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- Tue Sep 03, 2019 4:14 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: The New ZBB Quote Thread
- Replies: 336
- Views: 352451
- Tue Sep 03, 2019 4:14 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: British Politics Guide
- Replies: 2002
- Views: 1052641
Re: British Politics Guide
Not sure I can completely follow what Johnson is saying, but it sounds like he's running amok or something.
- Tue Sep 03, 2019 4:00 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: British Politics Guide
- Replies: 2002
- Views: 1052641
Re: British Politics Guide
This is the vote on whether they'll have a vote on passing the bill tomorrow, right?
- Tue Sep 03, 2019 3:31 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: British Politics Guide
- Replies: 2002
- Views: 1052641
Re: British Politics Guide
Meanwhile, 17 Labour MPs have announced that they want to introduce an amendment under which Parliament would get to vote on the last version of Theresa May's deal once more.
- Tue Sep 03, 2019 2:31 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: British Politics Guide
- Replies: 2002
- Views: 1052641
Re: British Politics Guide
Jacob Rees-Mogg is now listening to the debate while lying on a front bench.
- Tue Sep 03, 2019 1:41 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: British Politics Guide
- Replies: 2002
- Views: 1052641
Re: British Politics Guide
Anyway, 15 Tories voted to hold this 'emergency debate'. It's possible some of them will back down in the end and abstain, but given how much pressure has been put on them you'd have to think that that's at least 13 or 14 votes against the government. Some Labour MPs will vote for the Tories, but i...
- Tue Sep 03, 2019 1:28 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: British Politics Guide
- Replies: 2002
- Views: 1052641
Re: British Politics Guide
My understanding was that Ukip disappeared because once the Brexit vote passed, they no longer had anything to push for. That may change, though, as I am skeptical that the proposal of yet another three-month delay will be the absolutely last one. Among the people who used to vote UKIP, the role of...
- Tue Sep 03, 2019 11:06 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: British Politics Guide
- Replies: 2002
- Views: 1052641
Re: British Politics Guide
Hazy memories of comparative government classes tell me that things like the Lib Dems do indeed exist in other places, but they are indeed very rare, and each case is different. The FDP in Germany comes immediately to mind. Sal was talking in the context of Duverger's Law, which is about FPTP syste...
- Tue Sep 03, 2019 10:16 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: British Politics Guide
- Replies: 2002
- Views: 1052641
Re: British Politics Guide
Watching parts of the debate, I've got the impression that whenever Johnson stands up, about half the Tory MPs behind him stand up with him, and the other half remain seated. Does that have any relevance?
- Tue Sep 03, 2019 9:49 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: British Politics Guide
- Replies: 2002
- Views: 1052641
Re: British Politics Guide
A Tory MP, a certain Phillip Lee, just switched to the Lib Dems. Johnson no longer has a majority.
- Tue Sep 03, 2019 6:38 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: British Politics Guide
- Replies: 2002
- Views: 1052641
Re: British Politics Guide
It's worth pointing out that the Liberals themselves very nearly went extinct on the national level - down to 5 MPs and under 3% of the vote by the 1950s. They basically only survived as a regional party for celtic nationalists, before the celtic nationalist parties themselves had fully emerged. A ...
- Tue Sep 03, 2019 6:29 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Language Telephone - TEAM 1 RESULTS AND TEAM 2 RESULTS!
- Replies: 195
- Views: 136397
Re: Language Telephone
Given that we can't physically whisper into each others' ears hears, how exactly would the details work? It sounds fun, though.
- Mon Sep 02, 2019 1:16 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: British Politics Guide
- Replies: 2002
- Views: 1052641
Re: British Politics Guide
My impression is that a General Election would probably help Boris - as Salmoneus has pointed out, with the group-of-people-who-are-more-or-less-to-the-left-of-the-Tories being badly split, and the Brexit Party probably being neutralized by Boris's hard-right tack, and the whole system using FPTP, i...
- Mon Sep 02, 2019 11:04 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang Random Thread
- Replies: 3070
- Views: 2944016
Re: Conlang Random Thread
Thank you!
- Mon Sep 02, 2019 11:01 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Sound Change Quickie Thread
- Replies: 1333
- Views: 842262
Re: Sound Change Quickie Thread
Thank you! How plausible would a general merger of all the pairs of voiced and voiceless consonants in a language, into the voiced forms, be? Alternatively, how plausible would it be to merge some, but not all, pairs of voiced and voiceless consonants into the voiced forms? If it would be plausible,...
- Mon Sep 02, 2019 4:12 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang Random Thread
- Replies: 3070
- Views: 2944016
Re: Conlang Random Thread
Ouch. *slaps forehead* I really should have noticed that.
- Mon Sep 02, 2019 3:53 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang Random Thread
- Replies: 3070
- Views: 2944016
Re: Conlang Random Thread
Unrelated question: how do prefixes and suffixes marking things like cases and plurals and the like change over time? My impression from the few languages I know a little bit about is that after some time has passed, you might almost as well throw them out completely and introduce completely new one...
- Mon Sep 02, 2019 3:36 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang Random Thread
- Replies: 3070
- Views: 2944016
Re: Conlang Random Thread
In the SCA, is there some way to get, as output, a list of the pairs of pre-change words and post-change words?
- Mon Sep 02, 2019 3:32 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Sound Change Quickie Thread
- Replies: 1333
- Views: 842262
Re: Sound Change Quickie Thread
How plausible would a general merger of all the pairs of voiced and voiceless consonants in a language, into the voiced forms, be? Alternatively, how plausible would it be to merge some, but not all, pairs of voiced and voiceless consonants into the voiced forms? If it would be plausible, what other...
- Mon Sep 02, 2019 2:40 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Happy things thread!
- Replies: 1232
- Views: 742678
Re: Happy things thread!
Seconded!