Logan R. Kearsley
@gliese1337.bsky.social
Linguist & Programmer. The former makes me happy, the latter makes me money. I write about linguistics in media. Blog at https://gliese1337.blogspot.com/, donation box at https://ko-fi.com/loganrk
Oo, I may have to figure out how to carve time out of my workday to start watching again. And just in time for my birthday!
December 3, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Oo, I may have to figure out how to carve time out of my workday to start watching again. And just in time for my birthday!
"From the most complex to the simplest of our communicative acts, there will be endless
opportunities for misinterpretation."
-Dr. Ha Nguyen, as written by author Ray Nayler.
opportunities for misinterpretation."
-Dr. Ha Nguyen, as written by author Ray Nayler.
December 3, 2025 at 2:00 AM
"From the most complex to the simplest of our communicative acts, there will be endless
opportunities for misinterpretation."
-Dr. Ha Nguyen, as written by author Ray Nayler.
opportunities for misinterpretation."
-Dr. Ha Nguyen, as written by author Ray Nayler.
"Imagine, then, how many obstacles there will be to interspecies communication. when even the physical metaphors of life, and the species' sensory apparatus, differ.
December 3, 2025 at 2:00 AM
"Imagine, then, how many obstacles there will be to interspecies communication. when even the physical metaphors of life, and the species' sensory apparatus, differ.
"This idea rests on the false assumption that all languages have a single conceptual foundation. But
we know this is not the case, even in human societies. Languages are not based in universalities: they reflect national traditions, ethnocentric worldviews, the
specific histories of their societies.
we know this is not the case, even in human societies. Languages are not based in universalities: they reflect national traditions, ethnocentric worldviews, the
specific histories of their societies.
December 3, 2025 at 2:00 AM
"This idea rests on the false assumption that all languages have a single conceptual foundation. But
we know this is not the case, even in human societies. Languages are not based in universalities: they reflect national traditions, ethnocentric worldviews, the
specific histories of their societies.
we know this is not the case, even in human societies. Languages are not based in universalities: they reflect national traditions, ethnocentric worldviews, the
specific histories of their societies.
(The task is automatic internet gateway detection for a wireless mesh network, by the way.)
December 2, 2025 at 10:51 PM
(The task is automatic internet gateway detection for a wireless mesh network, by the way.)
What's that have to do with food prep? Tlaconac allows any contentive root to be productively verbed, and the default interpretation of a semantic entity in predicate position is a causative--"to make into X". So <moy-> as a predicate means "to make bare, to remove a covering from"--or, "to shuck".
December 2, 2025 at 1:11 AM
What's that have to do with food prep? Tlaconac allows any contentive root to be productively verbed, and the default interpretation of a semantic entity in predicate position is a causative--"to make into X". So <moy-> as a predicate means "to make bare, to remove a covering from"--or, "to shuck".
Sounds like a condominium (condo for short).
November 29, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Sounds like a condominium (condo for short).
The Russian examples don't actually show apocope or syncope (except perhaps historically); the apostrophes in "sluchylos’" and "issledovatel’skom" are transliterating the Russian letter ь, which encodes palatalization of the preceding consonant.
November 24, 2025 at 8:53 PM
The Russian examples don't actually show apocope or syncope (except perhaps historically); the apostrophes in "sluchylos’" and "issledovatel’skom" are transliterating the Russian letter ь, which encodes palatalization of the preceding consonant.