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Love Begins
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let's talk about Bridgerton tea, my ask is open
Cookie Run:Kingdom Official!
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Sweet Seals For You, Always
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
The Stonewall Inn
Doug Jones
Keni
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almost home
Color Me Curious
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The images and gifs from A Step-by-Step Guide to Drawing Syntax Trees, in a format where you can click to enlarge. See the other post for detailed explanation. (Not the exact kind of syntax trees youāre used to? Hereās why.)
Happy Pride Month!Ā š
Edit: an anon said thatĀ āGame Faceā is actually about Fallon Fox, a transgender woman.
The obsolete English -k suffix is my new favourite thing (source). Itās also the same -k that derives āhark, hearkenā from āhearā.Ā
Letter and next-letter frequencies in English
by Udzu
The best part of this chart is the pseudowords it generates:Ā
Bastrabot
Forliatitive
Wasions
Felogy
Sonsih
Fourn
Meembege
Prouning
Nown
Abrip
Dithely
Raliket
Ascoult
Quarm
Winferlifterand
Uniso
Hise
Nuouish
Guncelawits
Rectere
Doesium
WhigandĀ
Gamplato
Onal
Foriticent
ThedĀ
EuwitĀ
GentranĀ
Loubing.
(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWy3_haeCXI)
Nice going Angelica. He was right, you willĀ never be satisfied.
āFiveā andĀ āPunchā
This one is a fairly familiar example in linguistics textbooks, but one that is probably surprising to someone not familiar with Indo-European linguistics.
Punch, in the sense of a fruit beverage, is a borrowing from the Hindi pÄĆ±Ä meaningĀ āfiveā, from the fact that the original version of punch used fiveĀ ingredients. Ā Numbers, of course, especially small numbers, tend not to be borrowed, and tend to be pretty stable in meaning as well. Ā They therefore provide a perfect class to look at when figuring out if groups of languages are related. Ā The Hindi pÄƱÄĀ descends from Sanskrit pƔƱcan, in turn from Proto-Indo-European *pĆ©nkŹ·e.Ā In the course of evolving into Sanskrit, short /e/ /a/ and /o/ all merged as /e/, the labiovelars became plain velars (thus kŹ· became k) and (before the /o/-/e/-/a/ merger), /k/ became palatized before front vowels, thus, *kŹ·e became *ke, became *ce, became *ca.
In an early stage of pre-Proto-Germanic, *pĆ©nkŹ·e became *pĆ©mpe, a sporadic form of assimilation. Ā Then, under the normal sound changes, particularly Grimmās Law, *pĆ©mpe became Proto-Germanic *fimf. Ā In the Ingvaeonic languages, a small group of West Germanic languages (made up primarily of English, Frisian, and Low German), nasals before voiceless fricatives were lost, with compensatory lengthening, thus, *fimf became Old English fÄ«f, which became Modern English five.
There were two PIE roots that appear to have been closely related to *penkŹ·eĀ which have also left descendants in English.Ā *pnĢ„kŹ·-sti-sĀ meaningĀ āfistā and *penkŹ·-rĆ³-sĀ meaningĀ āfingerā Ā The first is the origin of Modern EnglishĀ āfistā and the second is the origin ofĀ āfingerā. Ā It is plausible that the original meaning of this root had something to do withĀ āfistā orĀ āhandā. Ā Compare, for example, the Proto-Austronesian *lima, which meant bothĀ āhandā andĀ āfiveā.
The development ofĀ āfistā fromĀ *pnĢ„kŹ·-sti-sĀ was this way: the syllabic non-vocalic sonorants became -uC-, thus PIE *nĢ„ became Proto-Germanic *un. Ā /kŹ·/ (and /kw/, which merged with /kŹ·/ early on) lost its labialization (the /w/ sound) in certain contexts, one of which which was when preceded by /u/, including /uC/ sequences. Ā /k/ before an /s/ or /t/ subsequently became /x/, thus becoming Proto-Germanic *funhstiz, which was simplified to *funstiz. Ā This became Old English fČ³st, the result of the /i/ in the last syllable fronting the /u/. Ā The vowel was shortened and unrounded to become Modern English fist. Ā There is, however, another possible etymology of Progo-Germanic *funstizĀ from the zero-grade of *pewĒµ-Ā āpunchā, in which case the verbal -n- infix would appear along with the suffix *-sti-s
In *penkŹ·-rĆ³-s, Vernerās Law caused /kŹ·/ to become /gŹ·/. Ā Most cases of /gŹ·/, whether derived originally from *gŹ·Ź° via Grimmās Law or *kŹ· via Vernerās Law were subsequently lost, with various reflexes depending on environment. Ā Word-initialy, historic *gŹ·Ź° became *b, most likely after Grimmās Law happened (thus *gŹ·Ź° ā *gŹ· ā *b), but the opposite order is also possible (thus *gŹ·Ź° ā *bŹ° ā *b), while word-medially it generally became either *g or *w. Ā Unstressed /e/ became /i/, thus creating Proto-Germanic *fingraz.
*pĆ©nkŹ·e is also the originĀ of Ancient Greek penteĀ (as in pentagon)Ā and Latin quinque (as in quintet), both meaningĀ āfiveā. This connection is more obvious than the Germanic one because thereās only one sound change each: /kŹ·/ to /t/ in Greek and /p/ to /kŹ·/ in Latin (āquā is pronounced /kŹ·/).Ā
Science Friday kicks off the fourth annual Cephalopod Week!
Thatās right ā¦ Cephalopod Week is BACK! Starting today and running through June 23rd, weāll be celebrating all our favorite smart invertebrates. Tune in, and as always share your amazing cephalopod love with us!
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Happy National Tap Dance day!
āButterflyā by Jason Mraz | Choreography & Danced by Anthony Morigerato
Happy National Tap Dance Day!
āConsequence of Soundsā by Regina Spektor | Tap Dance by Anthony Morigerato
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Joanneās 4th position on-point šĀ
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couldn't fall asleep because this image was so provocative
Just look at her, isnāt she magnificent?!
Artist Walead Beshty Shipped Glass Boxes Inside FedEx Boxes to Produce Shattered Sculptures
cant tell if pretentious or just petty about their experience with fedex
Given how many artists Iāve seen utterly livid about how FedEx and UPS treat packages marked āfragileā, Iām betting on the latter.
Cactus Packing
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The People vs. Kinder Morgan
Justin Trudeau has made a grave mistake in approving this new pipeline. The Tsleil-Waututh and other First Nations need our help so they can take this fight to the courts.Ā
You can donate to them here.Ā
We need to make our voices and the voices of future generations heard. Ā Ā Ā
NO MORE PIPELINES!
They are currently at 15% of their goal as of November 29th, 2016.
They are currently at 36% of their goal as of Nov 30
They are currently at 74% of their goal as of December 1st, 2016.
Sadly, I donāt see much that court will do beyond delaying the project. From experience, judicial review doesnāt tend to go anywhere.
The only reason the Northern Gateway pipeline is dead because of Court action. First Nations and Environmentalists took the government to court and won:
Northern Gateway pipeline approval overturned
It like Kinder Morganās Pipeline was approved, but court action led to its demise.
So yes, this will matter.
