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Thought you guys would find this interesting:

https://fatiherikli.github.io/language- ... imulation/

The usual Spanish poetic word for "the sea" is la mar , which is the common word for the sea but with the opposite gender (normally the word is masculine: el mar ). I've noticed a similar phenomenon in english referring to the ocean as poetically feminine, such as "the sea is a harsh mistress". Som...

I'm probably in the minority but I love rhotic accents and hate non-rhotic ones. Non-rhotic accents always feel as if the end of the word just trails off: "sellaah daaah" is just ugly as hell. I like words with rhotics and voiced continuants: rain, river, more, bizarre, etc. I mean the phrase "gweit...

This is neat. Is this in R, Rust, or some other language?

I also notice almost all the features return either 1 or 0, which I assume to be a yes or no, but some return a 2. Is this a mistake or what do the numbers mean?

What is it about algonquian languages that's just so lovable?

I'd reason all languages have allophony, simply because not all languages contrast all human sounds. Even in languages like Ubykh there's plenty of room for allophony: [h~hʷ~hʲ~ɦ], [l~ɫ], [m~m̥] . And are there other factors that can impact the amount of allophony a language has, aside from just the...

Is there any way to download them all from google drive at once? I can only seem to get one at a time.

Edit: Found out like 2 seconds after I posted. Open it in "my drive", right click the parent folder and download.

Greek language is going to be extinct and that can be very soon, but the Greek vocabulary will remain internationally. is that a threat? Is it really a threat if its a fact? After the Germans kick Greece out of the EU, Greek will be demoted from indo-european to isolate. After a language is declare...

I still find it hard to pronounce melee as anything other than [mi:li:].

Recently:

Melanin [məl.'ʌ.nɪn] > [me.'læn.nɪn] which makes its pronunciation in line with melanocyte and melanogenesis.

There were other instances of him trying to use his high school Spanish with Thai people but I can't remember specifics anymore. You know, because all brown people speak Mexican. A buddy of mine almost did this the first time I took him to Little India. I don't know how much of it is skin colour an...

I once saw a documentary on TV about the San, and they have a story that the language they speak contains so many clicks because if they speak with each other during the hunt, the sound it makes is more "natural" than speaking without clicks, and hence doesn't scare away the animals. JAL I've heard...

Ok, going back all the way to PIE, *kʷó-d vs. *tó-d ("what" vs. "that"), *kʷó-m vs. *tó-m ("when" vs. "then"), and *kʷó-r vs. *tó-r ("where" vs. "there"). In this case, *kʷo- and *to- are adjectival pronoun stems derived from the more basic pronoun roots *kʷ- and *t-. At this point it seems pretty ...

What kind of dank memes do[es] the future[s] hold for us?

I just thought this was cool. Not sure if actually "turkish" but just a whistled language in turkey.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjcVLLdPCoU

Lots of it sound like Dream Theater only not as heavy, I like it. Dude really need to get a real guitar though, that synthetic one sounds weak as fuck. Language sounds like a cross between Hindi and Spanish to me.

OP's link no longer works. Any mirror?

Read wikipedia article on conlanging, hooked ever since. Immediately I tried to make one, I loved the concept of a personal language. I made a list of all my favourite "sounds" and I remember it being about 12-13 phonemes (one of them was [k͜v]). I then made my own alphabet with a 1-1 phoneme corres...

I've always had the idea of throwing a bunch of blankets on a bed, then taking a picture from above. Instant topography.

ObsequiousNewt wrote:

Abi wrote:Homosexual terms. Gay > Queer/Homo > Fag. Each one seems to be adopted by the gay community and it looses its bite.

"fag" has lost its bite?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fagbug

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=fag

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/fag-suffix

Homosexual terms. Gay > Queer/Homo > Fag. Each one seems to be adopted by the gay community and it looses its bite.

Whoever came up with Australian languages lacking fricatives and all those POA were trying to be unique in a nooby way.

If we can also do conpeople, then whoever made this up was trying to be a smartass.

What context is this script used in? Priests, educated elite, the common tradesman? Is it written on stone, bark, paper? Is it for formal situations like legal documents or is this also meant for quick note-to-self scribblings? If its meant for handwriting is there a cursive/simplified version of it...

"On accident" sounds more natural than "by accident", but "accidently" (accidentally?) sounds the most correct to me.

He dropped his books on accident
*He dropped his books by accident
He accidently dropped his books