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by Klaivas
Fri Sep 03, 2010 9:51 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Quick question about Dutch /G/
Replies: 14
Views: 3084

Quick question about Dutch /G/

Hello all. I've always seen Dutch <g> transcribed as /G/, but, in any spoken Dutch I've heard, it always sounds like [X]... if anyone knows anything about this you guys will. Is /G/ just a traditional notation and [X] used nonetheless by the majority of the population, or have I just heard a very bi...
by Klaivas
Tue Aug 12, 2008 1:22 pm
Forum: None of the above
Topic: What are you listening to? -- Non-English Edition
Replies: 1735
Views: 358736

Илья Орлов - Ветер
by Klaivas
Tue Aug 05, 2008 3:38 am
Forum: None of the above
Topic: The Official ZBB Quote Thread
Replies: 2878
Views: 644072

Xhin wrote:EDIT: Rather fitting for my sig, actually.
Xhin, in his sig, wrote:Particle physics + Conway's game of life
Particle physics gives me a hadron.
by Klaivas
Sat Feb 16, 2008 10:36 am
Forum: None of the above
Topic: The Official ZBB Quote Thread
Replies: 2878
Views: 644072

Serali wrote:You ALL need to grow up!
by Klaivas
Sat Jan 26, 2008 6:11 pm
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: I wish English had a word for this!
Replies: 333
Views: 148593

äreo wrote:People should start to use Middle English pronouns again. They were ckool.
It still hasn't died out in some dialects, but I reckon it'll be gone within 30 years.
by Klaivas
Thu Jan 10, 2008 5:14 pm
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: I wish English had a word for this!
Replies: 333
Views: 148593

Nadreck wrote:Also, why does English have "starve" = to die of hunger, but no word for to die of thirst?
"Starve to death" is to "starve" is to "be hungry" as "die of dehydration" is to "dehydrate" is to "be thirsty".
by Klaivas
Sat Jan 05, 2008 12:21 pm
Forum: None of the above
Topic: The Official ZBB Quote Thread
Replies: 2878
Views: 644072

Taernsietr wrote:New Zealandic? Is that English of New Zealand or is it a native language?
Lulz!
by Klaivas
Tue Sep 18, 2007 3:37 pm
Forum: None of the above
Topic: Seahorses, I Love 'Em (& other Links of Interest)
Replies: 2235
Views: 437785

Speaking of which, that video is fast spreading around my school at the moment :wink: Perhaps that's how you heard it. I still don't know if I've seen your son yet though, I forgot what his name is.
by Klaivas
Wed Jun 20, 2007 8:33 am
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: resources
Replies: 722
Views: 311919

Grammatical structure of the Chukchee language

This is pure gold.
by Klaivas
Thu Jun 14, 2007 4:40 pm
Forum: None of the above
Topic: Seahorses, I Love 'Em (& other Links of Interest)
Replies: 2235
Views: 437785

:roll: Because homosexuals are sooo much more sexually driven than heteros.
by Klaivas
Wed May 16, 2007 10:18 am
Forum: Almea
Topic: Verdurian Language Pack for PHPBB
Replies: 9
Views: 4991

As a novelty, it's a great idea, and it's also good if Zomp wanted to further utilise his lang or showcase it, but for the purpose of being useful , it's not worth wasting time on. It's the kind of thing I'd spend weeks partially-completing, and then give up on before I'd finished. Of course, more p...
by Klaivas
Fri Apr 27, 2007 5:30 pm
Forum: Almea
Topic: Shw?
Replies: 6
Views: 3175

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...
by Klaivas
Fri Apr 27, 2007 5:04 pm
Forum: Almea
Topic: Shw?
Replies: 6
Views: 3175

I think it's a dental click (X-SAMPA [k|\)]).
Wikipedia wrote:Prior to 1989, [ʇ] was an accepted IPA representation of the voiceless velar dental click.
by Klaivas
Sat Apr 21, 2007 4:42 pm
Forum: None of the above
Topic: The Official ZBB Quote Thread
Replies: 2878
Views: 644072

Completely out of context:
Radagast wrote:I raped a christmas tree.
From "Passed out", a thread about passing out from alcohol.
by Klaivas
Thu Feb 22, 2007 7:29 pm
Forum: None of the above
Topic: The Official ZBB Quote Thread
Replies: 2878
Views: 644072

HE MADE ME DO IT!

