young Ip Man during a friendly sparring session.
I was musing recently, and thought I'd share a potentially controversial opinion: Harvest Moon (Dog Eat Dog) neither adds to or subtracts from the quality of Les Mis. It's not a bad song, but it's not a good song. It doesn't really add anything to the story or characters that we didn't already know, and it's never anyone's favourite. I don't know if I'd notice or care if it was skipped. If anything it's a forgettable scene-filler that gives the costume and props people more time to prepare for Javert's suicide scene.
Do you agree or disagree? Is there a different song from Les Mis that you think is less impactful to the story?
What are some neutral or filler songs from other musicals that don't actually add anything to the story or chatacters?
Weighted training karambits!
They're only one kilo (2.2 pounds) each, and the model is holding them backwards, but somebody tag Doug Marcaida!
A question, the answer to which has long eluded me:
Why do some branches of Wing Chun spell it Ving Chun?
- When neither Mandarin nor Cantonese have the voiced labiodental fricative /v/ sound?
They both have the approximant glide /w/, and the voiceless labiodental fricative /f/, but both languages notably lack the voiced /v/.
So where did the name "Ving Chun" come from?
I can understand the Chun-Tsun difference, because "ts" is how Cantonese regularly spells the sound /tsʰ/, which is very close to English "ch", /ʧ/
But I have no idea whence V...
All thoughts appreciated. Thanks.
^(Edit: I didn't notice until I posted that my phone had autocorrected "Question" to "Questing". And now I can't edit the post title. Sorry. Just imagine I'm a plucky young farmboy of mysterious parentage, on a noble and dangerous journey to find the answer. I have no doubt I'll need a sword, because all good quests need swords.)