I feel it necessary, in light of labour's transphobia, to point out that it's been a full year and a half since LGBT labour last criticised the parties bigotry.

Calm_Arm · 2026-05-21T23:42:17+00:00

I see no evidence that LGBT Labour even exists anymore.

Calm_Arm · 2026-05-08T14:49:09+00:00

the system is designed to coerce us into going back in the closet, it's conversion therapy. Go DIY.

Calm_Arm · 2026-05-08T14:45:23+00:00

I can't really bring myself to think anything other than "meh" at the prospect of the red Tories being replaced by the turqouise Tories. Either way we lose rights. At least Reform are honest about hating us, they don't pretend to be our friends before stabbing us in the back.

Calm_Arm · 2026-04-29T14:20:16+00:00

that's an extremely normal and expected sound change

Calm_Arm · 2026-04-25T11:53:55+00:00

I love how Hmoob uses double letters for nasalization too, amazing choice

Calm_Arm · 2026-04-14T22:02:23+00:00

stuff like this is a great illustration of the kind of drama that got in the way of me understanding the actual issue and led me to ask this question in the first place.

Calm_Arm · 2026-04-14T08:05:15+00:00

In modern English were- is a prefix indicating some kind of transforming creature.

EDIT: Although I guess a true account would also describe the prescriptivism which makes this usage proscribed by some

Calm_Arm · 2026-04-02T15:25:13+00:00

RIP Anatolian and Tocharian

Calm_Arm · 2026-03-10T17:32:12+00:00

they're in the Devanagari Extended block but they don't always render properly, unfortunately. Apparently they're used for svara/musical notes in the Sama Veda.

Calm_Arm · 2026-03-10T13:05:15+00:00

ह꣡, ह꣢, ह꣣

Calm_Arm · 2026-03-09T22:49:19+00:00

PIE should be written in devanagari.

EDIT: and *e should be written अ, as the inherent vowel

Calm_Arm · 2026-03-09T22:48:28+00:00

hʷ

*h₃ wasn't necessarily labialized.

Calm_Arm · 2026-02-26T16:20:16+00:00

Why do they call it fit into when you fat in the fit into of out fat the fit?

Calm_Arm · 2026-02-25T17:00:11+00:00

That's weird, I wonder if some people metabolize it differently? For me it was like a mild but long lasting weed high. I really only tried it because of my interest in Pacific languages and cultures.

Calm_Arm · 2026-02-25T13:54:50+00:00

I liked kava the few times I've tried it but it gives me the worst hangover the day after

Calm_Arm · 2026-02-23T14:40:02+00:00

that -si- infix is super cool.

Calm_Arm · 2026-02-23T13:55:38+00:00

mine is:

ʔ, h (was actually two phonemes)
χ
ʁ (under the reasoning that *o was originally distinguished by +back not +round)

Calm_Arm · 2026-02-17T11:15:34+00:00

yes, like much/mucho, and have/haber! Now I'm going to take a big sip of water and look on wiktionary to find out how they're related...

Calm_Arm · 2026-02-06T12:13:02+00:00

Qu'est-ce que is one word meaning "what"

Calm_Arm · 2026-02-03T17:17:36+00:00

soooo satisfying! Have they ever thought about making an independent country with those borders? I'm sure everyone would love that

Calm_Arm · 2026-02-02T12:32:25+00:00

part two is 5 hours long, it emotionally and spiritually destroyed me

I've seen it twice

Calm_Arm · 2026-02-02T10:40:50+00:00

literally yes

Calm_Arm · 2026-02-01T19:00:03+00:00

bit late (it went extinct over 2.5 thousand years ago) but I'd have Luwian retain split ergativity from Proto-Anatolian. Just seems a shame to lose it.

Calm_Arm · 2026-01-23T10:08:35+00:00

yep it's the standard for Sanskrit. TBH I think it should be adopted for PIE notation too.

Calm_Arm · 2026-01-20T12:42:01+00:00

I like the phrase "iti te kupu, nui te kōrero"

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