Zompist Bboard Again

Quick and final thoughts -- The people being described as "gender essentialists" are, of course, "gender abolitionists". I think most you realize this, but perhaps prefer to play word games; or maybe you really have learned everything you know about feminism from men's rights out...

Similar here. Not with yard signs, as it's too built-up for yards where I live -- but, for a deep-blue city in a blue state, there's no shortage of stickering, bumperstickers, postering, etc., like you describe.

Speaking as someone I gather this forum as a whole would designate a TERF, the argument that "gender identity" is incompatible with feminism makes a lot more sense. The 4B movements are anti-gender in practice if not in explicit theory (though largely that too). That makes it incompatible ...

Some MRA is already rewriting the "4B" article on Wikipedia to discourage the easily-misled ladyfolk of America from pursuing that interest, after it started popping up MSM/social media in the last week.

The Guardian wants you to know: US tourist killed while on vacation in Hungary as suspect taken into custody

The suspect was taken into custody while the tourist was being killed?

Or was the person taken into custody a US tourist visiting Hungary in the role of suspect?

WeepingElf wrote: ↑Sat Nov 09, 2024 3:18 pm

WeepingElf wrote: ↑Sat Nov 09, 2024 8:19 am Drafted new verb paradigms for Proto-Hesperic, which still need some fine tuning, though.

And I have decided to toss them again because they are too cumbersome.

That was QUICK, man! I admire your speed and ruthlessness!

This is not an answer, but maybe a pointer to some answers -- or perhaps just a pointer to a Pandora's Box of time-sink geekery: https://universesandbox.com/ It simulates solar systems (ours by default, your own with some customization) in pretty thorough detail, including planetary climates. The ol...

Malloc -- While I'm technically a mental health professional, I'm certainly not your mental health professional. So this is completely generic and inappropriate advice. You should get off this board. I've seen you here for years and it's always in the midst of a session that, however well-meaning, i...

Looks good -- and I never knew about this Linguifex place before, so double thanks!

This one from the Washington Post, courtesy of the Language Log:

On Baalbek’s edges, the displaced watch strikes rain down on their city

I can read this three ways: Journo was previously held in Iran, but is no longer The journo that we all thought was held somewhere has traveled to Iran Journo is missing but we now think he’s in Iran Kinda wish you hadn't done that. Feeling wobbly now. Like I need to go get my parser degaussed or s...

Bristol boy shot when a toddler raises £8k for hospital If a film/TV producer hasn't optioned that headline yet, there's something seriously wrong. I just encountered this one: US-Iranian journalist believed to have been detained in Iran (from La Graune). Maybe it's just me, but on first reading an...

A happy ending!

And it's nice to see this thread revived again, even briefly.

I personally appreciate all this. Your descriptions of Vrkhazhian are awesome. They are. As is the language itself. I'll second that -- or third that? -- but I'm repeating myself even then. (I think you get some static with commenters who are coming at the work from a different motivation or method...

Philological truthiness? That was flippant and cryptic, I apologize. It gives me a very specific impression of reading a modern description of a literary language drawing on an older body of philologically grounded, or 'classical' scholarship. Which tickles my fancy. Maybe I've been around this blo...

It's an idiosyncrasy of some academic subfields. Refusal to use interlinear text is a similar one, and probably related to some degree.

I don't have any suggestions for the OP though, sorry.

I really like Vrkhazhian and am always meaning to go look for more of it -- but in the meantime enjoy the snippets as they come up. It's got that philological truthiness to it that I'm a real sucker for.

The 99% of the human population that gets last year's model; that has no choice in whether or how to engage with it. There's your museum of tech horrors.

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Aside from the academic confusion, I immediately thought of this YT short too: https://youtube.com/shorts/FUXjbXo9cqE? ... PLnPdz4L-o