Zompist Bboard Again

I'm not sure whether Roman paganism could have survived, but I'm quite sure that by Julian's time it was too late to save it.

TomHChappell wrote: ↑Sat Mar 23, 2024 9:35 pm

masako wrote: ↑Fri Mar 22, 2024 7:33 pm Kenamoya abugida – A decorative script for Kala centered on a circular design.

Impressive so far, both esthetically, and linguistically, IMHO!

Well said!

And Putin has talked about how we're shortly before World War 3 again. Is it it this time? My father would have said "Yes, it is. Will you stop fretting about that now?" He could be mean like that. ;-) As this is one of the ways I've decided not to be like my father, here's what I think. ...

"Zelenskiy says that there is no evil which Putin will not commit, in order to stay in power." Without you pointing it out, I also wouldn't have guessed that reading. It would have been much easier if they had left out the quotation marks, or put them around the entire clause before "...

Mes félicitations!

Rounin Ryuuji wrote: ↑Thu Mar 14, 2024 10:57 am I am a gardener, therefore I am a supervillain?

Der Mörder ist immer der Gärtner

masako wrote: ↑Sun Mar 10, 2024 10:25 am next: example

Tautisca boringly has a Latin loan here: essemplun
next: to sprout

As they say, the past is a different country... and we're not who we used to be. It was even weirder in the late 70s / early 80s, when when many progressives in Germany actually were of the opinion that sex with children was something good (supposedly it was one of the many forms of sexuality suppre...

What are the chances that the languages spoken in Europe before IE arrival were Afro Asiatic? We simply don't know. The only Afro-Asiatic languages attested in Europe were brought by settlers / conquerors / immigrants from the Middle East in historical times (Phoenician and Hebrew in Antiquity, Ara...

This makes me wonder, in parallel... do all countries produce soaps? I only know of one German daily soap, it has the very original title Gute Zeiten - Schlechte Zeiten ("Good Times - Bad Times") and runs since over 30 years on the private TV station RTL. I watched some episodes when my g...

Ares Land wrote: ↑Wed Mar 06, 2024 2:04 am

Raphael wrote: ↑Fri Mar 01, 2024 9:09 am Ares Land, you're reminding me of this, which I found on social media:

Wonderful!

Yes, that hilarious! Now we know that spice is White Russian

jal wrote: ↑Wed Mar 06, 2024 2:02 am Why did you post this twice?

Wit is tócun rechtun.
because be-3SG.PRES.(IN)ACT such-N.SG.NOM good-N.SG.NOM
Because it was so good.

(Actually, I don't know how it happened. If a moderator wants to delete one of the two posts, that's fine with me.)

Raphael wrote: ↑Wed Feb 28, 2024 12:06 pm So, is Russia going to attack Moldova now?

In order to do that succesfully, he'd need the corridor Torco mentions. Of course, he can stir trouble or lob missiles at Moldova, but strategically it doesn't make sense - it would only be a diversion.

How it's known that Proto Germanic infinitive had a vowel at the end since none of attested Germanic languages has it? We can at least say that the final -n of the oldest attested forms must at some point have been followed either by a short vowel of by *t, otherwise the n would have been lost. And...

Commé wisté ta eftera nómuna darwérun enunta tommé glósarié toyais Tautiscais duchuwais: this-N.SG.LOC period-SG.LOC ART-N.PL.NOM next-PL.NOM name-PL.NOM tree-PL.GEN included-N.PL.NOM ART-N.SG.LOC glossary-Sg.LOC ART-F.SG.GEN Tautish-F.SG.GEN language-SG.GEN: At this moment, the following names of ...

Commé wisté ta eftera nómuna darwérun enunta tommé glósarié toyais Tautiscais duchuwais: this-N.SG.LOC period-SG.LOC ART-N.PL.NOM next-PL.NOM name-PL.NOM tree-PL.GEN included-N.PL.NOM ART-N.SG.LOC glossary-Sg.LOC ART-F.SG.GEN Tautish-F.SG.GEN language-SG.GEN: At this moment, the following names of ...

Good luck!

Having read the article, I now understand the headline, but it stills sounds weird to me that, when someone first killed a cat and then later a human being, the headline about them starts out by calling them a "cat killer". I have brought your wrong priorities to the attention of our feli...

doctor shark wrote: ↑Mon Feb 26, 2024 4:14 am

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It's Vianden Castle in Luxembourg.

Of course it is! Do you already know when you will return there (to Mettwurstland, not the castle)?

Is that a castle from Germany?