Conor Houghton
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Conor Houghton
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I find language confusing.

conorhoughton.github.io
Anyway, any link to a page or article would be great; the closest I've found is

www.celtic-languages.org/index.php?ti...

but I can't follow this and it doesn't have enough examples to be useful.
November 18, 2025 at 8:58 AM
chatGPT doesn't; maybe this is a case where we can beat the machine, or maybe the machine doesn't know because nobody does!
November 18, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Back in the early 90s it was fashionable, in Galway at least, to wear a black and white keffiyeh rolled up as a scarf; I walked in Garavan's one evening and the barman, without looking up, said "so what'll it be Yasser".
November 12, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Success is counted sweetest
By those who ne'er succeed.
To comprehend a nectar
Requires sorest need.
November 10, 2025 at 5:34 PM
What counts as science, if linguistics is included then John Lyons' book about Chomsky, both Derek Bickerton's books, though I resent his boasting about being a crappy colleague and the two books by Guy Deutscher.
November 9, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Scientifically though, it's amazing and wonderful!
November 9, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Shouldn't we be avoiding the US for scientific meetings during this unscientific time?
September 7, 2025 at 9:25 PM
I am simple person, if a party minister says monstrous things then the party is a party of assholes.
May 11, 2025 at 1:00 PM
No longer true, you ask GPT 4o and then check the references are real.
April 27, 2025 at 12:47 PM
April 22, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Or conversely you sit opposite someone beautiful on the train, daring but elegant clothes, kind, penetrating eyes, long lively fingers that must surely be no stranger to stopping a violin string, wrinkles clearly not from age but too much amaze and they turn out to be reading Harry Fucking Potter.
April 22, 2025 at 4:04 PM