you hate chomsky for his political opinions, i hate chomsky for his linguistics opinions (and also his political opinions). we are not the same
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
Really not beating the supporting Nazis allegations with this
I’ve seen literally one of those shows lol, definitely know the feeling
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.
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
Quite authoritarian of them to exist without permission I must say
By being ‘slightly critical’ you do mean complaining about homeless people, right?
Fair enough. I usually use no em-dashes and just say Marxist, which obviously carries its own ambiguities but I don’t really think I align strongly enough with a specific tendency to adopt that as a label.
I mean I don’t usually like to call myself a leftist because it doesn’t really mean anything. A leftist could be some random socdem or it could be a revolutionary socialist, and those aren’t the same and shouldn’t be treated as such
Haven’t liberals been the ones calling us fascists ever since we federated?
The hell of capitalism is the firm, not the fact that it has a boss
I once saw someone call an anarchist Mastodon instance tankie because someone said something about killing all billionaires
Another cool Dominik Mayer art
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