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Is this from Dzongkha or Ladakhi? Since the plosive + r combination usually produces a retroflex consonant (affricate in Lhasa Tibetan, stop in Dzongkha) I take it this was loaned via an Indo-Aryan language.
January 23, 2026 at 10:41 AM
It wasn’t until I first came across “paraula” that I made the connection between “palabra” and “parole”. And I’m pretty sure I didn’t connect the dots to “parabola” until it was pointed out to me directly.
January 8, 2026 at 6:58 PM
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Never have I been more glad that no project gets picked up at KyoAni unless a director is proactive about wanting to make it. Which, duh, they would with Ruridragon. Jump adaptations are sucking the air out of the room, but at least this is a vacuum-sealed studio that won't sap talent from elsewhere
December 28, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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UPDATE: We may see the first time English is displaced as the most popular language among Bluesky posters as soon as Americans head to sleep tonight.

Japanese users were close to achieving that feat at 7 am Eastern Time, and their activity is increasing at an exponential pace. This is remarkable.
December 25, 2025 at 3:43 AM
I occasionally wonder how actual pan-slavists react when it’s pointed out to them that one mr. Jughashvili came closest to realizing their political goals..
December 24, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Reminds me of the Russian conspiracy theory that “(Moscow mayor) Sobyanin’s real surname is Kanalgeruch”, which still gets unironically included in lists of “real names of the Russian elite”, even though the person who admitted to having invented it said that its implausibility was part of the joke.
November 27, 2025 at 9:27 PM
I guess there’s still a possibility that it’s based on the Russian *pronunciation* with no regard for the spelling, which in turn would make me wonder at what point the spelling with an i became “set in stone”
November 3, 2025 at 9:46 AM
The spelling has always puzzled me because if it’s based on Ukrainian then it wouldn’t have an o, as the -oy stressed ending in adjectives is a clear Ru vs Ukrainian/Belarusian isogloss, but if it’s based on Russian then the other vowel should be e instead of i.
November 3, 2025 at 9:42 AM
And here I thought that Ernst Neizvestny’s name was an artistic pseudonym à la Demyan Bedny (“the poor”) or Ivan Bezdomny (“the homeless”).

To be fair, the latter is a fictional character loosely based on the former, I couldn’t actually think of another real example
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_N...
Ernst Neizvestny - Wikipedia
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November 3, 2025 at 9:33 AM