zompist bboard

The only one I can think of which even tried was Stargate , and its writers recognized they didn't know what the hell they were doing, so in their awesome/eyerolling way they lampshaded it in a 1st season episode, they go to a planet, hostile natives appear, O'Neill says "Daniel, any chance of find...

21, Northern Texas here. Never heard calling it to small children before, but some of the teenagers (usually girls) here have this bizarre "friend family" where they refer to each other as if they were part of a real family.

It's only a page long, but "Case" by Barry J. Blake gives: Comitative/sociative (Basque, Zoque, Ossete, Archi, Finnish) Instrumental Abessive/privative (Uralic languages) Concomitant/proprietive (Australian languages) ex. putu-yan (stomach-PROP) = pregnant Aversive/Evitative/Causal (Australian langu...

Dewrad wrote:For. The. Love. Of. God.

Is this like a thing that all noobs go through?

Yes.

Just interested, does anyone have racist words for white people in different languages? As far as I know the only ones in English are "cracker" and "honky" and they don't have the power that "nigger" or "chink" do. Preferably powerful ones, that would be censored on tv or radio.

I hear ['ɻʷoʊ.zʌz 'ɻʷoʊzɪz] when I say them.

But like the article says, it could just be distinction when they're stressed.

Mine are balanced towards "fun" words over boring words. Most of my languages will have words for dog, mountain, or winter over words like hand or chair.

Looks like they used this:

http://www.alphabetsynthesis.com/

Well this board only has 3 people on it, who like to post as different accounts so we don't feel alone, and we run out of ideas sometimes.

Some australian languages use gender to further specify "generic" words. In some languages a specific noun lexeme can take on different meanings depending on the generic it occurs with. For example, in Ea1, Kuuk Thaayorre, we get (Hall 1972: 70): yak ŋompor SNAKE GENERIC ‘brown snake’ ru:rr ŋompor I...

It deals with UK/US terms. Are these UK terms terms used on a regular basis? You'll have to play the quiz or give up to see the answers. Seriously? Seriously? "What, British people are British, can this possibly be true, how can they not be American surely someone must be lying!?!?!????!!!!?" ? Wel...

In highschool German, kids would always try to make sentences involving Dick (fat).

Also I had a Chinese teacher that pronounced "bu shi" (no) incredibly close to "bull shit".

"Like most colonists, the Scandinavian-speaking inhabitants found no reason to switch to the language of the country they had arrived in."

I had no idea French was a scandinavian language.

Not a fan of implosive. Don't like pharyngeal and epiglottal, they're too hard to distinguish for me.
I don't like nom rhotic accents in English, even more so if they're American (bahstuhn).

Torco wrote:this should be a website.

https://sites.google.com/site/jankogorenc/home

I've had a similar idea, only instead of the languages being intended for humans it would be for squids since their brain is already hardwired to interpret advanced color patterns.

I can't speak from any experience, but Hawaiian looks incredibly easy to me. Easy to pronounce with just as easy alphabet, no horrible morphology, fairly straight-forward looking syntax (of course it could be like what's been said about Mandarin, easy at first but a beast later). Shame the language ...

From the comments they apparently butcher Norwegian. Stupid show and stupid episode anyways.

Would "affect" vs "effect" count?

Soap wrote:Orange is monosyllabic [oIndZ] in some American dialects.

I say [ɔɻnd͡ʒ]. Similarly I have [ɔɻd͡ʒɪn] for origin.

I use "like" often.

How does one get into field linguistics? I know I'd need a degree in linguistics, but where do you go after that? Apply for grants for a specific language study, hitch along with a more experienced linguist, apply to an institution to study X language(s)?

YngNghymru wrote:Oh, 'lisping' as well. That is, turning [s] into [θ]. And generally imitating stereotypical toddler talk, e.g. yellow = lellow.

Also /r/->/w/.