Die Bundesregierung plant Sozialkürzungen ungeheuren Ausmaßes. Und die Presse ist voll von Walberichten und Olympiabewerbung. Leute, wacht auf.
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And then there are varieties of Swedish that have both. Trudgill used to take them as examples of the kind of complexification that only happens in isolation and then Östen Dahl pointed out that this happened precisely due to contact between preposing and postposing dialects

Balkan Sprachbund in action

Eine Grafik mit Bildern von SPD-Justizministerin Stefanie Hubig, CSU-Innenminister Alexander Dobrindt und Palantir-Gründer Peter Thiel. Darüber der Slogan: "Keine KI-Massenüberwachung durch die Hintertür. Lex Palantir stoppen!"

Während #Palantir ein Manifest voller rechtsextremer Talking Points veröffentlicht, droht die Bundesregierung KI-Massenüberwachung durch die Hintertür einzuführen.

Das darf nicht passieren.

Wir sollten unsere Grundrechte vor KI-Überwachung & Big Tech schützen – statt sie schleichend auszuhöhlen.

even as they were only achieved through patriarchal and aristocratic power structures.

I mean, Palantir does have a point here. The cultivation of bananas in Papua New Guinea, of tea in China, and most of our favorite crops from potatoes to tomatoes, chocolate and maize in the Americas are very hard to top.
But we must not entirely dismiss the achievements of Sumer and Mali,

No, I don’t expect to.

I found the source to happiness: all you have to do is be a hundred percent perfect all of the time.

NP arguments, on the other hand, are extremely flexible syntactically and can basically be thrown in before or after the verb. I haven’t seen incorporation yet, which some would take as a defining feature of polysynthesis. But otherwise, argument marking does remind me of Inuktitut and similar.

are much more fusional and akin to affixes, they are often described as clitics, but their dependence on the verb isn’t just phonological, they also have a very different distribution from nouns, having to appear pretty much at fixed positions relative to the verb.

than by internal dynamics. And spoken language is often more fusional than written. What is special about French though is 1) an unusual degree of diglossia and 2) even written French appears more polysynthetic than you might expect from a Indo-European language in that non-topic pronouns

Well, the whole idea of the morphological cycle suggests that languages constantly evolve from isolating through agglutinating to fusional and back to isolating.
There is quite a bit of evidence at least for a synthetic-analytic cycle, although language change is often driven more by contact

I made a zine on dinosaur names.

I don’t recall any other Anatolian names, but there could be a few based on Anatolian place names.

Link to the zine in German here, let me know if you’d like to get my source files.
www.twillo.de/edu-sharing/...

Ahaha, nice!

I would be Peanut Female. Has a ring to it.

Books: histoires toutes bêtes by Antonin Louchard
Vieille by Delphine Panique

Page from a picture book. We see a guilty looking puppy. Text in French: C’est qui le gentil chien-chien qui rapporte la jolie ba-balle à son papa?

Page from a comic book. Title in French: ma fifille

I had no idea French has diminutive partial reduplication, but here we are:
chien-chien
ba-balle
fifille

Does anyone know how productive these are?

Today's required reading for anyone who wants to understand how publishing of research works and what to watch out for.

Menschen, die weiblichen Kindern kleinteilig vorschreiben wollen, was sie tragen dürfen...

The fact that I can set my smart watch to vibrate at specific points in time has vastly improved the number of appointments I manage not to miss, but when I'm deep enough in hyperfocus, no number of alarms will snap me out of it.

(by way of apology, just in case I miss an appointment with you)

CETI scientists led by CETI Linguistics Lead Gašper Beguš have revealed that not only do sperm whale vocalizations sound like human vowels, they also behave like them! Read: bit.ly/4dPrIfr

By: @begus.bsky.social, Maksymilian Dąbkowski, Ronald Sprouse, David Gruber, Shane Gero

‎The Meteorites ‎Wissenschaft und Natur · 2025

Reading about meteorites and then seeing a piece of Ensisheim and other very special space rocks in the Mineral exhibition of the Natural History Museum in Paris was so satisfying.
10/10 recommend
(the book is great even if you can’t make it to Paris)

Screenshot eines Tagesspiegel-Artikels zum beinahen Kollaps der TU Berlin" "Es ist ein guter Tag, es riecht nur wenig aus den Klos: Das Architekturgebäude der TU Berlin ist kurz vor dem Kollaps"

Exzellenz ist, wenn es an manchen Tagen nur wenig aus den Klos riecht... #ExzellenzInBruchbuden #ExStra

A train platform. Just at the edge of the platform is written “mind the gap”. There is a big gap between the word “the” and the word “gap”.

Iconicitiy iin Paddington Station

What's a moment from your life, out of context, that's straight from a movie?

I'll start - in Tokyo, looking for a quiet place to eat lunch, I sat down in a graveyard. The biggest goddamn raven I've ever seen in my goddamn life landed on a stone next to me.

At her insistence, I shared.

"Progressiv": Bereit, Dinge zu ändern, auch wenn es unbequem wird.

Was bedeuten die Begriffe für euch? Wäre es besser, jedesmal auszubuchstabieren, was man meint, statt solche Labels zu verwenden?

Letztes Jahr war ich im Gespräch mit einer Stiftung zum Thema Hochschuldemokratie und wurde gebeten, die Begriffe "links" und "progressiv" zu definieren. Das habe ich gesagt:

"Links": Bereit, eigene Privilegien zum Wohl der Gemeinschaft aufzugeben.

Der Tankrabatt kostet für 2 Mon. 1,6 Mrd. €. Dafür, dass sich Öl-Konzerne bereichern, SUV-Fahrer besonders entlastet & fossile Kriege finanziert werden.

Das Deutschlandticket kostet für 12 Mon. 1,5 Mrd.€. Dafür, dass 14 Mio. Menschen entlastet, Stau reduziert & fossile Unabhängigkeit gestärkt wird.

Illustration eines Kinosaals mit Projektion und Publikum, dazu der Titel „philfliX – Philosophische Kinoabende mit denXte“ und Hinweis auf das Sommersemester 2026.

Programmübersicht der philfliX-Kinoabende im Sommersemester 2026 im Bambi Filmstudio Düsseldorf mit drei Terminen, Filmen und Vortragenden.

Philosophie im #Kino? 🎬💭
Das gibt’s bei philfliX (ehemals: Philosophie & Film) mit #denXte! 🌟

ℹ️ Filme lassen uns in andere Welten eintauchen, Perspektiven wechseln und (un)mögliche Dinge erleben – ein perfekter Ausgangspunkt für philosophische Fragen. 🤔

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