That sounds difficult to represent without limiting other possible paths (you don’t want to have an arrow to and from every single node). My best suggestion is to add a vague drifting pattern swirling from some center, like this one, but a light opacity clipart swirl instead of a filled background.

The flag of the Isle of Man is a fidget spinner. The motto that goes on the coat of arms with it is “Quocunque Jeceris Stabit,” which means ‘whichever way you throw me I stand.’ A suitable depiction.

tb to the og 100 Classic Books, which I also had on my DSi!

Content I support: Tibees— NZ YouTuber making interesting science and mathematics videos in a simple and relaxing format, and many in-depth topics. It’s almost like ASMR for me. She is so passionate about things that would otherwise go over my head, like deGrasse Tyson’s thesis, or complex shapes.

Rip people on the other side of the merger

Digging up examples to put in my inventory of ‘surprising and interesting things linguistics can discover,’ for conversation with any lay person.

External possession sentences are cool. Ft. Kipsigis— a Southern Nilotic language in Kenya (Maria Kouneli, Rutgers)...and Kinyarwanda— a Bantu language in Rwanda (Patrick Kinchsular, NYU). A way to show students that possession is more diverse than English possessive -‘s.

Interesting examples from Igbo. When the future marker 'ga' is combined with the verbal suffix 'riri,' epistemic necessity ('must') is reflected. When a speaker expresses full certainty in such a sentence, the suffix is *obligatory*. Courtesy of work at Edinburgh (osf.io/preprints/ps...).

From katemooney.org (UMD), two varieties of Amarasi show gestural timing effects in one but not the other (data: Edwards 2020). A fixed epenthetic [g] occurs in Oekabiti Amarasi but it alternates in Neonmese as [gʷ]/[dʒ] after vowels which are front/back, respectively, due to the timing of overlap.

Learned off Lingbuzz this morning: Tagalog linear order being affected by pronoun/adverb distinction + syllable count. Opposite order for each is impossible. Courtesy of Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine (mitcho.com) and Henrison Hsieh (henrison.github.io). Conversation fodder for my Filipino roommate.