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If the design was up to me, I'd remove borders between areas of different colours, and I'd replace 90deg corners of said areas with rounded corners. Some greater padding and nicer to the eye font wouldn't hurt, either.

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I'm mildly annoyed that I think I vaguely recall a non English song by a single lyric [ɡa'mɛɾs], but if I were to ever try to look it up, I'd be flooded by 57894621 results about gamers.

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And here was I thinking that German and English plural markers -er and -s were cognates, what with rhotacism and such.

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Probably a long shot, but does anyone know how did Proto-Germanic *ajjō 'eggs' become Proto-West Germanic *aijiʀu 'id.'? Going off wiktionary here: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/ajją https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-West_Germanic/aij I guess I'm ulti...

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Travis B. wrote: ↑Fri Nov 10, 2023 11:50 am
Moose-tache wrote: ↑Fri Nov 10, 2023 4:16 am They only need to be 1 femtohitler less evil [...]
Your mistake is thinking that one choice is only "1 femtohitler" less evil than the other choice.

Zju

Indeed, aren't student loans pretty hefty over there? I second that you should maybe just keep applying for jobs and not be let down by the inevitable rejections until you get hired. Although you do know better than me how that would work out.

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Wasn't there a phenomenon of activity moving mostly to Discord after a server is created for certain forums and boards? And it's still chit-chat, at that.

2971 words short

ouch

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And here was I thinking that the mistery was "why isn't it called rereduplication?". Maybe it was subjected to haplogy.

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Came across a cute example of taboo deformation today in--of all languages--Catalan. Apparently maleta "suitcase" in the meaning of "saddlebags" was altered to boneta to avoid the association with mal "bad". ( Maleta , from Old French malete , could be reanalysed as a ...

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How about mitian? Would that be closer to mission or to me-T-an?

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I am aware of the Mitian hypothesis, though I was left with the impression that it's just pastime speculation without any substantive research to back it up, other than the pronouns and the odd suffix here and there (and a dozen or so alleged PIU roots (and some research into Altaic, if you count th...

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This paper makes the case for Proto-Uralic-Eskimo look pretty reasonable. 95 alleged cognates and multiple sound correspondances, including some other than between initial consonants. Genealogic relationships have been established with much less. Even Ante Aikio doesn't shy away from the idea of PU...

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Elsewhere online I came across this: https://toaq.net/ . I know we don’t discuss loglangs very much here, but this one looks particularly well-done and interesting. Don’t know enough formal semantics to properly assess it though. Toaq (pronounced [tʰoaŋ]) is a constructed human language in which ev...

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zompist wrote: ↑Mon May 22, 2023 6:32 pm I did get rid of some Bob threads.

Oh no! Now we won't be able to gawk in awe at the World Famous Dinosaur Conlang Pakuni and Atlantean, Sister Language to Clingon TV Show Series Mark Orcand's Mythical Conlang!

(also, did we really switch boards five years ago? I swear it was two!)

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German surgeon fired after getting hospital cleaner to assist amputation

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This is more of a statement of historical happenstance than a fact - no IE branch has to be conservative about anything.
If you so much wanted, you could say that Germanic is conservative in keeping the three stop series distinct.

Zju

Please work on formatting. Noun phrase order isn't all that clear on first reading. which is treated, syntactically, like a numeral. I thought numerals follow nouns? Anyway, no need to compare particles to vastly different PoS, you can just specify if the particle in question is a proclitic (precedi...

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Has anyone noticed a realisation of /u/ as [ʉ]? Could this lead to u > y in the future?

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If I'm not mistaken, there was even the case of pitch accent turning into vowel length in West Slavic languages.

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How do voiced distinctions evolve in consonants from a Proto-Language for which voicing is not phonemic? Vowels and sonorants are both voiced, so it follows from laziness linguistic economy that a single voiceless segment inbetween can get voiced. In particular, an obstruent assimilating to the voi...

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