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Rory wrote: Just underline when handwriting, or something.

In the normal notation, they have a dot under them.

Are the embolded "t"s seperate phonemes, like retroflexes, or are you slyly trying to give us info about some upcoming work? In fact they are retroflexes... Old Skourene had a set of dental and a set of retroflex stops, fricatives, and liquids. Is the retroflex series apico-postalveolar or sub-apic...

Eddy the Great wrote:

Well, the neo-cons favor invading any country that suits them which is a far cry from America's tradition of non-interventionism.

That's the funniest thing I've ever read. The US is an empire in all but name.

It is now, but it was not always so; or at least it was not as bad.

pastoralist wrote:Heh... America hardly has a tradition of non-interventionism. Though it would be good if we did.

It had one, but it was ignored so much that it was finally abandoned.

It may help to think of the ktuvoks as neocons. :) Not that they were modelled on them, of course, but the basic idea is similar: no matter how clever your opponents think they are, enough brute strength and you'll roll right over them. Funny, you don't see neocons changing laws and traditions thro...

I don't think I've set specific numbers, but here's what I recall. humans, flaids - about like ours ilii - over a thousand years elcari, murtani - 300 years (average) ktuvoks - somewhat shorter than humans It's hard picturing the murtani actually making it to the end of their theoretical lifespan. ...

So like Akkadian borrowing verb-final word order from Sumerian? Would the borowing of scripts count or is an areal feature just grammar? I think that they do not. Is not the world divided into just a handful a very large areal groups? I think that each continent and New Guinea show there own areal ...

What areal features are shared among the Almean languages?

vegfarandi wrote:OK...


How *** **ll did this simple discussion on intelligent beings turn into a discussion on how you pronounce extant. It's ridiculous!

I think that a general tendency exists for conlang related discussions to degenerate into english pronunciation threads.

Ahribar wrote:So you pronounce extant the same as extent?

Just checked the OED; it gives both pronunciations ["Ekst@nt] and [Eks"t{nt], but the first (which matches mine) is given as more usual.

I do not. <extent> is /EkstInt/.

Whimemsz wrote:Lol.

But, same here.

[Ek_hs."t_h{~Int_h] versus ["sEks.t_hn=t_}].

I have /EkstE~nt/ and /sEkstn=t/

Mine too. I have a collection of all the different sounds I've seen it used for: /ks/ /kS/ /x/ /G/ /X/ /X\/ /G\/ /?\/ /?/ /h/ /D/ /4/ /ts/ /dz/ /ts`/ /tS/ /s/ /z/ /Z/ /S/ /s\/ /C/ /c/ /|\|\/ and even /_?\/ when following a vowel... Twenty-five .... X looks a lot like the Bopomofo for /u/ so I suppo...