Mark Shockley

I'm rehashing my half-baked phonology ideas when I have a publication deadline; I think that might mean it's time for a break from the BlueSky

That depends on the country ...

I once had someone say yes to an idea just to get me to shut up about it, and then they permanently ghosted me.

Certainly not a hill I would die on

😆 Fair enough

I would still reckon that it's probabilistic; there are common changes and uncommon changes. I'm lost wrt Saul though, that just sounds like a typo

So, I'm kinda spitballing here, but doesn't a parallelism like that still require a viable phonological pathway?

It definitely comes up!

See also: Yelling at people to "calm down!"

I figured someone would reference that since it's recent. But it's one in a sea of hypotheses and opinions, and even in the article it's held tentatively as far I can remember.

Also .... I believe عيسى / يسوع is by metathesis

The third Egyptian character (a lateral?) doesn't show up for me—but I do know examples of metathesis with pharyngeals in Arabic ... I personally think metathesis follows a "markedness hierarchy" in Arabic though I am not sure I could defend that position. Metathesis = chaos

nailed it (hopefully not literally)

Some bonus jewellery vocab from Faces of Fujairah:

šnāf 'design (on a traditional necklace)'
garḏāla 'traditional necklace (= mɨrrīya)'
mɨglɨṣ 'traditional necklace (= mɨrrīya)'

The last one is possibly an adaptation of nɨklɨs (< Eng necklace).

Fujairah Arabic word of the day
فتريل
/fɨtrīl/
'nose ring'

Any ideas about the etymology?

I was not ready for this at 4:30am

My uncle's copy of Sefer Yetzirah, acquired so from his friend, has the best inscription of this sort I've ever seen

It goes as follows

אסור ליקח בלי רשות. ואם תקח, אהפוך אותך לצפרדע.

njarrib--it's a common word, but n- for 1st person singular is a north African thing. Maybe there's some other usage in the Gulf that sounds similar but first-person singular prefix is a- here in the Gulf.

شكراً جزيلاً للكلمات الجميلة

One funny thing about the desert: People can just walk up and say "my car is stuck" and like, if you have four-wheel-drive, you cannot say no, because they might not see anyone else.

Permissible (I can't remember but I think this was in Mleiha, Sharjah)

Discouraged and forbidden

I think one is فرض
(also RAK)

She came right up to my window, hobbles and all. We liked her chosen shade tree, but ended having to choose another so she wouldn't eat our pizza picnic.

Here is the recommended camel photo

A camel posing at the top of a reddish dune in RAK

obligatory camel photo

I'm part Welsh so yeah.

I thought I wasn't but then I remembered supersessionism/replacement theology

تجاسن he pretended to be a waiter?

Go-ee-thee sounds awesome. I figure what I was watching probably had an "AI" voiceover, though it has gotten harder to tell.

really? I never read him. I used to read books, once upon a time

the truth is out there is written in white letters on a black background with a cloudy sky in the background . Alt: the truth is out there is written in white letters on a black background with a cloudy sky in the background .

wow, it actually lists فجع

ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B9%...