Parma Eldalamberon, No. 23, "The Feanorian Alphabet, Part 2" and "Eldarin Pronouns" by J. R. R. Tolkien, is now available on demand: app.thebookpatch.com/BookStore/pa...
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #722.428! Thank you for the invitation, @tlakamasako.bsky.social!
If you like jazz, I can recommend the A-Trane in Berlin (that was my first association). But I also had to think about German "B-reit", which I extended to A-reit and C-reit in my childhood^^ (A-reit is clearly the superlative)
So ähnlich mit Norwegisch (und in gewissem Maße Arabisch) bei mir. Nach ein/zwei Tagen in Norwegen ist meine Aussprache komplett unauffällig. Nach ein paar Minuten Gespräch wundern sich dann die Leute, dass ich ein bestimmtes Wort nicht kenne.
The word 'fairy' is related to 'infantry' and 'professor'. And that's not all: these words are also related to 'fate', 'fatal', 'fame', 'fable', and 'to confess'. They all come from Latin words derived from a stem meaning "to speak". Click the infographic to learn how:
The other review is so different. I don't know what to believe. But I think I must make the best of it. To give you an impression of review 1: "I think the paper is much below academic standards on every possible front." (contra review 2)
I think I know who's written that. There's a very characteristic example he mentions, an example from a very recent talk only few ppl will know. Besides, I've heard that this guy can be very impulsive. Thanks for your support!
Today working on a problem of Syriac phonology, I (nearly) faced the dread of every Stratal OT phonologist: intra-stratal opacity! (But luckily I think I can avoid it.) I felt its deadly breath. #linguistics