Zompist Bboard Again

Congratulations to both of you!

I disagree. A minister should run a department as is appropriate, and the appropriate way to run things does not always involve greater implication or funding.

Sal's post sums up the reasoning behind the choices. The reason for the lack of Eastern Europeans is probably the same reason for the lack of Scandinavians: with different political currents dominant in the two regions, the Scandinavians likely appear extreme to the Eastern Europeans and vice versa....

They're going to nominate whom to lead the EU Commission? Ursula von der Leyen? After all the "amazing successes" she's had in her previous jobs? Ok, it's looking more and more like the EU's biggest enemies aren't right-wing or far-left eurosceptics, but the leaders of the EU themselves. ...

I checked it up and it turns out I was wrong: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet_chart_for_English_dialects . I had thought that GA had [a] and I thought this was more common Canadian and irish English as well. [a] is rather common in Chicago--in PALM and LOT words. (That...

Raholeun wrote: ↑Tue Jul 02, 2019 1:01 pm

MacAnDàil wrote: ↑Mon Jul 01, 2019 5:28 pm I got 19 out of 20 on my master's thesis on the lexicon of Réunion Créole of Malagasy origin.

Care to share?

Most certainly! However, I still have a final draft to submit so I will share in about 3 or 4 weeks.

Is there a word of Malagasy origin in Réunion Créole for expressing praise? :P No, it would be interesting and appropriate of course but, as I mention in the thesis, the malagasy loans amount to roughly 2% of the overall vocabulary so most things don't have words of malagasy origin for them. I did ...

Well, [a] in the IPA chart is certainly placed as a low front vowel. I checked it up and it turns out I was wrong: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet_chart_for_English_dialects . I had thought that GA had [a] and I thought this was more common Canadian and irish English as...

Thanks guys!

I would add that AFAICT most varieties of English do not in fact pronounce [æ] but [a]. The phonetics lab archive seems intresting though; I'll go on when I'm on a more advanced computer.

I got 19 out of 20 on my master's thesis on the lexicon of Réunion Créole of Malagasy origin.

Ryan of Tinellb wrote: ↑Fri Jun 28, 2019 10:15 pmI also notice that one is called "Pepsi", but the other is never called "Coca".

It depends on which language you're speaking. 'Coca' is the normal way to refer the drink in French.

Heck, even in French people say 'tous les deux' litt. 'all the two'. So having a separate word for 'both' is possibly even specific to Germanic languages. Not really. French just lost its word for 'both' (cf. Old French ambe ). Even Latin has this word ( ambō ). I was aware of the word 'ambe' in bi...

Heck, even in French people say 'tous les deux' litt. 'all the two'. So having a separate word for 'both' is possibly even specific to Germanic languages.

'neither' seems to work differently. French has this too.

Scotland is kind of a desert for Conservativism... 24% of seats in the Scottish parliament, 22% in the UK one. And that's a recent revival! In the 2010 general election, some Tories (in Glasgow East and Na h-Eileanan an Iar) didn't even reach 5% of the vote. For 20 years the Tories were fourth plac...

Sure, it's healthy to care for oneself and for others but selfishness and self-care are not the same thing. Selfishness refers to caring for ones' own wants to the exclusion of those of others.

The German Kolosseum would come from the Latin Colosseum, wouldn't it?

Obviously it wouldn't make sense for everyone in the public to choose the Tory leader. But what could happen is say the head of the main party's changing so a new general election gets underway. Also, isn't it a bit unfair to start a contest and then decide to change the rules? the Tories knew for m...

Or à la the Tories in the 2019 European election. You weren't meaning to addan asterisk to the sentence about Howard being a vampire, were you, Sal? I love how asking the membership is something of an afterthought. And the many people who aren't Tory party members don't have any say whatsoever in wh...

Ramdon thought that is not specific to the UK: I think we should just get rid of the idea of 'illegal immigrant'. I mean what's the actual difference between a 'legal' and 'illegal' immigrant? Some paperwork. And who the hell wants to do paperwork anyway? We should just say 'paperworkless immigrant'.