Zompist Bboard Again

"Pedophile groomer" has been around as long as I've been in the US, which is going on forty years now. I first heard it during one of the recurring struggles to boot (or 'deplatform', I guess we'd say now) NAMBLA & co. from the gay rights umbrella. (Having been re-branded as 'queer', a...

It sounds perfectly idiomatic to me, in terms of 19th century English and early-mid 20th century formal (written) English norms.

I think all the non-con-linguistics I've done, even philological/historical stuff, has always involved a lot more contact with and wrestling with real-world, extra-linguistic factors. And I don't think that I rate morphosyntax as "more serious" than lexicography -- and certainly not in con...

For a while I've been working with the 'Pseudo-Misihase' verbs, getting them de-Tungusified and more Japonified. It's been fun and interesting, especially dipping into OJ/MJ grammar alongside modern Japanese for models & patterns. But... more recently, I've gotten sucked back into the natural-hi...

Moose-tache wrote: ↑Thu Jul 21, 2022 4:43 pm Meanwhile, in the circle of Hell being prepared for linguoboy's arrival:
"Pedro Antonio de Alarcon? Guess it works like "Van Hoffman" or whatever. This goes under D."

A much bigger challenge took place when a group of Basque monks sailed away with the ancient records of how to read an FMRI scan. Someone should make that movie. We have far, far too many time travel-conspiracy-espio-fantasy properties & franchises competing for our eyes and cash already, thank...

The state-to-state variation is pretty wild in the US, and even within states, some county/municipal courts can be wildly different from their immediate neighbors, too. Missouri has a bad reputation though... in everything, really.

I use lexicon - parsing - text management software vastly more than I ever actually break out an SCA, so the routine works fine for me... I do like the idea of it, though!

Nahuatl up in Mesoamerica had a similar colonial-era surge and spread, too.

Toolbox and FLEX both have pretty flexible/customizable output options, especially Toolbox I think -- Lexique Pro is geared more towards presentation, maybe more awkward to manipulate the data in. It took me a while to get it right, but eventually I found the right settings (and saved them!) to 1) f...

A starfish vowel system, why not?

(The Wikipedia article says it's supposed to be a Tibetan concept; if it were, it should be easy enough to find actual Tibetan Buddhist sources that reference it, as exist for Shambhala .) It looks even less like a Tibetan word, and even trying to interpret it as a Tibetan transcription of a Sanskr...

Something quite unrelated; I have been looking for an etymology of the term Agartha , but have not been able to find [snip] I remember wondering about that, too, but also not being able to come up with any answer. Back then there was no internet and tracing down the Theosophist literature was a lot...

Moose-tache wrote: ↑Wed Jul 06, 2022 11:50 pm To honor Vovin's legacy, I decided to remind myself just how bad Altaicist can be. Here is a tid-bit from a paper from 2015:

Thank you. It made me laugh, and Vovin would have enjoyed it too.

Japan's right-wing environment was artificially constructed through state violence. [...] Anime is also a marker for Communists on the internet. Because right-wingers tend to be more financially secure than left-wingers, there are more right-wingers than left-wingers wasting time on the internet. A...

I'll just say that having grown up there to a large extent, I'm personally less prepared to discount the right-wing qualities, and maybe we should leave it at that. As far as anime & manga go -- having been exposed to it in its natural habitat, I was already at the Hell. No. stage before I notic...

Man claims that Crimo was not MAGA because he sometimes dressed like an anime character. Hahahaha... ha... like, this person is either lying his ass off or has not been online much in the last two decades. (Or -- why not both?) It's sure a bold hill to plant his flag on, regardless. [BTW, does anyo...

Moose-tache wrote: ↑Mon Jul 04, 2022 10:34 pm Just learned that Alexander Vovin died earlier this year.

WHAAAAAT? I'm really sorry to hear that. He was one of the people in the field I always looked forward to reading more from, and I'd expecting that I still would.

clhp'xwlhtlhplhhskwts' (which is a real Nuxalk word from wikipedia) I fear I really need a recording, but even if you can split this monstrosity into syllables, I fail to see how it's physically sayable without vowels. I mean at some point you are surely going to have to at least insert a schwa jus...

The problem with the methanol hypothesis is that methanol usually takes longer to kill one than whatever killed these people. Sure, but it can definitely kill you within a few hours too, which seems within the bounds of plausibility in a partygoing~nightclubbing situation. The carbon monoxide idea ...