Zompist Bboard Again

I think you don't get it because Zionism does not mean what you think it means. Zionism is the belief that there should be a Jewish homeland at about the current location of Israel, nothing more, nothing less. C'mon, we'r all linguists here, we all know it's never this simple. This is like saying &...

Went to the memorial for my stepmother, and it was pretty much what I expected: The twenty-five years she spent with my father were hardly touched on. He (and his children and grandchildren) were mentioned only in passing and only by a couple of folks and there were only a two photos of him included...

Well, illegitimacy comes down to whether you approve of it, it's often just a "hurray/boo" word (man, do those have a name?) I've seen them called "yum/yuck" words but I can't remember where (perhaps Hayakawa?). however, it doesn't stop being colonial if you think the colonialis...

(The exception to this, very depressingly, is ‘pogroms against palestinians’… it’s become abundantly clear in recent days that this is precisely what’s happened. But even here, you shouldn’t confuse ‘the Israeli state’ with ‘the current Israeli government’.) This strikes me as special pleading. May...

Travis B. wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 12:18 pm

Linguoboy wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 11:03 am (I myself have /ah/ for the second vowel, but I'm not a native, just a longtime resident.)

But by /ah/ do you mean [a] or [ɑ]?

Yes.

We mean the second syllable, even though apparently there is also variation in the third syllable (i.e. whether /oʊ/ is reduced to a schwa or not). The reduced vowel is very old school; I can't recall the last time I heard someone use it. (I myself have /ah/ for the second vowel, but I'm not a nati...

All that changed when the sexual abuse scandals began to break. When would you (or your late partner) say that the scandals peaked?, and that the suspicion started to appear? When I was a child/teenager in the church, I wasn't aware about the sexual abuse scandals until the Boston Globe report in 2...

This reminds me of the clear delineation between left-libertarians (e.g. anarchists and council communists) and right-"libertarians" (e.g. so-called "anarchocapitalists" and many big-L Libertarians), which really have very little in common with one another. There are plenty of f...

(Speaking of which, saw a news report today with the headline that Cook County is "temporarily" unable to give out paper copies of vital records, like birth, death, and marriage certificates. I didn't even read it; I was just like, "Of course, why expect local government to fulfill i...

From the Nietzsche thread: Well ok. I have never actually watched Southpark so I didn't get the reference. Pretty much everyone I know considers the show intensely bigoted and reactionary, for what it's worth. They were libertarians, but they do oppose Trump. Penn Jillette was libertarian too until ...

We drove down to Southernillinois a.k.a. Little Egypt where a couple guys I know were hosting a viewing party. They had a huge backyard located on the top of a hill so we had great views of the "360° sunset". We also had a striking red flare from the bottom of the sun (which y'all probably...

Sounds horrible. We have bureaucratic headaches with healthcare, though they're not typically life-threatening. This isn't life=-threatening, just terribly inconvenient. I've been using up a lot of mental energy on this that I could really use for other things. I tried calling the insurance and the...

when I hear us-allies saying "targeted strikes" i'm imagining like bombing a wedding with six tons of napalm cause there's a chance a priority target might be there tbh. Yeah, the strikes on the WCK were highly targeted. They managed to hit all three cars in succession and kill everyone i...

USAmerican healthcare rant incoming! So I've been on a particular medication for a couple years now. Out of the blue (according to my doctor's office), my insurer demanded a prior authorisation before approving the latest refill. They communicated this to the pharmacy, which in turn emailed my docto...

Apparently, intelligence suggests that targeted strikes are more effective in stopping Hamas, and I really do hope that that’s correct. Imagine that: actually targeting the people who are currently aiming rockets at your country is more effective in stopping attacks than just blowing up the houses ...

WaPo, opening with a classic garden path: A new Scottish law that criminalizes the “stirring up of” hatred against some groups has triggered a debate far beyond its borders, pitting rights activists who say it’s needed to fight a rising tide of harassment and violence against conservative celebritie...

If you want to see some truly horrifying consequences of relying on AI to make decisions that humans should be forced to make, +972 Magazine has some amazing reporting about "Lavender", the system being used by the IDF to decide which Palestinians should be targeted for assassination: http...

This is an areal change that swept across much of West Germanic, including some English varieties, specifically Yola. The change probably happened in the middle ages. In particular, compare Dutch zien , Limburgs zeen (but also West Frisian sjen , Low Saxon sehn ). A couple things worth mentioning: ...

This is more an English-learners-of-German question. It seems to me that English-speakers in general have an easier time learning the ach-Laut that the ich-Laut, despite the fact that the ach-Laut is only found in certain English varieties such as Scottish English, and the ich-Laut being found nati...

I really don't know what to say at this point. Seven workers from an NGO trying desperately to save the Gazans from starvation are dead after their three vehicles were individually targeted and struck by the IDF and the best defence the latter can come up with is "Our bad, we thought that maybe...