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bradrn wrote: ↑Tue Mar 19, 2024 10:24 am Fascinatingly, the Egyptian–Coptic volume I happen to have open right now notes that ‘I stick to the very old appellation Pseudo-Participle, because [… it is] completely void of any semantic or syntactic meaning, which has its advantages too’.

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WeepingElf wrote: ↑Tue Mar 19, 2024 8:21 am R. M. W. Dixon once quipped about incomprehensible grammars that in many of them, the theoretical framework needed to understand them will probably be extinct long before the language described is.

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I'd say there should be a distinction between a naturalistic conlang and a naturalistic conlang grammar.

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I don't think being generally critical of technology makes you a Nazi, but I still fundamentally disagree with general hostility towards technology. I think that the technological developments of the last 300 years have, all in all, been great for humankind. I wouldn't want to live in a world where ...

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And Putin has talked about how we're shortly before World War 3 again. Is it it this time?

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Thank you!

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Travis B. wrote: ↑Fri Mar 15, 2024 11:19 am
It was raining all today yesterday,

Is that a typo, or some feature of English I wasn't aware of?

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Why is the apparent standard pronunciation of "Newfoundland" so weird?

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The schools around here have just started spring break. As you can see, the weather is appropriate:

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Big news on my side: I’m going to Paris! Specifically, for the Université Paris-Saclay, where I’ve organised to do a research internship for four months. I may have mentioned this once or twice already, but now I have my visa and it looks like everything’s confirmed, which is nice. Of course, I’m m...

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Yesterday, I watched a wildlife documentary about the courtship displays of various species of tropical birds - Dancing With The Birds - which was, oddly enough, the first thing I found on Netflix in a few weeks that I watched all the way to the end.

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I once read a comment somewhere - I don't remember, perhaps it was even on the ZBB - that some Catalan language activists supposedly put some effort into studying historical developments in Ireland, and they came to the conclusion that Irish was probably doomed once it lost Dublin, and they're there...

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Noticed this at my local supermarket:

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Made me wonder if it's aimed at the aspiring supervillains among their customers...

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Thank you!

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

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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...

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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.

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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...

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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...

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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.

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