I’ve had a blast rewatching My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic with my net-friends lately. Is it the best kids’ cartoon ever made? Certainly not: there’s more than enough to criticize about it, but flaws and all, it is still my favorite! The characters are fun and the world really captures your imagination, and it and its fandom were a big part of my life for a long time.

Looks like somebody else has already answered your question, but I’ll still go ahead and say that ‘agentive’ is another name for this. Happy conlanging!

I’ve incidentally been working on a whole future fiction project showing the world as it will look by the end of the century. A lot of my predictions feel kinda boring and predictable and maybe a little inappropriate for this comm — stuff about wars and climate change and so forth — but I still have a few more fun or interesting predictions:

1. The first complete human language to develop naturally in the Antarctic will be a sign language native to King George Island.
2. Speaking of sign languages, many popular anime shows and movies will be remade in them.
3. Esperanto will become one of the world’s most widely-spoken languages.
4. The Internet will collapse on itself and be replaced with a “Second Internet”.
5. A bridge over the Bering Strait will be built.
6. A permanent moon base will also be built, under the administration of the UN’s successor.

And I could mention a number of other predictions, particularly about the future language landscape of the world — but at the same time I don’t know to what extent I can call these “calling it now” predictions, anyways.

Norwegian fаg (subject, discipline, etc) is cognate with English fack (sense: rumen) and Fach (method of classifying opera singers’ voices), all from Proto-West Germanic *fak (division, compartment, period, interval), which is speculated to come from the PIE root *peh₂ǵ- (attach, fix, fasten) which also gives us words as diverse as fang, fast, propaganda, hapax and peace.

Å slutte (to end, stop, quit etc) from Low German sluten from Proto-Germanic *sleutaną (to bolt, lock, shut, close) which is where we get the word slot (sense: broad, flat wooden bar for securing a door or window) from. Believably from the PIE root *(s)kleh₁w- (hook, cross, peg; to close something) whence also words like close, clavicle, cloister and claustrophobia.

This being said, slutt datafаg is not really a normal way to say “graduate computer science”. To me it reads more like commanding someone to “quit computer science!”, more like dropping out than graduating, right? A more normal phrasing in my eyes might be, I dunno, å fullføre utdanningen sin i datafаg, “to complete one’s education in computer science”.

Trump is speedrunning his Tokugawa Shogunate arc, many people are saying this

This is perhaps a bit apropos, but when I was a kid, when I visited beautiful Anishinaabewaki in the summers, there was a game arcade my cousins and I would often visit. This arcade had the 1991 cabinet Road Riot 4WD, and I remember there was a character in that game called “Idi A Mean Dada” who was basically just a grotesque generic caricature of a stereotypical “African dictator”. Naturally this “Idi A Mean Dada” character was the host of the track “Timbuktu, Africa” – which looked nothing like Timbuktu – despite Timbuktu being some 6,500 km away from Kampala.

I said to my cousin, “This is… pretty racist…” and my cousin concurred. I believe my mom was, what, impressed that I could recognize and point out that it was racist? And I was just thinking, “Well, yeah, obviously.” – but I guess that just speaks to how normalized that kind of junk was back then.

I don’t really know much about the real Idi Amin, but yeah, he sure had A Place in popular culture didn’t he.

What would the world be like if even a fraction of the creative energy that Zionist freaks have thus far spent on their constant stream of surreal, nightmarish new ways to destroy, degrade and humiliate the Palestinian people, was instead spent on actually making a better world?

More properly the airport continued to be known as Lod Airport until 1973, when old “Ben Gurion” finally kicked the bucket. This is indeed why the famous attack on the airport by the Japanese Red Army in 1972 is referred to as the “Lod Airport massacre” — the airport was officially still called Lod Airport at the time.

Owing to their historical position, it became the vocation of the aristocracies of France and England to write pamphlets against modern bourgeois society. In the French Revolution of July 1830, and in the English reform agitation, these aristocracies again succumbed to the hateful upstart. Thenceforth, a serious political struggle was altogether out of the question. A literary battle alone remained possible. But even in the domain of literature the old cries of the restoration period had become impossible.

In order to arouse sympathy, the aristocracy was obliged to lose sight, apparently, of its own interests, and to formulate their indictment against the bourgeoisie in the interest of the exploited working class alone. Thus, the aristocracy took their revenge by singing lampoons on their new masters and whispering in his ears sinister prophesies of coming catastrophe.

In this way arose feudal Socialism: half lamentation, half lampoon; half an echo of the past, half menace of the future; at times, by its bitter, witty and incisive criticism, striking the bourgeoisie to the very heart’s core; but always ludicrous in its effect, through total incapacity to comprehend the march of modern history.

The aristocracy, in order to rally the people to them, waved the proletarian alms-bag in front for a banner. But the people, so often as it joined them, saw on their hindquarters the old feudal coats of arms, and deserted with loud and irreverent laughter.

One section of the French Legitimists and “Young England” exhibited this spectacle.

In pointing out that their mode of exploitation was different to that of the bourgeoisie, the feudalists forget that they exploited under circumstances and conditions that were quite different and that are now antiquated. In showing that, under their rule, the modern proletariat never existed, they forget that the modern bourgeoisie is the necessary offspring of their own form of society.

For the rest, so little do they conceal the reactionary character of their criticism that their chief accusation against the bourgeois amounts to this, that under the bourgeois régime a class is being developed which is destined to cut up root and branch the old order of society.

What they upbraid the bourgeoisie with is not so much that it creates a proletariat as that it creates a revolutionary proletariat.

In political practice, therefore, they join in all coercive measures against the working class; and in ordinary life, despite their high-falutin phrases, they stoop to pick up the golden apples dropped from the tree of industry, and to barter truth, love, and honour, for traffic in wool, beetroot-sugar, and potato spirits. […]

— Manifesto of the Communist Party chapter 3 (Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, 1848)

With articles like these berating “Chinese state propaganda” at the same time as Sinclair Broadcast Group with its conservative “must-run” segments holds a monopoly on local news broadcasting in Seppoland, or this article accusing the Chinese state of “constraining and delaying” information on the COVID-19 pandemic when the Western press’ systemic and semi-deliberate fumbling of the pandemic leads most people in this part of the world to not even believe that the pandemic is ongoing, well… It rings of throwing stones in glass houses, doesn’t it? Of pots calling kettles black, of taking a mote out of a brother’s eye without first taking the beam out of one’s own; how many phrases exist to convey the idea of that good word hypocrisy.

Articles like these are the projection of a moribund system’s beneficiaries — in the old days it was feudalism turning into capitalism, and at present it’s capitalism turning into socialism.