Cranberry Morpheme 🌻🍉Ա🌲🍀
@cranberrymorph.bsky.social
Ling MA dropout (BA got)
Likes historical linguistics and syntax. Also space.
Likes historical linguistics and syntax. Also space.
the urge to say vel cetera or aut cetera as a counterpoint to et cetera
November 22, 2025 at 12:00 AM
the urge to say vel cetera or aut cetera as a counterpoint to et cetera
When phonology draws up the etz chaim of an entire oral world so neatly systemicized into neat little dualities and trinities and then phonetics is like "actually physiologically everything is a front vowel"
November 21, 2025 at 6:10 PM
When phonology draws up the etz chaim of an entire oral world so neatly systemicized into neat little dualities and trinities and then phonetics is like "actually physiologically everything is a front vowel"
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“The prohibited activities would include joint research, co-authorship on papers, and advising a foreign graduate student or postdoctoral fellow. The language is retroactive, meaning any interactions during the previous 5 years could make a scientist ineligible for future federal funding.”
U.S. Congress considers sweeping ban on Chinese collaborations
Researchers speak out against proposal that would bar funding for U.S. scientists working with Chinese partners or training Chinese students
www.science.org
November 14, 2025 at 1:03 AM
“The prohibited activities would include joint research, co-authorship on papers, and advising a foreign graduate student or postdoctoral fellow. The language is retroactive, meaning any interactions during the previous 5 years could make a scientist ineligible for future federal funding.”
the news is running a bit on spiritual people using ai to talk to jesus and i literally can't imagine something more demonic
November 13, 2025 at 9:56 PM
the news is running a bit on spiritual people using ai to talk to jesus and i literally can't imagine something more demonic
genug und megug
November 8, 2025 at 12:04 AM
genug und megug
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I wonder if you can thread a needle where a substantive "might"/"powerful" becomes applied to this large and religiously important bird, and the same substantive as "power" or "might" **also** becomes their "soul" word.
escholarship.org/uc/item/0r77...
escholarship.org/uc/item/0r77...
Saddle-Billed Stork (Ba-Bird)
Author(s): Janák, Jíří | Abstract: The ba, whose notion spanned from the divine to the manifestation of the divine, and from the supernatural (or rather super-human) manifestation of the dead to the n...
escholarship.org
November 6, 2025 at 4:03 AM
I wonder if you can thread a needle where a substantive "might"/"powerful" becomes applied to this large and religiously important bird, and the same substantive as "power" or "might" **also** becomes their "soul" word.
escholarship.org/uc/item/0r77...
escholarship.org/uc/item/0r77...
it's kinda fucked up that we don't know why she's pronounced that way
November 6, 2025 at 4:21 AM
it's kinda fucked up that we don't know why she's pronounced that way
it'd be very good/funny if subs for foreign entertainment gave a leipzig gloss of the original language underneath a functional translation
the literalist formal equivalence purists would get what they want and maybe learn why they don't want that while language nerds would get to have more fun
the literalist formal equivalence purists would get what they want and maybe learn why they don't want that while language nerds would get to have more fun
November 5, 2025 at 3:40 PM
it'd be very good/funny if subs for foreign entertainment gave a leipzig gloss of the original language underneath a functional translation
the literalist formal equivalence purists would get what they want and maybe learn why they don't want that while language nerds would get to have more fun
the literalist formal equivalence purists would get what they want and maybe learn why they don't want that while language nerds would get to have more fun
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Dick Cheney did more than anyone else to build up expansive and destructive executive branch powers in the wake of 9/11; he lived to see another president turn those same powers against his own daughter.
He should be a warning sign to the GOP today but too many of them are in the cult.
He should be a warning sign to the GOP today but too many of them are in the cult.
November 4, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Dick Cheney did more than anyone else to build up expansive and destructive executive branch powers in the wake of 9/11; he lived to see another president turn those same powers against his own daughter.
He should be a warning sign to the GOP today but too many of them are in the cult.
He should be a warning sign to the GOP today but too many of them are in the cult.
