Zompist Bboard Again

No, chalk that up to a bad translation on my part. The original French has no ambiguity. They (allegedly) want to use Toltec spirituality to promote women in senior position. ('Toltec spirituality' really means the Toltec Agreements, new-agey self-help really.) Ah, OK! Thanks :) To me it sounds... ...

I just caught this headline: Does Matignon (the French Prime Minister's services) want to encourage women in senior state positions with Toltec spirituality? (In case you were wondering: no, it doesn't.) To me this belongs in Confusing Headlines -- is it asking about using 'Toltec spirituality' (??...

It looks like a pretty straight Japonic deal, though I do suspect I'm missing something. I'd like more, regardless!!

BTW, how did you define/discover the dental fricative, palaeographically speaking?

anyone here besides me say hamburg to mean ground beef? is it a New England localism? Might it even be all traceable to a single supermarket chain that one day decided to trim its label just a tiny bit so they could make the text stand out more? Ground beef is either "ground beef" or &quo...

Possibly my favorite show of all time, Leverage has a new revival, Leverage: Redemption on imdb tv. Of course, I binged all eight episodes that have come out so far. So now, on recommendation from just about everyone I've met who liked Leverage , I'm now watching White Collar , and quite enjoying i...

Rounin Ryuuji wrote: ↑Sat Jul 17, 2021 2:29 am Also consider now archaic uses of English meat.

Which is a contraction of me + eat, of course

Finished this: https://images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca887773594c2.wixmp.com/f/368fae4f-fdc7-4cbb-b7a4-709ac40d3198/dengi69-5fc1e6f7-9fd5-4f9a-bc1e-c31abe16c3bf.png/v1/fill/w_1024,h_1449,strp/telemor_franc_banknote_poster_by_requindesang_dengi69-fullview.png?token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJ...

It's a great word, very satisfying somehow. I wonder at the similarity to kapok, now that I'm reminded of it... Kapok though comes from Malay kapuk , so I somehow doubt that it is related. (It was borrowed into Russian as капок .) Yes, definitely... I was thinking more of onomatopoiea-type relatedn...

Question: where does the Russian word for cotton "xlopok" come from? I understand the etyomology of every other word for cotton in eastern Europe and the near east, but that one stumps me. Wiktionary relates it to: Bulgarian (Rupian) хлъпка "knobble (??) of fleece, wool, cotton"...

German uses Shitstorm only for a shitstorm of negative comments in social media or in the comments on a website. Does it have any other meaning in English? To me it's much more broadly applicable, not limited to online fracas (fracases?). Certainly when I learned it in the '80s, that wasn't even an...

I'm thinking of putting out a sample of the dictionary of my 'Pseudo-Misihase' conlang (a posteriori Tungusic) -- I saw that Lexique Pro lets you output a compressed self-installing file that's easy to share. Maybe in a few days I'll post it on the forum and see what people think. It's more of an ad...

I did a quick look around my hard drive this morning and didn't really find anything good -- the downside of clearing out my 'library' a while back. Bradrn, take it away!

And Karch, thanks for posting this, it gave me a real thrill

Thanks, bradrn! But Karch hasn't confirmed it, and frankly, I don't trust what's left of my mind to crow yet. Or to eat crow, quite ;) Sibe/Xibo is tricky because it's a diglossic 'language'; 90%+ of what you find of it is based on the literary variant, which is basically a very mild dialect of 'sta...

I've been lexicon-polishing lately, specifically the names of birds -- a few weeks ago I had a loaner cat for a bit, and his mournful yet hope-filled meeps out the window at the park across the street were, frankly, inspirational. I had figured out there were about 120-odd 'etic' glosses of waterfow...

OK, I've been cruisin for a bruisin here, but: Xibo, or Sibe -- the tight relative of "Manchu" spoken by backwoods hicks sent off to the Ili valley region of Central Asia as a garrison during the mid-Qing. If I'm right, the problem is I've got nothing to offer up as the next puzzle. What t...

Karch, my apologies for being snippy about the transcription. It's an issue that all of us can encounter, picking a sample text from what materials we have access to without necessarily being all that familiar with the language itself and the possibility there's an accepted orthography and/or Latin ...

I seem to be stuck on a high horse here and am not going to name it, but I'll throw out "Altaic" for the gang working on it.

So -- is the 'rule' about not using narrow phonetic transcriptions of languages in place of ~phonemic/established orthographies, for the sake of obfuscation, out the window again?

It may be a little bit before I get into it and get back to you, but thanks in advance! I'm looking forward to playing working, working! with this

I'd love to check this out! But, erm, a link...?