Would be nice, wouldn’t it. I’m not aware of one.
Quality of course can’t be gauged automatically, but the request answers popup doesn’t even bother telling you who the Most Viewed Writers are, let alone sort them accordingly.
Oh, but it does show you their bios. Which are now credentials. That should tell you something…
I can confirm Edward Conway’s answer, as I was who he tested it out with.
I was surprised that moderation can not only scrutinise but edit PMs, but Nikki Primrose has just reported the same experience: I received a notification that I’d violated BNBR but the link was to a message in my inbox that I’d never replied to. What is that about? She got Benburred (h/t La Gigi) for receiving an offensive message (?!), but her correspondant got his message removed from her inbox.
My first surmise is that someone reported you, but..
… OP, this was happening while you were typing? That sounds… draconian, and unmanageable. And it certainly doesn’t sound like a reaction to a report. It does sound extraordinary that people’s PMs should be prefiltered, especially for something relatively innocuous.
I don’t know that you can get it back; but an appeal to mods is always worth trying.
Yes, Shashank, I know. 🙂
Was Newspeak inspired by Esperanto?
We know what Orwell was satirising, and why he was annoyed with Esperanto. Don’t worry about it. Orwell was if anything more annoyed with Basic English, and would likely be annoyed with any conlang. (One of the examples he gives in Politics and the English Language is from a text advocating Interglosa.)
Yes, there is an ideology behind Esperanto. It does not actually influence the linguistic materials themselves terribly much. The ideology is benign, as far as those things go (Lanti’s Sennacieco, which Orwell bristled at, was as overt as it ever got), and is not as much in the foreground as it used to be anyway.
The notes of the Ancient Greek musical system were organised into tetrachords, groups of four notes. Two tetrachords made an octave.
The central octave went:
{Hypate, Parhypate, Lichanos, Mese}, {Paramese, Trite, Paranete, Nete}
It gets rather more complicated than that; the paramese, for example, is an interstitial note, and the tetrachords keep going above and below the central octave. See Musical system of ancient Greece – Wikipedia
A front runner would have to be AKEL, the Cypriot Communist party, which has a history of support in both communities. In fact Turkish Cypriots felt particularly betrayed when AKEL eventually came out against the Annan plan.
Quora’s Real Name Policy is nabbing you, as Konstantinos Konstantinides pointed out: Do I have to use my real name on Quora? What is Quora’s Real Names policy?. Quora requires you to use your legal name (or some close approximation of it: nicknames should be OK, but sometimes turn out not to be).
Legal names in English are capitalised. If you don’t capitalise them, Quora bots assume you are dodging your legal name, and possibly that you are falsifying your name somehow (pseudonyms on social media are routinely lowercase).
If you have legal ID with a lowercase rendering of your name on it, you can submit that to Quora, and require them to comply. … You will then quite possibly find that they can’t anyway, because they’ve automated Titlecase.
No different to other colloquial registers of English: stressed you is “you”, unstressed you is “ya”.
That’s how Leonard Cohen did all his rhymes with Hallelujah, after all: http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/l…
I finally worked this out, by reading half of Ancient Greek accent – Wikipedia. (Reading the other half confirms it, but I’m still proud of myself.)
The answer is: the second element if acute, the first if circumflex.
Let’s take this slow.
The explanation of the distinction between acute and circumflex in the Wikipedia article is based not on contours on a vowel, but on high/low contrast on Morae (what a long vowel has two of, and a short vowel has one of). And I gotta admit, that’s the first time an explanation of Greek accent has made sense to me.
So. Let’s ignore grave. Short vowels can only take an acute. That is a high pitch on a single mora:
έ = ˥e.
A long vowel can take an acute. That is interpreted as a high pitch on the second mora:
ή = ɛ˥ɛ
μή = mɛ˥ɛ
You’re going from neutral pitch to high pitch. That will of course sound like rising pitch.
A long vowel can instead take a circumflex. That is interpreted as a high pitch on the first mora:
ῆ = ˥ɛɛ
In context, a circumflexed vowel is a neutral pitch mora, followed by a high pitch mora, followed by a neutral pitch mora; e.g.
καλῆτε = ka.lɛɛ.te
That will sound like a circumflex: rising then falling.
So. Diphthongs involve two short vowels. (There’s also long diphthongs, which are the things with iota subscripts.)
Two short vowels are two morae.
So it’s the same. αί has high pitch on the second mora (i.e. second vowel):
αί = a˥i
αῖ has high pitch on the first mora (i.e. first vowel):
αῖ = ˥ai
Now, your question was, if we use contour tones rather than pitch peaks, how do we transcribe it in IPA?
At that point, I myself would prefer to just go with convention, and put the contour tone symbol on the second letter, because that’s what Greek does. But the point here is that the contour tone, in both cases, starts on the first vowel = first mora. So arguably putting it on the first vowel is more accurate.
Didn’t know about the Quora Meme Page, but it’s been inactive for three years anyway.
The Memes of Production blog has just started up. Contributions welcome!
Not quite in the Rage Comic genre, but I’m rather proud of what I came up with as a lowercase rage comic in this post:
