Dessin de Pierre Samson: des ouvriers à la chaîne fabriquent des bombes. L'un d'eux peint des petits animaux dessus: "C'est pour une chambre d'enfant"!
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I'm quite interesting in the use of the word "raring".
In Modern English is its exclusively used in the phrase "raring to go". But in other language varieties it is still used in other contexts, "the man was raring in the street".
There was a chap talking about this on the Yimby Podcast the other week. Whilst on the one hand it would lead to higher and lower prices in respective regions, it would also give clearer price signals to suppliers.
Each region would develop an appropriate mix of generator tech.
I only just found out that the word "strewn" (as in "his clothes were strewn across the floor") is just the past tense of the verbal form of "straw" - the bits of wheat that get blown away when you harvest wheat.
Israël, qui confirme que le soldat photographié frappant une statue de Jésus est Israélien, présente des excuses
To what extent does Liz Kendall use AI in her day to day job?
And how has this experience convinced her that the public should embrace AI?
Or is she just getting paid to shill for the over-leveraged AI companies?
So, if the first Scots high fantasy novel just happens to feature socialist brownies, and horny floating carrier bags, then they are de facto tropes in the genre.
Also, because there are many genres that have no representation in the Scots literary canon, being the first there means that the genre is centred on something different to other languages.
Like if you compare French sci-fi to American sci-fi, or American comics and British comics.
To create the first written Scots work in a specific genre.
Maybe its about having kids or settling down, and its not the "dead internet" at all.
Maybe we just drifted apart, and got old.
This was before social media.
"Social" media has taken all that away. You can't post something on Twitter or BlueSky and then then go and meet like-minded people down the pub.
It could be that I'm getting old, but I'm buying into the "dead internet theory" That most of the stuff on the internet is just bots and spam, and not real people.
Twenty years ago, there were messageboards, real people posting, friends, acquaintances, strangers who you might meet in the pub.
There is an aspect that I simply don't have any knowledge of. The term "Modern English" covers most of the regional varieties, British English, American English, Australian English.
But I don't know if there is an American variety of Middle English. Are there any non-British varieties of Middle Eng
It emphasises that they've been running and developing in parallel even as the different language eras have transitioned, rather than being monolithic unchanging languages.
In some respects Middle English is a different language to Modern English.
Scots and English have "long-standing contact" but even after 1600 years, are still distinct. And in some respects they are more distinct now than they were 300 years ago.
The "long-standing contact" hasn't made them converge.
With this model Geordie, or the modern Northumbrian dialect would be a dialect of Scots rather than a dialect of English, since it developed from the Northumbrian variety of Old English.
I dunno.
My theory can be visualised like this.
The BBC undercover investigation into false immigration claims is deeply irresponsible journalism. It does not highlight that exploitation by unregulated advisors occurs because legal aid was cut and the system is insane to navigate.
The thing is, all this is demonstrable and provable, and historically supported.
The view that Scots is just bastardised English or developed from the same Old English root just isn't supported, and is merely ahistorical 20th century prejudice.
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Before that increase in in the number of speakers, Scots and English were broadly equal in both antecedence and in the number of speakers.
Mutually intelligible, but not the same language.
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Why this matters is that Scots and English have been equal sister languages for more than 1700 years, and not one language splitting off from the other.
Is just a quirk of history that in the 17th century the global number of English speakers happened to rapidly increase.
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In this respect the Anglic language was distinct from the Saxon language.
Both tribes were approximately the same size, a few tens of thousands of people, both languages should be recognised as distinct, rather than one dialect of the other.
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When the Angles, the Saxons and the Jutes came over from the north Germanic regions of Europe, they were distinct tribes. They weren't one unified people.
Similarly they didn't speak one unified language, they just happened to speak mutually intelligible language varieties.
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Middle English developed out of the West Saxon dialect of Old English, and Early Scots developed out of the Northumbrian dialect of Old English.
Now my theory is that the West Saxon and Northumbrian dialects of Old English, were not dialects of the same language.
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Modern English developed from Middle English, Middle English developed from Old English.
Similarly Modern Scots developed from Middle Scots, and Middle Scots developed from Early Scots.
Again, here we need to be a little more specific.
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I've got a linguists theory, or maybe a paradigm, an I'm going to try to articulate it in a thread here.
Whilst Scots is seen as a sister language to English. It might be more useful to be more specific, Modern Scots is a sister language to Modern English.
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It would be interesting to see if the various whale sounds a-codas and i-codas follow Zipf's Law.
Is there something that could be described as a vocabulary, or lexical units, that follow the sort of frequency distributions seen in human languages?
It's a fundamental thing that "social media" took away from us, being social with girls we are afraid of.
The best way to win a fight with a wild bear is to ensure it is a properly organised boxing match.
The bear will be disqualified in seconds and you would be awarded the win by default.
Also the 2008 movie "The Other Boleyn Girl".