Zompist Bboard Again

Indeed. It's fair to say the deal is "still on", in the sense that it's still the government's official policy. However, as things stand, right now, the deal doesn't have a hope in hell of being agreed by parliament. May's hope is that if she can push the vote on the deal as close to the d...

Sure, as in my scenario at the end there. But the flip side of that is that she already has no authority, and no way to resolve the dominant issue of the day, and probably no longer a majority in parliament - at this point, keeping the job for another year would be a big win for her. A year's a lon...

If she doesn't stand down, she'll probably win the VONC. If she loses, but no big name tries to challenge her? Interesting. There are two obvious Tory examples here... ...in 1989, Thatcher was challenged for the leadership by Sir Anthony Meyer, an unknown MP with unpopular ideas. He was the textboo...

Who is Steve Barclay, and what, if anything, qualifies him to be Brexit Minister? Noise is, he's actually pretty good - everyone who knows him seems to have found him likeable and capable. Including, apparently, civil servants, who usually think ministers are useless. The downside is, nobody knows ...

Theresa May is still around. ERG people are claiming that more than 48 ERG people have told them they've submitted the letters for a VONC. So either the 1922 is lying to us, or the ERG guy is lying to us, or his ERG friends are lying to him. Or all of the above. On the subject of lying, Michael Gove...

Politico has a headline with the follow-up sentence: "The failures have made Palm Beach County to once again be the crown jewel in a fresh round of the state’s nationally watched election gaffes." (my emphases).

Never heard that construction before...

No, apparently we must all write what masako wants to read.

So much for the idea of participating in this thread...

So the Prime Minister's holding an emergency press conference an hour from now, presumably to explain how wonderfully everything's going. Meanwhile, she's offered the brexit secretary job to michael gove. Early reports are that he said no, but now it's believed that she's begging him but he's said h...

Can't hang around here all day today, but a quick updates: - the PM has now been standing in the Commons being insulted by every single MP in turn for approximately three hours. Oh, now they've stopped - not because they'd stopped queueing up, but because they ran out of the allotted time and will h...

(Wasn't he, you know, in charge of negotiating it? Did he just not get a chance to read it till now?) Good question! Theoretically, cabinet ministers are independent, and do their jobs by themselves, with Cabinet to co-ordinate them, and the PM to chair Cabinet as 'first among equals'. So theoretic...

Hraðe ire aþys utasti gotar es. Any man's life must come to an end. aithscepi bretha mainn: cealtha biath, ādi ne spriec; wera nu biath, ādi nu ne criap; gamhelō biath, ādi ne gaing, ne cuithi nā wieht, ne cuaddeth herō sunu, ādi ne gaman nā wieht; ādi nu earth biath, ādi ne gaman, ne spriec, min c...

Dē Graut Bʉr wrote: ↑Wed Nov 14, 2018 3:41 am

Salmoneus wrote: ↑Tue Nov 13, 2018 8:25 pm nānn nist ūder hibenhē tha sliat!
Nothing ever ends!

Jagglyk dē lyving.
Life does.

nisa; ne sliat libn, min uandeth, ādi wierp an frōlīc cruth
Not so; life does not end, but changes course, and comes to wear fresh forms

Sannon yn feti viko lytta tjo. Hałiu fetiu imbibun niððindiu men. Vocabulary is the part that never ends. The other parts are finished at some time. nānn nist ūder hibenhē tha sliat! ādi tō, havāth ēn thū foll grammatic galēgōd thās Danardehes!? ne ūder hibenhē nist tha sluiti scrīoibn hit... Nothi...

RP dialects - and I'd describe them as a family rather than a single form - do still exist, but almost entirely among those over 50. Almost nobody young speaks an RP form natively today. What we speak is SSBE. And no, this is not 'received' in the way that RP used to be - while it is a prestigious d...

I'll offer some answers to those questions, but first... BREXIT!!!! For days, but particularly today, the government's been saying Brexit's almost worked out except for a few minor details like Ireland and the customs union and whatnot. I didn't bother posting about that because... well, it's been &...

Apparently though there's now talk of the government capitulating before the end of the debate, in order to avoid being on record losing so thoroughly. What would the consequences be? Does that mean there's a chance for new general elections? Or just a change in leadership? Of capitulating, or of l...

Something unusual is happening: the government's about to get trounced in a legally-binding vote. MPs are about to debate a motion from Labour for a humble address for a return. What this means in layman's terms is that if it passes, Parliament will tell the Queen to tell the Government to publish s...

Fo ray, Indo-Yuropiyan u soso bakbil sapos langwic, im neba de fo ray (fo lis no ina bakbil mol). Of course, Indo-European is just a reconstructed theoretical language, that didn't actually exist (at least in the reconstructed form). JAL That nist derb. Stōth sāthē sa Indo-Eoreipeh; hit uas derbē s...

If the climate is similar to that of Mexico City, then it won't get much below 15C in winter (average 'low' there dips under 10, but of course that's at night, when bedding is more important than clothing...). So it would be perfectly comfortable for a human not to wear clothes most of the year, or ...

I don't understand your question. I think you may be using the word 'moraic' idiosyncratically.