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Plus, donations to help repairs and reconstructions are already in the hundreds of millions of Euros, so that's a step towards the beginning of work.

I seem to recall that R needs to be in AUs, M is in Solar Masses and T is in Earth Years in years Yep, these particular units are in common use by people working with Solar System dynamics since they simplify the mathematics quite a bit. I will say that deciding the planet's orbit first and then tr...

I'm not sure what help you want here - you have the same equations and equivalent calculator to any of us. Just enter in the numbers. I was using the website https://astrographer.wordpress.com/bookshelf/earthlike-planet-geoff-eddy/ where I found the equation: M × T 2 = R 3 (Kepler’s third law) wher...

If they can't make velar sounds, by definition they can't make clicks, which are velar sounds. Point. Forgoing mass elision, what are somewhat natural changes for the labial ([ʘ ʘ̬ ʘ̃]), dental ([ʇ ʇ̬ ʇ̃]), and alveolar ([ʗʰ ʗ̃ˀ]) clicks? According to Wikipedia, it's very hard to unlearn clicks/not...

If they can't make velar sounds, by definition they can't make clicks, which are velar sounds. Point. Forgoing mass elision, what are somewhat natural changes for the labial ([ʘ ʘ̬ ʘ̃]), dental ([ʇ ʇ̬ ʇ̃]), and alveolar ([ʗʰ ʗ̃ˀ]) clicks? According to Wikipedia, it's very hard to unlearn clicks/not...

I hope my Minecraft stuff is welcome here (I didn't want to keep posting it in the Quintessential Conversation thread): https://i.imgur.com/cjWrHiI.png It started out just as the structure in the bottom right of the map, which still more or less looks like this: https://i.imgur.com/wZ6yUXf.jpg But h...

I have both ‘tk’ and ‘kt’ onset clusters. Is both coexisting likely? Or is it likely that one will metathesise into the other? Proto-Finnic, I think had both, and Proto-Uralic too. It does look, though, like the various Uralic languages either only "kept" one of them or "lost" both (in Mari and Mor...

/m n/ /p t d ts tɬ k ʔ/ /ɓ ɗ k'/ /s ɬ x/ /l j w/ /i u/ /e o/ /æ ɑ/ +vowel length CV(V/R) R=l,n,m How realistic do you think this is? I really like the /ɓ ɗ kʼ/ which made me think of Proto-Mayan to begin with (which has /ɓ tʼ kʼ/ and so on, and the singular voiced /d/ reminds me of Finnish. The onl...

Is Inge's Dutch pronunciation [ˈiŋ.ə] or [ˈɪŋ.ə]? I hear and pronounce it as [ˈiŋ.ə], but this seems to indicate [ˈɪŋ.ə]. However, the stress is throwing me off. I'd be tempted to say that it's [ˈɪŋ.ə] based on rules given for checked and open vowels (it's a single < i > followed by two consonants,...

Thank you both for your help. As for [g], for now I'm going to have an unconditional shift to [ɣ]. This, in turn, will drop altogether word initially, become [j] elsewhere, and develop into [ʒ] when lenited left of [i:] and [ i ], the latter transforming into modern [ɪ]. The only issue I could thin...

English hour /ˈaʊə(ɹ)/ vs. Icelandic ár (year) /auːr̥/

Icelandic ár and English year are cognates, but the Icelandic word for "hour" is (klukku)stund or (klukku)tími, as far as I can remember.

I'm going to have to side with Sal and Dormouse here. The Spanish equivalent of "Joshua" is "Josué" and that's seen as distinct from "Jesús" just as it is in English, e.g. if someone with the name "Joshua" were to translate their name into Spanish, they'd choose "Josué". Now, there are languages whe...

There's inscriptional evidence that in Latin gi and di palatalised before ci and ti . However, strictly speaking this was not palatalisation but iotation : this happened before a vowel when these sequences were pronounced [gj], [dj], [kj] and [tj], and the voiced clusters assimilated to [jː] and/or...

Final unstressed vowels were dropped completely by around the 12th or 13th Century So soon? I'd always heard that the final -e was still pronounced in Chaucer? I might have got "12th and 13th" wrong, could have been "13th and 14th", but apparently it was "around the time of Chaucer" and then predom...

@Sal Sweet. My morphology ain't complex, so I'll bung it all into the syntax section. On a side note, I know that the change nasal+voiceless stop at same poa can lead to a voiced stop as so: nt -> nd -> d But do you think the same can occur if the stop come before the nasal (especially word initial...

As Ahzoh has pointed out, though, increased morphological complexity does also occur, e.g. in Tocharian, which had more grammatical cases than PIE did, where various suffixes came to be added onto what was the accusative in PIE. IIRC, a similar process occurred in the Finnic(?) languages, where ther...

There has been a general loss of morphological complexity in Indo European languages, at least the European ones (I'm not very knowledgeable about the Asian languages). For example PIE > Latin lost many cases, derivational classes, and verb conjugations. Then Latin > Spanish lost all cases and a wh...

Why do only Hispanic and Hispanic influenced cultures (Philippines) give the name Jesús? I would have thought it was a Catholic thing, but there are no Poles named Jezus, Italians named Gesù or Irish named Íosa. Why is this? I wonder if it might have something to do with the Reconquista and the eve...

Dormouse559 wrote: ↑

28 Mar 2019 02:05

sangi39 wrote: ↑

27 Mar 2019 23:19

"The debauchery was boundless
The hangover is endless
Life is pointless
The void claims all"

I look forward to the "Scandinavia and the World" comic about this.

Oh my god I hadn't even thought about that!

So I found out about an Icelandic techno/punk band, Hatari, some time late last year, but with only four singles to their name in almost as many years, I sort of stopped paying much attention to them pretty quickly. However, I decided this evening to see if, maybe, just maybe, they'd released anythi...