i love the washbear

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In Alur, "do you fight?" is apparently: îíìíi̋

Reviewer B just called, "your mother" he said

the only time I've seen AI used in a good way is when they generated stupid abstract shit and made Thai undergrads use a classifier for it

I went to Zoetermeer for this

it gets worse until it gets better (Dec 21st)

This is where you get your nails o-colored

I wonder how many times @alwinkloekhorst.bsky.social has made a joke about this Nail Salon

anna's archive is kil

after the de gruyter and brill merger they should combine de gruyter serif and brill to a new font

I hope Sklenar is the next Batman — to help popularize the complex onset /skl/, which is unjustifiably freakish (pace ‘sclerosis’) www.mensjournal.com/entertainmen...

Morphology conference rescheduled (because the original date collided with the Champions League final): nytud.hu/esemeny/22nd...

There is an old Dutch proverb about what to do when you're thirsty, and it goes like this: Drink water.

had sex with a girl writing her thesis and i asked to be put on the acknowledgements section

Speaking fluent Haags

I hated the pseudo latin that I used in my writing project when I was 16

My Dutch analysis with contrastive /k k’/ [k’]anker the swear word and [k]anker the disease

Stefán Kúrri Dellsson

little icelandic kid at a cafe im at loudly said "stephan kurrrrrri!" with so much joy

In my train to The Hague last night I made some praatjes with a Libyan man who did ejectives in his English "voiceless" stops for some reason. Could there be a reason for this

coffin of andy and leyley

There are two linguistic theories actually it's 1. binary branching trees 2. markedness vs. faithfulness

🕯️🏳️‍⚧️🕯️ For those who can't be here and for those who are still fighting.

Neon Genesis Evangelion Episode 13 Angel Infiltration Lilliputian Hitcher

turn cloudflare back off

This is the third time I've been profiled as a Latina in the Netherlands. I was at the market and some Turkish seller was like "cinquenta (cent)" for a bushel of mint.

Just heard [ɦ] in Flemish for Dutch /ɣ/ for the first time (among [ɣʲ] and [ʝ] in other speakers)

aan het PRAATen

oh what happened with chomsky

what we've learned today: if you're writing documents that might be discoverable, part of a historical record, etc? say at least one thing that is extremely inflammatory, very funny, and difficult to disprove. ideally deliver it flat so it's really unclear if it's a joke

Have you even watched the [jɛdʒ buː] ideo

got kicked out from the club for reading this

wowee it feels really good to show empathy and kindness to others and have it reciprocated and then we all feel better and do better and yippeeee

interesting set of items

genuinely how do you translate 'merantau'

kinda funny how the word for 'king' from Proto-North Halmahera came about to become 'to work on another island' in Indonesian. OJ klana "prince from overseas" > Jav kəlana "knights errant" > Mly. bərkəlana "to work on another island/to shepherd" (cf. Ternate kolano)

syntax midterm in the books. they're calling it the greatest underdog story ever.

Going this weekend

I have a 9am lecture tomorrow but new Haspelmath paper

I just realized that the subjunctive and future in French is just infinitive + avoir </3

Opening up a random paper about creoles then seeing the author "John McWhorter"

pls Huitzilopochtli i just wanna play WoW

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which languages have a strong when ~ if ~ if (counterfactual) ~ TOP syncretism other than Indonesian? I know languages like Dutch has when ~ if ~ if (counterfactual) syncretism but what about like all three, iirc Fongbe has a strict when ~ if ~ if (counterfactual) but not to the extent where TOP is.