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I agree with the gent above me. Not only is this post extensive and enjoyable, it's quite entertaining because it raises so many interesting ideas for my own conlangs. But, I did have one question. (ii) Loss of voicing of (very) creaky voiced stops, yielding ejectives Being a lover of ejectives, I h...

Kortoso wrote:Interwebs.

Lets not forget the hyperbolic information super highway

yes

blog-o-sphere This is used in Portuguese, as blogosfera and v logosfera , interestingly, although it is somewhat confined to media language. it still is used sometimes in the United States's media language Also that word Sarah Palin "invented"....but I can't remember what it was. I know it was a po...

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Astraios wrote:

Zaris wrote:<factus> <ineptus>

Isn't ineptus from aptus?

Probably is. I was quoting examples from a text so I didn't catch the inconsistency. Ill change it if it's that annoying XD

You could also argue that very low frequency phonemes are more likely to undergo change and merger because their low frequency increases the chance of misperception, and decreases the disadvantages of loss. I agree. Mostly used sounds are less likely to change bc people use them all the time (count...

For a second there, I thought that was a giant fish for real. Reminds me of how I always can walk by dolls around stores selling clothes several times, and I always think they're real people. It's really unpleasant. Whence do you come, by the way? A friend of mine once decided to be a little creati...

The new one looks particularly more rabid than the last one, which I think is a plus for Ktuvok Males

Me and my modesty



and me with a giant fish (also modest)



Now with less Dan Aykroyd

anyone else has family that say /sEjNg.wItS/ instead of /sand.wItS/?

This is the current phonology for my revision of PEL--which at first turned out as a euroclone and has now been revised to resemble less-western languages. Nasals: /m n N/ Stops: /p_h t_h k_h q_h b d g p' t' k' q'/ Fricatives: /f s S K x X/ Approximates: /r l w j/ Vowels: /i e a o u/ Diphthongs: /ej...

Could I ask you as how you make such beautiful graphs? Ive tried word and excel graphs and its only led me to terrible results.

What could give rise to a dental/alveolar contrast in coronals? Castillian turned Old Castillian /ts dz/ into /s̺ z̺/ and were later fronted into /θ ð/. Based off this it seems easy to create a change like the one you're looking for: > [t̺] > [t̪]. That is to say that alveolar chronemes had their s...

And as Nort said, you could just use pre/post nasal stops. I might actually just go with this, at least at the phonetic level. Do the stop parts of prestopped nasals have to be homorganic to the nasal? That is, is something like [ k m] reasonable? I think you have it backwards pal How? A prestopped...

roninbodhisattva wrote:

And as Nort said, you could just use pre/post nasal stops.

I might actually just go with this, at least at the phonetic level. Do the stop parts of prestopped nasals have to be homorganic to the nasal? That is, is something like [^km] reasonable?

I think you have it backwards pal

Depends on what liquids you have, I'd say. But you could definitely at least get away with prestopped nasals there. I'd like to have /km kn tm tn/ and then I have a lateral /l/ that I really don't want to combine with anything. It does seem more likely that other liquids should be allowed to take t...

Şanus was inspired by the proto-Germanic sound changes from PIE.

These are all some good suggestions and I thank you all for suggesting them. These suggestions have given me an idea of what to do with this language next. Therefore, I have devised a rule: "Only one sonorant per root had an epinthetic vowel inserted following the effected sonorant. Sonorants that a...

I've reached a dead end in the sound changes I am making for proto-Elezaic, the analogical equivalent to PIE in my conworld Elezai. Syllable roots can contain large clusters; such as: *brlnt "new". My goal is to eliminate these clusters in my current project Shanus. But I'm finding trouble pinpointi...

sano wrote:

cybrxkhan wrote:Next: caricature

Kala: natsa - to draw; picture; painting; drawing

next: absolutely (not); (dismissive interjection) Yeah, right.

Kternotoya

Bava! A haughty interjection of disbelief or disagreement.

Next: sponge, rag, cleaning brush

Constantly teach them English idiomatic phrases. Tie them into the lessons but make them an addition. Any student will love learning cultural tidbits of a language. My French teacher would consistently teach us French idiomatic phrases and we all loved it! Plus it improved our French and made us so...

Drydic Guy wrote:What's his L1?

his L1 is Spanish.

i was recently hired to teach someone English and its my first time tackling the subject. So I was wondering if any of you all have any tips as to how I can improve his learning experience and my teaching experience. Many thanks

I'd like to join I have Google chat and skype :3