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The solution to the Middle East conflict will not be found on Threads, or TikTok, or in the streets of any city that isn’t within a 2-hour car ride from downtown Jerusalem. street protests and popular disapproval of the whole thing were important in the dissolution of the south african apartheid re...

What’s more confusing is giving two names to what is essentially a single case with a single function. But it doesn't have a single function. In animate nouns, it marks only an object of a transitive, not a subject of a transitive or instransitive. In inanimate nouns, it marks both the object of a ...

The verb is the head of the phrase, not the subject. So, VSO or VOS word order. Yes, but the object is closer to the verb than the subject, so VOS makes it more head-initial than VSO. "Eating a peach" vs. "(Eating a peach) by me" (where "by" is the ergative). What? VSO...

Lower Xumi Consonants: /p pʰ b t tʰ d k kʰ g q qʰ ɢʁ/ ⟨p ph b t th d k kh g q qh ǥ⟩ /ts tsʰ dz (tʂʰ tʂ dʐ) tʃ tʃʰ dʒ tɕ tɕʰ dʑ/ ⟨ts tsh dz (tŝh tŝ dẑ) c ch j c(i) ch(i) j(i)⟩ /m̥ m n̥ n ɲ̥ ɲ ŋ̥ ŋ/ ⟨mh m nh n ñh ñ ŋh ŋ⟩ /s z ʃ ʒ ɕ ʑ x ɣ ʁ h ɦ/ ⟨s z ŝ ẑ ś ź x gh rh h f⟩ /w ɹ j/ ⟨w r y⟩ /l̥ l ʎ̥ ʎ/ ⟨l...

WeepingElf wrote: ↑Mon May 13, 2024 4:55 am To me as a non-native English speaker, math are sounds wrong, but maths is is odd, too. Maths sounds like a plural to me, but math is definitely singular.

To me, maths is is the only acceptable form. ‘Maths’ behaves like a mass noun, and ‘math’ does not exist as a word.

almost rigidly head-initial ... animate nouns are placed before inanimate nouns, even if the animate noun is the syntactic object. That kinda contradict each other :D. No, it makes perfect sense to me. The verb is the head. eat\REAL-3sg Sam-NOM orange-ABS (VSO) fall_on\REAL-3sg mouse-ACC pillar-ERG...

Pronouns Personal pronouns I’ve mentioned the personal pronouns a few times now. Here’s a full table: Focus (positive) Focus (negative) Subject Interrogative Object Accusative 1s ba- bo- b- bi- -ban rban 1p be- bo- ba- babi- -ben rben 2s ndi- ndi- n- mbi- -din ndin 2p nda- ndo- d- mbi- -den nden 3s...

I was linked to this wonderfully refreshing view of the whole situation: 50 Completely True Things (by a Palestinian American). (Re the last few posts: the main reason I haven’t responded is because I’m starting to lose track of who said what. That makes it difficult to have any rational discussion,...

After four years, foxcatdog reminded me that this thread existed. So, let me have a go at solving my own challenge of four years ago: ⟨a e o⟩ /a e o/ ⟨aa ee oo⟩ /aː eː oː/ ⟨ã ẽ õ⟩ /ã ẽ õ/ ⟨ãã ẽẽ õõ⟩ /ãː ẽː õː/ ⟨V Vˉ Vˍ⟩ /V˥ V˧ V˩/ ⟨m n ɲ ŋ ñ⟩ /m n ɲ ŋ ɴ/ ⟨b d j g q⟩ /b d d͡ʒ ɡ ɢ/ ⟨t c k ꝁ⟩ /t t͡ʃ k ...

There’s already a thread for this: viewtopic.php?t=56. It’s hard to find because the topic title has a typo.

(And thanks for reminding me about it! It was fun.)

For reference, this is my list of what to get done for the next release, which with luck could finally get to v1.0.0: Figure out some better way of handling stress, tone etc. Improve Brassica’s understanding of MDF dictionary files Allow display of intermediate results Get the CLI closer to feature ...

I always end up having to make a category "X" which is just all the left over shit like ŋ kʷ pʷ ɨ ˈ θ and never gets used for anything. Development has slowed down a lot, but finally got around to fixing this! In the next release, you’ll be able to write extra ŋ kʷ pʷ ɨ ' θ at the beginni...

I always end up having to make a category "X" which is just all the left over shit like ŋ kʷ pʷ ɨ ˈ θ and never gets used for anything. Development has slowed down a lot, but finally got around to fixing this! In the next release, you’ll be able to write extra ŋ kʷ pʷ ɨ ' θ at the beginni...

Basic clause structure Although the verbal complex is greatly elaborated in Eŋes, non-verbal constituents also show considerable complexity. Particularly important are focus constructions, but basic clause structure is generally relevant for understanding the language. Constituent order I’ve alread...

First of all, there's the equation with calling for resistance which may involve acts of violence with violence itself. That's a rhetoric sleight-of-hand which doesn't deserve a pass. You’re right, I’ve been sloppy here with my rhetoric. (It didn’t help that, in the beginning, I drastically overest...

I had noticed that the prose of it was to my mind unusual yet i had not quite noticed it till it was pointed out. For those of you who are wondering, this was my reaction too. Some of the idioms (e.g. "makes segmenting speech a breeze") struck me as peculiar, but I put that down to the fa...

so you do think the vote for women, the 40 hour week, the vacation, were won by asking nicely? no, sir, sometimes there is no way to protest without some base level of violence I’ve been considering my thoughts on this post and, I think, it ultimately comes down to a basic philosophical disagreemen...

Aww, pity, I got it wrong! The follow-up paper identifies the metre as iambic, not trochaic. Incidentally, if anyone feels in the mood for more poetry, I can refer them to the classic reference on dihalobenzene reactions — or any of the others in this vein . Or, for that matter, The 13 Clocks is a ...

I’m curious how many people noticed that this paper… …is itself a great example of some prose in metric time? For it’s plain to see its rhythm is trochaic octameter, with the end of every sentence counting as a final rhyme. (Obviously alice has, but anyone else? If you haven’t, don’t spoil it by exp...

I’m sorry, but this is not ‘latent’ antisemitism. This is antisemitism. ‘The Jews are coming to kill us all and replace us’ is one of the oldest and most persistent antisemitic canards there is. I’ve been the target of this accusation myself, long before the current events. You have missed Torco's ...