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This made me wonder if there'd been any further "progress". Here's what I found: https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/1/16959454/voynich-manuscript-mystery-ai-decoded-debunked . Turns out the original "decipherment" was even more kludgy than I originally thought (and I thought it was plenty kludgy enough).

jal wrote:Ja również chcę uczyć się Polsce, ale nie mam czasu...
I also want to learn Polish, but I don't have the time...

Tá's agam, nach fíor san?
I know, right?

The normative pronunciation of daimon is /ˈdaɪˌmoʊn/?

Imralu wrote:I'm pretty sure what Linguoboy was implying is that he thought he'd always talked like someone from the 19th century.

Die Schuld dafür gebe ich allermeist den Mann'schen Lesematerialien.
It is the works of the Mann family which I chiefly fault.

Angefangen?
Started?

My sleep was so restless last night it was like not sleeping at all. All I want to do is go home and crash but I have one meeting today I really can't miss...and it's at 4 p.m.

Ich hab ihm gesagt, dass es schade ist, dass es diese nicht gibt. Duart leis gur mór an trua ná fuilid siad ann. I told him it's too bad these don't exist. Er hat meinen Versuch, Polnisch zu reden, verlacht. Er fragte mich, warum ich aufgehört hab, es zu lernen, und ich sagte "straciłem zainteresow...

And while web search is far from a perfect technology, Google really does usually surface accurate, reliable information on the topics you search for. (Vox)

More interesting to me than the transitive use of surface is the choice of "web search" as the name of a particular type of technology.

Blown an opportunity or dodged a bullet? It's so hard to tell sometimes.

Kann sein, dass ich einen neuen Mitglieder für die Bärengruppe gefunden hab. Er kann auch Französich und Polnisch und wasweissichnoch. I may have found a new recruit for the bear group. He also knows French and Polish and who knows what else. Sein Mann kann nur Englisch. Das muss für ihn ein Ärgern...

So far as we know, one of my parents doesn't have any horrible cancer (see note from last month in the venting thread). This is good. That is excellent news. I'm very relieved on your behalf. I was very down on humanity (specifically the young gay male subset of it) yesterday after being stood up y...

Big Money As Private Immigrant Jails Boom (NPR)

Chicago's annual celebration of Green Vomit Day falls on a Saturday this year. My friends want me to go out drinking with them but I'd rather be stabbed.

Lockdown drills are for any emergency where evacuation would be inappropriate; an active shooter would definitely count as such as a situation. It is not specifically tailored to/meant for shootings though. We close the lights and windows, put black paper in front of door windows and all hide in th...

I think that the protests will be enough to keep the protocols from normalising it. In the meanwhile, protocols for shootings can help save lives. The protests are a relatively new thing. Meanwhile, I was remarking to one of my colleagues about the incredible sangfroid with which most of the studen...

alynnidalar wrote:fusion is just a cheap tactic to make weak cuisines stronger

EDIT: no seriously though I love fusion restaurants

I love them best when they don't call themselves that.

If I ever realise my dream of opening a restaurant dedicated to traditional Midwestern food I will promote it as "EuroAmerican fusion".

Still feeling a bit shaken by yesterday's active shooter hoax. On the one hand, the training and preparation on the part of public services really helped reassure patrons and insure an efficient coordinated response. We should debrief with them and learn what we can do better to support them. (We we...

Salmoneus wrote:(Interestingly, the London ones I can find all seem pretty up-market. I'm guessing that's not the case in India?)

Yeah, that struck me about the American restaurants, too. I guess here they can spin it as "fusion cuisine" and demand a premium.

Vijay wrote:

linguoboy wrote:Where I live the most common moniker for these types of restaurants seems to be "Indo-Chinese".

I kind of hope it isn't the Indian version of Chinese food

That's exactly what it is! They even feature "Hakka noodles".

Active shooter hoax on campus today. Less than a week before exams.

On the good side, police didn't injure anyone in responding (sadly, not a given in these situations), our response was very well-coordinated, and we got the all-clear in a little over an hour.

"Supporters say the protests represent a realization of power and influence by young people raised on social media who have come of age in an era of never-ending wars, highly publicized mass shootings and virulent national politics." I'm not sure what about the use of "virulent" strikes me so odd he...

Hmm, you mean an AdvP or something? Nearly isn't a preposition. Mmm, I'm bad in syntax :). I assumed a headless PP (if that's a thing), since "nearly every second" feels like a PP of time ("at nearly every second"), but I probably analyse it wrong. "At nearly every second" is unidiomatic IMD. This ...

OK. Though your analogy is a little flawed, as vastly more Africans and Indians moved to the UK than ever moved to the USSR. Number of English colonial states in Africa: 22 Number of Russian colonial states in Africa: 0 Under those conditions, it's surprising any Africans chose to study and live be...

Linguistic tidbit on 'bành mi': it appears to come from the French 'pain de mie' (white bread). So even the name comes from the colonial period. Popular etymology. Bánh [note tone; bành is a different word entirely, e.g. bành trướng "expand, spread") is attested before the colonial period as a Nôm ...