The only thing I am better at, than spotting typos, is making yhem.

All the dictionaries of South East Solomon languages have failed to collect the word "chicken" except for Toqabaqita.

They are all excellent dictionaries and I am thankful to the authors! But this gap in data highlights the need for continued documentation efforts!

Is you aren't talking about Austronesian languages of Solomon Islands, what are you talking about?

How do I find fans of Austronesian/Historical Linguistics?

#solomonislands

I came across a nice example of metathesis today.

The Bugotu word talugu which is a reflex of PMP *takuRu "back."

guice (rhymes with juice)

you exist in the physical world regardless of the validation of the digital one

RIP to my friend, teacher, and mentor, Haj Ross, who passed away last week.

Haj left his fingerprints all over the field of linguistics, coining many terms including: islands, sluicing, pied piping, and conspiracy (in the phonological sense).

A picture of a wooden nguzunguzu statue carved by artists from Solomon Islands. Behind, books about Pacific Island languages including visible Kwaio and Lau dictionaries.

keke nguzunguzu bule
one nguzunguzu peace

#zinamaroviana #kwaio #lau #solomonislands #pacific #pacificart

my fav pastime is reanalyzing French idioms in English

or as the French say, "Lavy"

Why am I always stuck in space on Earth Day and stuck on Earth on Space Day?

you're telling me this on EARTH DAY?

it's like my grandma used to say, "Squatting 225 lbs for 5 reps a day keeps the doctor away"

if you dont want me at my be that as it may

you dont deserve me at my nevertheless

keke nguzunguzu seke

one of my favorite nguzunguzu, made of queen ebony bought in Solomon Islands from the carver

#zinamaroviana #pacificart #solomonislands

i wonder if anyone is better at cracking themselves up than me

even if you are pretty good at solo chuckling, i bet i can crack yourself up more than you can

the leaf blower is a great invention if you want the leaves in your yard to be in your neighbor's yard instead

livertruth? sorry, i dont normally eat the flesh of organs, but thanks for the offer

Liverwurst? I hardly know her wurst!

let the record show that the witness claims my client was "acting unhinged," but they themselves could not think of a single thing that would have qualified as a "hinged reaction" in the same circumstances

s-tier wordplay

a lot of people talk only about themselves
because
that is what they have spent the most time thinking about

A picture of a wooden nguzunguzu statue carved by artists from Solomon Islands. Behind, books about Pacific Island languages including visible Kwaio and Lau dictionaries.

keke nguzunguzu bule
one nguzunguzu peace

#zinamaroviana #kwaio #lau #solomonislands #pacific #pacificart

vea si goi?
how absolutive you?

#zinamaroviana

munumunu leana #zinamaroviana #nguzunguzu

You know it! Retained from the Austronesian voice system but used today as a nominalizer

gani = eat (crude)
hena = eat (polite)
ginani = food

#zinamaroviana

munumunu leana #zinamaroviana #nguzunguzu

if my kid were to say Roviana was his fav he would say "my favorite is my Roviana" because he is perceiving his favorite, not because he owns Roviana

have you ever encountered an evidential marker in a natural human language that works the way poss pro works in my kid's child language?

i love all languages but if i had to pick a facorite it would be Roviana from Western Province, Solomon Islands

in the language it is called Zinama Roviana

zama = speak
zinama = language
Zinama Roviana = Roviana Language