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(1) Could you please look at the lexicon ? Some items in it lack etymologies, and some could be analyzed incorrectly. For example, is the stem of 'knee'vowelless? Yes, it is vowelless. (2) It would be really helpful if you could also comment on these "issues" (what relates to Mûtsipsa'). For exampl...

Hi everyone, Ran asked me if I still had the sound changes lying around for my end of the Isles family... I had a quick look, and I do - so here're the sound changes that created Mûtsipsa'. I've written a little around them to make them easier to understand. The original phoneme inventory Stops /p, ...

zompist wrote:This sort of thing doesn't bother me. It's nice, very European looking. Though don't European banknotes name the country?

Euros don't tend to. And in Britain, banknotes just say which Bank printed them - Bank of England, Royal Bank of Scotland, Bank of Ulster, etc.

Wikipedia is wrong-- it's not (or wasn't) velar but dental or alveolar. It said dental click, I think it meant that it is coarticulated with [k]... and as I understand it, all clicks have coarticulations of some sort, so I'm assuming Wikipedia was actually right. I could, of course, be wrong though...

Why I don't care for militant, pedantic atheists: Richard Dawkins illustrates . I'd love to hear the results if someone asked him "what's your sign?" at a nightclub. Dawkins is right. "How can you take seriously someone who likes to believe something because he finds it 'comforting'?" I mean, I for...

It's quirky what offal you can and can't get your hands on in the USA. My bigger half decided to make haggis for Hogmanay in celebration of his Scottish roots and we soon discovered that it's illegal to sell the lung of any animal here. The Canadians don't seem to have the same problem, though, at ...

I remember this after going to a posh restaurant with my grandmother and us all giggling when she asked the waiter for the lemon mering-gyoo [mErINgju:] Why is this funny? That's how I pronounce it. I say /mEraN/, as do all people I know. My mum sometimes jokingly calls it /mErINgu/, as she does wi...

Ugh, hydrogenated oils. Avoid them like the plague. The body can't metabolise them, so they just sit in your liver, getting in the way.

Soy Sauce and Worcestershire Sauce - these two buddies don't go well together HERESY!!!! Well, sometimes they'll go well. Like making a stirfry, you throw in the soy sauce while cooking, and then throw the worcestershire sauce in when serving. Okay, as per Radius's request, I'll post some recipes, ...

I enjoy cooking. Well, when I'm not tired or rushed, I enjoy cooking. Things that I find invaluable when cooking: Cheese - it is the ultimate topping. It goes with anything, just sprinkle some grated cheese on. Or put it in halfway through. Instant protein. Vinegar - I find vinegar useful in so many...

Legion wrote:Theoricaly yes, but in practice I doubt you ca actually bend a pane of glass >_>

Cool, I was just wondering about the usage. Thanks.

Legion wrote:AUGH ! You can't use "rompre" with a window ! "rompre" is the idea of bent, distort something until it breaks. You can "rompre" bread or a branch, but not a window ! You must use "casser" here.

But could you "rompre" a pane of glass?

I'm not very familiar with RT groupings, but surely it's (theoretically) possible for a language to group P , R , and T all separately? Tripartite style? Sure :) I didn't include it because I haven't come across a natlang that does it. In my experience, if something is theoretically possible, then ...

[*] Dechticaetiative languages (or primary/secondary -object-languages) group P with R . T becomes the dechticaetiative . f.e. Yoruba [*]There are also languages that group P , R and T in a single case, and rely completely on context in ditransitive sentences to make out which is which.[/list] I'm ...

The Ilii will kick their asses.


Or the humans'll be eaten by Ktuvoki. Either way, not happy.

Sometimes people differentiate between a plosive and a stop. A plosive is a form of a stop. A stop is a sound made when there is complete closure in the oral cavity. A sound is then released orally (an oral stop, AKA a plosive, such as [p, t, d, c]) or nasally (a nasal stop, AKA "nasal", such as [m...

Go go go go!

To the tattoo parlour!

TRISH TAN GREE SHUN SHER RA

Is his mother okay with this? You're gonna have 6 random faces tattooed onto your body...

w00t.

I've been waiting for this for years.

Literally.

Kinetiq wrote:Is it tiles, or stones, that cover the streets?

There's a difference?

Anyone think the Ewez picture on Mark's page looks a little like an effeminate Nuntar?

Nobody used /h~/. Rhinoglottophilia FTW! Is that even possible? It'd be hard to distinguish from oral /h/. Nobody used non-explosive stops (i.e. stops without a pressure build-up and release). Which is fair enough, though, since I only just heard of them myself. Ikwere developed them out of /k_p g_...

Khang wrote:http://www.btinternet.com/~c.fynn/tibet ... raphy.html

O_o

I'm gonna have to get me a pen and try writing some of that...

There are some old threads that may help shed some light on this: http://www.spinnoff.com/zbb/viewtopic.php?t=20 (yeah, that's the 20th topic ever posted on this board. By constrast, this one is the 16,467th.) http://www.spinnoff.com/zbb/viewtopic.php?t=336 (where Glenn quotes exactly the same sourc...

Noriega wrote:But of course, we use “bror” and “syster” too.

*wonders if bror is the origin of Scots brar*