Honest :roll:
by Klaivas
Mon Feb 19, 2007 3:28 pm
Forum: Almea
Topic: Q for Zomp: Verdurian font
Replies: 83
Views: 30625

In the style of road safety, here's a little 3-step guide to post safety: STOP! Before hitting the "Submit" button, hooold it right there. LOOK! Look at your post. If it contains more than one "OMG", "YAY", "SCRIPTY", "PRETTY" or ":mrgreen:", delete all duplicates. LISTEN! Read the post aloud to you...
by Klaivas
Sun Feb 04, 2007 4:04 pm
Forum: Almea
Topic: Q for Zomp: Verdurian font
Replies: 83
Views: 30625

Are you sure? I mean, it does say verdurian.ttf :P
by Klaivas
Sun Feb 04, 2007 3:28 pm
Forum: Almea
Topic: Q for Zomp: Verdurian font
Replies: 83
Views: 30625

@Serali: I can't see it, because I can't work out how to download the font, but... isn't it Verdurian?
by Klaivas
Tue Jan 30, 2007 9:23 pm
Forum: None of the above
Topic: The Official ZBB Quote Thread
Replies: 2878
Views: 644072

From this thread discussing this thread ("English is most probably the strongest language")
bulbaquil wrote:English speling is cosistent? When did this happan and why wans't I toled?
:) Maid me larph.
by Klaivas
Mon Nov 13, 2006 7:37 am
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: I wish English had a word for this!
Replies: 333
Views: 148593

Yeah, "where" would work fine. You can also use the neologism "whatth" IMD...

- I'm going away on the 4th of December
- The whatth of December?
- The 4th of December

Though "when in December" would work fine there.
by Klaivas
Mon Sep 18, 2006 6:49 pm
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: Morphosyntactic alignment
Replies: 179
Views: 130403

A lot of information to take in here, but I managed to understand it :mrgreen: Can I nominate this for the L&L museum, perhaps? I know it's in C&C but I think it deserves a place there. Nevertheless, I've decided to make Ewari an ergative-dechticaetiative language... thinking this through carefully,...
by Klaivas
Thu Jul 27, 2006 7:43 am
Forum: Almea
Topic: Updated Verdurian street scene
Replies: 30
Views: 12160

Yes - tiles are... tiles. Stones are like... cobbles.

(w00t! First post in Almea since my registration!)
by Klaivas
Sun Jul 23, 2006 5:18 pm
Forum: None of the above
Topic: The Official ZBB Quote Thread
Replies: 2878
Views: 644072

Taken from an MSN conversation between Io and me: Ivo says: ﺯﺍ ﻥﺩﻴﺸﻜ ﻩﺭﻴﺸ ‘ﻥﺩﻴﺸﻭﺩ ‘ﻰﻫﺎﻴﮔ ﻩﺭﻴﺸ ‘ﺭﻴﺸ...
by Klaivas
Thu Jul 20, 2006 3:56 pm
Forum: Almea
Topic: So... who're ewemi?
Replies: 54
Views: 19607

I'm not really a transexual :?

I should have said "transgender" to make it more appropriate to this thread.
by Klaivas
Thu Jul 20, 2006 3:09 pm
Forum: Almea
Topic: So... who're ewemi?
Replies: 54
Views: 19607

I'm a transexual.

Don't sig-quote :roll:

Edit: For future clarification: I'm gay, not transexual :P

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