Zompist Bboard Again

Boris Johnson was reelected.

Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck

But also damnit the Lib Dems not stepping aside Labour seats in was a mistake but not as big of a mistake as Labour focusing too hard on Remain as opposed to its core voterbase.

Well at least Corbyn has promised he won't lead Labour into the next election, so hopefully they might actually regroup this time.

I wonder how much this election has been problematised by people voting for party over MP (Anna Soubry having just lost her seat by a massive margin)?

Kyrie eleison.

NGL it's kinda telling how you respond to a general point asking how deregulation advocates can exist outside the US by only referring to American examples.

(speaking of Britannia Unchained) I've never understood how deregulation advocates can exist outside the United States. All they need to do is look at the arch-deregulators across the Atlantic to see that it isn't a good idea. It's as if they're watching someone die slowly of lung cancer, and advoc...

I've definitely seen *Vw > *Vk(ʷ) before in Tibeto-Burman, some Eastern Malayo-Polynesian also have *Vy, *Vw > Vp.

So I think I should perhaps start with this massive edifice that is the verbal morphology. As is to be expected from a north American language the verbs are a bit of a mess, so I'm gonna tackle them a piece at a time starting I think with a general overview. The majority of the general points Algonq...

That said, does the Brexit Pary have one? I don't think the BP would even really exist if its supporters weren't ultimately aiming for Farage in No. 10. Yeah, but given that he isn't even running for the House of Commons... I thought the idea that the PM has to be a sitting MP was just a matter of ...

mèþru wrote: ↑Tue Nov 12, 2019 10:04 amThat said, does the Brexit Pary have one?

I don't think the BP would even really exist if its supporters weren't ultimately aiming for Farage in No. 10.

OK, time for some pronouns. Personal pronouns are continued somewhat intact, however there has been some notable reshaping, in particular of the plural forms. Clearly inspired by the Caddoan model, there has been some move to move the pronominal paradigm closer to the verbal/possessive paradigm, alo...

One of the things that's really driving me up the wall with the syntax paper I'm taking this year (in addition to all the other stuff mentioned above) is that these people seem to have no actual clue what they're describing. Like for instance I've been subjected to several lectures about how "p...

It's the forgotten language of a paleolithic tribe of humans living in north-east Siberia. They live in small nomadic clans and have a shamanistic religion. They hunt various kinds of animals, mostly seals, walrus reindeer and mammoth. Mammoth is the hardest prey, so it is held in high regards amon...

So, possession. As in other Algonquian languages there are two varieties - alienable and inalienable. Alienable nouns have reflexes of the possessed theme marker *-em- while inalienable nouns don't. The person of the possessor is marked by prefixes, while number of the possessor is marked by suffixe...

I had to look up that and I was just like "I don't care, why did I even bother?" Here is William F Buckley showing up to lecture James Baldwin about black people. Oh, and notice how perfectly he fits into the ecosystem of yawning school prats. Nice to know the Cambridge Union hasn't chang...

I had to look up that and I was just like "I don't care, why did I even bother?"

Caddoan guy, stop it, we all know oligosynthesis is unnatural so stop acting like it's a sensible way to build a language family. Also did you even start from an actual proto-lang or did you just cobble together each language from similar base components of morphology and syntactic structure and ma...

Caddoan guy, stop it, we all know oligosynthesis is unnatural so stop acting like it's a sensible way to build a language family. Also did you even start from an actual proto-lang or did you just cobble together each language from similar base components of morphology and syntactic structure and mak...

So just a quick discussion of the inanimate classes. They are pretty much the same as the animate ones, with some minor differences, as well as the more significant difference of the lack of obviation as a category and the fact that the plural has a coda -r. Most of the different declension patterns...

So, now we've talked the mess of the phonology, we'll move onto the mess of the nominal morphology! For simplicity's sake we won't tackle the possessive morphology yet, and we'll just focus on animate nouns (though admittedly inanimates don't differ much in this regard). Once again there will be ref...

Speaking of the prosodic factors, there are of course the Australian languages that have different forms of certain inflections depending on whether the root has an even or odd number of syllables, or whether is has two or more syllables, e.g. Yidiny gali > galiiny "go > went" vs. majinda ...