Dating myself with this one

Do you mean in my German? Trying to remember when you heard me speaking German; if it was for the Mari course, there's probably a recording! somewhere within the few dozen hours..

That's what I'm doing right now. When you're being told by hosts of actual linguists, people who work with language and its role in society professionally, that your behavior here was problematic, it might make sense to take a step back and consider if this is actually a role you want to play.

If there is a genuine issue with understanding what someone means, you can ask for clarification, but this simply wasn't the case here, and it basically never is with these kind of style questions.

Well that's exactly the issue: if you give this kind of unsolicited advice, you are positioning yourself hierarchically. The appropriate context for corrections of this type is between parents and children, teachers and students: i.e. hierarchical relationships.

Not really. There is a difference between a consensus on structure and meaning arising naturally (which happens also in communities without literacy!), and proscribing structures and words where that consensus existed. That's inherently hierarchical and not something people need to be doing.

(Not that this was probably the classic emphatic usage, but from the same domain.)

Also, etymology / origin has little (nothing) to do with what is considered "correct", but emphatic use of -self forms is incredibly old, as exemplified by it working in German too! ("Ich selbst hätte das so nicht gemacht") Which really underlines how .. somebody just made up this "rule".

Es tut mir Leid, aber das kann so nicht stimmen. Am 9. August dieses Jahres gab es keine Mondfinsternis.

(obviously, you can ping me for logistical details)

But the main question as regards time needed: can you make it to Hamburg?

Time-consuming but not terrible. I've visited all of them. You take a train to Dagebüll (about 3 hours from Hamburg) and get on a ferry there, 1-2 hours depending which one you're heading to. They're wonderfully easy to get around on by bike, and there are rentals.

The makers of Star Trek: TNG also picked it up and gave it to a race of big-eared greedy aliens.
Persian in turn got the term from a weird foreign force appearing in Western Asia during the crusades: the Franks, a Germanic tribe that also gave its name to Frankfurt, and of course, France. (3/3)

The Meadow Mari word is clearly borrowed from (Turkic) bäräηgä ‘potato’, which Ähmätyanov traces back to Persian farang (the f ~ p/b alternation is common in the region) – a generic word used for weird foreign stuff that’s spread across Eurasia into languages such as Thai, Hmong, Lao, Hokkien. (2/3)

Ich komm mit ihnen immer ins Gespräch, weil ich Estnisch kann (long story) - dann werden sie noch erfrischend ehrlicher darüber, dass das ganze eher life style als Band ist. Kaufe ihnen jedes Mal eine CD ab, rein aus Respekt dafür

Literally where the term comes from!!

I'm sure I've read people questioning if Slavic aspect is really prototypical aspect - same energy!

Accidentally artsy group picture.

#2025WinterSchool

What I also find so frustrating about dismissing the severity of this behavior because it's all jokey-jokes and trolling (I don't think the quoted post is necessarily doing that, but lots of folks are) is ... like that isn't directly lifted from the authoritarian playbook!