maimonides nuts

@SumeragiAkeiko @axelinabox @johnnycakes91 That's a chicken burger

@axelinabox @johnnycakes91 Nashville one

This is how I feel when American hot chicken sandwiches start replacing Canadian hot chicken sandwiches.

Pls help. My culture is being genocided by a burrito. My existence in crisis because of pho.

@Kaiser676214908 @jiejieneesan Return to saying Barbary

@jiejieneesan same people who call North Africa "Maghreb" btw

"stop using [mispronounced endonym] that's a colonial term! Decolonize and use [foreign exonym] or [foreign exonym] instead!"

@mikublackpants @jiejieneesan @who225 Persian as spoken in Iran in fact uses an English R, and has very English-like pronunciations of consonants (by total coincidence)

@jiejieneesan @who225 WAIT THAT IS A PERFECT ONE BECAUSE ENGLISH IRAN IS ALWAYS A MISPRONOUNCED ENDONYM BECAUSE EVEN IF YOU SAY EE-RON THE R IS STILL AN ENGLISH R SO ITS TECHNICALLY EXACTLY WHAT THE POST

@LochiMadrid @suzune_wiz @FortIS_55 1 am and 2 am don't really feel like the next day when you're out on the town

@suzune_wiz @FortIS_55 Lo vi cuando estuve visitando Tokyo hace años y me llamó la atención. Cuál es el sentido de esas horas adicionales?

Translation for my fellow Europeans: "military time" refers to the 24h system. This is because in America only the members of the military can count past 12

@MundaneDesolate @Shinaxite_ India was its own thing and Malaysia and Indonesia tacked onto it. SEA was Indochina.

@Shinaxite_ The Middle East probably referred to Persia, Afghanistan, Central Asia, India, while the Far East referred to SEA, China, Japan, Korea, and the broader pacific

what's with people saying the term "middle east" is hecking colonialist or something who gaf bro until you come up with a non lame term unlike west Asia it's still the middle east

@Avi7dr @NizMhani @AdinHaykin1 That's ancient history, man. It was so long ago, there's a Palestinian Muslim clan descended from Khaybar Jews. If you spend time crying about things that happened that long ago, you're not a serious person.

@NizMhani @AdinHaykin1 Are you talking about before or after Khaybar? I am ready to discuss reparations and concessions to the Palestinians as soon as we reestablish the independent Jewish city-state of Khaybar and repopulate Mecca and Medina with Jews just how it was before pedo-Mohammed showed up.

When Arabs lived of taxes that was 75% paid by Jews

@MuskSucks827 @LaiciteStan The Maronite Cypriots have been speaking Arabic since there was Arab rule over Cyprus in like the 800s 900s, cuz their language has gone through most of the sound changes that have happened to Cypriot Greek (e.g. B to V)

@LaiciteStan Thanks for reminding us, it’s kind of a ridiculous argument… Former Syriac speakers like the Maronites only adopted Arabic wholeheartedly sometime in the 17th-18th century, when they were under Ottoman Turkish rule. So clearly wasn’t imposed from above

I WAS MADE to learn Arabic. You were not, you literally invented modern standard Arabic, and post-colonial Maghrebi governments invited Levantine/Egyptian Arabic teachers to Arabise schools. And Maronite Cypriots who live in CYPRUS since the 7-10TH CENTURY speak... Cypriot ARABIC

@SamovarDrogeth @stendhalist @FitFune @LaiciteStan It was killed off by Aramaic at the same point as Hebrew was only it wasn't even preserved in manuscripts so we know only a little about it (mostly that it was very close to Hebrew). Ancient (rlly) history

@stendhalist @FitFune @LaiciteStan It’s not non-existent tho

Arab identity explained by a Professor of Arabic and a consultant in Arabic education to the World Bank, USAID, and the ministries of education in Palestine, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Morocco: An Arab is anyone who speaks Arabic and chooses to identify as an Arab

@azforeman It can do Occitan well too, though Catalan is close enough to that to help it

Damn. I was not familiar with ChatGPT's language game.

@cobbaltt @yutani333 They never merged. UK southerners arbitrarily split them (people in the north still have them together), and so the pronunciation isn't indicated in spelling.

@yutani333 I forget the Amērikkar merge those vowels

TRAP-BATH unsplit moment

@neilalexanderw1 @avzaagzonunaada ɡɤ.ɾ‿oɫ dʒɹɪft stɹʌɪ̯k.s‿əɡɛn

@avzaagzonunaada ɡʊd oʊl drɪft stɹaɪks əɡɪn :)

@avzaagzonunaada @chrisinthebooks what a sad, sad life

@Hamoodi_Barran @arabic_bad When the Crusaders arrived in the 11th c Christians were the general majority of the population esp rurally and Jews mostly a vestigial urban population. The Jews of central Samaria and the east Galilee (most of the Byzantine-era Jews) were already fully converted to Islam then

@Hamoodi_Barran @arabic_bad The Ottomans did censuses, there were 13k Jews in Palestine c 1850s (of a total population of 300k). General population growth was due to high birthrates during a std of living increase. Egyptian immigration, is that really what they teach you ppl in school? It was a non-factor

And all of a sudden non-realization of pharyngeal fricatives is no biggie

@avzaagzonunaada reading "coäuthored" like [ˈkʰoʊoi̯θɚd]

@AlvinTheMage @azforeman Castillian has in fact converged towards Basque. The F > H thing is a Basque feature also occuring in Gascon Occitan and not occuring in Aragonese or Asturian, and the z/s difference once was indentical to the one in Basque.

@azforeman I remember feeling like Basque phonology seems to have converged with Castilian too when I heard it. Breton phonology also somehow sounds similar to French IMO even though it's allegedly mutually intelligible with Welsh?

Did Ainu use to sound very different than it does today? Looking at the description of its phonology on Wikipedia with the pitch accent, the realization of /tsi/ and /ti/ and /si/, and the like, it all sounds like MASSIVE convergence with Japanese. Was this always the case? A lot of modern Occitan sounds like French because it's spoken by French-dominant people, but if you find really old speakers they sound totally different. Was something like that ever true of Ainu?

@kingofthehood89 @cosmicjester @ceaselessjelq I think you owe the mother of your children a bit of a Jamaican mindset in this situation

@cosmicjester @ceaselessjelq Usually preceded by “I got a little bigger after the kids, but” which hides the 127 lbs they gained

Standard r/deadbedrooms post is like ‘my wife/husband hasn’t had sex with me for 9 years. It’s our tenth wedding anniversary tonight and we are going to a nice hotel so I’m feeling hopeful something will happen! EDIT: Bad news fam’