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• Post #717520

  Highlight of our #wildflower searching this week were a few of the first flowers of Early Spider-orchid on the Purbeck coast. Very many more rosettes, spikes and buds yet to open up, so it was exciting to finally find a few flowers. This time last week, we couldn't find any. Soon there will be thousands. #WildflowerHour #orchids

• Post #716311

  This time of year it is such a delight to see the return of familiar flowers. First returners this week: comfrey and wild carrot. #wildflowerHour #wildflowers

• Post #635709

  @FourT4@mastodonapp.uk Simples division of labour ?

• Post #578067

  @domi@donotsta.re Sounds completely nuts i.e. I think it must be fake. That's not how video data is encoded on a laserdisc at all

• Post #567653

  @winsdominoes@fedi.winscloud.net I had a language consultant for a university linguistics class and a research project, who was a fluent speaker of Sanskrit -- in two registers (archaic, formal vs. everyday, informal - a more modern, simplified version). He had hung out with Pandits from an early age, and also had an enthusiastic Spoken Sanskrit teacher at school. I can testify that Spoken Skt is definitely a thing!

• Post #563209

  Glad that we got a clear, sunny afternoon today. Near the edge of a golf course near Studland there's a little colony of native wild daffodils, many of which (as in this photo) are double forms. #etymology note for those interested in such matters: "daffodil" comes by a circuitous route from Ancient Greek "asphodel", which in modern languages now refers to some rather different species. #WildflowerHour #wildflowers #Dorset

• Post #561139

  @reeltubes@mstdn.party I do like #phosh and #pmos (on my other phone), but yes Ubuntu Touch wins hands down since 2015

• Post #561116

  @isocat@tiggi.es @octothorpe@mastodon.online @troublewithwords@wandering.shop There are many different varieties of English. The description you give suggests what is often referred to in linguistics as “Canadian raising” (before [s], e.g., also “right” vs. “ride” -- how about for you?). It's not just Canadian, though. Let's appreciate such diversity!

• Post #555115

  @saltywizard@beige.party Yes pretty good, but two misconceptions: 1) Neanderthals were also Homo sapiens. 2) Nasal sounds are not due to or more frequent with big noses

• Post #548985

  @johnnyd_cm@mastodonapp.uk Do try your worst!

• Post #547903

  @johnnyd_cm@mastodonapp.uk Good one

• Post #501394

  @_thegeoff@mastodon.social And what's making each “tap”? Some kind of vibrator?

• Post #494326

  @_thegeoff@mastodon.social What kind of stirrer?

• Post #484158

  @GetCarter@mastodonapp.uk Yeah you should definitely go for it 😃

• Post #477611

  @_GatoLoco_@mamot.fr Oh, ou sont-ils?

• Post #477507

  @botvolution@mastodon.sdf.org @petersketch@toot.wales Thanks, ya live and learn!

• Post #477122

  @botvolution@mastodon.sdf.org @petersketch@toot.wales Is hairiness not relevant?

• Post #474646

  @Indigo@appdot.net Is that a cowslip in there? (lower left?

• Post #474059

  @dmbaturin@functional.cafe Yes, correct: the Norman-French loanwords in English are generally “learnèd” e.g. courtly/posh, legalese, scientific, and/or more specialized, whereas the words inherited from Anglo-Saxon are generally more ordinary, colloquial, streetwise, sometimes vulgar, acquired earlier in life, and used more frequently.

• Post #473919

  Blackthorn, I think (the sepals clasping the petals, rather than curling away from them) #WildflowerHour #wildflowers

• Post #460228

  In case anyone needs a picture of some woolly Mangalica pigs right now. They're far too friendly

• Post #454615

  @teamtoot@toot.wales Seen quite recently in Dorset, land of the Durotriges tribe

• Post #437930

  @pocketlinguist@mastodon.social Untranslatable?

• Post #437913

  @stfn@fedi.stfn.pl OnePlus 6 or 6T are pretty cheap on eBay. #PostmarketOS works pretty well, or at least usefully, on them

• Post #425745

  @ZackPolanski@mastox.eu Bot from X? Why is Zack on X?

• Post #417097

  @kerbach2@lingo.lol Language Language and Speech Journal of Linguistics

• Post #412561

  @joyce@hcommons.social “British” will include Scottish English speakers, many of whom DO make that distinction, whereas most other British English speakers don't make that distinction

• Post #392611

  Cladonia floerkeana (Devil's Matchsticks) on Slepe Heath this afternoon. Each stalk was no more than 1 cm #lichenSubscribe #lichen #wildlife #macroPhotography

• Post #378187

  @ilookloud@retro.pizza A definitive article is Hoffman's article https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/avestan-language/avestan-language-ii-the-phonology-of-avestan/ Or by “sources” did you mean Avestan texts in transliteration? (can't help with that, I'm afraid)

• Post #367564

  @rbreich@masto.ai So from the UK (where I am not that keen on monarchy at all), the whole US "no kings" thing seems totally anachronistic actually, since most places with kings have made them no more powerful than flags. A better campaign slogan, imho, would be be just "no dictators", right?