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Richard W wrote: ↑Thu May 15, 2025 1:31 pm …..
Even for the 'short armed' Troodontid Linhevenator it's been suggested that the forelimbs were used for digging or climbing! Possibly Therizinosaur forelimbs were too far gone in their specialisation.

Who was first to inspect their short arms?

“Glenn” wrote: This is all a rambling digression from your original question;

in my opinion that’s very much to the point, @Glenn!

suffice it to say that as I reflected on the discussion above, I found it to be an interesting one.

Thank you!

@keenir: I remembered about the following from Google’s AI; so I thought I could post it for a better clarification, in case anyone else reading this thread might need one. AI Overview Learn more Meaning of Double Descent in Anthropology | Anthroholic Double unilineal descent, also known as double d...

doctor shark wrote: ↑Mon Mar 31, 2025 6:28 am I've moved between a lot of climactic zones,

Maybe you mean “climatic”, referring to climates?
Maybe you don’t mean “climactic”, referring to climaxes?

…when my eyes cooperated, i saw matriclans and patriclans - which confused me, as i wasn't sure if you meant, for example, matrilocal or matriarchal or something else. No. Matriarchal means ruled by mothers; it’s typically misused as a synonym for gynocracy. Matrilocal means that at least some adul...

What do you know about Helen Folasade Adu CBE (Yoruba: Fọláṣadé Adú [fɔ̄láʃādé ādú]; born 16 January 1959), known professionally as Sade Adu or simply Sade (/ˈʃɑːdeɪ/ SHAH-day or /ʃɑːˈdeɪ/ shah-DAY), is a Nigerian-British singer-songwriter who is the lead vocalist of her band Sade. :) ? And what do ...

xxx wrote: ↑Thu May 01, 2025 7:38 am Apparently, none of her songs are in an imaginary language...
Only the word "batonga" seems to have been traceably coined by her...

Hmm… kinda disappointing.

Maybe your compass rose is a better representation of what we’re often trying to do here*. Did you forget to write a footnote you were planning to write? Maybe. I guess that with "your compass rose" he means my avatar, but I have no idea what he thinks it represents - it is actually just ...

Ahzoh wrote: ↑Mon May 12, 2025 3:22 pm 3rd day of digging, I found my first artifact, a tertiary flake made of taconite

I didn’t even know tacos could be fossilized!

Maybe your compass rose is a better representation of what we’re often trying to do here*.

(Maybe this post should go in Conlangery.)
According to the currently updated Wikipedia, Angélique Kidjo speaks six languages;
3 African natlangs,
2 European natlangs,
and a conlang she herself created, and in which she sometimes sings!

Did anyone else on board already know that?

Some cultures employ both matriclans and patriclans, for different purposes. Why? Is there something in their environments or modi vivendi that is common to all of them, but not to any cultures that employ only patriclans, or only matriclans?

xxx wrote: ↑Fri Feb 28, 2025 11:27 pm Fionnuala Murphy
https://slate.com/transcripts/NGZ4cm9Vc ... RJK09GZz0=

Right! Thanks!

* In the first two seasons of Foundation: the TV series, there are at least two conlangs; Anacreontic (sp?) and Thespin (?). In Asimov’s book Anacreon and Thespin were two of the four “planets” (that is, inhabitable stellar systems with at least one major inhabited planet) that surrounded Terminus a...

Note that one of the key parts of the definition of "cultural appropriation" is that the culture doing the appropriation has current or historical dominance over the culture that's being appropriated. Also, the fact that you can point to subtypes of this behaviour doesn't mean the umbrell...

[spoiler] Using Case-Endings and Postpositions and Prepositions to Mark Case-Like Stuff Imagine a language with a few case-endings and a few postpositions and a few prepositions. Imagine the following are true: * any noun-phrase can be used with no case-ending and no postposition and no preposition....

[edit] I’m reading the lyrics to, and listening to, [/edit] War Pigs by Black Sabbath with Ozzie Osborne There’s a line Ozzie sings “Politicians hide themselves away “They only started the war. “Why should they go out and fight? “They leave that role to the poor”. Thing is, for most of history, goin...

jcb wrote: ↑Fri Jan 31, 2025 7:49 am In my dialect, ….
(4) Does this or something similar happen in your dialect?

No; not in my locolect.
There is no contrast between BARD and BARRED around here (Greater Detroit-Windsor Metropolitan Area).

Or, at least, I don’t remember ever hearing one.
I could be wrong.

Happy birthday to me!
Happy birthday to me!
On the sixth of February,
I’m seventy-three!

bradrn wrote: ↑Sun Jan 26, 2025 10:52 pm

TomHChappell wrote: ↑Sun Jan 26, 2025 10:45 pm …

IIRC these are phonetic series, so I believe they’re just phonemes: the ‘RG series’ would be used in words containing ⟨rg⟩, the ‘QG series’ in words containing ⟨qg⟩, and so on.

Thanks! I’ll ask Twin Aster to confirm.