alyssa @alyssa@cat.family
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Joined May 2022
linguistics question
is "the two of us" a partitive construction or something else?
it seems to carry the implication that "the two" is equivalent to "us", which is not typical of partitives (some claim that a partitive must refer to a proper subset of a set of things)
it's nice when you learn about a person with a street named after them and it's like "yeah he was the first person to translate Capital to spanish and founded the socialist party here"
«derivational morphology (as in derive: derivation: derivational)»
what a nerd (affectionate)
it’s nice to see trans representation in british quiz shows.
i assume that more actually black hair exists and that it is sometimes possible to distinguish it from dark brown hair.
the distinction between dark brown and black hair is not very real to me
like sometimes if an individual strand of my wife's hair really catches the light i can tell it's not just black. but honestly most of the time it just seems black.
poképosting
in this SS playthru i think i've already got more than enough sun stones from pickup to evolve every pokémon ever released which uses it to evolve
i expect to get many more
mentions a lot of fluids, language post
today sofi and i are exploring the contrasting meanings of use of english liquids as verbs. to water something is to add water, while to bleed or to milk or to juice something is to remove blood/milk/juice (except in certain metaphorical usages of juice).
to wine and dine someone is to give them wine (and dinner) but to wine is not really a verb in itself.
happy spooky valentines to all
thank you @Lady for finding pdfoutline for me (iirc)
low-key life-changing
reading hack: the writing style of gideon the ninth is way less tiresome in the spanish translation
@wallhackio correct, it is not a federal holiday (also not a state holiday in most states)
@wallhackio okay that is a conveniently very broad definition. will think on more recs tomorrow once i’m back home but for now Your Favorite Weapon, Brand New’s first album, is still i think my favorite of their albums and i did just travel from “Logan to Government Center” last week so it’s pretty top of mind. they’re definitely at their best with songs of anger and i think they were not above average for the genre in terms of misogyny.
@wallhackio also what’s your tolerance for bands that are low-key christian music
@wallhackio what do you consider to be emo?
it’s a little beautiful that the rival in HGSS (maybe also GSC, i forget) eventually evolves their Golbat to Crobat.
@Lady the indo-aryan languages seem like the main spot where it might plausibly be observable (due to combination of being one of the most studied families in historical linguistics and of having a very ancient literature on phonetics)
but yeah more modern synchronic observation seems more likely to turn up cases if it exists, and certainly we know of some ongoing cases of loss of conditioning environment resulting in phonemic split of former allophones from synchronic observation.
@Lady ah that corollary's an interesting point. see, this is why books about historical linguistics should talk about this issue :P
do you know if cases are known where a conditioning environment for allophonic variation was lost and the former allophonic variation was also simply lost rather than splitting phonologically?
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