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- Mon Feb 19, 2018 12:57 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: British Sitcoms
- Replies: 35
- Views: 15916
Re: British Sitcoms
I grew up on a steady diet of British sitcoms. Red Dwarf, Are You Being Served?, Fawlty Towers , and several others. I'm pretty sure it's what contributed to my comparatively dry sense of humor that many of my peers have misunderstood over the years. I also loved many Canadian shows as a teen, most...
- Wed Dec 06, 2017 4:21 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Happy Things Thread
- Replies: 969
- Views: 379284
Re: Happy Things Thread
Little happy thing: This forum still exists! I first discovered it over fourteen years ago! It was crazy to discover that other people made up languages for fun and it was an influencing factor in me going on to studying linguistics at university up to post-graduate level. So, thank you, everyone.
- Wed Dec 06, 2017 4:14 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Aspies and peer pressure
- Replies: 14
- Views: 8841
Re: Aspies and peer pressure
Huh. Never encountered the idea of "underage" in an alcohol context, other than regarding the US. The legal drinking age in the UK, incidentally, is 5, other than for medical or emergency purposes.* How odd - I'd regard "underage drinking" as pretty much standard UK shorthand for "purchasing and dr...
- Sun Feb 05, 2017 4:47 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: How to make a language with a profound foreign influence
- Replies: 21
- Views: 8367
Re: How to make a language with a profound foreign influence
Give em hell Oh wow yes it is. It had never occurred to me that that wasn't a contraction of them. Magic.Richard W wrote:The third form is still present in Modern English.Gulliver wrote:The OED mentions a Chaucer manusript with a mixed form of ON they, OE her, OE em .
- Wed Feb 01, 2017 3:22 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Tactile Diglossia
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1749
Re: Tactile Diglossia
I remember hearing about Braille being at risk of decline because of the prevalence of decent screen readers and TTS software, Braille tales up more physical space than visually-recieved textand relies on special equipment so braille books tend to be very large and limited in range. Other tactile al...
- Mon Jan 09, 2017 7:19 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: How to make a language with a profound foreign influence
- Replies: 21
- Views: 8367
Re: How to make a language with a profound foreign influence
pronouns to be borrowed into languages Äynu has borrowed pronouns, numbers and lots of other vocabulary from Persian, even though it's a Turkic language spoken in China. Unfortunately, almost no research has been done on it that I know of (or at least none that is freely available online except ver...
- Wed Oct 05, 2016 2:31 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Favorite/least favorite features from natlangs
- Replies: 59
- Views: 15071
Re: Favorite/least favorite features from natlangs
Welsh ...Don't like: Dd and f sound the same to me half the time. Th and ff sound the same to me half the time. Ch and ll sound the same to me half the time. For the first two its possibly people carrying over Southern English sounds changes. The second one is probably people having a hard time dis...
- Wed Oct 05, 2016 1:57 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Favorite/least favorite features from natlangs
- Replies: 59
- Views: 15071
Re: Favorite/least favorite features from natlangs
Welsh I like the attitude of Welsh speakers. If you can more or less speak Welsh, kinda, you can speak Welsh. Due to the way that almost everyone in Wales speaks a bit of Welsh and there is a sizeable native speaker population, there is quite a lot of acceptance to people who kinda speak it but try...
- Tue Sep 20, 2016 7:40 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Spanish Etymology?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3533
Re: Spanish Etymology?
Wikipedia says it's coincidental without giving any citations, and think it is very likely to be the case. Italian for el is il , which is similar enough to suggest that it was an internally drive change, rather than influenced by Arabic. When languages are similar and the social situation puts a l...
- Tue Sep 06, 2016 9:54 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Numbers from 1 to 10 updated
- Replies: 98
- Views: 29935
Re: Numbers from 1 to 10 updated
I can't find any sign of the English sheep-counting numbers of Brythonic origins in the file. But are these any more notable than numbers in any non-standard dialect of English/Anglic variety/whatever indigenous to Britain? So far, all there is there is English and Scots (and that too apparently on...
- Wed Jul 06, 2016 2:40 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: [ɜ] and [œ] in English for NURSE vowels
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5066
Re: [ɜ] and [œ] in English for NURSE vowels
Regardless, I had fun.Travis B. wrote:The last place where I wrote "DRESS" I really meant "NURSE", and I corrected it to "NURSE" after you quoted it.
(But I realised that and carried on, I think. I can't remember. I've just taken a load of pain meds so I'm surprised I'm even moderately coherent.)
- Wed Jul 06, 2016 2:37 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: [ɜ] and [œ] in English for NURSE vowels
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5066
Re: [ɜ] and [œ] in English for NURSE vowels
Conventionally, the NURSE vowel in RP is transcribed using [ɜ]. At the same time, the backed DRESS vowel found in my own dialect is probably best transcribed with [ɜ]. However, the two sound absolutely nothing alike, and to my ears the RP NURSE vowel sounds much more like [œ] while my DRESS vowel s...
