Zompist Bboard Again

3) May can't get her deal passed, pisses off the DUP, but the DUP don't VONC her. Instead, they simply refuse to deal with her in future. Perhaps they support a budget here, or an increased-spending-on-Northern-Ireland there, but basically the government cannot get anything passed. At this point, t...

And yes, it's certainly possible the ERG are just tormenting May. For one thing, under tory rules, they're only allowed one VONC a year, so they may be saving it for her weakest moment. [I THINK that means no more VONC for twelve months; obviously if it's based on calendar years it's very different...

This isn't important but just an amusing note: a few days ago Raab, then then and now former Brexit Secretary, admitted "he hadn't quite understood the importance" of the Dover-Calais link to the British economy... "If God put the English on an island, he must have had His reasons.&q...

It's theoretically possible the government has been neither incompetent nor deceitful, but that seems very unlikely... ignoring and/or concealing legal advice in order to push through pre-determined policy objectives thought up on the back of a napkin is basically how the UK government works. [and ...

This is probably better done as a single page or something where the resources can be grouped by subject or type, rather than as a long thread.

Risla wrote: ↑Sun Nov 11, 2018 6:33 pmNo CBT for me, though—it's not covered by insurance, and I just don't make enough money to be able to afford it. I desperately need therapy but I just can't.

That's... rather unfortunate. I'd like to offer to help, but I'm not sure if I should since I'm not, actually, a qualified therapist.

What would be the correct linguistic name for a system of reference which refers to participants in a discourse not by the first/second/third/others system we're all used to, but by appearance in the discourse, so that if Alice speaks to Bob and Bob replies, Bob refers to himself not as "I"...

I just contacted a service that helps foreigners in Japan coordinate healthcare to help me set up an appointment with a psychiatrist for anxiety. I'm proud of myself that I am finally taking steps to treat my anxiety, but I'm also frustrated with myself that I've let it get as bad as it has. And it...

Vijay wrote: ↑Thu Nov 08, 2018 7:40 am *Una pregunta para los que hablan...

Are you looking for responses from native speakers specifically, or just anyone who speaks it?

Ideally those who speak it better than me Well enough to use the past subjunctive every so often.

How do the two forms of the past subjunctive differ in meaning or connotation for you - amase vs amara?

Insane numbers of paradigms are entirely naturalistic. Go check that article: http://mvtabilitie.blogspot.com/2008/09/also-known-as-most-demanding.html for an idea of how bad these things can get. Some of my favourite quotes: "describing the Old Irish verbal system as 'complex' is like referri...

Nobody yet has mentioned "somewhat" as a rather daffy alternative to "something".

Let's charitably assume that the "few beers" inadvertently reversed his polarity.

A pertinent misleading headline, courtesy of my copy of The Complete Plain Words:

Sections of the population are being squeezed flat by inflation

mèþru wrote: ↑Mon Oct 29, 2018 11:29 am This is big news!
http://www.bbc.com/news/live/business-45991505

The Chancellor can say what he likes. It'll all be rendered irrelevant when we leave the EU without a deal anyway.

To me it sounds like an Americanism, like "zee" or "food to go".

(stuff) Thanks--that actually sounds like it would work nicely, perhaps with some manual tweaking to get some specific constellations along the ecliptic ("zodiac," if you will). It wouldn't be too difficult to do as an online application. Perhaps somebody with more energy and knowledge th...

as well as if a program exists to create fictional skies. I wrote one a while ago. It's actually pretty straightforward to understand the basics, which I'll explain here if you want. I'm pretty programming-illiterate, but I'd still be interested in hearing it, see if I could figure it out. OK. To g...

Zaarin wrote: ↑Sun Oct 21, 2018 10:39 amas well as if a program exists to create fictional skies.

I wrote one a while ago. It's actually pretty straightforward to understand the basics, which I'll explain here if you want.

That looks really lovely!

How did you cope with the storm which was heading your way, btw?