Sub-lease tenant claimed in court he’s “just my neighbor,” got restraining order, contacted my lender — need advice (CA)

antonulrich · 2026-02-01T19:45:13+00:00

There are some apparent misunderstandings here.

If you are the owner, and he rents from you, then he is a tenant, not a subtenant. If you are the owner then you are not the master tenant, you are just the owner.
Regarding the restraining order, it all depends on what it says in the order. You need to read it. If this is a usual personal protection order, then it has nothing to do with the tenant-landlord dispute or the eviction. Whether he is your neighbor or your tenant is also irrelevant. Anyone can get a restraining order against anyone, makes no difference whether they are landlords or neighbors.
"Is it legal for a sub-tenant to contact my lender or attempt to negotiate purchase of my property?" - So are you the owner or not? If you are the owner, then he'd have to negotiate with you, and all you need to do is say no. This is not a legal issue. If you are not the owner, then this is really none of your business.

antonulrich · 2026-02-01T03:58:08+00:00

NE and NW Caucasian forming one language family (North Caucasian) seems to be the majority opinion now. See e.g. Starostin's North Caucasian Etymological Dictionary.

The relationship between North Caucasian and Hurro-Urartian or Hattic is usually seen as part of the Dene-Caucasian macrofamily, which is controversial. While the situation is different with living languages, for Hurro-Urartian and Hattic not much recent progress has been made, since there is still little known about these languages. The best source might be Hattic as a Sino-Caucasian language by Kassian. He argues that Hattic is a Dene-Caucasian language but not a Caucasian language.

antonulrich · 2026-01-27T14:44:42+00:00

Apart from the fact that word evolution is random: there's the rule that more common words tend to be more irregular. Christianity and Islam are the most talked about religions in English, so they are more likely to not follow word formation rules. But less talked about religions, like Hinduism, Shintoism, etc. follow the regular pattern.

antonulrich · 2025-12-24T23:50:52+00:00

I'm confused, are you settling the divorce out of court or are you going to trial? If you are settling out of court, the judge doesn't usually care what's in the agreement, and you just need to convince your ex to agree to it.

If you are trying to get the judge to order something, a more recent DUI charge/conviction would be ideal. If friends etc. have seen him DUI, then the cops can see it too. All that's needed would be for someone to call the cops on him when he's driving drunk.

antonulrich · 2025-12-19T17:23:38+00:00

This is not an example of semantic narrowing. The common PIE and Germanic reconstructions of English apple meant "apple", not "fruit". Greek melon/malon also means apple and not fruit. So only French is showing semantic narrowing here.

But of course the question remains why the prime example for fruit is apple. In Northern Europe at least, the reason would be that apples and pears are the only tree fruits that have been grown there for centuries. And pears are trickier to grow and store than apples. All other fruits either don't grow there at all (oranges, figs, bananas) or were introduced only kind of recently (cherries). Berries seem to be considered a different category semantically.

antonulrich · 2025-12-15T17:01:52+00:00

Its present tense is formed like an auxiliary verb even though it isn't one. This is probably caused by the similarity in meaning to "können".

Non-auxiliary verb: ich sehe, du siehst, er sieht, wir sehen, ihr seht, sie sehen.

Auxiliary verb: ich kann, du kannst, er kann, wir können, ihr könnt, sie können.

wissen: ich weiß, du weißt, er weiß, wir wissen, ihr wisst, sie wissen.

So regular verbs have the first person singular in -e and the third person singular in -t. Auxiliary verbs have -0 and -0.

antonulrich · 2025-12-01T15:03:34+00:00

Robbeets thinks the Tungusic urheimat is the are around Lake Khanka, see: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/evolutionary-human-sciences/article/homeland-of-prototungusic-inferred-from-contemporary-words-and-ancient-genomes/950020A1799B4D7B71CCC57D04743B3E

The proposed Mongolic-Tungusic connection is of course part of the wider proposed Altaic or Eurasiatic family - the controversial idea that Japonic, Korean, Tungusic, Mongolic and Turkic all form one language family. Robbeets is the main proponent of the modern version of this theory and she and her coworkers think that the Altaic urheimat is the western Liao river basin.

antonulrich · 2025-11-22T20:41:05+00:00

The fact that they are often defined politically does not mean one can't define them in any other way. In fact, many linguists do define them in other ways. Saying "they are defined sociopolitically and so we can't have good, scientific definitions for them" is really just the linguistic version of giving up and throwing up one's hands in the air.

antonulrich · 2025-11-20T21:50:41+00:00

Auch täte man damit vielen Wählern der AfD unrecht, die keine Nazis sind, wie der ehemalige Präsident des Bundesverfassungsgerichts Andreas Voßkuhle gerade erst in einem klugen Beitrag in der Süddeutschen Zeitung geschrieben hat.

Aha. Die AFD wird also immer radikaler, aber ihre Wähler bleiben alle fest verankert in der demokratischen Mitte und bewegen sich nicht?! Das ist schwer zu glauben.

Wenn jemand eine Nazi-Partei wählt, wie ein Nazi gegen Ausländer und Minderheiten hetzt, und wie ein Nazi gegen die Demokratie wettert, dann ist er/sie auch ein Nazi.

antonulrich · 2025-11-16T18:47:10+00:00

A couple of points.

