the followup/'larger piece' has 13 sections. i have written 1 section. now i just have to write 3

not even the 'ftaʕal for coronal f' thing seems to hold, the passive of nese 'to forget' is ntasa~nnasa... now on the other hand i can't seem to assign meaning to *nnafaʕ for the passive of nafaʕ 'to benefit (trans)', and ntafaʕ does exist for that meaning, but idk if there's anything broader there

insane qrt*

some part of my 'wtf is this now' reaction was definitely due to needing a sec to wrap my head around the idea of innovating a ftaʕal verb, my dialect supports your impression in that i think they're all fossils

[*it works! lemme see!]

[every time i write something in brackets it’s [⬅️ ejective] phonetic ipa btw]

benito mezooly

screenshot of the poem mecwār/مشوار by said akl in the book yāra N ṣaxx el xelem cū ṣār? W mecwār jīna ŷa d denī… mecwār… ان صحّ الحلم شو صار؟ ومشوار جينا عالدني… مشوار… (denī: sic?)

i have lebanese examples kinda (ttiṣál, šaˑwéreʕ, saˑfára) although the stress stays where it 'should' be

www.lebanesearabicinstitute.com/goodbye-leba...
youtube.com/watch?v=Mkm0...

screenshot of google search page: Al Overview Isochrony is a linguistic and rhythmic concept referring to the perception that speech or sounds occur in roughly equal time intervals, creating a regular beat. Often described as "eye-sok-ruh-nee,"

naturally

two bsky drafts: 5d stuff like fih (🐟) is so so so much better than my generation's -ussy 7d support agent: did you say s as in she? [name redacted until later]: yes, x as in xi support agent: ok thank you savior xavier: what

i got stuck thinking about "you people (plural)" long enough to realize i should go check my drafts

further down than this it's abandoned threads of mostly 0 value and two of at least 1 value that i hope to finish....

swap two letters and it's a @schwarzgerat.bsky.social bisk

i liked the reply too

tasteless but: have you seen the term 'lowkírkuinely' [1]? it gained a variant 'lowkirkénuinely' [2] that makes me wonder, bc similarly(?) when i try to kirkify 'legitimately' i can only get it to work as 'kirkítimately'

[1] en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lowkirk...
[2] en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lowkirk...

screenshot of the two bsky search results for `from:godoglyness.bsky.social "rings a bell"`: bisk 1 (6mo): [Replied to Tim Duffy] I have not. In fact I think l've only barely heard of it, the name faintly rings a bell but I couldn't begin to guess what it was about Maybe I should read it? [1 reply, 7 likes] bisk 2 (Jan 30, 2025): [Replied to dawnlight melody (⏸️🤖,⏩🏳️‍⚧️)] that rings a bell, i think that was the "maybe a third one" I was trying to remember [2 likes]

when one of these happens again you're gonna go insane trying to figure out if you're being spoken to thru the screen

there was a fourth one somewhere that i will delete this reply in favor of when i find again

the pun at the bottom of the alt text (might be hidden) turns out to basically be the origin of the word context

the meme of homer consoling a miserable bart [no text but original context* is (bart) 'this is the worst day of my life'; (homer) 'the worst day of your life *so far*'] * contexto porque no es con texto

ni[c]e one 🙂‍↕️ i love how concise it is

the nike logo with a shaddah on top

later in the same discord convo this came up... riddle i can spoil if needed

screenshot of tweet from: Z. @qrt_hdsty I spent so much time wondering what "jayyeg" was supposed to mean then realized it's a verb form from the noun giga (french pronunciation [ʒiga]). So jayyeg = 'get gigs'. The ad is for an app where you get data in exchange of watching vids/answering surveys. [image: photo of a billboard with a smiling woman looking at her phone, with text as below] JAYّEG tal9a ma tconnecti [smaller] تيليشرجي l'application JAYEG [even smaller] معاك فلّي تحبّو 🟧 orange

i was literally just looking at this old screenshot (is this user still around? i have a faiiiiint memory of the pfp from when i first joined bsky)

this is the most serious i've seen ling bsky get

defective bird, hollow bird, geminate bird, assimilated bird

i got a notif when you accidentally liked this

greatly enjoying the suffix world tour over the last month

[i found out by testing how the llm itself would write a solution, finding that its attempt looked more complex, asking 'do we really need this? why?' -⁠> 'yes meatbag stay in your lane']

it's really interesting, they ~can't write clean code w/o tight guardrails but they do fine at catching holes

goddammit i kneecapped myself by not putting in more work to understand the data model and my fix was not actually a fix [fortunately nobody's noticed yet], if you take this thread as advice [don't lmao] you do need to actually use the new tools as an understanding aid rather than as a thought-ender