Major Trigun Stampede Spoilers Ahead!!! Be careful!
Meryl is literally me. (Smol and Sassy, but I will deny the first one.) Here's MORE Trigun sillies to cope with my extra shot of expresso depresso! Hopefully, the JJK anime would be kinder to my heart. I mean, it has "jk" in it. So I should be fine, right? ...RIGHT??? (Honestly though I really need to watch the show with the amount of people who recommended it to me after I said I like the characters in Trigun.) Still wanna draw more fluff and humor for this fandom though! God knows we all need it. Just been busy is all. Enjoy, everyone! =D -Bubbly💙
Are there gonna be more episodes of Lackadaisy? Also, I love the animation.
Thank you! And yes - we’re working on them! It takes time, but we’ll be sharing lots of shorter animations while the longer episodes are in production.
We’ll resume doing work streams in the new year as well, so interested parties can see what we’re up to on the production front.
Transformers: Prime Season 1, Episode 9: "Convoy"
Original Airdate: March 4, 2011
2023 TFP Rerun Date: March 4, 2024
[Watch on YouTube]
Synopsis, courtesy of Apple: The Autobots assist Agent Fowler in transporting a hazardous explosive device, but this time, they come under attack from more than just the Decepticons.
Lingthusiasm Episode 88: No such thing as the oldest language
It's easy to find claims that certain languages are old or even the oldest, but which one is actually true? Fortunately, there's an easy (though unsatisfying) answer: none of them! Like how humans are all descended from other humans, even though some of us may have longer or shorter family trees found in written records, all human languages are shaped by contact with other languages. We don't even know whether the oldest language(s) was/were spoken or signed, or even whether there was a singular common ancestor language or several.
In this episode, your hosts Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne get enthusiastic about what people mean when we talk about a language as being old. We talk about how classifying languages as old or classical is often a political or cultural decision, how the materials that are used to write a language influence whether it gets preserved (from clay to bark), and how people talk about creoles and signed languages in terms of oldness and newness. And finally, how a language doesn't need to be justified in terms of its age for whether it's interesting or worthy of respect.
Read the transcript here.
Here are the links mentioned in the episode:
Lingthusiasm episode 'Tracing languages back before recorded history'
'My Big Fat Greek Wedding- Give me any word and I show you the Greek root' on YouTube
Glottolog entry for 'classical'
Wikipedia entry for 'Complaint tablet to Ea-nāṣir'
Wikipedia entry for 'Bath curse tablets'
Wikipedia entry for 'Cuneiform'
Wikipedia entry for 'Mesopotamian writing systems'
Wikipedia entry for 'Home Sign'
Lingthusiasm episode 'Villages, gifs, and children: Researching signed languages in real-world contexts with Lynn Hou'
Wikipedia entry for 'Al-Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language'
Wikipedia entry for 'Kata Kolok' (also known as Benkala Sign Language)
True Biz by Sara Nović on Goodreads
Gretchen's thread about reading True Biz
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Lauren is on Bluesky as @superlinguo and blogs at Superlinguo.
Lingthusiasm is created by Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne. Our senior producer is Claire Gawne, our production editor is Sarah Dopierala, our production assistant is Martha Tsutsui Billins, and our editorial assistant is Jon Kruk. Our music is ‘Ancient City’ by The Triangles.
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