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I agree that nanka acts like a particle. Specifically, it's used to show disdain or contempt for what it's modifying and it commonly collocates with kirai.

Does anyone have Common Slavic > Czech? Or can point to relevant reading to find out. I never did the module on Historical Linguistics at uni so I don't really know where to go to find lists of sound changes.

みんな「ビッツィー」知っていますか。３色のグラッフィクスとか、簡単な変数プログラミングしか使えないブラウザで動くゲームメーカなのです。私はそれで今IPAの母音チャートに基づくアートゲームを作っています。 気になったらここへ： http://ledoux.io/bitsy/editor.html Has everyone heard of Bitsy? It's a pared down game maker that runs in browswer where you can only use three colours and simple variables. I'm making an...

Thank you for a very useful and interesting post, tiramisu! I look forward to a possible second part.

They do this thing in traditional Japanese singing, where they pronounce each mora as a separate syllable. In contemporary music they either sing "normally", or have some lines in the traditional style and some in the "normal" style. Here's an example with the word kissaten (café): Normally it's pr...

I've only ever heard /'meɪ.d͡ʒ.aɪ/ in the UK. For magus I'd also use /eɪ/.

This may be a tendency that facilitates verbalization (as with トラブる toraburu (from トラブル toraburu ), but not a rule that limits it; the counterexamples mentioned above, e.g. メモる memoru (from メモ memo ), ハモる hamoru (from hāmonī ), 事故る jikoru (from jiko "accident"), 拒否る kyohiru (from 拒否 kyohi ) along wi...

There's also マクる makuru , to eat at McDonald's. I don't think it's as simple as ru becoming a verbalising suffix because it tends to mainly happen with words which already end in ru or sound like a native Japanese verb with ru attached. With the above example, -kuru is a fairly common ending for ver...

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Icelandic
Japanese
Croatian (or Polish, for that matter)

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Dutch (though I go through phases of liking and disliking it; I find the rhoticity of some dialects far more offputting that the /x/)
Bavarian German (it lacks the sexy crispness of Hochdeutsch)
Vietnamese

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Oh mon dieu! Us sixth formers sing that at school

Really? I wish I had friends who would sing German with me ;_;

Comme des enfants

My dialect pretty much is the standard language :/, perhaps with a tiny dash of west-country, but otherwise very RP and conventional.

In Japanese:
貴社の記者が汽車で帰社しました。 (kisha no kisha ga kisha de kisha shimashita), which means, "A reporter of a company returned to work by steam train."