Zompist Bboard Again

I found a last-minute train ticket to back home that cost me less than a third than what I would have paid for a Deutsche Bahn ICE train. I'm not much of a Christmas person, and going to my hometown usually means choosing in between paying a fortune or being on a 12-hour hellride all over the countr...

Fui mongen aavas javun to' lielali ñankai kafu. COP=1SG need sleep but=SS PFV drink-PST excess coffee I need to sleep but I had too much coffee. Monia'i olielas. Malavun kaa ka'isto kafu. still=1SG without-sleep | go=SS make more coffee I'm still awake. I'm gonna make more coffee. Aso'a nokon kulos...

Also, in other fun election things, on that same day, Bavaria will have their state elections for their Landtag. The CSU (the CDU's sister party that only runs in Bavaria) has been dominant in Bavarian politics since the formation of the Federal Republic, but polling shows them at 35% support compa...

Why not. Basics Username: Obviously Acid Badger Name: Not Acid Badger Other nicknames (including good stories, if you have any): Some friends jokingly call me by the French version of my name. Used to post on the CBB as Avo and I had a different username on the ZBB in the past but I don't remember B...

I did a lot of reading about Mixe-Zoque languages ages ago and can't remember which language in specific it was, but it has a person/possession prefix /j-/ that is realized as palatalization of the following consonant. I think it was a Mixe language, I recall them using /j-/ for third person, but I ...

As for myself, I seem to consistently distinguish these sounds everywhere except before /ʁ/, where they both come out as something like [eː͡ɐ̯]. That's interesting because it's the other way round for me: merger everywhere except before /r/. I'm from Hesse, originally. The merger is most common in ...