Zompist Bboard Again

Outlier?

Futunic?

As a family friend has kindly lent us the use of their Netflix account during the lockdown, I've finally had the opportunity to begin watching The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, and so far from the first episode I'm enjoying it a bunch.

Also Tocharian keeps the 2nd and 3rd series separate in the dentals only, though of course that's somewhat complicated by the fact that all three series collapsed.

Also it looks like there were no POA gaps when Iranian merged the two series.

The thing that annoys my most about the term "voiced aspirate" is that it leads to infelicitous comparisons being drawn with languages like Bario Kelabit, where the realisation is completely different from what we find in Indo-European. In these cases, the voiced-aspirate refers to a stop ...

The most endearing member of the Bullingdon club has just died of Covids-19. I mean he was 89, though it's still sad all the same. I grew up watching Animal Park on the TV so I became aware of him through that, and found him to be rather charming, though reading his obituary on the BBC was still so...

Looks like Kier Starmer is appointing his defeated opponents and people around them to senior positions - Angela Raynor (close friend of Rebecca Long-Bailey) to deputy leader and Lisa Nandy to foreign secretary. Make of that what you will but I see it as a good sign on Starmer's part.

Torco wrote: ↑Sun Mar 29, 2020 10:57 am I might have thought that girls calling their boyfriends 'honey' was a modern thing, but nope. not even a little bit new.

I only just now discovered that the (well-established) Northumbrian English hinny does not in fact come from this origin but rather from an equine term.

Well the reshuffle's happened, seems were stuck with Cummingites (because Dominic the Dunelmian is clearly asserting himself as the power behind the throne), though it seems Sajid Javid has decided it was better to show himself out the door than be kicked out, resulting in the new chancellor being m...

Ah yes, I was wondering where the old-style ZBB flamewars had gone. Many immigrants with no deep connection could claim all that. Change 'British' to 'English' and you've got a point. This is the kind of petty xenophobia we're talking about. A British citizen is a citizen, regardless of whether they...

I've been working through odd episodes of The Laughing Salesman, partly cause it's a great little anime and partly cause it's interesting listening to Japanese as was standard just a few decades ago, with the proper lateral tap and velar nasals.

So I've been teaching myself Scottish Gaelic for the last couple of months and I just want to share something I've come across that's super wild. So as everyone knows, Celtic languages inflect their prepositions. However, I think Scottish Gaelic is unique in not only having the standard set for pron...

Dear Mr Scottish Gaelic. I know prepositional conjugation is good and all, but just really what is going on with this? Firstly your verbs are almost entirely uninflected for person/number, and yet you seem to think it OK to have not one but two (!) different sets of prepositional conjugations, hones...

I remember my dad showing this to me before the election (because we move in the kinds of musical circles where this stuff spreads like hotcakes), oh happy times were they.

I haven't been terribly active on here recently and there's a good reason for that, so here's a bit of a life update. My final year of undergraduate is coming up and now I'm near the end I've realised that serious theoretical linguistics really isn't for me. So I've decided to apply for an MA in La...

I haven't been terribly active on here recently and there's a good reason for that, so here's a bit of a life update. My final year of undergraduate is coming up and now I'm near the end I've realised that serious theoretical linguistics really isn't for me. So I've decided to apply for an MA in Lan...

alice wrote: ↑Fri Dec 20, 2019 4:08 am The election is of course chapeau vieux by now, but at least we've finally found out who was to blame.

Well that's one way to send any antisemites in Labour spiralling into raged-filled catatonia I suppose...

DesEsseintes wrote: ↑Fri Dec 13, 2019 4:55 am Yay yay yay! I’m pleased.

I didn't think Bozza was your type.

At least the SNP dominance over Scotland should something of a spanner in Johnson's Tory machine.

Well The SNP just stole Jo Swinson's seat which I guess is kinda funny but fucking hell