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the Northern Cities Vowel Shift

weird thing is that the sense of "drink cigarettes" is licit in Early Modern English. Is there a reason for like the frequent drink~smoke collocations. Is it just a "CONSUME (through mouth) [-SOLID]" thing.

Syntax testing day 27 Likashi Cak’úmí nķe menkí lili şaci? cak’úmí nķe ∅-me-nkí li~li şa-ci-∅ robin Q 3.SG-Q-sing\IPFV PL~raindrop 3.PL-in-3.SG Does the robin sing in the rain? Notes: ⟨cak’úmí⟩ "robin" < ⟨cak’ú⟩ "chest" + ⟨mí⟩ "blood; red" #conlang #conlangs #syntax #langsky

Some Cicero (!) and Aristotle in Gəʿəz: ይቤሉ ፡ ቆቆሮስ ፡ ወአርስጣጣሊስ ፡ እስመ ፡ ነፍስሰ ፡ ሀላዊት ፡ ይእቲ ፡ ወኢትትዌለጥ ። yəbelu : Qoqoros : wä-ʾArəsṭaṭalis : ʾəsmä : näfsə-ssä : hallawit : yəʾəti : wä-ʾi-tətwelläṭ :: "Cicero and Aristotle said: The soul is an unchangeable substance."

I had a #dream that I was working on getting Vàlà Nîķí (piece of #music I made in my #conlang Likashi) performed with the musical director of a show I'm in. He criticized the piece, however as he is such a lovely person in real life, the criticism was all completely fair and constructively given.

yk it's weird that 'see' is not one of the most basic verbs because some languages have 'perceive+eye' compound features for it. (cf. Gumuz)

Far too true, and the degree has killed all hunger that existed to be an academic

And yes the English translation should be equally bad

Die Schöpfung except it's just the most up-to-date scientific account of how the universe formed #music #haydn

Has it ended already? I don't see much about it now

Like I will be 40 (still young) in roughly 20 years what an enormous amount of time we are little babies

Can an American tell me all the S*per Bowl terminology so I can add all the words to my muted list

Just saw a post where someone said that use of em dashes (—) was a giveaway that you're using AI for writing. Uh, no. It could just mean you like to use em dashes.

A friend on Mastodon noted this

#Radio Word of Mouth Creating Languages for Film and Television with Professor David Adger Thur 15:30 BBC Radio 4 @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social finds out from a linguist how he invents new languages for TV series and films. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...