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Ares Land wrote: ↑Mon May 12, 2025 1:39 pm My own rule of thumb is that if the source is Jewish, they mean something close to bradrn's definition. If the source is not Jewish, it's probably a slur.

Yeah, that is pretty close to how I see it too.

How exactly would you define a Zionist¹. I'm rather skeptical of actually looking this one up, because people who are interested in defining Zionist are likely to have an agenda of some kind, and usually seem to have an inherant morality implied in their definition. I am aware of 3 modern uses of t...

All this doesn't mean that earlier languages had fewer words. Just look at how many words were replaced in Romance. This is well-illustrated by contrasting what we know of Classical Latin with purely-reconstructed Proto-Romance that makes no reference to written Latin; they differ quite a bit.

Since when are languages from more 'developed' societies more complex? There is nothing that substantiates this idea. While languages from more 'developed' societies may have more specialized technical vocabulary than less 'developed' societies, the opposite is often true about vocabulary about the ...

Ugh. That is awful.

This UK LFI group really is a wonderful bunch of people.

Ahzoh wrote: ↑Fri May 09, 2025 2:40 pm I am at archeological field school to learn how to do archeology.

Today was my first day of digging. A lot of us did find a few primary flakes from flintknapping. We also found a flintknapping core.

Cool!

In the English here both /θ ð/ initially are commonly [t̪ d̪] or [t̪θ d̪ð], except that initial /θ/ is often [θ] as well, in higher registers initial /ð/ is [ð], in lower registers initial /ð/ often merges with /d/ as [d~t], or after a nasal in the preceding word, where initial /ð/ commonly merges w...

The problem with 'multipolarity' is that the potential poles are not benign at all, and contention between great powers means conflict in countries outside the superpowers as well. This is what we saw during the Cold War ─ superpowers used countries across the world as proxies. As much as you compla...

The end of the Cold War significantly helped the world, because the many dictators and factions in civil wars across the world were to a large extent not needed by the Great Powers anymore and could be dispensed with. This is why so many dictatorships fell and civil wars ended soon after the fall of...

This feels a bit forced to me, to be honest, though, and I'm not comfortable with phonemic analyses that are radically different for language varieties that are fundamentally crossintelligible. As distinct analyses are quite possible for the same speech variety, I think they must be regarded as an ...

This feels a bit forced to me, to be honest, though, and I'm not comfortable with phonemic analyses that are radically different for language varieties that are fundamentally crossintelligible. Do not question The Analysis it is Perfect; all hail The Analysis and its Wonderous obligatory codas :evi...

(Also, you do know that Unicode ⟨ᵐ⟩ exists, right?) Thanks! I had forgotten. I use https://ipa.typeit.org/full/, which has the audacity to call itself "full" simply because it's not restricted to English sounds. To their defense, superscript m is not part of the standard IPA chart. [ˈbɐwɑ...

What about father though? Doesn't that have a long vowel even though it would be silly to analyze it as having an underlying rhotic? Given that words like "spa" and "bra" generate intrusive /r/, it doesn't seem like much of a stretch to analyse "father" as /farðə/. In ...

[ˈsɑwɐ ɲet̪ɐmɐˈqut̪ːonɐ ˈkʼɑwɐ reˈhɑʎːɐ ˈkɑːɸe] /sɑwɑ nitɑmæquttunɑ kʼɑwɑ rihallæ kɑːfi/ Sawa nitamequttuna k'awa rihalle kaafi. sawa ni=ta-me-quttu=na k'awa ri-hall-e kaaf-i should COMP=PRES-INST-write.PFV=SUBJ.1.S INT.INAN NMLZ-speak.PFV-CONST people-GEN I should write something in Rihalle Kaafi. ...

I had an idea that certain consonants could influence a vowel even if it's not directly adjacent to the vowel and this would result in the various ablaut grades in Vrkhazhian: For example, you'd have paṭaṣ- (< puṭaṣ- ) in one series of inflections but -pṭuṣ- in another series of inflections, with /...

I actually said father , not farther . Ah. In that case, father is [fɑːðə], with PALM/START . It could be that all long vowels get analysed as having a rhotic in my dialect, although I think I prefer a analysing none of them with /r/ – etymological PALM/START , CAUGHT/NORTH/FORCE and COMMA/LETTER ....

Edit: Travis posted. Farther has for me been been entirely replaced by further in speech, so I would say it [fɜːðə] (with NURSE ) or give it a spellong pronunciation of [fɑːðə] (with PALM/START ). To be abundantly clear, I have [jɛː] (with SQUARE ) for yeah and [jɛj] (with FACE ) for yay I actually...

I honestly don't really know, without resorting to something silly like saying it's /æː/ (thus the only unchecked BAD vowel) How would that be silly? In the English here, the only instances of final TRAP are yeah , what I would write, for lack of a standard spelling, as neah , and some words such a...

The Old Persian case system is a very generically old Indo-European case system IMO. I personally have come to prefer simple but atypical case systems, such as my Rihalle Kaafi case system, which has nominative-absolutive, ergative, accusative, genitive, and in the classical language, vocative cases...