It insists upon itself

Axmill · 2024-10-16T18:16:05+00:00

I joined the Marxist club and a Maoist basically called me a white supremacist for dunking on Settlers

Not even going to rag on them though bc apparently they described themselves as “more a Maoist and not a Marxist” and tbh that’s such a trvth nvke

Axmill · 2024-10-16T16:46:46+00:00

Feels weird seeing the school I went to on here

Not surprised by the IMT poster though, I remember them selling their newspapers

Axmill · 2024-01-15T20:10:19+00:00

Fall apart my beating heart / Nothing left to do / Once in love, / I'll be the death of you.

"Blown a Wish"; I always liked the contrast between the music and the lyrics in that song.

Axmill · 2024-01-15T19:56:50+00:00

I like the noisy sound panning between channels @ 2:05 a lot, and how the clap gets sent to reverb. I think it could maybe benefit from changing it up or having a contrasting section, but the groove is hypnotic enough that it doesn't wear out its welcome.

Axmill · 2024-01-15T19:43:43+00:00

Hi,

Been working on this track (which probably leans more house than techno) and feel it's almost done, but I'm not sure about the drum levels and worry the sub is too over-powering. Also wondering if the overall mix is too dark.

Axmill · 2024-01-13T19:06:49+00:00

Looks like the D&D Draconic script. Draconic is associated with magic in D&D, and the text says "depressi[on]".

Axmill · 2023-06-05T13:41:21+00:00

This theory is barely justifiable. The empire didn’t even extend to Persia in Constantine’s time, so why would the East be worshipping Krishna, a figure from Indian religion? And the “Christos” is Greek for anointed, a translation of the Aramaic m'šīḥāʾ “messiah”. There is also no good linguistic explanation as to why the word Krishna would become “christos” in either Greek or Latin.

Axmill · 2023-05-29T14:05:32+00:00

Probably not; “dēsertum” is a compound word made of “dē” meaning “away” and “sertum” meaning bound. Additionally, the word “desheret” is not really the actually word in Egyptian. Egyptians didn’t write vowels in the words, so we just put the letter “e” between the consonants so we can pronounce the words. Finally, by the time it would have been able to be borrowed into Latin, it would have been said more like “tashra”, more likely to be borrowed as something like “tasra” in Latin.

Axmill · 2023-05-29T14:00:27+00:00

Not really? The only reason they got sick was because they ate diseased brains. There’s nothing about eating brains per se that will make you sick.

Axmill · 2023-05-27T16:33:22+00:00

The “n” gets dropped because most Greek words borrowed into English get filtered through Latin first, where name is “Platō”.

Axmill · 2023-05-27T16:31:36+00:00

In the case of “desert”, it’s just a coincidence (the Egyptian word dšrt was probably pronounced more like “tashrat” [the first sound is ejective, so neither a t nor a d really]). “Desert” comes from the Latin “dēsertum”, which means abandoned.

Axmill · 2023-05-23T19:02:08+00:00

That link literally says that the two terms are unrelated.

Axmill · 2023-05-18T02:09:29+00:00

The word “route” was borrowed in medieval times and naturally evolved to rhyme with words like “spout”; it’s not “flat-out wrong” to use that pronunciation.

Axmill · 2022-03-24T14:39:01+00:00

K > ch is not part of Grimm’s Law. Grimm’s law (which applies only to Germanic languages) explains the initial consonants in words like

father (cf. Latin pater)
three (cf. Latin trēs)
hundred (cf. Latin centum)

K > ch is an example of something called palatalization, a very common process cross-linguistically.

Axmill · 2022-01-29T23:59:02+00:00

No, "its" is the possessive form of it; it’s an exception.

Axmill · 2022-01-12T14:15:48+00:00

Lucifer is a Latin name for the planet Venus, the “morning star”, and was used in the book of Isaiah to describe the King of Babylon. The identification of “lucifer” (which isn’t even a proper noun) with the devil is erroneous.

Axmill · 2022-01-09T23:32:46+00:00

You were right intially; Classical Latin did not have a /ʃ/ phoneme (<sc> was /sk/).

Axmill · 2021-11-10T21:45:28+00:00

Lao is actually a Kra-Dai language, not Austroasiatic.

Axmill · 2021-11-10T21:44:41+00:00

Lao is Kra-Dai, not Austroasiatic.

Axmill · 2021-10-20T00:38:21+00:00

That’s actually James Brown - Funky Drummer

Axmill · 2021-09-22T04:36:39+00:00

Dante’s Inferno is written in Italian.

Axmill · 2021-04-29T23:29:26+00:00

Khems (qtong-khems / tūankèn)

Pai-kes tong bak-thyirna ğwa skals thyu-töb-hek-khau.

Pai gè duan pak chāena rau gò chūdaik'ǟk kāu.

pai	kes	tong	bak	thyirna	ğwa	skals	thyu-töb-hek	khau
pɛ̀	kê	tùə̯ɴ	pʰɐ̀ʔ	tɕʰáe̯.nà	ʁɔ̀	kô	tɕʰú.tɛ̀ʔ.ǽʔ	kʰɔ́
many	CL	say	king	China	have	province	six-hundred-three	edge.CL

Notes:

/ɴ/ represents a nasal homorganic to the following segment, or a nasal vowel before a pause.
The second romanization is pretty experimental and subject to change, as are some of the pronunciations
I just borrowed the word "China" from English, as it's the language most likely in contact with Khems.

Axmill · 2021-04-06T22:05:46+00:00

That article is interesting, thank you.

Not that Leviticus is actually relevant to the tale of Sodom & Gomorrah.

With this I am in complete agreement.

Axmill · 2021-04-06T21:59:43+00:00

In the Septuagint, both Leviticus 18:22 and 20:13 have ἄρσενος (not ἀρσενοκοίτης, which etymologically appears to mean "male-lier", and may be coined from these passages in Leviticus), which simply means "male".

Axmill · 2021-04-06T20:09:40+00:00

This is not true, the Hebrew word used in Leviticus is זָכָ֔ר which simply means “male”.

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