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civman2000 wrote:So you're at Washington University? I live a couple blocks away and am going there next year!

GOD

Erm... no, look at his location. He just linked to a page from there.

Ghost wrote:

JonathanaTegire wrote:

Jaaaaaa wrote:7 x 9 = 42! 1 + 1 = pi! 3 + 2 = 5!

actually, 7*9 IS 42, 1+1 can equal pi in certain dimensions.

Kindly Elaborate.

Ghost

Don't take him too seriously. You know JT; as soon as the parents leave it's out with the peach schnapps.

JonathanaTegire wrote:You mean one year, certainly?

wtf, I swear that number changed since I saw it. Ah well, everyone knows the farther you get into math the more you forget how to add and subtract.

Only the virtual ones. (Translation: I noticed your post count approaching mine.) Bah. Who needs your post count? I was here before you, you whiney boy. :evil: At least I think I was. Were you here when we started the new board? Certainly not. If you look to your left, you'll see I joined almost ex...

Space Dracula wrote:

Drydic_guy wrote:Maybe what he meant was that he phases in and out of existance...

Like subatomic particles in open space.

Only the virtual ones.

(Translation: I noticed your post count approaching mine.)

Speaking of getting virused (is that actually a word?) e-mails, I've checked my e-mail account earlier and I got four messages that had attachments with viruses with them. I don't even know who those messages are from. One of them said "your big love, ;-)". :roll: It's strange how people can seem t...

Hmm... yeah, I forgot about <excite> and its kids. Though I still say it's stress-determined; I'm guessing that <excite> would be analyzed as /Ek ss ait/, but since English doesn't have phonemic /ss/... yeah. But it's just a theory. Don't get mixed up with the orthography, it's just /Ek'sait/. For ...

vegfarandi wrote:BLASPHEMY!

*sigh* Looks like veg is on the brink of yet another zompist-induced suicide.

And you've forgotten our illustrious host's use of <x> for /G\/ in Elkar?l.

Also, <exit> = /EgzIt/

One last edit: Vietnamese and Hmong use <x> for /s/.

Ahribar wrote:To be honest, I can't remember where all of those come from, but the /_?\/ certainly is yours.... I'll add /Z/ to the list. And do you know which click it's used for in Zulu?

Alveolar lateral, aka /|\|\/

So Haleza Grise wrote:(I assume it's not human skin . . .)

"Metaverse for March - The Almean Necronomicon"

Update: I've written up a bigger page on !X??, going into quite a bit more detail than I did here. Check it out: http://scorpius.spaceports.com/~pharazo/Xoo.html.

Where did you get this book, Pharazon? And are there any other books you can get on it? The local university library (University of Arizona). There aren't any more books on it there; I imagine you'd have to look in journals to get more information. And if you're wondering, the book is "Phonetic and...

Well, only a few thousand people probably know about Verduria (any idea how many, Zomp?), so the chances of you bumping into one, andf then somehow getting onto the topic, is increadibly mminiscule :wink: . But you're forgetting that most of those are fanatical stalkers hiding in the bushes outside...

It's interesting that in the dialect of Spanish around here, only /d/ seems to fricativize (actually, the allophones are approximants). Also, ll and y are always /j/, not /j\/.

Ah, yes, pronunciation. There are several people, including myself, in my Spanish class who can truly pronounce Spanish quite well. Most of the other kids have improved a lot from when we started though. Never having been in a school language class, I've wondered: how much pronunciation do they tea...

(I think ?? is just a way of writing a single sound without using piled diacritics... if they're seperate, please correct me :oops: ) I was confused about that for a while too, but: Long vowels are clearly to be interpreted as a sequence of like vowels, that is, as consisting of two morae So, you'r...

That is awesome! I'd lose to see some grammatical info. My book is a phonology one, so there's only a sketch. Many nouns can be broken down into root + classifier; there are thirty noun classes, and as in Swahili, the class changes for number (the functions of the classes aren't clear, but they app...

Drydic_guy is right, I did mean retroflex. Maybe there're some areas with d_>, but I don't know about them.

the only European langs I can think of with one are certain Italian dialects with implosive d I believe you're thinking of Sindhi, which isn't limited to /d_</. There's imploded /b d J\ g/ and /d`/, I believe. No, Sardinian (not really a dialect) and some Italian dialects have /d_</ also, e.g. from...

Could someone explain to me what are pulmonic consonants? Are they the ones where the sounds are released by inhaling the air, rather than exhaling? :?: No, those are implosives. Pulmonic consonants are just those whose airstream originates in the lungs; the large majority of the world's consonants...

Eddy the Great wrote:That's actually !Xũ, a language closely related to Ju|'h?asi.

D'oh, I was going to mention that too but I forgot. Ah well.

Okay, here's the chart: http://www.angelfire.com/alt2/malknarh/xoo.jpg (Note: ~200KB) Ignore the top part (that's Rotokas). [EDIT: Also note that this is done in 1979 IPA... :roll: ] Well, it's certainly different than mine (which is still better! :wink: ), but it's not surprising that some of the ...

Maknas wrote:Pharazon, are you gonna add all this to your site

Probably ... eventually.

What's the book called?

Phonetic and phonological studies of !X?? Bushman (Traill).

Yes, you read right. I got curious about it, and I managed to procure a book on it. Since I'm tired, I won't give lots of details. Tones There are four phonemic tones: High: //?o Mid: tsh?a Mid-falling: //?o Low: tsh?a Vowels <a e i o u> = /a E i O u/ Vowels can be plain (s?o), nasalized (g?u~), bre...