Zompist Bboard Again

Oh yeah and I forgot thay Failing Grayling^TM has been jettisoned finally woohoo I guess.

zompist wrote: ↑Wed Jul 24, 2019 4:27 pmThey're now next to the Mgunikpe, who aren't defined at all, and so could have monosyllabic roots. But they didn't arrive to that spot till pretty late.

Monosyllabic roots doesn't mean monosyllabism, especially with a name like Mgunikpe (and how is that even pronounced? [mɣunik͡pe]?)

Richard W wrote: ↑Wed Jul 24, 2019 3:11 pm

Frislander wrote: ↑Wed Jul 24, 2019 1:06 pm Great, we now have Sajid Javid as Chancellor, Priti Patel as Home Secretary and Dominic Raab as Foreign Secretary.

Presided over by Boris Kemal as Prime Minister!

I think this makes him our first PM with Circassian ancestry!

The main Polish stereotype in the UK is of the Polish builders coming and replacing UK builders, with half the joke being that UK builders are useless and Polish builders really good at what they do.

Great, we now have Sajid Javid as Chancellor, Priti Patel as Home Secretary and Dominic Raab as Foreign Secretary. Expect attempts at Randian economics and bringing back the death penalty.

I know this is a bit of a cliché from my by this point but stilL LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA...

Dear creator of Japanese, what the heck's going one with your vowel devoicing process? Everyone else just uses it on all vowels regardless of quality, but you've linked it to height of all things! What on earth is it about high vowels that makes them more prone to voicelessness than other vowels I a...

As I said in my post, European newspapers actually go back to around 1600. [they sort of go back to before that, since they emerge out of various avisi, subscription newsletters, open letters from abroad and so forth, but they took the form of privately-published, publically-purchased newspapers fr...

I wonder if a language could develop a length contrast this way. You could have a sound change like: ʊ > ʌ̆ > ɑ̆ And this new ɑ̆ would remain durationally distinct from the original open back vowel ɑ. See the entire history of the Uralic family (see for instance Samic , where original non-high vowe...

OK so now there's been a leak of private emails from her majesty's ambassador to the US Si Kim Darroch which, let's just say, weren't too kind about Trump. Naturally the POTUS has done what he always does when he's accused of being immature - had a tantrum on twitter, and refused to engage in anythi...

This looks great! I love the Formosan-Miyakoan hybrid you're going with here, and I like that it's an a-posteriori language which requires a modification to an already reconstructed proto-language, I don't think anyone else has done this before.

Driving back from work with my brother, and happened to spot an unexpected number of people and a camera crew in the outside area of the Heck Food Factory up here in North Yorkshire (a bit north of Ripon off the old A1). My brother, driving, said "is that Boris Johnson?!". Turned round at...

Let's not even get into the mess that is the usage of terminology related to the glottal region - like how Semitic epiglottals are described as "pharyngeals", or the issues surrounding how different kinds of phonations are analysed. But I will grant you phonetics isn't too much of a mess i...

alice wrote: ↑Mon Aug 06, 2018 3:50 am correct linguistic term

Bold of you to assume there's any actually standardised terminology in linguistics.

Have you met any young conservatives at Oxbridge? They're already bad while they're in university, and to some extent worse - I get the impression they see their time at university as when they say and do the things that would get them fired in actual public office, like being blatantly racist or bu...

The British system, incidentally, hasn't been dominated by the traditional upper class for over a century - indeed, until comparatively recently the upper classes were prohibited from sitting in the Commons altogether (although there were always occasional aristocrats who renounced their titles, li...

You might want to check out the TVTropes pages Aluminium Christmas Trees and Reality is Unrealistic, which while not exactly the same do cover similar sort of ground with regards to media depictions of real-life phenomena.

I'm noticing that the rules, especially as they now stand, are to some extent predicated upon the Conservatives having a sizeable number of MPs in the Commons, both to provide a sufficient number of candidates as well as some measure of competition, especially if these 8 sponsors cannot sponsor mult...

Actually looking over that list again (and being reminded of that other notable black Tory Kwasi Kwarteng) actually kinda makes me think we should stop thinking in tokenist terms, because this reflects the fact that race issues are different in the UK than the US, like how much more of the UK black ...

dewrad wrote: ↑Sun Jun 02, 2019 2:54 pm Who in the name of all that is holy is Sam Gyimah?

The other Tory token black.

No seriously that is basically all I really know him for, more so than James Cleverly. IIRC he's on the more central-wing of the party, but I honestly can't remember.