I see what ye did there.
I do wish we had thorn; it’d be nice to distinguish the pronunciation of e.g. “the” from “Thailand”. As in “Man, I do love visiting þe markets in Chiang Mai, Thailand!”
I see what ye did there.
I do wish we had thorn; it’d be nice to distinguish the pronunciation of e.g. “the” from “Thailand”. As in “Man, I do love visiting þe markets in Chiang Mai, Thailand!”
There’s a word in Beowulf: misthleoþum, which is the dative plural of misthliþ, and the first time I read it I thought it had two fricatives in it, until I realised what I was looking at.
It’s a compound of mist (which still means the same thing today) and hliþ: “a slope, a hillside”.
The “th” fricative in modern English is borrowed from the Latin spelling, which they only used in borrowed words, usually from Greek, where th
is the Latin transliteration of θ, because when the Romans first encountered the Greeks, theta was an aspirate, pronounced /tʰ/, so the Romans wrote it like they heard it: th
, like they did for ch
for chi and ph
for phi. Then the pronunciation of the Greek changed so it became lenited to a fricative, but the Roman spelling stayed in their transliteration.
I wasn’t clear on the exact meaning of a fricative, so I looked it up on teh wikis.
After reading a bit and falling down a couple linguistic rabbit-holes: man, do I love all the creative ways humans have come up with to communicate by squirting air through their face-meat!
There’s nothing quite like slapping slabs of your face-meat together while blowing through it to get a message across, is there?
Botox can spread beyond the injection site, potentially causing botulism-like symptoms such as muscle weakness, fatigue, double vision, drooping eyelids, urinary incontinence, hoarse voice, and difficulty speaking or swallowing!
Well actually…
þ (thorn) is a voiceless fricative*. There is another letter we have replaced with “th”, ð (eth) which is a voiced fricative.The difference is that unvoiced letters do not use the vocal cords (thick, thin, think) while voiced ones do (this, that, these, those). You can feel the vibration in your throat when pronouncing voiced letters.
*All right, all right, a voiceless alveolar fricative. I’m trying to keep things simple here.
(I miss my pedant’s pendant. Can we bring it back?)
You have pretty much described the Welsh letter “ll”.
She’s not Trump, who can have his full and actual condition kept secret, somehow never escaping out into the world.
Let’s see how long the cause of Kristi’s condition stays hidden. A botox-related diagnosis would be too juicy for a run of the mill non-military hospital to keep under wraps.
Huh. That’s a real possibility.
This graph has been around for a while. Also thrown around as an “explanation” for increased crime in inner cities. Obviously, this is not the whole story (crime never came back to the 1960 level) but there is a clear correlation. By the way, this is a really weird graph. I’ve never seen on set up like this. The green line is lead 1937-88, the blue line is violent crime 1960-2011. The idea behind this is that there is a significant delay between preschool lead levels and perpetrators of violent crime, and this tries to visualize that. I think it works, but I have also seen this used to try to debunk it. So, yeah, I guess “mass murderer” is a subset of violent crime. so, maybe?
Here’s the Mother Jones article in 2018 with that graph:
One of the interesting aspects is that the same correlation comes up in other countries as well.
Another good-ish news.
Preliminary results and all, but my main worry is the mRNA mechanism, which puts it square on the bullseye for Il Douche and his cronies. Of course, also, this would benefit LGBTQ+ folks, and thus probably labeled as DEI. Double whammy from a MAGA standpoint, but pretty damned exciting for a medical one.
Kaye, who was a member of the prolific Wrecking Crew throughout the 1960s and ’70s, emphasised that the recordings she contributed to was part of a team effort, writing, “[Y]ou are always part of a TEAM, not a solo artist at all….there were always 350-400 Studio Musicians (AFM Local 47 Hollywood) working in the busy 1960s, and called that ONLY ….since 1930s.”
I just assumed it was a parody account.