Zompist Bboard Again

Can you determine, with any kind of certainty, to which syllable an intervocalic consonant belongs?

I'm not sure how much to buy this explanation that I read once, but basically Irish was doing reasonably okay up until it was made an Official Language of Ireland. (I'm not sure what the reasoning was, if thats true ...maybe individuals en masse thinking "well, if its official and got governme...

I'd say it would be just a bit too neat if pre-IE languages in Europe (except perhaps in some of the southernmost parts) would have been Afro-Asiatic. Not sure how to describe what I mean by that.

OK, fair warning: this post might get a bit rambling. Also a content warning: it is about changing social attitudes towards child sexualized abuse. * * * * * As I wrote at the time in the "What are you reading, watching and listening to?"-thread, a few weeks ago I watched the Netflix docum...

So over in Ireland, two referendums to amend the Constitution failed very decisively. They had been meant to replace old phrases from the original 1937 Constitution that refer to the importance of "the Family", and of women's work in the home. Now, some people seemed to have stayed home or...

WeepingElf wrote: ↑Thu Mar 07, 2024 7:33 am

What do you expect from a group which identifies itself as Conservative?!? That word is now pretty much an euphemism for "far right".

To be fair, Man in Space didn't tell us when that interaction took place.

Good luck, Man in Space.

bradrn: Cool! Though I kind of think that article should be read together with the two proto-world pieces. I kind of wonder how and why someone decided to post such an old piece now.

Man in Space wrote: ↑Wed Mar 06, 2024 6:32 pmStrangely, he went silent once I asked him if “y’all” was, by his own metric, “proper English”.

*chuckle*

I think Gute Zeiten - Schlechte Zeiten was originally copied of an Australian soap, though they eventually split the plotlines. It had a couple of imitators for a while; I don't know if it still does.

rotting bones wrote: ↑Tue Mar 05, 2024 9:57 am My head feels like it's full of wool. I'll be in big trouble if I don't start working soon.

Good luck.

(I apologize for the length of the above post, but it more or less wrote itself in my brain, and I felt as though I had to get it out.) No need to apologize. In a thread that's about collecting information, the more information, the better. (Oh, and I'm afraid my idea of US community colleges is st...

That zompist brought up the distinction between nighttime weeklies and daytime dailies reminds me that German TV traditionally broke that distinction a lot when it came to US imports. What they would typically do was show all the episodes that they already had of a US weekly show as a Monday-to-Frid...

As they say, what is this I can't even

http://www.threepanelsoul.com/comic/boomer-shooters

I didn't know that Archie Bunker was a cultural calque! The only other shows I can think of that did that are "The Office" (UK → US) (The American one ending up becoming more popular than the original and lasting for 9 seasons.) and "That 70s Show" (US → UK). (However, they made...

Did anyone else spent several hours today getting "not acceptable" errors? That is, error 406 according to a quick web search?

Raphael wrote: ↑Mon Feb 26, 2024 5:26 am I self-published a small book!

The mandatory copies of the book are on their way to the libraries.

Ares Land, you're reminding me of this, which I found on social media:

Over the last few days, and, to some extent, over the last few weeks, my mood was one of two things: Either I've had something to do right now - a household chore, a personal project, some serious or silly stuff online. Then I focused on the task at hand. Or I didn't have something concrete to do at...

i mean from the river to the sea I think chanting it at a protest might, by now, mean that you won't get permits for other protests. That was, however, the end result of a long time in which there were many protests at which that was one of the slogans chanted, and during which some people became m...

Picking up on other people's lists, I'd say for 1990s Germany, it was something like: Known: Flintstones, The Munsters (though not that well known), Bugs Bunny, Star Wars, Star Trek (in fact, for a while I had the impression that Germany had the biggest Star Trek fandom outside the English-speaking ...