i mean he’s been hugely influential in linguistics and it’d be dumb to pretend he hasn’t made contributions of value, but it’s fun to dunk on him and there’s definitely a fair bit that’s somewhat controversial and that i disagree with

you hate chomsky for his political opinions, i hate chomsky for his linguistics opinions (and also his political opinions). we are not the same

and then alcohol ended up getting loaned back into arabic as (al-)kuḥūl

Yeah this is kind of the conclusion I’ve come to. I don’t really know what it is that ‘see’ is really supposed to mean. I mean very obviously I don’t see it in the same way as I see an object in front of me, but at the same time there is still an apple that has various characteristics and exists in some way within some sort of mental space, and whose attributes, including ones which for a real apple would be visual, I can be aware of and understand

Sadly I can’t rotate a cow in my mind because it always just wants to dance to that Polish song instead

And then I’m vegan with two different kinds of ED 😎

It may not be strategically important but it’s a crucial symbolic victory that will keep morale high

Really not beating the supporting Nazis allegations with this

They played All I Want for Christmas at pride here and that was like the 2nd or therebouts this month so yeah…

I’ve been putting off finally deleting my account for good for a while now but this would actually be it because it’s 100% unusable on the redesign

I’m T4T so I’m pretty sure being a communist increases my odds of getting a date actually

I’ve seen literally one of those shows lol, definitely know the feeling

Leftists who sort of follow a sport are the most oppressed minority

The time to stop using Chrome was yesterday, but I guess today is the next best

I know everyone here is doing China discourse here but the honestly not insignificant inequality that remained in the USSR is kinda interesting to see.

Unfortunately I could never really get that into playing and practising solo and although I continued for a while regardless I eventually dropped my lessons, something I now kinda regret, but being part of an orchestra was always my favourite part of playing the violin.

Lack of knowledge in linguistics (or languages in general) is also what stopped my conlang project in its tracks.

Yeah I’ve had this issue too, but it hasn’t stopped me trying. I do try my best to understand the linguistics stuff enough to make sure my language is making sense, but it feels like a never-ending battle as there’s always more you can learn and add. I’m kinda fine with that though, and if it weren’t for conlanging I wouldn’t have realised I was into linguistics and started studying it at university.

Four actually

L’internationale sera le genre humain

The Internationale is so good, definitely my favourite socialist song. It’s not even like my favourite musically, but it just hits different somehow, it feels more unifying. Also the fact it’s been translated into pretty much every language in existence and had different local spins put on it is great