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Small semi-entertaining diversion. So there's at Cambridge, specifically Gonville and Caius [kʰiːz] college, there is a Dr Victoria Bateman, a fellow in economics, and she has a bit of a... gimmick when it comes to promoting feminism, in that she likes to go to conferences in the nude. This has led ...

It just happens that the passive participle is used in English is used to form the perfect, and the active participle in English is used to form the progressive, and the progressive is most commonly used to express the non-habitual present. Yeah that's what I was getting at, and I think particular ...

Okay, many thanks to all of you. I had not actually known that active participles existed as a distinct word form in any language.... i had just taken the word "participle" to mean a passive participle. This makes much more sense now. I'll be honest English is no help here, due to the syn...

Pogostick Man wrote: ↑Thu Feb 07, 2019 10:28 pm I think it was on the ZBB that I remember someone mentioning an attestation of u i > uk ic / _#.

I think that's a Tibeto-Burman change, and I think it may even have occurred multiple times in that family.

Regarding the special place in hell line, a representative for the British prime minister told reporters, “I think it is a question for Donald Tusk as to whether he considers the use of that kind of language to be helpful.” I think the British prime minister has mistaken Donald Tusk for someone who...

One thing I have always wondered: how does rhyming work in languages with significant inflection and agreement? Consider a language like Latin where nouns and adjectives agree in number, gender, and case. It seems like rhymes would frequently turn into repeating the same inflectional form in succes...

Well shit looks like Nissan's actually doing what was painted as "project fear" during the referendum and is putting the Sunderland plant in jeopardy, this'll go down well. Regarding the possibility of Tory dominance, however, the really worrying thing is how dramatically the country is sh...

Let's have a look and compare 1. I also have problems with not liking my phonologies, which generally means that there aren't any voicing distinctions in obstruents without some other manner of articulation distinctions as well (which often means a single stop and fricative series) 2. More generally...

The "prosodic aspiration" idea is a new one on me, and I think could be used to explain most of the family relatively OK. You could say that this feature tends to attach left-wards, which could be used to unify Grassman's Law in Greek and Indo-Aryan (with an extension to debuccalised *s- i...

I would ask the Supreme Court of the UK if Article 50 can be unilaterally canceled. If so, I'd do that and then hold a second referendum; I think that in the last several months there's been enough evidence of illegal campaign activity to invalidate the original. If Article 50 can't be unilaterally...

AAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH how many fucking time does the EU need to say "the Irish backstop is necessary to keep peace in Ireland everyone agrees to this we will not move" before these fucking airheads in our parliament actually get it into their thick fucking sku...

Eh, I'm skeptical about the "Ethiopian Sprachbund" in its current formulation. As far as I can tell it seems to be posited as an explanation for why Ethiopian Semitic languages are more like Cushitic syntactically that Asian Semitic which is presumed to represent the "Semitic Prototy...

Eh, I'm skeptical about the "Ethiopian Sprachbund" in its current formulation. As far as I can tell it seems to be posited as an explanation for why Ethiopian Semitic languages are more like Cushitic syntactically that Asian Semitic which is presumed to represent the "Semitic Prototyp...

Chitose Ainu has a third singular pronoun sinuma, which is actually shorter than the equivalent plural okay. On the flipside the 2nd person pronouns are eani and ecioká for singular and plural respectively.

But I think the prize has to go to Enindhilyangkwa

It's almost turning into a King Charles III situation, though I somehow doubt that the Queen is as headstrong as that play's portrayal of Charles.

That doesn't discount the Athabskan evidence though. That polysynthesis had to come from somewhere, and the virtual absence of suffixes, and especially person-marking suffixes, points to a historic SOV word order which was later grammaticalised into this massive verb complex. There's nothing about ...

That doesn't discount the Athabskan evidence though. That polysynthesis had to come from somewhere, and the virtual absence of suffixes, and especially person-marking suffixes, points to a historic SOV word order which was later grammaticalised into this massive verb complex. There's nothing about p...

He legit called up royal fucking prerogative on our arses. Also he seems to think that we should go back to Brussels because a couple of the EU countries are making signals, but the EU itself which is actually in charge of the negotiations is emphatically telling us "this is your problem, you s...

Also they do a terrible job at making their characters actually distinct from each other, like in one of the phonemic systems has sa, chi and ki be distinguished from each other by being mirror-images or plus an extra stroke, and in the other their shi and tsu syllables are only distinguished by the...