Zompist Bboard Again

doctor shark wrote: ↑Wed Oct 15, 2025 11:34 am I just submitted the option declaration to become a Luxembourger; if there are no issues, it will take effect in exactly four months' time!

You should celebrate by going to a fast food restaurant there and ordering a cheeseburger. A Luxembourg burger.

doctor shark wrote: ↑Wed Oct 15, 2025 11:34 am I just submitted the option declaration to become a Luxembourger; if there are no issues, it will take effect in exactly four months' time!

Congrats and good luck!

Man in Space wrote: ↑Wed Oct 15, 2025 11:42 am

doctor shark wrote: ↑Wed Oct 15, 2025 11:34 am I just submitted the option declaration to become a Luxembourger; if there are no issues, it will take effect in exactly four months' time!

You should celebrate by going to a fast food restaurant there and ordering a cheeseburger. A Luxembourg burger.

For some reason, Luxembourg is not the kind of place I imagine as having fast food restaurants, much the less cheeseburgers.

Man in Space wrote: ↑Wed Oct 15, 2025 11:42 am

doctor shark wrote: ↑Wed Oct 15, 2025 11:34 am I just submitted the option declaration to become a Luxembourger; if there are no issues, it will take effect in exactly four months' time!

You should celebrate by going to a fast food restaurant there and ordering a cheeseburger. A Luxembourg burger.

yes, eat a Luxemburger as a Luxembourger.

Man in Space wrote: ↑Wed Oct 15, 2025 11:42 am

doctor shark wrote: ↑Wed Oct 15, 2025 11:34 am I just submitted the option declaration to become a Luxembourger; if there are no issues, it will take effect in exactly four months' time!

You should celebrate by going to a fast food restaurant there and ordering a cheeseburger. A Luxembourg burger.

There is a food truck here and there called "LëtzeBurger", incidentally. Maybe I should celebrate there.

Travis B. wrote: ↑Wed Oct 15, 2025 12:05 pm For some reason, Luxembourg is not the kind of place I imagine as having fast food restaurants, much the less cheeseburgers.

Oh, they exist. :P But the funny thing is that the fast food chains here are mostly extensions of the French chains of fast food brands (Burger King, KFC, O'Tacos, Pizza Hut, even Five Guys...), but with two notable exceptions: the McDonald's restaurants are from the German franchise, and Quick restaurants are the Belgian variants.

doctor shark wrote: ↑Wed Oct 15, 2025 12:14 pm

Man in Space wrote: ↑Wed Oct 15, 2025 11:42 am

doctor shark wrote: ↑Wed Oct 15, 2025 11:34 am I just submitted the option declaration to become a Luxembourger; if there are no issues, it will take effect in exactly four months' time!

You should celebrate by going to a fast food restaurant there and ordering a cheeseburger. A Luxembourg burger.

There is a food truck here and there called "LëtzeBurger", incidentally. Maybe I should celebrate there.

That also seems appropriate for having passed the Lëtzebuergesch language test too.

Travis B. wrote: ↑Wed Oct 15, 2025 2:17 pm

doctor shark wrote: ↑Wed Oct 15, 2025 12:14 pm

Man in Space wrote: ↑Wed Oct 15, 2025 11:42 am You should celebrate by going to a fast food restaurant there and ordering a cheeseburger. A Luxembourg burger.

There is a food truck here and there called "LëtzeBurger", incidentally. Maybe I should celebrate there.

That also seems appropriate for having passed the Lëtzebuergesch language test too.

This is very true as well. However, given how I just got the pass result on Saturday evening, there hasn't been much time between then and today's events, so maybe I should celebrate both together?

Earlier this week, I went into a pharmacy and asked for something, and eventually the salesperson advised me to try my luck in the other pharmacy in the village, because they were more likely to have what I was looking for. (They did have it.) I'm quite happy that there are apparently still some local businesses where employees care more about actually giving customers useful advise than about the bottom line. Eat your hearts out, Friedman doctrine supporters!

I have finally read through my backlog of Devereauxnian goodness. I now feel like a proper pedant again.

Lērisama wrote: ↑Thu Oct 23, 2025 11:24 am I have finally read through my backlog of Devereauxnian goodness. I now feel like a proper pedant again.

Congratulations! That's one of the things I keep meaning to do.

Raphael wrote: ↑Thu Oct 23, 2025 11:39 am

Lērisama wrote: ↑Thu Oct 23, 2025 11:24 am I have finally read through my backlog of Devereauxnian goodness. I now feel like a proper pedant again.

Congratulations! That's one of the things I keep meaning to do.

While I remember, you're the one who made me aware of it, so I should thank you for that as well.

You're welcome!

Lērisama wrote: ↑Thu Oct 23, 2025 11:24 am I have finally read through my backlog of Devereauxnian goodness. I now feel like a proper pedant again.

Incidentally, his latest post has some very interesting Latin lexical semantics, for those of us linguistically inclined (i.e. all of us, right?). I particularly like his term ‘load-bearing cultural value word’ — quite recently, for an unpublished draft post I was trying to work out a way to say just that.

I’ve recorded at least one playthrough on drums for almost everything for the album (there was one part of one song I didn’t touch but it shouldn’t be too difficult to knock out tomorrow when I go back to the studio to do other relevant things).

I ordered a hard copy of the World Lexicon of Grammaticalization recently. This afternoon, it arrived. Having the Kindle edition has its advantages, but there’s just some use cases that paper is more useful for.

Got to see two concerts in two days: Lacuna Coil (gothic metal) on Sunday and Electric Callboy (electronic/dance metal) on Monday. Lots of fun and a good way to round out my concert season (went to six this year!).

doctor shark wrote: ↑Wed Nov 19, 2025 12:03 pm Got to see two concerts in two days: Lacuna Coil (gothic metal) on Sunday and Electric Callboy (electronic/dance metal) on Monday. Lots of fun and a good way to round out my concert season (went to six this year!).

Congratulations! Electronic/dance metal sure sounds interesting. But isn't gothic metal kind of redundant as a description?

doctor shark wrote: ↑Wed Nov 19, 2025 12:03 pm Got to see two concerts in two days: Lacuna Coil (gothic metal) on Sunday and Electric Callboy (electronic/dance metal) on Monday. Lots of fun and a good way to round out my concert season (went to six this year!).

That sounds great!

Raphael wrote: ↑Wed Nov 19, 2025 12:05 pm Congratulations! Electronic/dance metal sure sounds interesting. But isn't gothic metal kind of redundant as a description?

Not inherently: gothic metal is an offshoot of gothic rock, and there are plenty of other kinds of metal. (Death, doom, thrash, glam, folk, symphonic...)

Travis B. wrote: ↑Wed Nov 19, 2025 12:06 pm That sounds great!

Definitely was! One of the many things I love about Luxembourg is the array of concerts we get (and tickets to them that generally aren't extortionately expensive!) and how easy it is to get to said concerts. I can just hop on a train to the concert venue and hop on a train on the way back (and the public transport is free, which is another bonus).

Raphael wrote: ↑Wed Nov 19, 2025 12:05 pm But isn't gothic metal kind of redundant as a description?

Nope! I am not a member of either subculture, but they are distinct, and once were hostile to each other, though they have apparently overcome that hostility by now, and gothic metal is a thing.