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Except that ( and ) are parentheses. [ and ] are brackets. () ? brackets [] ? square brackets <> ? angle brackets {} ? curly brackets. The only thing I would call a parenthesis is a part of a sentence (such as this) that is enclosed in brackets. But I know this whole thing is a British/American dif...

Atatakakatta is Japanese for "was warm"...somehow that's always cracked me up... GOD Hai, it did for me too until I found Atatakakunakatta (It wasn't warm.), or Atatakerebanaranai (It must?/should? have been warm.). I prefer atatakakatta...the best part of it is the lack of any vowels other than /a...

Atatakakatta is Japanese for "was warm"...somehow that's always cracked me up...

GOD

Hmmm...this list seems heavily influenced by Japanese, though it may be that features I associate with Japanese are actually common to most SOV languages...

GOD

Pikas are cool too

Ooh, more! They give me fond memories of hiking in Grand Teton Nat'l Park...

GOD

finlay wrote:
SQUIRREL

More like RED X .

GOD

Why oh why we don't live in a perfect world?! Why is everyone here so serious?! What's the prob with the mortar pics anyway?! otter ? /'ot@/ mortar ? /'mo:t@/ Just shorten the 'o' and voila: mOTTER.... well, I don't expect to find it funny, I just gave you an explanation why I posted these images. ...

What's the m stand for? Murderous?

GOD

Ruby wrote:

Jar Jar Binks wrote:
OTTER

*treasures*

That's the cutest thing I've seen in recent memory!

GOD

NO MORE UGLY PICS!!

GOD

Nice foxes! They remind me of when I was in yellowstone a year and a half ago and saw two young coyotes running around and playing. It was very cute (at least from a distance!).

GOD

Phasmo wrote:
OTTER

Aww! That's a really cute one!

GOD

Request: Proto-Germanic to Old English and also the effects of /x/ on preceding vowels in Middle English.

GOD

Jar Jar Binks wrote:
OTTER


OTTER + OTTER

Very cute!

GOD

My Latin dictionary doesn't give a likely direct prediccessor for fuerza... It gives fortis for 'strong', but as for 'strength', it gives fortit?d?, which wouldn't become 'fuerza', but something like *fuertudo or *huertudo. Indeed, *hortudo or *fortudo woulf be expected, but a google search seems t...

I already have that: tj > ts > s / #_, C_ and tj > dz > z > s / V_V (where [s] can also be [T], as in Castillian) According to the sites where I found this, Vulgar Latin <ti> was pronounced as /tj/ That still doesn't quite work though, because that would give tion>/tjon/>/tson/>*/Ton/ instead of /T...

I already have that: tj > ts > s / #_, C_ and tj > dz > z > s / V_V (where [s] can also be [T], as in Castillian) According to the sites where I found this, Vulgar Latin <ti> was pronounced as /tj/ That still doesn't quite work though, because that would give tion>/tjon/>/tson/>*/Ton/ instead of /T...

Also, Jhex, /y/ did not partake in the GVS

What was the original vowel in <few>? I had always thought it was /y/ which became /ju/.

GOD

SOme of those changes are only for a specific dialect. FOr example, /ts dz/ went to /T/ and only then to /s/ in certain dialects. Also, the fate of /L/ varies widely, the most common being /j\/, /j/, and /Z/, though I've also heard of retaining /L/, /dZ/, and even /S/ (though never the /x/ that you ...

Oops ...

GOD

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

GOD

Plus our textbook does mention the allophones and such. We don't go over allophones in my class (by the way, could someone explain what the deal is with "b" and "v"? I think "b" is /b/ and "v" is /B/, but I'm not sure about that). I am in Spanish 1 though, so perhaps we learn that later. do people ...

We know with a high degree of certainty that the above wasn't true in the past; e.g., Proto Iroquois had unified morphology and apparently no semantic distinction between nouns and verbs (and it is, in this respect, the template for Noyahtukah). All Iroquois formal nouns are of recent innovation; a...

It is true that most "universals" are general patterns and most of them are broken by a very small number of languages. However, there are some that truly are universal, such as all languages having pulmonic consonants (in particular voiceless stops) and I believe front and back vowels. Also, all la...