Search found 32 matches
- Sat Aug 28, 2010 7:08 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: /t/ versus /d/ and /tS/ versus /dZ/ alternation in NAE
- Replies: 53
- Views: 8890
- Fri Aug 13, 2010 10:15 pm
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: Rawàng Ata: Lessony things
- Replies: 23
- Views: 5537
- Thu Jul 22, 2010 11:55 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Lexicon Building
- Replies: 4308
- Views: 803553
- Mon Jul 19, 2010 11:42 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Exact definition of Cognates?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 7594
- Fri Jul 09, 2010 10:28 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Object-Absorbing Participles
- Replies: 13
- Views: 8129
- Sat Jul 03, 2010 10:07 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: h4 and h5
- Replies: 92
- Views: 39795
Is the idea to project the laryngeals as separate phonemes? If so, then the more there is the more problematic it gets, but if it is phones or just theoretical gaps then I don't see a problem. I'm not familiar with PIE, but when I say theoretical gap, I mean positing a sound to fill something that w...
- Thu Jun 24, 2010 11:16 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The Official ZBB Quote Thread
- Replies: 2878
- Views: 648462
screw that melody and harmony shit what is essential in contemporary music is OONTZ OONTZ OONTZ OONTZ OONTZ OONTZ OONTZ OONTZ OONTZ OONTZ OONTZ OONTZ OONTZ OONTZ OONTZ OONTZ OONTZ OONTZ OONTZ OONTZ OONTZ OONTZ OONTZ OONTZ OONTZ OONTZ OONTZ WAVE YOUR HANDS IN THE AIR LIKE YOU JUST DON'T CARE, SAGINA...
- Sun Mar 28, 2010 10:57 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Vowel Length Genesis
- Replies: 30
- Views: 7767
- Sun Mar 28, 2010 7:33 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Vowel Length Genesis
- Replies: 30
- Views: 7767
- Sat Mar 06, 2010 7:16 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: How your idiolect differs from the standard language
- Replies: 371
- Views: 100960
Re: You talk funny-like, mister.
This may be the inspiration for the joke in Thursday's episode of Community.Delthayre wrote:A friend of mine has an odd habit of lowering [e] before [g] to [E].
I have observed this in the following particular words:
[bE:gl=] for bagel
- Wed Feb 10, 2010 1:30 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Weird natlang phonologies
- Replies: 121
- Views: 35172
Has http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hmong_language been posted? Cause, damn.
I guess it's less weird than very large and pretty well filled out.
I guess it's less weird than very large and pretty well filled out.
- Sun Jan 31, 2010 12:12 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Weird natlang phonologies
- Replies: 121
- Views: 35172
Rotuman has massive amounts of grammatical metathesis and deletion, and some weird rules for handling vowel clusters. (/uO/ -> [wa], but /ua/ -> [wO]? the fuck?) that looks pretty cool actually. There's stuff there that conlangers seem to like to do all the time with vowel combinations and what-not.
- Fri Jan 15, 2010 7:32 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: A brief overview of the development of Western Philosophy
- Replies: 252
- Views: 67228
Austin’s new science of speech acts was carried on for a while by many other philosophers, like John Searle and H. Paul Grice (who developed theories of ‘implicature’ that went some way toward explaining the rules governing the non-referential meaning in language). Their work has gone on to have co...
- Fri Jan 08, 2010 12:57 am
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Voiced/unvoiced plosive distinction in English
- Replies: 18
- Views: 19945
- Tue Dec 08, 2009 3:57 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: A brief overview of the development of Western Philosophy
- Replies: 252
- Views: 67228
[rant]To be honest, I never understood this idea, since we have a powerful body of experience as well as faith to indicate the third option. If you throw a ball at a pane of glass (assuming you have a big enough ball and typical glass), it will shatter every time. Not one historical record describe...
- Tue Nov 24, 2009 10:09 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: A brief overview of the development of Western Philosophy
- Replies: 252
- Views: 67228
- Wed Nov 18, 2009 5:53 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: A brief overview of the development of Western Philosophy
- Replies: 252
- Views: 67228
- Wed Nov 18, 2009 2:56 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: A brief overview of the development of Western Philosophy
- Replies: 252
- Views: 67228
- Mon Oct 26, 2009 11:08 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: A brief overview of the development of Western Philosophy
- Replies: 252
- Views: 67228
as, for instance, given by Malebranche, the fourth-most-important Rationalist (and hence usually ignored, as all important things occur in threes)) I've heard someone argue that Malebranche was not really a Rationalist because his method of causation ended up being used by Hume - Hume said that rea...
- Sun Oct 04, 2009 5:23 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: A brief overview of the development of Western Philosophy
- Replies: 252
- Views: 67228
- Thu Sep 10, 2009 11:51 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The Official ZBB Quote Thread
- Replies: 2878
- Views: 648462
- Sun Jul 26, 2009 6:00 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: The Correspondence Library
- Replies: 568
- Views: 289384
Standard Tamil to Colloquial Tamil (All of this is according to Harold F. Schiffman's A Reference Grammar on Spoken Tamil ) First the syllable structure collapses a bit: ai :> ee (exception: never finally in monosyllables, never initially in multisyllabic words) avu, ayi :> aw ay (aU) and aI) as di...
- Sat Mar 07, 2009 4:47 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The Official ZBB Quote Thread
- Replies: 2878
- Views: 648462
- Fri Jan 09, 2009 9:14 am
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: The Lesser-Used Sounds
- Replies: 113
- Views: 89295
An apico-uvular retroflex, made by touching the tip of the tongue to the uvula, should also be considered. That phone is sexy . I don't think I can physically do that. The closest I can get is the back of the blade of the tongue. I don't think I can touch anything further back than the soft palate ...
- Thu Jan 08, 2009 7:24 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: The Lesser-Used Sounds
- Replies: 113
- Views: 89295