I'm guessing it's because Germanic has a *lot* of vowels, which has a lot of variation and frequently change?

At this point, we ought to just call them 'noun classes', regardless of the politics of the situation.

Notably, the article goes from talking about declining foreign language enrolments to the decline of Aboriginal languages, which are two separate issues that tangentially related.

How does that compare to promotions on the, ah, other place?

𝘈𝘥 𝘐𝘯𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘮: 𝘈 𝘉𝘪𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘱𝘩𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘓𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯 by Nicholas Ostler. It's good, but can get a bit heavy and ponderous at times. Still quite informative and even entertaining at times.

www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...

"he has gone" vs. "he went" whereas Latin only has the perfection.

The footnote explains further, although I should note that (spoken) French and (northern?) Italian abolishes the perfect vs simple past distinction in favour of the later.

... and even added a few categories of its own, so it can be maintained that the new system was richer and more flexible than the old system*. Romance languages can make the distinction can make the distinction of present perfect as against simple past,

Why is this? On the one hand, the profusion of different forms that survived in classical Latin has been exceptionally rich, so that even pruned, it remained luxuriant; and on the other, Romance reconstructed, using auxiliary verbs, almost everything discard from the Latin inflectional system ...

I think he includes innovations, along with periphrastic constructions.

(p. 163-4) "Nevertheless, verbs in all the Romance languages are still highly inflected (far more so, for example, than in any of the Germanic or Slavonic languages, let alone Iranian or Indo-Aryan).

I definitely believe that for Germanic, but I have no clue if it is true for the Slavic, Iranian or Indo-Aryan languages. @avzaagzonunaada.bsky.social is this true?

Lack of cultural or economic pull.

More interesting is the lack of Japanese or Chinese.

I've tried mpd, but I never found a (terminal) music player that I liked to go with it.

Do you think it's because that linguists (and other academic-types) are less active on the site, or it is just a side-effect of BlueSky being/becoming less popular?

yes, you do.

Like it or not, humanities scholars need to prepare for a future humanities outside of the university.

I went to a science fiction book club yesterday, and one woman was complaining bitterly that it was completely racist for removing all the Arab aspects in the film (didn't see it myself, don't have any opinions one way or another).