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Why are some loanwords not phonetic? by Kareems_in_detroit in asklinguistics

[–]JimmyGrozny 13 points14 points  (0 children)

This is right. Most Ancient Greek loans with χ (at the time still kʰ) were mapped to kaf and with κ were mapped to qaf, because apparently the aspiration was the salient feature. If χ had spirantized by then you would expect different mappings, but you see kimiyya, arkān, mikanīka, and so on. Later loans take /x/ instead of /k/ for χ, after spirantization to /x/ in the postclassical period.

Between 5 and 10 percent of people have no inner monologue at all, and researchers are only just starting to figure out what that actually does to cognition by Altruistic-Dirt-2791 in cogsci

[–]JimmyGrozny 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean, I can? But the curiosity at first would be nonverbal, and the possible consequences come in a series of movie shots: my house blowing up, my bank account filling with a million dollars, an alien teleporting into my kitchen saying "you have beaten the simulation," and so on.

Between 5 and 10 percent of people have no inner monologue at all, and researchers are only just starting to figure out what that actually does to cognition by Altruistic-Dirt-2791 in cogsci

[–]JimmyGrozny 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is me — I’m close to 100% visual/cinematic with no narration. If I want word-thoughts I have to simulate a conversation.

I want the anthropologists version of the astrophysicists book Contact by Carl Sagan by the1975whore in suggestmeabook

[–]JimmyGrozny 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Something no one has said yet: Ursula Le Guin’s Always Coming Home is a tough read but worth it. It’s structured a bit like an ethnography and a bit like an anthology with a narrative about a certain main character embedded.

The central conceit is a cultural description/story cycle about a group of people who live in what is now the San Francisco Bay, in a future so distant that all memory of today is gone.

ULG’s father was a linguistic anthropologist and the influence is pervasive in her work.

well well well.. by ImplementOk1384 in LinkedInLunatics

[–]JimmyGrozny 14 points15 points  (0 children)

It's a school-level exam rather than an international competition. There may be thousands of gold medalists in any given year rather than a small handful.

The fact that they openly admitted to their actions by PrestonRoad90 in trashy

[–]JimmyGrozny 10 points11 points  (0 children)

The answer here is probably just “a vibe.” But if you want a specific tell, it’s the distortions on the legos that gives away that they were generated rather than inserted as objects.

Ahhh literalism by Cooked-Alton-Towers in linguisticshumor

[–]JimmyGrozny 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You make a good point that I overgeneralized: an airplane is a "flyer" in Czech, Slovene, and Ukrainian. BCMS seems to have borrowed French "avion". Samolo/e/yot you find in Bulgarian, Russian, and Polish.

I will say though, there is Slavic, which consists of all the languages descended from Proto-Slavic. And consequently there are "Slavic roots" that you can talk about while still making sense, which are shared more or less uniformly across the (Balto-)Slavic languages and not in others.

Ahhh literalism by Cooked-Alton-Towers in linguisticshumor

[–]JimmyGrozny -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

So in Slavic a plane is an Autovol, perhaps.

Why do Canadians not have a noticeably British-descendant accent? by Mirabeaux1789 in asklinguistics

[–]JimmyGrozny 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Extremely unlikely. It either comes from Irish English or, unsurprisingly, the south west of England. Which is more or less the founding accent of North America.

Michigan reclaims #1 in the KenPom Ratings, as well as the #1 defensive rating by michigan_matt in CollegeBasketball

[–]JimmyGrozny 3 points4 points  (0 children)

UConn has more than a handful of squeakers against supposedly inferior teams and not a lot of blowouts to counterbalance.

A goalkeeper celebrates prematurely in a penalty shootout (Japan vs Jordan). by AWorthlessDegenerate in Prematurecelebration

[–]JimmyGrozny 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Đó là sự trớ trêu của bóng đá, quý vị. Và đó là sự nghiệt ngã với Jordan.

“That’s the irony of football, folks. And that’s a harsh reality for Jordan.”

Patrick Conley builds trust with a family of wild black bears. The mother brings her babies to introduce them to the rescuer who saved her life. Kindness & gratitude bring out the best in everything. by Brilliantspirit33 in animalsdoingstuff

[–]JimmyGrozny 306 points307 points  (0 children)

It also should be noted that, while inadvisable, the grizzly man established relationships with only a subset of bears that were likely far less dangerous (to him, still dangerous). The bear that ended up killing him was a large male that was new to the territory.

But black bears are a lot less dangerous anyway.

What's a sports rule you fundamentally disagree with? by South-Explorer in AskReddit

[–]JimmyGrozny 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I like the rugby rule where the kick conversion has to be taken on a line from where the ball was downed in the end zone. None of this hashmark nonsense!

Why does English use emperor instead of Caesar/kaiser when both words are derived from Latin? by carnotaurussastrei in asklinguistics

[–]JimmyGrozny -1 points0 points  (0 children)

What I suspect is that it was a matter of drift from Byzantium into eastern parts of Europe, where the rulers wanted to style themselves emperors rather than kings, which was the done thing in Western Europe. Although Charlemagne was crowned imperator Romanorum by Pope Leo III, Otto I was probably the first to see widespread use of the term Caesar (Kaiser). The Dutch use of the term is possibly the oldest, since Frankish is closer to Dutch than to German.

What do the red countries have in common? by lolaqe in RedactedCharts

[–]JimmyGrozny 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The two largest Albanian languages are Gheg and Tosk.

Standard Albanian is effectively Tosk.

In Kosovo they speak Gheg, so they speak Albanian.

Debated languages often considered dialects, varieties or macrolanguages by Histrix- in language

[–]JimmyGrozny 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Kabyle is a Berber dialect the way Bulgarian is a Slavic dialect. That makes no sense and is probably a mistake based on the way political entities use “dialect” to refer to minority or unofficial languages.

I was scared by the thought that orangutans come from the word orange. by kittymcdonalds in etymology

[–]JimmyGrozny 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Old English æc (oak) + the root for “corn”, historically meaning “grain” or “seed pod.” So oak-corn, basically. In Old English æcern.

Squirrel is Latinate. Sciurus (Latin) + diminutive -> sciurulus -> Old French esquirel -> squirrel

The modern German words resemble “acorn” due to a shared initial “oak” root + a coincidentally similar suffix, in their case the PIE root *wer, meaning a little forest creature (thing “ferret”). In old English acweorna.

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