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As Ollock knows, I have been trying to come up with an intro and outro for the show. If anyone has any ideas on genre, that would be really helpful. Also, I am just using pre-recorded garage band things and tweaking them a little, so it will probably sound familiar to those of you who use it freque...

Two days left! + another few days to organise everything before we can see it. Fix'd. And there's really no excuse for not finishing on time. If you sit down and take one hour of your 15 waking hours of your time you can finish it and pass it along in a day. It's not like one can't spare an hour! T...

Hello all, I'm attempting to learn a language with a different writing system (Arabic, actually) but I'm having a little difficulty reading the script. I feel like it takes me forever to read one word even after a good amount of practice (maybe it's just because I'm such a fast reader in English an...

It looks a bit more like a nettle to me, but that could just be the angle. I'd call it a thristle/hristle.

å låse kan mean both to lock and to unlock. Really? In Swedish, you have to add an upp/opp for it to mean to unlock (as far as I know). Could you give me an example? Yesterday, my mother-in-law tried to get into the flat downstairs, instead of ours. When she explained what had happened later on, sh...

å låse kan mean both to lock and to unlock.

This is very nice, but one important part is missing: orthography. I don't know how to pronounce these words without phonemic/phonetic transcription if you don't say anything about the orthography. In addition, could someone please tell me what Bokmål and Nynorsk are, or which one should I learn if...

I don't think å heite, being a weak verb, can form the present in heit.

Sent to tubragg, English translation pending (I don't need no stinking intermediary).

I'm alive, but the text is going to be late. Sorry guys

finlay wrote:Åge!!

Calm down dear! I have the text, and will translate it soon.

Swedish å, ä and ö are usually just written a, a and o when they're not available. Some people use aa, ae and oe, but that's much harder to read. That's interesting, since Norwegians use <aa ae oe> more often than not, in my experience. I'm not so sure. It may well vary from medium to medium, but d...

Nancy Blackett wrote:It might be worth discounting schwa, since otherwise some interpretations of Slovene and Irish would also qualify.

Bad science.

Shogun 2: Total War

Pitch, stress, voice, take your pick.

But this is something we can actually test, and get real numbers for, so go ahead and prove us wrong. We can? How many attested second-order protolangs there are? None that I know of, but that wouldn't stop is from making a pretty realistic model - we're conlangers, people! We have the technology! ...

The problem is that 5000 is an arbitrary number. For all we know the limit is 50,000 years. I don't think it's all that arbitrary. Latin is well attested in written sources, and yet we can't reconstruct it perfectly or purely from it's descendants. We can get close to Vulgar Latin, but there is a c...

The problem is that 5000 is an arbitrary number. For all we know the limit is 50,000 years. I don't think it's all that arbitrary. Latin is well attested in written sources, and yet we can't reconstruct it perfectly or purely from it's descendants. We can get close to Vulgar Latin, but there is a c...

As of now I am currently planning on listing the chains on the 23rd, and assuming there aren't problems, starting it sometime between the 27th and the 30th. Also note: I increased the deadline to 4 days per person, due to the text being somewhat longer than the previous two PTs. (though it's not ou...

From: Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, English, (Japanese)
To: Norwegian, English

The text I got was interestingly ambiguous -- it used "he" in a way that might refer to either the narrator or the "demon" (elf). I was able to preserve this by starting out with <kare wa> "he TOPIC" and then using pro-drop from there. It got rather strained toward the end. That I definitely notice...

Consonants and vowels are generally made in context, not in isolation.

I have trouble with pronouncing the right one of /u U/ when speaking Norwegian. I can't really say /u/ correctly, and it gets worse when it's near other round vowels. The fact that a lot of words can be pronounced with either /u/ or /U/ doesn't make it any easier either. I also still have difficulty...