David Eddyshaw
tacitean.bsky.social
David Eddyshaw
@tacitean.bsky.social
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November 28, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Llongyfarchiadau o Abertawe (yng Nghymru)
November 26, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Certainly "culturally conservative" though: board member of the far-right Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (shareholders: Legatum and Paul Marshall.)
November 23, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Berber aṃucc "cat": any connection to Hausa mussa "cat"? (Given that a lot of "cat" words seem to be kinda phonaesthetic anyway, I suppose the resemblance could easily be accidental.)
November 23, 2025 at 7:59 PM
I saw some correspondence on their misclassification of Nabit as a Farefare dialect, from one of the few linguists with an informed opinion on the matter; his proposal was rejected, relying instead on an MA thesis (on Nabit orthography) by an author with no knowlege of the relevant languages at all.
November 22, 2025 at 6:07 PM
On the plus side, when I last had access to look at the specialised area I know most about (Western Oti-Volta) much of the information was significantly wrong anyway.
November 21, 2025 at 12:07 PM
To be fair, some tomatoes _are_ pretty disturbing. (No? Just me, then ...)
November 11, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Exactly!
November 8, 2025 at 12:52 PM
You're right! They don't!
November 8, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Kusaal biig "child" has the same root as Swahili mzee "old man." (However, this one goes *by > z, which is a positively _normal_ development in comparison ...)
November 7, 2025 at 12:15 AM