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O Rly, Spain? I am going to right here and now confess myself greatly unnerved by the proposal in Spain to, well, not exactly give equal rights, because it only covers a few things such as not killing apes or not confining them, um, against their will. There are a whole slew of reasons why this...
Today I will be talking about compound words and how they are formed with eidea. Let’s recall: meta-eidea are just a definition to call a group of very similar eidea among people the same. In addition you may have seen me writing about an interlinked group of meta-eidea. This can mean they copy...
As you might know by know I have a bit of a creative definition of the phrase ‘next week’ Well this is not likely to alter so apologies on for hand for this. Last time I updated has been ages ago so let me regroup everything into this special interim article. Language (my definition) is a way to...
I was feeling inspired after my most recent conference trip, so got this done while visiting Sho in Tucson. It is the Americanist symbol for an ejective lateral affricate. I would love to post a sound file to demonstrate what this sounds like, but I cannot find one. Because it is SO RARE.
One of the greatest problems with Indo-European, is that the common reconstruction of the language's phonology is typologically unlikely to impossible. Lately I've been focussing on the vocalic system. The general idea is that there were two or four vowels depends on how you treat *i and *u; For the...
The best laid plans of mice and men etc etc - I had a whole post written in my head and then the overdue sproggling of two of my dearest friends chose today to log in to the great MMORPG that we call "Life'. However, since Adam, the Stamen bearing member of the Dynamic Duo, has long been my conduit...
For some time I've been wondering about the Indo-European genitive forms; Which anyone who reads my blog with any regularity has surely noticed. As some of you may know, Indo-European has a different genitive form the nominal inflection than for the pronominal inflection. Later on the o-stems have...
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