@siberian-khatru-72 to revive an old discussion on neogrammarianism: evidently the trap-bath split was caused by partial progression of a sound change through the lexicon? Is there an alternate explanation for it?
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As per my last clay tablet,
CCing Ibbi-Ilabrat on this one just to make sure we’re all on the same page!
This consultation with my viziers could have been a clay tablet
Today I learned about the Valais Blacknose sheep. I think I’m dead of cute.
why does multiplying two imaginary numbers equal a negative number?
>do a quarter turn
>do a quarter turn again
>wtf i'm facing the opposite direction.
i = 90° directionality on a number line still the greatest math trick insight I ever learned.
Hot take but the Renaissance guys or the Enlightenment guys or whoever it was were totally right about ahistorically idealizing the stark white appearance of Classical ruins and statues and shit. Like yeah. The austere beauty of pure shape and material or whatever. That's 100% right.
this is just brutalism but into ahistorical romanticization of Rome for no particular reason (don't worry I'm sure there's nothing unexamined about that)
There isn’t
god remember when someone accused me of being pro-colonialization or whatever for posting about the etymology of concrete
It's important to remember that you're better than those people
This is actually a bad thing to do. As soon as you stop empathizing with people who make silly (or even not-so-silly) errors in their thinking, you become not only a harsher, less pleasant person, but furthermore handicap your ability to communicate with those people in spite of your disagreements. In fact I was very much in error on this post for responding the way I did (not that it’s something worth worrying about in this case). Don’t do this! It is important to remember that you are not only not better than “those people”, you almost certainly are those people in some other domain! Have some intellectual humility!











