Zompist Bboard Again

So yes, you did. There are many ways that society could handle this — did they even try to talk to the parents civilly before threatening the kids, for one? — that aren't some randoms threatening kids with guns. Sounds like everybody sucks here. So much for law and order and two wrongs not making a...

I think it's only reasonable to expect that if you send your children to state schools then the state has final say there. How do you say that in Italian? Republics have a different idea about the relation between the citizenry and the state. Did you just laud what sounds like an act of threatening...

Lymann Stone, who is a China expert in Twitter, argues that parents are at the top of the “school chain” and so have rights over teachers and even the principal to restrict them from teaching CRT and the like https://mobile.twitter.com/lymanstoneky/status/1452644496357920773 I don't like Lyman Ston...

Ya bäʼ jüʼt gëʼ qavah oda ya, byahŋ gan lotxoueh qäʼväʼkkët kakömŋ qadoqago. Posot Mbeleqotku jit umok gök vak pyaʼnatot mek thek. ---- /pʰ p ⁿb tʰ t ⁿd ʈʰ ʈ tɕʰ tɕ kʰ k qʰ q ʔ/ <p b mb t d nd tr dr tl dl k g q r '> /f θ s ʂ χ h/ <f th s sh x h> /ʋ ð̞ l j/ <v z l y> /m n ŋ/ <m n ng> Vowels: /i ɨ ʉ u...

it's almost Tserzou /pʰ p ⁿb tʰ t ⁿd ʈʰ ʈ tɕʰ tɕ kʰ k qʰ q ʔ/ <p b mb t d nd tr dr tl dl k g q r '> /f θ s ʂ χ h/ <f th s sr x h> /ʋ ð̞ l j/ <w lh l i> /m n ŋ/ <m n ng> Vowels: /i ɨ ʉ u/ <i ou y u> /e o/ <ie o> /ɛ œ ɔ/ <e oe c> /a/ <a> /ae ao əi əu/ <ai ao ei cu> + creaky voice <j> + /m̩ n̩ ŋ̩/ in u...

the other relay lang. I've got nothing Initials: /pʰ p ⁿb tʰ t ⁿd ʈʰ ʈ tɕʰ tɕ kʰ k qʰ q ʔ/ /f θ s ʂ χ h/ /ʋ ð̞ l j/ /m n ŋ/ ʔ does not contrast with null except before syllabic nasals Vowels: /i ɨ ʉ u/ /e o/ /ɛ œ ɔ/ /a/ /ae ao əi əu/ + creaky voice + /m̩ n̩ ŋ̩/ in unstressed syllables, but syllabic ...

One thing that should be noted is that there has been drastic changes in Southern American English dialects since the Civil War which have not been shared by AAVE, such as the loss of non-rhoticity (which is only retained by a few modern-day Southern American English varieties today but is practica...

Is it possible to tell if a dialect/language is de creolized like AAVE is alleged to be If it were, there wouldn’t be such controversy about AAVE. (Or Cocama, for that matter.) I'm not aware of any real controversy. AAVE is descended from Southern American English and split in the 20th century. It ...

How naturalistic/plausible could it be to have a morpheme that is /k/ when contained within a syllable containing a peripheral consonant but /ɣ/ elsewhen? example: mazûm > mazûğ ḫuzum > ḫuzuğ ḳurūśum > ḳurūśuğ but: rēbim > rēbik surğum > surğuk Seems unlikely as a straightforward phonetic developme...

In addition to being cartoonishly evil, it's monumentally stupid of them to hitch their entire national brand to nonsense that no reasonable person would ever endorse in response to total non-issues, especially after the 2016 election when they ran a moderate who didn't even go in for the bathroom ...

This is more or less why I don't think examining ideology or "principles" is very helpful. The thing is, the moment conservatives get power, they increase state power , increase state intrusiveness, increase the number and power of cops sent to your house. E.g. US conservatives are now pu...

FWIW, my statement in the LCK was modal-- it was about best practices, not about what natlang writing systems actually do. Actual writing systems can be terrible , with multiple letters merging (as in Arabic) or barely distinguishable (as in traditional Hebrew fonts). Tocharian monks decided to ada...

Thank you for the informative reply! I presented this question as a discussion point, not something I will take to my grave, so I appreciate you adding some counter arguments. Some of these I think are slightly unconvincing. For example, the fact that the Anatolian hi-conjugation only formally matc...

The second issue I have with this list is the stuff about authority of capitalists vs government, limits on the rich, etc., because it skips over an important assumption. Filthy Pinkos like you and me like to use a lot of the same language when talking about government and economic factors, even go...

Meanwhile, Republican Congressman Madison Cawthorn, in comments complaining about modern culture wanting to "demasculate" men, explicitly told parents: "If you are raising a young man, please raise them to be a monster." Now, I've long thought that the kind of men many right-win...

Moose-tache wrote: ↑Sun Oct 17, 2021 11:13 pm The Anatolian word for wheel comes from a different root than any other branch, but the other branches show two different roots, so clearly there was variation within any stage of PIE.

for lexical isoglosses there's at least also *meyu- 'four'

wym walnut gardens. why grow walnut gardens. there's no shortage of walnuts. more importantly why not turn cleared forest into grassland for more efficient production of meat. and eventually grains - most pre-maize eastern agricultural complex plants are pioneer species in disturbed environments, wh...

/p t ʨ k q ʔ/ <p t ky k q '> /b d ʥ ɡ/ <b d gy g> /m n ɲ ŋ/ <m n ny ng> /s ɕ h/ <s sh h> /z ʑ/ <z j> /w r l j ʕ/ <w r l y c> /i u e ə o ɛ a ɔ/ <i u e o ou ae a au> /bitəjət giʨəʔət ʨa ʑanʨiʨ səjok sajəʨuk sa səʔ | bəʔ kit wat gassɔŋ wa ʥaʕ ʔiʨ=ʨat wa ləʕʕəwəq ʨapəkək=ʨaʔ gat səʔ || liʕɔw ʥikkok kit ...

is AfD so thoroughly infiltrated that they decided to stop prosecuting it, or is that just NDP? I can't imagine very many people would want to vote for a fed honeypot

/p pʼ b t tʼ d ts tsʼ dz tɬ tɬʼ (d)ɮ k kʼ g qʼ ʔ/ <p pʼ b t tʼ d ts tsʼ dz tl tlʼ dl k kʼ g qʼ '> /ɸ β s z ɬ l x ɣ χ ʁ/ <f w s z lh l kh gh q r> /m n ŋ/ <m n ñ> Codas: /p k χ ʔ m n ŋ/ <p k q c m n ñ> /ˋ ˋp ˋk ˋχ ˋm ˋn ˋŋ/ <j b g r jm jn jñ> (I think low tone + glottal stop isn't possible) /ɪ̆ ʏ̆ ə̆ ...