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hug your war criminals a little tighter today
November 4, 2025 at 12:11 PM
hug your war criminals a little tighter today
I am hearing that on his deathbed Dick Cheney received the light of Islam and unhesitatingly recited the Shahāda. And Allāh took one look at him and threw him straight into Jahannam anyways
November 4, 2025 at 12:55 PM
I am hearing that on his deathbed Dick Cheney received the light of Islam and unhesitatingly recited the Shahāda. And Allāh took one look at him and threw him straight into Jahannam anyways
Quietly tragic at a non-human level is how few language areas there actually are. Like you want to be able to do some Serious Inference with typology like idk Bayesian estimates but it turns out all 100 languages in your pool belong to like 2 Sprachbünde, your n = 2, not 100.
October 29, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Quietly tragic at a non-human level is how few language areas there actually are. Like you want to be able to do some Serious Inference with typology like idk Bayesian estimates but it turns out all 100 languages in your pool belong to like 2 Sprachbünde, your n = 2, not 100.
...are things quantized because c is constant
October 24, 2025 at 4:06 AM
...are things quantized because c is constant
Guessing that one Mao quote goes harder in Armenian
October 20, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Guessing that one Mao quote goes harder in Armenian
spaghetti the pesto
October 19, 2025 at 12:50 AM
spaghetti the pesto
I feel like retrocausal interpretations of QM are slept on
October 15, 2025 at 10:32 PM
I feel like retrocausal interpretations of QM are slept on
I fundamentally don't understand how free will even works logically. Like physically how is a decision made? At what point did life evolve that mechanism?
October 15, 2025 at 10:07 PM
I fundamentally don't understand how free will even works logically. Like physically how is a decision made? At what point did life evolve that mechanism?
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There is no need to editorialize. Just quote.
October 10, 2025 at 4:36 PM
There is no need to editorialize. Just quote.
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aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage
During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.
It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.
He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’
During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...
chicago.suntimes.com
October 10, 2025 at 10:31 PM
aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage
i'm suddenly kind of fixated on why languages generate adjuncts if the adjunctless forms are syntactically adequate
like instead of
"colorless green ideas sleep furiously"
"ideas sleep. the ideas are green. the ideas are colorless. the sleep is furious"
like instead of
"colorless green ideas sleep furiously"
"ideas sleep. the ideas are green. the ideas are colorless. the sleep is furious"
October 10, 2025 at 7:06 AM
i'm suddenly kind of fixated on why languages generate adjuncts if the adjunctless forms are syntactically adequate
like instead of
"colorless green ideas sleep furiously"
"ideas sleep. the ideas are green. the ideas are colorless. the sleep is furious"
like instead of
"colorless green ideas sleep furiously"
"ideas sleep. the ideas are green. the ideas are colorless. the sleep is furious"
there are actually only 6 grammars in the world: SEA, SAE, turkish, german, polynesian, and north afroamerican
korean? turkish. yoruba? sea. miwok? north afroamerican
despite being malayo-polynesian, malay is sae
korean? turkish. yoruba? sea. miwok? north afroamerican
despite being malayo-polynesian, malay is sae
October 10, 2025 at 5:15 AM
there are actually only 6 grammars in the world: SEA, SAE, turkish, german, polynesian, and north afroamerican
korean? turkish. yoruba? sea. miwok? north afroamerican
despite being malayo-polynesian, malay is sae
korean? turkish. yoruba? sea. miwok? north afroamerican
despite being malayo-polynesian, malay is sae
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old japanese be like “woman”
October 10, 2025 at 1:02 AM
old japanese be like “woman”
dumb q but why isn't Mandarin analyzed as V2?
given things like the 把 construction or whatever's going on with 了
given things like the 把 construction or whatever's going on with 了
October 9, 2025 at 11:05 PM
dumb q but why isn't Mandarin analyzed as V2?
given things like the 把 construction or whatever's going on with 了
given things like the 把 construction or whatever's going on with 了
Cangjie-Imhotep syncretism
October 6, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Cangjie-Imhotep syncretism
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I accidentally glitched out an animation I was working on and created a perfect example of what the passage of time feels like to someone with ADHD
October 5, 2025 at 2:38 AM
I accidentally glitched out an animation I was working on and created a perfect example of what the passage of time feels like to someone with ADHD