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- Sun Nov 24, 2013 5:19 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: By accident / on accident
- Replies: 31
- Views: 7060
Re: By accident / on accident
Interesting, thanks for the replies. Roughly speaking then, some people here use 'on accident' and have never been corrected for it, others have heard of it but would never use it, and to some of us, it sounds very odd. I don't think any non-Americans said they use it but please correct me if I'm wr...
- Sun Nov 24, 2013 10:17 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: By accident / on accident
- Replies: 31
- Views: 7060
By accident / on accident
I don't know if this has been discussed here before, but 'on accident' is a variation of 'by accident' which I often see on the Internet, although I've never actually heard anyone say it in the wild (I live in the south of England.) After doing a bit of Googling, it seems that 'on accident' is a fea...
- Sat Nov 02, 2013 9:17 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Help your conlang fluency (2)
- Replies: 6633
- Views: 742358
Re: Help your conlang fluency
Me plac ke pög päreul nal mia lenga son kört, ät aücz son löng.
I am glad that some words in my language are short, and others are long.
I am glad that some words in my language are short, and others are long.
- Thu Oct 17, 2013 7:20 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Romanization challenge thread
- Replies: 3842
- Views: 851945
Re: Romanization challenge thread
Ahh, I can't decide which of the three Romanizations I like best.
Nort's certainly captures the Germanic feel of the language, but I prefer diacritics to digraphs overall so we will see!
Nort's certainly captures the Germanic feel of the language, but I prefer diacritics to digraphs overall so we will see!
- Wed Oct 16, 2013 5:01 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Romanization challenge thread
- Replies: 3842
- Views: 851945
Re: Romanization challenge thread
Here's a phoneme inventory with an example sentence: /m n ɲ ŋ/ /p b t d k g/ /ts tʂ dʐ tɕ dʑ/ /f s ʂ ɕ h/ /r/ /l ʎ/ /ɻ j/ /i y/ /u/ /e ø/ /o/ /ɛ/ /ɔ/ /a/ /ai au ei eu oi ou ɛi ɛu ɔi ɔu øi/ Phonotactics in brief: Any single consonant can occur in onset or coda position, with the exception of /j/ whic...
- Tue Aug 06, 2013 4:16 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Help your conlang fluency (2)
- Replies: 6633
- Views: 742358
Re: Help your conlang fluency
šanqukwaratəb bekip'it gaχu nöl wartu menjes pekkingünəb kikeŋŋe satna kekip'i [ʃɑɴqukwɑɾɑtəu βekʲipʼiʔ ɣɑχʷ nœl wɑɾtu mɛnjɛs pɛkkiŋɣynəʉ kʲikɛŋŋe sɑʔnɑ kekkʲip'i] far-know-1S>3S.IRR 1S.POSSD-language.ABS-PL enough difficult COP let_alone INCHO-learn-1S>3S.IRR other.GEN person.GEN 3S.POSSD-language...
- Thu May 23, 2013 6:04 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: One-syllable words with specific technical or rare meanings
- Replies: 313
- Views: 111404
Re: One-syllable words with specific technical or rare meani
Yes.
Wiktionary says it's also a verb meaning 'to write' but I've never seen or heard it used in that way.
Wiktionary says it's also a verb meaning 'to write' but I've never seen or heard it used in that way.
- Thu May 23, 2013 5:32 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: One-syllable words with specific technical or rare meanings
- Replies: 313
- Views: 111404
Re: One-syllable words with specific technical or rare meani
This made me think of screeve, which is rarely used outside the context of Georgian grammar.Radius Solis wrote:
Edit: oh, and screed. But we all know what a screed is, right? right?
- Tue Aug 28, 2012 3:39 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The Innovative Usage Thread
- Replies: 2452
- Views: 418592
Re: The Innovative Usage Thread
All the cool kids noun incorporate.
- Mon Aug 27, 2012 4:37 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Help your conlang fluency (2)
- Replies: 6633
- Views: 742358
Re: Help your conlang fluency
šōŋək kurəttejes ō mīməɬjul ɣamnijaksəjč čenjakɨttɨ ɣojmˤ once fay-DIM-DAT INST Nairutin.ERG 1S-language.ERG speak-IRR-3S.DAT try An elf once tried to speak my language, Nairutin cəi ʁustən məgɨlotātˤ ʁošumbɨkūqet ol čəuŋˤ šūdruxlɨ but all-ERG.PL REL-be_glottalised-3P.ABS consonant-PART-ERG.PL 3S.A...
- Sun Aug 26, 2012 4:37 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: categorizing vowels
- Replies: 53
- Views: 10170
Re: categorizing vowels
The Hatter opened his eyes very wide on hearing this; but all he SAID was, ‘Why is a raven like a writing-desk?’ ‘Come, we shall have some fun now!’ thought Alice. ‘I’m glad they’ve begun asking riddles.—I believe I can guess that,’ she added aloud. ‘Do you mean that you think you can find out the a...
