Zompist Bboard Again

I remember transiting through Dubai Airport in 2024 around the end of July. I have a photo of the in-flight display reporting the air temperature as 34°C at 1am. (And, when I had to go outside for a transfer, it was .) Yep. And it gets especially unbearable due to the humidity - the area is desert,...

@Ekke: Thanks for the links!

Wow! How has that been? Nice at first - I always love to get to know a new country. March and April were challenging - we had to spend a lot of time indoors due to the missile attacks, evacuated our cats to Canada, and then my wife followed there to wait things out. Now we're back together, and the...

jal wrote: ↑Wed Oct 14, 2026 3:24 pm

hwhatting wrote: ↑Wed Oct 14, 2026 1:49 ammost of my books are far away in Germany anyway.

Off-topic, but you're no longer in Germany?

Yes, since last year I'm posted to Dubai for my job.

PWGmc * kirikā > Old Frisian tsirke / tzirke , West Frisian tsjerke , North Frisian Sērk / schörk etc. Just in case you're interested, it's Särke in Saterfrisian. I grew up near the area where it is spoken, and our local newspaper occasionally published materials in Seelters (Saterfrisian). Most of...

I suppose there might be exceptions in certain legal contexts: "The conlang shall have 42 (FORTY-TWO) phonemes", and such like. To me the main place I see such usages are with small numbers you'd normally write out, and then it goes like "one (1)". There's also cheques, where yo...

While we can pretty confidently say that PIE didn't have **f, there's the off chance that PIE *w was really [w~ʋ~v] with just how frequently it turned into [ʋ] or [v] in IE daughters. The reason why PIE *y and *w are normally reconstructed as semivowels is that they correspond to *i(:) and *u(:) in...

While we can pretty confidently say that PIE didn't have **f, there's the off chance that PIE *w was really [w~ʋ~v] with just how frequently it turned into [ʋ] or [v] in IE daughters. The reason why PIE *y and *w are normally reconstructed as semivowels is that they correspond to *i(:) and *u(:) in...

Didn't a previous member of this forum make a non-Normanized Anglolang spoken in Wessex?

My condolences.
(Don't have the words yet to say that in Tautisca and currently not the leisure to create them.)

Is there an equivalent Dutch term? I'd say it's mostly just translated with "leerling", "student". It used to be called Lehrling in German, but then about 40-50 years ago the usual well-meaning people decided that it's demeaning or old-fashioned or something like that, and Auszu...

Yes, it is. In that context, I'm admittedly rather implausibly assuming that parts of our time's German educational and professional training system survive for a looooooong time into the future. The aspect I'm using is bog-standard non-academic on-the-job training which you can not just put on you...

What is the usually re-phrasing of the verb "to vomit" that contains the word "sick"? "To be sick"? "To fall sick?" "To get sick"? The colloquial way to say "to vomit" is "to throw up". "To be sick" means to be ill, and...

I'm always in awe when people make artifacts belonging to a con-culture (same with your Almean music). I simply don't have the abilities to do that.

Leider spreche ich kein Lateinisch. (Anders als im Französischen kann ich im Lateinischen nicht so etwas sagen , wie "Je ne parle pas français".) No comma required. And it's more usual to simply say Latein - kein Latein in the first sentence, auf Latein in the second. "I don't speak ...

Raphael wrote: ↑Thu Sep 24, 2026 5:37 pm In any case, pretty bird and nice architecture!

I agree. What castle is that? It looks familiar.

Zju wrote: ↑Wed Sep 23, 2026 3:15 pm *puts tinfoil hat on*

I assume that refers to the PIE - Japanese relationship? Because the Kloekhorst proposal certainly isn't crackpottery.

Yesterday I learned that "longevity" is supposed to be lon-gevity, not long-gevity, What a coincidence - I had only ever seen it in writing and mentally pronounced it long-éevity , until I heard it spoken for the first time this week in an episode of Season 2 of "The Gentlemen" ...

Not much to say, just that I'm happy that the story continues

Partially ninja'd by Raphael Es scheint , als ob *) der Konjunktiv I wirklich / tatsächlich so selten benutzt wird. It seems like the subjunctive really is used that rarely. *) Danke. Ich habe**) nicht gedacht daran, die Wortstellung zu ändern, um den schlechten Stil zu vermeiden. Thank you. I didn'...