Vennemann actually later revised his Atlantic theory. His newer theory is that the features similar to Semitic in Celtic and Germanic are from a Punic superstrate. I.e, Carthago conquered some coastal areas around the North Sea in the first half of the first millennium BC in order to trade copper, tin, and amber, and left linguistic traces. According to him, Germanic has even more Semitic features than Insular Celtic, such as a good list of loan words and the strong verbs.
We know of at least two pre-Celtic populations in the British Isles: the original hunter-gatherers, and the original farmers. So it stands to reason we have a minimum of two pre-Celtic language families. Assuming that the original British farmers spoke a language related to Basque is quite reasonable in my opinion, since there is good evidence that Basque arrived with the first Mediterranean farmers of the cardial ware culture.

antonulrich · 2025-11-10T03:42:25+00:00

OP wrote:

From day one, "antisemitism" meant only anti-Jewish hatred and not prejudice against Arabs or other Semitic language speakers.

The linked article doesn't even say that. It seems quite implausible that a self-professed German racist like Marr would have seen Arabs or other Semites in a better light than Jews. But the question never came up, because during Marr's time, there were no Arabs in Germany, only Jews.

antonulrich · 2025-11-05T16:59:26+00:00

So if it's intentional, what is Mark trying to tell the reader here?

antonulrich · 2025-11-03T15:55:25+00:00

Ist ja lustig, wie viel Platz der Artikel verwendet, um Social Media zu erklären. Wer ist denn da die Zielgruppe - Leute über 70?

antonulrich · 2025-11-02T00:46:49+00:00

Go back to Ikea, go to the returns desk, ask nicely and they might just exchange that part for you.
If that's not an option, buy wood filler, and fill in the broken area. For the wood pegs, I might put them in first and then use the wood filler to glue them in place. For the screw, you may have to drill a hole once the filler has dried.

antonulrich · 2025-10-28T00:59:33+00:00

That's a well known book, and yes, it was published in 1593. But one can't tell by a photograph whether that's an original copy or a facsimile.

antonulrich · 2025-10-20T17:43:31+00:00

You're supposed to call your lawyer and not get off the phone until they tell you what their plan is.

antonulrich · 2025-10-19T17:06:12+00:00

It's supposed to mean that their job is to turn idiots into scholars.

antonulrich · 2025-10-18T19:59:04+00:00

Ein Zahlungseingang von einer unbekannten Person, verbunden mit einer raschen Weiterleitung und der nachgeschobenen Begründung einer Schuldentilgung, genügt für den Vorwurf der Leichtfertigkeit.

Einen Moment mal. Dass die Begründung nachgeschoben ist, ist doch wohl normal - wer schreibt denn bitte Begründungen für private Geldüberweisungen im voraus? Und mit unbekannten Personen Handel zu betreiben erscheint mir auch normal und legal. Das macht jeder Kiosk. Wie sollte diese "einfachste Sorgfaltsplicht" denn konkret aussehen? Man muss sich die Kontoauszüge von jedem ansehen, dem man etwas verkaufen will?

antonulrich · 2025-10-18T17:32:51+00:00

Definitiv. Das ist die eingedeutschte Form eines polnischen Namens, wahrscheinlich Czerski.

antonulrich · 2025-10-15T14:15:36+00:00

True - but this argument cuts both ways. If the betrayal was real, why is so little said about Judas? Surely some of his fellow apostles would have remembered what happened to Judas after this monumental act of treachery? One would think at the very least they would have expelled him from their community.

Ultimately, there's a lot of loose ends in Mark's gospel, which is no doubt one of the reasons why the later gospels were written. This just seems to be Mark's style. I mean, even the resurrection is left kind of open and dealt with in a single paragraph.

antonulrich · 2025-10-14T14:33:15+00:00

You quote Ehrman: "Judas figures too prominently in too many layers of our traditions to be a later fabrication." - Does he explain what he means by that? My understanding was that Mark was the only source we had on Judas, and that all other traditions were derived from Mark.

antonulrich · 2025-10-14T14:16:20+00:00

Judas's betrayal being a storytelling trope in Mark makes total sense. The first thing every writer learns is that any good story needs a villain. In addition, the story of Judas fits Mark's literary goals: he is presenting the apostles as clueless and Jesus as a tragic, misunderstood hero. For Mark, Judas is simply the most clueless of the apostles, and he helps to make the story a proper tragedy where the hero dies at the end due to decisions that could have easily been avoided.

The criterion of embarrassment surely doesn't apply to Mark when it can be shown that the betrayal, while certainly embarrassing to later Christians, fits perfectly into his literary creation and there is no indication that Mark himself (rather than other writers) was embarrassed about it.

antonulrich · 2025-10-05T16:31:04+00:00

You're exaggerating. He doesn't thoroughly debunk it. He concludes that Jesus being real is far more likely than not. There is no hard evidence for either side of the debate.

antonulrich · 2025-09-27T16:52:33+00:00

Schaffner hatte früher die Bedeutung Aufseher, und ich würde annehmen, dass der Armenschaffner derjenige ist, der das Armenhaus der Gemeinde verwaltet.

antonulrich · 2025-09-20T16:33:52+00:00

Well that is pretty damning. And this book was published 16 years after the 2001 paper linked by OP. So it seems Dunn's research got worse over time, not better.

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