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最近、生徒さんに話しながら、ドイツ語とオランダ語を混ぜていると気付いた。大切ではない、やっぱり、でもびっくりした。お茶のことだと、ドイツ語でTheeだと思った。それはオランダ語なんだ。ドイツ語でTeeと書いている。まあさ、発音が同じだから、もう気付いていなかったそうだな。オランダ語は、ドイツ語にまじで差し支えることのできるレベルに知っているのがわからなかった。でもやっぱり、ドイツ語を話している国より、この10年間でオランダに行くことが多いし、日本から帰るときはKLMとよく利用するし、オランダ語はドイツ語より見ることが多いかな。 Recently when I was talking to a ...

I don’t know anything about Japanese, but it looks like you’re conflating historical morphology with modern still-productive morphology. If ochiru ’s modern causative is ochisaseru , but its ancient causative (/transitive) counterpart came out in modern Japanese as otosu , then you aren’t deriving ...

the good (???) news is that i might be able to claim back medical expenses on my taxes as the bills are starting to mount up and will hit that magical ¥100,000 mark soon...

Ugh i had a horrible day, starting with a stupid fight with my boyfriend. I went for physiotherapy, but didn't get anything useful out of the appointment because it was mostly me moping that my shoulder isn't getting any better - I hurt it in February and it is still hurting now, not all the time bu...

you have to tell every doctor you go to here your entire medical history because they don't have any kind of centralized system, it's tiring. they get you to fill out a standardized form and they often don't read it properly. good thing is you can just go to another doctor... and hope they're actual...

do you... pronounce the L in polka? is it not /po:kə/ dots?

also i definitely have long O in bolt, troll, etc, but it's easier to tell in a scottish accent. if you're writing long O as /əʊ/ i have real trouble pronouncing [əʊɫ], like is that how you'd pronounce it?

oh come on none of you know about eeeeish? what has happened to this forum???????

Name a planet. Mars Name a famous spoiler. Darth Vader is Luke's Father License to sell hair tonic to bald eagles in _____. Burma Shave Who is the rightful King of Jerusalem by legal inheritance from the crusader state? Richard Lionheart Name the language this word belongs to: e (only one will be a...

I would say it's a register difference, at least in the UK. You'd be looked down on somewhat for using glottal stops in court, but probably not in the office because offices aren't that formal. It's less noticeable at the end of a word, though. Words like "bottle" vary in register from lower [bɔʔʊu̯...

On a similar note I always get thrown by the title of another thread here, "Incorrect pronunciations you have (or have had) to unlearn" because "have" /hav/ and "have to" /haftə/ are totally different mental lexical entries for me, so I always start thinking it's something I possess instead of somet...

I get something like that too, but it's more like I hurt my shoulder and then got sick enough to stop me exercising almost at all for a few weeks, and my anxiety levels went way up... (not that they weren't already like, up there) I just want my shoulder to heal but by all accounts i still need a fe...

I think there are a few people who have or have contemplated having languages with lirlat the root word for laughing.

As for my ones... suika is my word for train. Can't think of any more. I don't do this very often I guess.

やっっと喉頭炎は治ったみたいだ。でも、頭痛もあるし、背中も痛いし、2ヵ月前の怪我から右肩にリハビリもう要るし、やっぱり体はよくないわ
Finally i think i'm over laryngitis, but i've got a headache and a sore back, and i still need physio on my right shoulder from that injury two months ago... i'm not really better, fuck...

Do you distinguish /ɛr ɪr ʌr/ where /r/ falls in a coda position? (I was watching Shetland and the characters did that, most notably consistently pronouncing person with an [ɛr].) I also thought Scottish English had allophonic lengthening before some, but not all, lenis obstruents. in my "native" a...

日本語で化粧室
In Japanese it's "make up room" (formally)

in hakodate the Dock area is written down as どつく in hiragana with a big tsu, but pronounced ドック as you'd expect from an english loanword. it bothered the shit out of me. but this might be what you mean? it's obviously a relic of the old spelling system or something

I hate feeling sick. I caught laryngitis or something so i've been coughing and phlegming all week, and stressing because i wouldn't have had time to go to the doctors if i didn't take the day off on wednesday. And if I take a day off work i won't get paid for it because my company's a bit shitty li...

And the link should be part of his signature on this board, at the very least. Otherwise providing him data is throwing straw into a deep dark chasm. talk to the abyss and he will talk back and introduce himself as janko gorenc he is as old as time itself, some say it is a rite of passage to be ask...

First: fan vs van thigh vs thy few vs view seine vs zain place you because we Second: I've seen Echobeat's location set to Edinburgh. It came to my mind to ask if the Wikipedia's article about Scottish English vowels is right, so I asked them and they said they hasn't grew there. If anyone from Sco...

Czy w Australii nazywają ubikację łazienką, czy to jest coś co robią tylko Amerikanie? Est-ce qu'on apelle les toilettes salle de bains en Australie ou c'est une chose que font seulement les Américains? Noemt men een toilet een badkamer in Australië of is dat iets dat alleen de Amerikanen doen? Do ...

Thank you for all the answers. However, in my onbin question, I wasn't asking about the actual processes. I wanted to know if there were any other natlangs which have a set of "sound changes" that only apply during verbal inflection (or maybe any kind of inflection--Japanese just has inflection in ...

One of my least favourite things about Japanese, and about teaching English to Japanese speakers, is that they've borrowed these words as if they have strong stress on the second syllable, like /gaˈreidʒ/ and /meˈseidʒ/ (it's then passing through the filter of Japanese phonotactics and coming out as...

頑張る ganbaru "do well, persevere" (if I had a nickel for everytime I heard ganbare or ganbatte in anime...honestly, I've rarely heard 頑張る in any inflection but those two) haha this is definitely where anime is skewed i think - you definitely hear those two a lot but you'd hear it more in other infle...

I went skiing this weekend (three days). I can't really ski, so I had lessons, and yesterday it went pretty well. Could even parallel ski a bit and had fun. Unfortunately, today it didn't go as well, because anxiety* kicked in and I couldn't ski half as good as yesterday. Blergh. Today going home a...

i will repeat a bit of what's said above 1: According to dictionaries, 絶対 zettai is a na-adjective, even though it ends in -i (and I've heard zettai ni for "absolutely" in Japanese media). However, I swear I have heard in either anime or visual novels characters say zettaku for "absolutely" as if it...