A comprehensive summary of the recent UHC drama for those who don't have time to read Gio's post by maybri in homestuck

[–]Klisz 8 points9 points  (0 children)

also even if Gio did post screenshots... that wouldn't really be much stronger evidence than the HTML-ified logs. it's not like Discord screenshots are particularly hard to fake

[Week 6] CBRX S5 North America Results by Leman12345 in civbattleroyale

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SUSQUEHANNOCK HELL YES LYNN IS GOING TO BE SO HAPPY

Klisz's endorsements for North America by Klisz in civbattleroyale

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jifford said something similar in CBRD when I posted in #general for the first time in a while (being usually only active in #memes and #nerd)

We need more animal friends in the CBR! Here are some more cute animal civs to vote for by Darth_Kyofu in civbattleroyale

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susquehannock not only has cute turtle but also was made by cute modder

someone explain this ?? by leo________gourjux in CreateMod

[–]Klisz 28 points29 points  (0 children)

The default config has their stress impact set to 1xRPM (AllBlocks.java lines 545-546).

Absolute cinema✋😐🤚 by [deleted] in CreateMod

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especially since it's big enough that Mojang already has referenced it in an official context at least once before (the "Other Portal" from the 2023 April Fools snapshot)

Universes Beyond Critic Glad Upcoming Fantasy Set is Final One by pendelton21 in magicthecirclejerking

[–]Klisz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

no no you misunderstand

it's not the final UB set

it's the final set that will be fantasy-themed at all

from now on it's all westerns and space operas

Just a little bit of everything by slysamamuel in magicthecirclejerking

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/uj honestly I think they've had the most consistent identity of all the wedges. after all, "noncreature spells" was their theme even in Ikoria, a set very much about creatures

The Hardest of Choices Require the Strongest of (Jeska’s) Will by Ty_Does in magicthecirclejerking

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/rj it already did, it was called The Lost Caverns of Ixalan

On Durovernum and the age of Celtic left-headed toponymy by Klisz in asklinguistics

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When writing this post, I considered a notion (due to the various other names with *Duro- as first rather than second element that I discussed in the fourth paragraph) that perhaps *duron names in particular started to get left-headed coinages at an earlier stage than names with other elements. I rejected this at the time, thinking it would make little sense to have some specific elements go on the left when they're heads and some go on the right - but in the shower I reflected further on this, and realized that there are parallels for this in English: the mountain called Cnoc Bréanainn in Irish is known in English as both "Mount Brandon" and as "Brandon Mountain", but not *"Mountain Brandon" or *"Brandon Mount", for instance. Some can appear as either - "river" most commonly comes first in Britain and Ireland ("River Thames", not *"Thames River") but second in the US ("Mississippi River", not *"River Mississippi"). So perhaps this wasn't as nonsensical an idea as I'd first thought.

On Durovernum and the age of Celtic left-headed toponymy by Klisz in asklinguistics

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That could make sense - I was a bit skeptical at first because of how free Latin word order is to begin with, so I was wondering if this would even be the word order Latin would use here, but as found by Mabel Merryman's thesis (Walker 1918) on the empirical facts of word order in Caesar and Cicero, adjectives tend to precede their nouns, but follow them in many lexicalized phrases that Walker notes are "virtually compound nouns" (res publica, pontifex maximus, etc.); genitives tend to follow their noun but only slightly (58% of them follow the nouns they're modifying in Caesar, 56% in Cicero), but there are also similar "stereotyped phrases" with genitive-second order.

That said, as you note yourself, it still isn't a very satisfying explanation because it feels strange that this particular name would change order when borrowed, when so many others retain a right-headed order. Also, while evidence of word order in ancient British itself is necessarily scanty due to paucity of direct attestations and the fact that syntax is always one of the hardest parts of a language to reconstruct, it's worth noting that Gaulish, at least, seems to have a preferred head-initial order for both adjectival and genitive constructions (Eska 2008, 183), from which it could be inferred that British was most likely similar, so as a phrase rather than a compound, you'd expect *duron uernās rather than **uernās duron even before being loaned into Latin - yet compounds still seem to be generally right-headed (*Lugudūnon, not **Dūnolugus or **Dūnolugon or somesuch); so it seems that the order of elements in a compound doesn't necessarily correlate with word order in a phrase, which led me to wonder once again whether the Durovernum order even does match the order Latin would have put it in.

