Side-eye of beef.

"The Manambu Language of East Sepik, Papua New Guinea," Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, 2008, OUP.

With Kílta I went with síkkochál - "star-tail" (síkis - "star;" kochál - "tail").

For example, there's a section on Kílta's color terms which makes things clearer than trolling through the entire lexicon would do. Yesterday I added almost two pages on flavor and aroma constructions.

3/3

There's not necessarily anything new in this section, but it does unite information spread across the lexicon and grammar in a way that makes some more covert patterns clearer. It also lets me expand on some things that I don't feel completely comfortable putting in the lexicon due to size.

2/3

3.

Elisp (though not all the time), some scheme, but effectively only CL these days.

As do you!

Circassian has a native coinage: тхылъ /txıɬ̧/ ‘book’ = тхы- /txı-/ ‘write’ + -лъ /-ɬ̧/ receptacle suffix :)

I've been trying *not* to read it as an allegory for AI, just because I know from interviews the original ideas for the show happened years before genAI was everywhere. But it's really hard to avoid the comparison.

Shadow could not agree more.

This is Badger, who left us early last year, at a ripe old age.

Everyone agreed he had a distinct expression, but no one could agree what that expression was: concern, sadness, disappointment. He was missing one canine, so he sometimes had an Elvis-style lip curl, and drooled when happy (often).

No, I do mean sniffing the wind. The Flehmen response can happen when they're facing the ground. And there's no lip-curl for this.

I’m still thinking about options for that.

My favorite answer to the question of the bird was "God wanted a bird."

We used Gardiner as the textbook, but supplemented with many handouts. Hilariously (in retrospect), we were being inducted into Polotsky's "Standard Theory" of the verb just as that was starting to go out of favor for Old and Middle Egyptian. 3/3

I have always loved these "lawyers" notebooks (not the notepads) for language work like this. They have a vertical line cutting off about a third of a page, where extra notes can go once you get to class, or other things occur to you later. 2/3