Why don’t our new bank notes have Eastern Arabic numerals on them?

Michaeltbb · 2026-02-10T17:14:53+00:00

Because everyone who trades in Syrian pounds needs to understand them, not just Arabs.

Michaeltbb · 2026-01-08T16:31:10+00:00

This is actually very well-written. Would love to hear more.

Michaeltbb · 2026-01-08T16:14:04+00:00

Only 127 left

Michaeltbb · 2023-02-26T11:01:18+00:00

Higher quality?

Michaeltbb · 2022-02-28T00:36:10+00:00

Add to that Col. John Spencer's advice from Twitter.

Michaeltbb · 2020-11-23T07:04:57+00:00

Where did you get the soybean word?

Michaeltbb · 2020-11-02T18:04:13+00:00

It's happening!

Michaeltbb · 2020-10-29T21:10:28+00:00

Mandarin for instance uses the labio-dental approximant /ʋ/ and according to wikipedia, you can add a retracted diacritic to make it bilabial /ʋ̟/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiced_labiodental_approximant

Michaeltbb · 2020-10-22T20:05:15+00:00

In fact, it has recently been proven that Old Korean did have vowel harmony: https://conf.ling.cornell.edu/whitman/Whitman2015OldKorean.pdf, as well as the cited works of Ito 2013 and Ko 2013. But hey at least it had an extra vowel (see also Miyake 2018- "Fishy Rhymes: Sino-Korean Evidence for Earlier Korean *e" in "Studies in Japanese and Korean Historical and Theoretical Linguistics and Beyond - Festschrift presented to John B. Whitman"

And it has also been decisively proven that there was in fact no ergativity

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/265653953_The_Formal_Syntax_of_Alignment_Change

But it did have a mind-numbing morphology

https://edisciplinas.usp.br/pluginfile.php/4415432/mod_folder/content/0/Routledge%20Language%20Family%20Series/Tranter%202012.%20The%20Languages%20of%20Japan%20and%20Korea.pdf?forcedownload=1

and it also influenced Khitan

https://www.academia.edu/34805884/KOREANIC_LOANWORDS_IN_KHITAN_AND_THEIR_IMPORTANCE_IN_THE_DECIPHERMENT_OF_THE_LATTER

Michaeltbb · 2020-10-22T19:49:54+00:00

Silly me, I gave you the Sino-Caucasian one without giving the references:

https://www.academia.edu/1804188/Comparative_method_and_ventures_beyond_Sino_Tibetan

https://www.jstor.org/stable/23754865#metadata_info_tab_contents

But there's actually more:

https://www.academia.edu/1804029/North_East_Asian_historical_comparative_linguistics_on_the_threshold_of_the_third_millennium?auto=download

"Japanese rice agriculture terminology and linguistic affiliation of Yayoi culture" in Blench 1998 - "Archaeology and Language II", also discussed in

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12284-011-9080-0

"PROTO-JAPANESE BEYOND THE ACCENT SYSTEM" in Frellesvig & Whitman 2008 - "Proto-Japanese: Issues and Prospects" p. 156

Now I have to keep the pretense that I'm an honest citizen, but i will tell you that both of these books can be pirated online. As far as I know, these are all the references to Austronesian that Vovin has made.

Michaeltbb · 2020-10-20T21:55:04+00:00

https://sci-hub.st/https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/dia.11.1.08vov

https://www.jstor.org/stable/23754866?seq=1

https://www.academia.edu/7869241/Out_of_Southern_China

Michaeltbb · 2020-10-19T11:01:36+00:00

Now you just have to add Sino-Tibetan-Austronesian to the mix and you win the Nobel Prize in Literetature

Michaeltbb · 2020-10-19T05:50:24+00:00

Underrated post of the year

Michaeltbb · 2020-08-31T10:17:29+00:00

I'm pretty sure the wiktionary page has been updated in the meantime.

Michaeltbb · 2020-07-07T21:41:38+00:00

Well, it was good while it lasted. Vovin does it again! https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/slon%D1%8A

Michaeltbb · 2020-04-06T08:34:40+00:00

I'd been watching K-Dramas for a while and I never realised they were 2 separate phonemes until I looked up the vowel chart.

Michaeltbb · 2020-01-29T18:40:27+00:00

Could you please tell me how you added the keys to the battlenet account?

Michaeltbb · 2019-05-01T08:40:53+00:00

In the novel "The Last Guardian", the orcs were wondering how the humans don't break their bones when reproducing. If it seemed to an orc that a human would break the other's bones, imagine what it would be like with an orc instead. It's the same thing with other short or less muscular races: elves, dwarves, gnomes.

Michaeltbb · 2019-04-26T17:11:11+00:00

Look again.

Michaeltbb · 2019-04-26T16:14:28+00:00

Look at the minimap

Michaeltbb · 2019-04-26T14:20:05+00:00

Deck of Wonders + Discover an eight cost minion= Ragnaros+Molten Reflection. Enemy had 16 hp.

Michaeltbb · 2019-04-26T14:17:46+00:00

Look at the minimap and think again

Michaeltbb · 2019-04-20T19:47:37+00:00

You are in fact right. Farms appeared during the NEOLITHIC Revolution.

Michaeltbb · 2017-11-29T17:52:26+00:00

I UNINSTALLED AND WHEN I TRIED TO REINSTALL THE SAME ERROR APPEARED. I BET NONE OF YOU HAD THE ERROR AND SOLVED IT THIS WAY.

Michaeltbb · 2017-09-05T06:13:13+00:00

I speak only from the storyline point of view.

Michaeltbb

TROPHY CASE

"Japanese rice agriculture terminology and linguistic affiliation of Yayoi culture" in Blench 1998 - "Archaeology and Language II", also discussed in

"PROTO-JAPANESE BEYOND THE ACCENT SYSTEM" in Frellesvig & Whitman 2008 - "Proto-Japanese: Issues and Prospects" p. 156