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TomHChappell

xxx wrote: ↑Fri Jun 14, 2024 4:46 am ….
Islam, like all religions, is not a problem,
….

I strongly disagree.
Anyone’s religion is a threat to everyone; including to the religionist.
Religion is a problem for the whole human species.

TomHChappell

no, but I'm not surprised - it seems much more common for people to talk about lice than about a louse When something (or someone) is infested with lice, we say it is lousy; we don’t say it is licy. And if we want to insult someone we might say they are a louse, and be understood. Though I think th...

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“with a straight face, Youtuber Sabine Hossenfelder said” wrote: I’m not autistic; I’m just rude!
Or maybe German.
(But I repeat myself.)

She’s a science communicator.
In that video, she was doing a “deep dive” about neurodiversity, neurodivergence, neurotypical, ADD/ADHD, ASD, why the DSM changed “Asperger’s Syndrome” to “Autism Spectrum Disorder”, usw.

TomHChappell

“with a straight face, Youtuber Sabine Hossenfelder said” wrote: I’m not autistic; I’m just rude!
Or maybe German.
(But I repeat myself.)

TomHChappell

Talskubilos wrote: ↑Wed May 29, 2024 11:49 am My point is although these words are more or less distantly related, they can't be derived from a single PIE protoform.
I'm affraid Fenwick and other scholars deceive themselves.

Talskubilos, are you related to Octavia? (They posted on a similar topic about 5 years ago.)

TomHChappell

You don’t know me. I came to that conclusion because of repeated and significant failures on God’s part. I apologize; you did not come to mind, either as an example of the above, or as any other category's membership. @keenir, thanks for the apology; but, tbh, you don’t owe me one! I guess my remar...

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masako wrote: ↑Fri Mar 22, 2024 7:33 pm Kenamoya abugida – A decorative script for Kala centered on a circular design.

Impressive so far, both esthetically, and linguistically, IMHO!

TomHChappell

@Alice: Sorry about the myalgic encephalomyelitis

That sucks.
@ManInSpace: Your acquaintance’s experience sounds like a horror story. Your interlocutor sounds like maybe she’s dedicated to #MeToo past the point of reason. (But I’m just guessing!)

TomHChappell

well, with the exception of you (and maybe Rotting Bones), every agnostic and atheist I've ever encountered (online and IRL) has come to that conclusion from discussion with other people - sometimes with atheists and agnostics, sometimes with other religious individuals. You don’t know me. I came t...

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Man in Space wrote: ↑Tue Feb 27, 2024 6:05 pm I may have destroyed one of the most important things in my life because I have to stick to my principles. I am in a very bad space right now.

Is it OK that I’d want to know more?

TomHChappell

I read somewhere that the peak of linguistic diversity was probably around 15000BP (ie 15 KYA) and probably around 15000 languages. I never saw their methodology, so I can’t criticize nor recommend it. But 15000BP is about 13000BCE , which is about when the glaciers of the Ice Age retreated far enou...

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I’ll go out on a limb and tentatively hazard a speculative guess that the title of this book might possibly bear some resemblance to "The Religion Construction Kit". please please please Oh yes, this is ongoing. Here's the intro on my Patreon page (this post is open to all). [/size] I wis...

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bradrn wrote: ↑Thu Feb 15, 2024 12:01 am….
I don’t know what EDAL is.
….

Etymological Dictionary of Altaic Languages, I think.

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Farscape, Babylon 5, Andromeda

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(I don’t know where to post this!). I have found one or a few natural language(s) with terms for a consanguine relative’s spouse’s consanguine relative’s spouse’s consanguine relative: (for instance [sibling’s or parent’s or child’s] spouse’s [sibling’s or parent’s or child’s] spouse’s [sibling or p...

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Punchkey. Stress on first syllable. (Detroit area).

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Darren wrote: ↑Sun Feb 04, 2024 2:14 am
TomHChappell wrote: ↑Sat Feb 03, 2024 2:27 pm I like this!

Anything in particular you like about it?

I tried to think how to answer; but that would have been so tl;dr, that, I think I had better answer just “Everything”!
It’s complete, understandable, and interesting.

TomHChappell

I like this!

TomHChappell

How do you pronounce <breakfast>?
IML I (think I) pronounce it [ˈbɻek fəst] .

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I was trying to write up something, but in the process I discovered this paper which looks quite comprehensive: https://doi.org/10.1080/07268602.2022.2157675 . It looks like it should answer most of your questions. (I can send you a PDF if you can’t access it.) I think this resource should be linke...

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