War Room Lounge v65

[JDragon]

Alas, that was some other poor sap

You can still do it now

 

[JDragon]

@waiguoren

Is @piktogram a grapheme?

 

[Gregolian]

The sex offense screenings I have to do tomorrow are gonna SSSSUUUUCCCCKKKK

 

[Limbo Pete]

You can still do it now

I do know every word to"Jump Around" by House of Pain...

 

[Javelina]

USCoDF 2010-2012

Got out (dishonorable discharge) when I realized I couldnt handle being called the n word by 12 year olds on xbl

<45><45><45>

at least it wasn't a slip and slide to hell

 

[Higus]

The sex offense screenings I have to do tomorrow are gonna SSSSUUUUCCCCKKKK

Jeez man, that kind of stuff must tax the soul. How do people make a career out of it?

 

[Gregolian]

Jeez man, that kind of stuff must tax the soul. How do people make a career out of it?

In my office I think they rotate attorneys and support staff around to prevent the burnout.

I know both of my attorneys worked in Major Crimes and got moved to Juvie and one attorney was in Juvenile and just got moved to homicide.

The people I feel bad for in these are the detectives cause they have to interview the victims and shit which sometimes are as young as like 5-6. They legally can't interview people younger in a way that would hold up in court cause at that stage all kids have attention issues and would rather talk about like SpongeBob and shit.

 

[piktogram]

@waiguoren

Is @piktogram a grapheme?

Was geht, Alter.

 

[waiguoren]

If you mean the letter 'z', then yes, of course, absolutely. It even has phonetic properties.

Well, what is the definition of "linguistic material"?

I think the discussion gets more interesting when we think of a hyphen. Is that fulfilling the definition?

Under Crystal's definition, absolutely yes.

EDIT: actually I'm not sure. The difference between "@Limbo Pete" is a poo-slinger" and "@Limbo Pete is a poo slinger" is that the second is ungrammatical. I'm not sure that the hyphen can initiate a change in meaning.

I noticed that Crystal included special characters like '^' though. It's not clear to me how that character could change the meaning of a sentence. Maybe in online-speak.

But only due to the properties of the hyphen - not due to the fact that adding a hyphen to an 'F' would yield an 'E

The stroke that turns an 'F' into an 'E' is not a hyphen. They look similar, but they are not the same. Similar to how "hypehn" and "dash" are not the same thing. There are actually multiple dashes of different lengths as well.

I don't think that was your point. I think your point was that it was sloppy, incomplete and inherently ''western.''

That's my hypothesis, and the fact that a single stroke in Chinese (a much smaller unit than a character) can cause a change in meaning seems good evidence for this hypothesis, assuming Crystal's definition is the best one.

I just thought of another example from simplified Chinese (not applicable in traditional). Here are two very common characters.

点 占


The first can be used to order food at a restaurant, to mean "to light" as in fire, to mean "o'clock", or to denote a dot. The second is a verb that means "to occupy".

The characters are written exactly the same, except that the first finishes up with a "four dot base" (not sure how to say this in English but the point is clear). That "four dot base" is common in characters that relate to fire.

So is the "four dot base" a "grapheme"? Removing it can cause a change in meaning from "to ignite" to "to occupy". By Crystal's definition perhaps it should be a grapheme, but it's not a character.

 

[spin]

Jeez man, that kind of stuff must tax the soul. How do people make a career out of it?

 

[Deleted member 539235]

 

[AgonyandIrony]

I was having a hell of a good time being stoned at work listening to mariachi Queen covers with a belly full of tacos until that Ngo thread lmao.

 

[JudoThrowFiasco]

Bernie swinging for socialism!!

 

[Limbo Pete]

Bernie swinging for socialism!!

Micky loves ya!

 

[LMP]

@Happy Man TSR lounge by the stadium in Omaha is pretty good.

 

[Islam Imamate]

 

[Ruprecht]

I get reported constantly.

Not as much as you used to actually. Maybe your posting has improved?

 

[tonni]

leEaaeEaff

 

[Anung Un Rama]

Not as much as you used to actually. Maybe your posting has improved?

<{cruzshake}>

 

[tonni]

I think this is the second time I have heard someone from here using vocaroo.

I believe the first time was @Limbo Pete doing some freestyle rap thing

if you'd like I could probably moan your name hotly in the mic

 

[Social Distance Warrior]

Nice Korean cartoon