well, I was going to pack tomorrow for a potential indefinite international move, maybe jog 5 miles, but instead it is 4:06am and I have been awake since 2:47am trying to get small kid back to sleep. I tried getting into the geopolitics with him but he is unconcerned

Nitpick of the day: Don't say "America is exporting blah blah blah" ... or "America invented the cotton gin" when you literally just mean one company or one dude. How hard is it to write "Americans ..." or "An American ..."?

The number is 857. It's on I-10, in Orange. Done the whole length of it numerous times, very pleasant and peaceful once you're past Kerrville. I miss El Paso.

Have I mentioned how ridiculous it is that Word does not display your search results if there are more than 100 hits?

Just paid hundreds and hundreds of US dollars in speeding tickets—no notification at the time of incident, no idea where I was speeding, location name are listed but are not googlable or shown on a map. In the biz, we call that "indirect taxation", and it is growing all the time.

Experiments with finding failed Siri prompts: (Prompt / Response) "Minute" / "For how long?" "Minute timer" / "For how long?" "A minute" / "One minute, counting down"

Ruus Al Jibal Arabic word of the day أيد eyd, pl. eyd or eydōt or eydeyn 'hand' n.b. 1. Other paired body parts likewise can be singular or plural, e.g. ɻǧūl is 'leg' or 'legs', dawēntī 'my ear' or 'my ears'. 2. eyd is more frequent as a plural than eydōt, which is more frequent than eydeyn.

Been diving into the Glottolog data for Central Chadic languages: - 32/80 (40%) are considered vulnerable, threatened, endangered, moribund, or extinct. (4 are confirmed extinct.) - 21/80 (31.25%) are known only from wordlists. - 4/80 (5%) are virtually undocumented (not even a wordlist).

"How do you know who the baddie is?" "Because he has a green shirt. And it says 'BADDIE BADDIE BADDIE BADDIE' all over it."

In my mailbox today: Sub-Indo-European Europe, edited by Guus Kroonen. A volume of collected papers on current perspectives on loanwords and substratum phenomena in IE languages from contact with the pre-IE neolithic languages of Europe. Also digitally Open Access: www.degruyter.com/document/doi...

Ok but During the diplomatic blockade on Qatar (now fortunately resolved), there was a somewhat similar slogan WE ARE ALL QATAR كلنا قطر, but saying EVERYONE IS EMIRATI الكل إماراتي sounds more specific;

I'm gonna try not to overanalyze this one

I am planning a trip to Oman proper, for the first time in almost a decade, which means I am revisiting notes that I made years ago about Jewish graves 🪦 and dialect mysteries 👻

g > k by voicing assimilation? (1) ghawa > khawa ☕, which also seems to occur as kawa by coalescence of /k/ and /h/ (2) ǧɨtal > čɨtal ('he killed)', possibly by influence from the imperfect yɨǧtɨl > yɨčtɨl ('he kills') n.b. For the latter, most people here would rather say ḏɨbaḥ in any case.

Old jazz and Italian-American recipes are a pretty effective mode of transportation this evening

The smallest child is now "head bruise" years old and the largest child is now "knee scrape" years old, and they are singing the songs of their respective people

There is a Hot Wheels car named DRIFTSTA which I find about as bad as Oegstgeest hotwheels.fandom.com/wiki/Driftsta

Well ... I still can't figure out if [redacted] are making a statement or asking a question, and it is a frequent cause of confusion. I would say this happens to me multiple times a week.

Some things I have said recently: "Biscuit Scaturday" "Eggs and scrambled toast" "They big a dig hole"

Observe: (1) Persian چونكه "because" > Turkish çünkü "because" > Baghdadi Judeo-Arabic צינכי چنكي "because" Perhaps also: (2) Persian چونكه "because" ... >> Ruus Al Jibal Arabic كنكي "why" (subdialectal) ?

Good morning #jazzsky. Good luck. youtu.be/NxYlhw0A0wo?...

The cultural rule of "someone having a business call on speakerphone" remains undefeated. I am at a skate park at noon in Dubai, and there is a guy walking the park going "how do we make money out of this?"

Job's questions, small child version, part 913: "Where does lava come from? Where do the rocks come from? Where do the rocks and beautiful coral and the rocks come from?"

Ruus Al Jibal Arabic word of the day يقصب yɨqṣɨb 'to dry out, become hard (used of a grain crop)' n.b. The root in Classical Arabic is √q-s-b, but s > ṣ here due to the presence of /q/.

me: inane reply to a question bots:

Kid English word of the day Hamsterdam ≈ Amsterdam n.b. im sorry guys

"der Kehle geholten g"?

Listening to the Mosul dialect, which many claim is “identical” to Baghdadi Judeo-Arabic. Among many differences I notice, one that might be missed by casual observers is a in unstressed syllables: ‘good’ مليح Maslawi: malīḥ BJA: mlīḥ ‘flour’ طحين Maslawi: ṭaḥīn BJA: ṭḥīn

mi vida

this one is for Sri Lanka

got revenge on Gerard Mercator today

I think I'm going to go back to pretending that politics does not exist. 😶‍🌫 I've acted interested in it for a few years and tried to have good faith discussions, and it has won me nothing. Just a big waste of energy. Sitting here hoping we don't get another ballistic missile alert on the phone.

is it that obvious

Gum Arabic is understudied and much stigmatized by society, but it's actually one of the oldest Arabic dialects. In this grant proposal,

Most people don't know this, but the Mercator Projection makes Sri Lanka look way bigger than it actually is! #ThingsMostPeopleDontKnowBecauseTheyreNotTrue

Finally got my mitts on Ekkehard Wolff's "A Historical Phonology of Central Chadic" and I have so many thoughts, most of them positive. Does anyone here have access to a scan of Gravina's CC classification papers from 2007 and 2011 in "Topics in Chadic Linguistics" they might send my way?

I hope Foxes never has to think about money ever again for “Clarity” alone

Iran’s president apologizes to Gulf neighbors, says country will halt strikes on them unless attacked edition.cnn.com/world/live-n...

"Don't put toys in your brother's pants." "I'm not gonna! ... I'm gonna put them in his shirt."

The AP referred to Dubai as a "city-state" today ... ???

Kid† English word of the day madame ≈ a fancy term of address ... When we were playing "hotel" he kept addressing me as "madame". I asked and found out that is just what you call people at a fancy hotel. 😂 ________________________ † I get to do two of these now, at my discretion.

Baby English word of the day app ≈ apple 🍎🍏

Surprisingly good used bookstore / donut scene down in Mena, AK.

These are the goons who deserve all your scorn during this war ... not the dreaded "Dubai expat", however rich and even stupid.

—On War— 🐪 Things begin small — and the one who starts a war is not the one who burns in it. War draws in even those who oppose it like a mangy camel makes the others sick. — anonymous, from the Ḥamāsah of Abū Tammām (d. 845 CE)

I kind of liveblogged all of the confusion here, but below 📸 is a detailed explanation of what has been happening, written for Americans 🗽 who would be lucky to know the name of our latest foreverwar. For now, things are fine and we are staying put. Who knows? I may get to go jogging later.

"For sale: Baby shoes. Never worn." They fell right off his feet, every dang time. Have you tried to put shoes on a baby?

The grandpa that I knew ran a water works (before that, he was an operator at a chemical plant). The grandpa that I did not know worked at Westinghouse Electric.

gotta love trailrunning.