- Sat Aug 25, 2012 1:09 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: categorizing vowels
- Replies: 53
- Views: 10170
Re: categorizing vowels
No because omlauts are a result of i-mutation, which in simple terms, is saturation of progressive spread short vowels. Any basic textbook on Germanic linguistics will tell you this. Sure, further sound changes in some languages produced front rounded vowels (better, ''faucalized'' vowels) but this ...
- Sat Aug 25, 2012 10:59 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: categorizing vowels
- Replies: 53
- Views: 10170
Re: categorizing vowels
I would like to present a better system: When there is a pair of vowels, the member on the left is sliding. The one on the right is flat. I think this is a neat way of classifying tones in languages that have them. http://imgur.com/C4myE.png I'm not sure about the placement of the rhotic vowels, and...
- Sat Aug 25, 2012 5:20 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: categorizing vowels
- Replies: 53
- Views: 10170
Re: categorizing vowels
Granpa, tell me this.
How would you represent nasal vowels?
How would you represent nasal vowels?
- Mon Jul 30, 2012 1:29 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Sound Change Quickie Thread
- Replies: 2827
- Views: 620181
Re: Sound Change Quickie Thread
Aha, interesting. I knew /ɣ/ > /v/ would be a bit of an odd sound change, but it's good to know there is some precedent for it. I'm guessing /ɣ/ > /w/ would be much less outlandish? I can work with that.
- Sun Jul 29, 2012 5:55 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Sound Change Quickie Thread
- Replies: 2827
- Views: 620181
Re: Sound Change Quickie Thread
ɣ > j /#_
ɣ > v
Has it ever been done? Could it be done?
ɣ > v
Has it ever been done? Could it be done?
- Mon Mar 26, 2012 1:30 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Post your conlang's phonology
- Replies: 2278
- Views: 504604
Re: Post your conlang's phonology
Here's the phonology of my latest conlang, tentatively called Cembes: Consonants: http://i.imgur.com/tY7nG.jpg Vowels: http://i.imgur.com/7sK5n.jpg One important thing to note is that the phoneme inventory is pan-dialectal. Cembes has three main dialects which are quite divergent from each other, ye...
- Sat Mar 24, 2012 1:38 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The Official ZBB Quote Thread
- Replies: 2878
- Views: 642383
Re: The Official ZBB Quote Thread
That is indeed a classic quote from our beloved and venerable Chagen.
- Mon Feb 20, 2012 12:41 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Post your conlang's phonology
- Replies: 2278
- Views: 504604
Re: Post your conlang's phonology
Modern Zaltas: Consonants Labial Alveolar Retroflex Palatal Velar Glottal Nasal m n ɲ Plosive p (b) tʼ t d kʼ k g Affricate ts dz tʂ dʐ tɕ dʑ Fricative f v s z ʂ ʐ ɕ ʑ x (ɣ) h Approximant r l j /b/ is an extremely rare phoneme, being restricted to recent loanwords. /ɣ/ tends to be realised as the v...
- Mon Jan 30, 2012 5:03 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: LCK Two
- Replies: 121
- Views: 23063
Re: LCK Two
dhokarena56 wrote:There aren't any natural languages that feature oligosynthesis, tho...
Darkgamma wrote: Ithkuil? It's no natlang, but...
dhokarena56 wrote:There aren't any natural languages that feature oligosynthesis, tho...
natural languagesDarkgamma wrote: Ithkuil? It's no natlang, but...
natlangs
beep boop bop.
- Sat Jan 28, 2012 6:46 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Your Native Language
- Replies: 228
- Views: 35099
Re: Your Native Language
L1: English
Also been exposed to: Welsh
Ancestral languages: English, Welsh, probably Irish.
Also been exposed to: Welsh
Ancestral languages: English, Welsh, probably Irish.
- Sat Jan 28, 2012 10:32 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Sound Change Quickie Thread
- Replies: 2827
- Views: 620181
Re: Sound Change Quickie Thread
Thanks for the replies guys! I'll do what Nort said.
On a slight tangent, anyone know how Armenian developed ejectives? (probably best to PM me so that this thread doesn't derail..)
On a slight tangent, anyone know how Armenian developed ejectives? (probably best to PM me so that this thread doesn't derail..)
- Sat Jan 28, 2012 5:07 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Sound Change Quickie Thread
- Replies: 2827
- Views: 620181
Re: Sound Change Quickie Thread
I'm trying to get ejectives into one of my a posteriori conlangs, and I'd like to know how plausible these sound changes are:
sp st sk > p' t' k'
pt kt > t'
pp tt kk > p' t' k'
sp st sk > p' t' k'
pt kt > t'
pp tt kk > p' t' k'
- Sat Jan 14, 2012 7:48 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread
- Replies: 3108
- Views: 651148
Re: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread
A stereotypical impression of a person from East Anglia is usually something along the lines of 'yarr I'm a farmerr, this is my tractorr', always replete with heavy rhotacism. Which is funny because East Anglia is fully non-rhotic and has been for some time.
- Sat Jan 14, 2012 12:43 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: ZBB member photos, part 5. (Something for the weekend, sir?)
- Replies: 5496
- Views: 774842