Zompist Bboard Again

I would have loved to post this over in the "What are you reading, watching, and listening to"-thread, but unfortunately, I couldn't find a recording available online that really illustrates my point well. There's a version with English lyrics that my local radio station plays that sounds...

I would have loved to post this over in the "What are you reading, watching, and listening to"-thread, but unfortunately, I couldn't find a recording available online that really illustrates my point well. There's a version with English lyrics that my local radio station plays that sounds...

Of course, we see the suffix -on , as found in Yukon, Oregon, Washington, Cimarron, Trenton, Carson City, Jefferson City, Jackson, Boston, Baton Rouge, Houston, Arlington It seems to have three allomorphs: -ton after s or a nasal, -son after s, r (possibly assimilated in Cimarron). Other common suf...

I've got a set of sentences roughly like that - in fact I could have sworn I was pointed to it by someone here! 1. Birds sing. 2. Children play. 3. Dogs bark. 4. Bees hum. 5. Baby laughed. 6. The sun shines. 7. The wind blows. 8. The car started. 9. School began again. 10. The child ran quickly. Etc...

I'm not sure why you'd call "all over the place" part of the aspect of the verb. "Bled" is the simple past; "all over the place" is a phrasal adverb. When you remove "all over the place", nothing about the tense or aspect of the verb changes. It answers the q...

Quick terminological question: what aspect would you call something like ‘he bled all over the place ’? (If it even has an established name, that is.) I’m guessing it’s an instance of the distributive, but I’m not too sure about that given that I’m pretty uncertain as to what the distributive aspec...

I would call it a coffee cup. If it needed to be further specified it could be a lidded, travel, cardboard, or disposable cup. It's hard to tell in the picture if the blue band around the middle is a cup sleeve or an integral part of the cup itself; if the latter I assume it's made of plastic and is...

masako wrote: ↑Mon May 11, 2020 6:00 pm next: childish nature; infantile; juvenile; puerile (derogatory or neutral connotations)

xezevlu: childish
/ɬe 'zev lu/

ZVL: child, kid, youngster
1e23u: descriptive adjective
xe-: despective prefix

Next: naive; innocent in a way harmful to oneself

IMO you shouldn't call it a Juliet balcony unless it's deep enough to actually stand on, which the one in the picture is not. I'd call it a fake balcony.

Who are these people that can't taste what they drink? I know the second I swallow what I'm taking in... 63 per cent of us don't? I guess I'm not really a "moderate drinker " at this point but I'd think that those people less habituated to it would notice the taste first. Maybe read the a...

English doesn't have zero-valent verbs, hence the dummy subject "it" in your example. Another example: "it's raining", compared to the zero-valent Spanish llueve , one member of the category of precipitation verbs that Qwynegold mentioned. (For this purpose I'll count verbs that...

If I correctly understand what 0-valent means, I think that English to be counts? "It was just as well that..." and similar constructions. But I may well be misunderstanding.

It is also the case in western Pennsylvania that the word soda is assumed to have an elided 'ice cream' in front of it.

Nortaneous wrote:I wouldn't call a passage wide enough to be driven on an alley.

Really? This isn't an alley for you?

I wouldn't call a passage an alley unless it were at least nominally meant to be driven on. A 'breezeway' has to be covered in my idiolect, and preferably is a kind of tunnel through a building.

fruit-eater-DIM-DESPECTIVE

Next: mountain lion

Speaking of Irish, have you guys ever looked at the diachronics of it? They are just nuts. Like, kudos for effort, but no one could really speak this! I linked to that already in my original post . And it does actually say at the end: Sigh. By around 900AD, dissention was growing in the ranks at ha...

Speaking of Irish, have you guys ever looked at the diachronics of it? They are just nuts. Like, kudos for effort, but no one could really speak this!

Does it ever happen to anyone else that, when you've read something that was written a while ago, you find yourself thinking in old-fashioned language for a while afterwards? Let me tell you about what happened when I was in the middle of writing a piece in which all the dialogue was in Early Moder...

No smallpox epidemic to attack Europe, no smallpox outbreak to attack the Americas. Maybe measles can develop from cattle-using civilizations over in the Western Hemisphere instead, their own particular breed of rinderpest going nuts and setting civilization back a bit before it regroups stronger t...