- Thu Jun 30, 2016 1:57 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
- Replies: 4604
- Views: 1152145
Re: Help your fluency in a nifty way
There's a few weird register things going on here. The whole thing seems to be written in generally standard-ish Welsh which is what I'll correct to. Most of it is just getting mutations right (direct objects, after pan and ar ), use of synthetic verbs ( nes i is colloquial but other stuff like you...
- Wed Jun 29, 2016 4:04 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
- Replies: 4604
- Views: 1152145
Re: Help your fluency in a nifty way
Jag skulle läsa på andra språk om jag kunde. I would read in other languages if I could. Als ich 18 oder 19 war, bin ich nach Deutschland im Urlaub gegangen und da habe ich ein Buch gekauft das ich schon gelesen auf Englisch hatte ( Total verhext von Terry Pratchett) und danach habe ich es, langsam...
- Wed Jun 29, 2016 3:28 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
- Replies: 4604
- Views: 1152145
Re: Help your fluency in a nifty way
Je suis un peu jaloux de Théodore Roosevelt. Quand il avait 15 ans, déjà avec une bonne maîtrise de français, ses parents, insatisfaits de sa maîtrise d'allemand (ainsi que les autres enfants), les ont envoyés à Dresden pendant 5 mois avec le seul but d'améliorer leur allemand . Moi, je ne connais ...
- Sat Jan 09, 2016 8:33 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Accents
- Replies: 25
- Views: 6983
Re: Accents
My accent is a weird mix of Welsh and West Country. This is due to living in Gloucestershire and then moving to Mid Wales. My cousins in Gloucestershire have noitced and started teasing me about my Welsh accent... :x They're in no position to poke fun with a West Country accent. :-D Mine floats bet...
- Sat Jan 09, 2016 8:23 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Sentences that contain the whole alphabet
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4148
Re: Sentences that contain the whole alphabet
We can hardly mention the topic without citing the 26-letter Cwm fjord-bank glyphs vext quiz . (Using the Welsh cwm is a bit of a stretch... on the other hand, this sentence will teach you a neat word! What seems weirder these days is the sense 'strange person' for quiz .). Vext is what struck me a...
- Sat Aug 22, 2015 7:03 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Member Countries and Known Languages
- Replies: 130
- Views: 64204
Re: Member Countries and Known Languages
I'm English, grew up in the Southeast, now living in the Southwest, near Bath. My accent oscillates betwixt "posh" (southeast middle class educated) and an unholy and abominable combination of both dialects and accents (I fuck up my th's and pronounce dark L's like W's but also get a bit rhotic when...
- Tue Jun 30, 2015 3:13 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Happy Things Thread
- Replies: 969
- Views: 379284
Re: Happy Things Thread
I knew a lot of friendly Germans. Very few of them, however, worked in service positions. An American who'd lived there longer than me advised me once, "Just remember that any conversation an employee is having with another employee is more important than talking to you". After a while I got used t...
- Thu Jun 04, 2015 2:32 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: What do you say for X?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2238
Re: What do you say for X?
All mouth and trousers is the one I've heard. It means gobby little nobber, or maybe being a bit rah but also being a twat. Probably uses the phrase "top bants" and supports fox hunting because it exercises the dogs.
- Sun Apr 26, 2015 5:25 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Linguistic Struggles Thread
- Replies: 97
- Views: 49086
Re: Linguistic Struggles Thread
I'm learning Welsh by audio course in the car during my commutes, and I have real problems differentiating ff /f/ and th /θ/ and between f /v/ and dd /ð/. I come from the Souf East of England and perhaps I've got more of a "suvvern" accent than I thought I had. I'm aware that they occasionally slip ...
- Sun Apr 26, 2015 5:18 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: What part of speech is "quote ... unquote"?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3743
Re: What part of speech is "quote ... unquote"?
The OED lists it as an imperative verb, which I am not sure I wholly agree with. The entry is rather short.
I suppose it's interpreted as a sort of imperative-to-self. COMMENCE QUOTING! DESIST QUOTING! sorta thing.
I suppose it's interpreted as a sort of imperative-to-self. COMMENCE QUOTING! DESIST QUOTING! sorta thing.
- Sat Apr 11, 2015 6:49 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Any examples of this English accent?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2046
Re: Any examples of this English accent?
Here's a clip of the old girl in action. I would say it's a very early form of RP. She studied at RADA, which is an acting school, so I imagine it's a learnt/trained accent (as RP largely was, although it did exist in some family settings, particularly if the parents went to a "good" boarding schoo...
- Mon Feb 16, 2015 8:51 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Language Acquisition
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4368
Re: Language Acquisition
Are you talking about first or second language acquisition? They are very different things. Could you follow references in the article you have?
- Tue Nov 18, 2014 2:44 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: ZBB member photos, part 5. (Something for the weekend, sir?)
- Replies: 5496
- Views: 800055
Re: ZBB member photos, part 5. (Something for the weekend, s
#nofilterrrrrKereb wrote:jesus fuck gulliver that is fuckin dope
please tell me there's a less distorted photo of that makeup job
It's not distorted, it was just taken indoors by (mostly) candlelight with a dirty camera. I am, as you say, fuckin dope.