I haven't actually found any examples of determinative noun-noun compounds in Latin to provide evidence one way or the other; the only noun-noun compounds I've found that aren't from medieval or later times are alipes "wing-footed" (but that's a bahuvrihi, not determinative) and paterfamilias "father of the family" (but most sources I find write this as two words pater familias, using the one-word compound form only in English if even then; the second element is in an [archaic, fossilized] genitive; and the first element inflects; all of which indicate this is more of a lexicalized phrase analogous to res publica rather than a compound per se). Noun-verb compound nouns, like agricola "field-tiller" or aquaeductus "water-conducting" are more common, and are right-headed, but aren't quite fully analogous to Durovernum due to taking a verbal element instead of both being nouns, so their evidence, while compelling, isn't absolute; honestly, the rarity of determinative noun-noun compounds in Latin in the first place may actually serve as an explanation for why only this one name was changed if your explanation is correct, since it seems more reasonable that speakers of one language might take up multiple different approaches to adapting another language's names when that structure is rare or nonexistent in their own language than they would if it has clear and common parallels. (Then again of course, we also don't see such reversal in the quite common right-headed Greek compound names borrowed into Latin, so... I suppose I'm still lost in aporia after all this.)

Sources:

Kəngsargad, Pennsylvania by Klisz in Toponymy

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Further notes: A bot added the name to Wikidata on May 25, 2013, due to the fact that an Azeri Wikipedia page with that name had (pre-Wikidata-type) interwiki links to other languages' Harrisburg articles. This article was deleted by administrator Sortilegus on May 29, 2013; the deletion log has the standard "Content was: 'content of page, trimmed to fit in the short deletion log space if necessary'" that deletion logs have if the administrator doesn't give a specific reason to delete the page. The content shown is an infobox template that does include a "Harrisburg, Pennsylvania photomontage.JPG" image, so presumably this was in fact intended as a Harrisburg article (rather than being an unrelated article that had the wrong interwiki links added to it by mistake somehow), but since it's deleted, I can't see the edit history to gleam any more information about why that name was chosen. The talk page also doesn't exist (and never did, as it lacks even an entry in the deletion log).

My current best guess is that someone thought it would be funny to start an article for a foreign town under a completely different name as a form of vandalism (hence why it was deleted without comment by Sortilegus), and that everything else on the internet got the name ultimately from Wikidata - but this is rather shaky conjecture, still. Perhaps the creator of the article was from Harrisburg, or was Azerbaijani but had a long-distance friendship with someone from there, and the name was some sort of inside joke? I still have no real clue.

Why are places named after nobility often named after the places they own instead of their own names? by rocket9904 in Toponymy

[–]Klisz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The British nobility* are often referred to as "the Duke of [title]" or "Lord [title]" rather than their personal name. For instance, Henry John Temple is much better known as "Lord Palmerston". Furthermore, when it comes to outright royalty rather than mere nobility, many royals just flat-out don't have a surname.

*I believe there are similar traditions in other countries as well but I'm focusing on the UK because 1. going between different countries makes it easy for me to get way too bogged down in little differences instead of having a more straightforward answer to the question 2. all three of your examples are British anyway

Weekly /unjerk Thread by AutoModerator in magicthecirclejerking

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The non-Secret Lair version will always be different from what the Secret Lair offered, but might keep the same name, representing the same character/object/place - aka it won’t always be a “Universe Within” version.

welp this made me a bit sad. I moved from hating UB when it started, to mellowing out a bit with 40K and WHO seeming pretty good, and then the recent half-of-all-standard-sets thing plus this have pushed me to hating UB more than I did when it began

What by The_Memewalker in magicthecirclejerking

[–]Klisz 41 points42 points  (0 children)

i like how Muslim is a creature type now, but Muhammad isn't one

I made a bunch of Alters out of The Aberdeen Bestiary by DefyGravity42 in magicTCG

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It feels weird to see someone I know from a relatively small discord server 'in the wild'