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A friend of mine in my English class the other day commented on how he only hears the word caribbean pronounced [ˌkeɹəˈbin̩] when the name of the movie series Pirates of the Caribbean is spoken, and elsewhere as [kəˈɹɪbin̩]. The issue of how this word is to be pronounced has always vexed me, and I v...

Amphimacer. Pretty much any word containing a machine-gun sequence of lax, high vowels—synecdoche and soliloquy qualify.

Dream > trance > intoxication > beer

Next word: mucus

no-word = silent > impassive > unhelpful > difficult > loathsome

Next word: poison

Gojera wrote:Next word: louse

louse > itch on head > brain-teaser > question

Next word: intelligent

Age: 15 Gender: Male Nationality: USA State: Michigan Occupation: Student Sexual Orientation: Heterosexual Status: Single Native language: English Secondary languages: None really, though I can get by (maybe?) in German, Latin, Ancient Greek. Want to learn: Basque, Georgian, Gaelic, Finnish, Hebrew ...

I was standing at the mouth of this famous alleyway in my city whose walls are entirely covered in graffiti. I was looking at a black man in a sleeping bag. He noticed me staring, and got pissed off. Somewhere in there I offered him something from the lunchbox I was carrying, which he rudely refused...

Hasn't done much for me yet, but, I mean, ya never know.

Guitarplayer wrote:

joey wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXb4MYKlK-o

Tags: stony, apricot, salesman, dream, theater, homage, mini, megan, fox, opera, garage, band, sex, tape, garageband, metal

Intent, or Youtube automatically suggesting keywords? Who knows~

Marketing strategy

SETTLERS OF CATAN!!!!!


yay for board games

Made this Dream Theater-y type prog metal song type thing using Garageband (without the help of a midi keyboard or some such fanciness):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXb4MYKlK-o

Once had a dream in which the word "option" was to be exiled from the English lexicon... or maybe "micro-" or something of the sort. Either way, it made me somewhat indignant. - Different dream: I, my nuclear family, and this one other couple, are roaming this grass maze—like a hedge maze, except in...

Well, I don't know. I mean, even if no terrestrial languages have it, it doesn't seem outlandish to me. I think it would be pretty cool, especially from a diachronic point of view. I don't think a 'lang's inventory should be constrained to what's already been done. But I'm really not the best person...

If I had known that Wikipedia entry existed, I would not have asked this question. Thank you for the assistance!

would R\_X work?

Hey, is there an official symbol out there for a uvular tap? I'm thinking about making a language with both an alveolar and a uvular series of tap/trills, and I want to know of any suggested methods for phonetic transliteration of such a sound (if there isn't already a set symbol out there), before ...

My understanding of inflections is that they are morphologically morph which represent multiple grammatical/semantic distinctions/concepts, and that they do so because they are contractions of what originally were strings of affixes. If that's true, how can a proto-language, in theory, be fusional, ...

I'm sure the ktuvoki could think of something.

It wouldn't necessarily have to depend on whether different races enjoyed doing it with each other. What if there were, like, a sexual-slave-trade, or if concubines of a certain species were highly-valued?

What about interspecies STDs?

zompist wrote:You probably want to allow 3rd person forms though, as it's much easier to find examples where you need them ("He saw him").

Oh, I have no intention of leaving those blank.

The only problem I'm seeing is that it seems like the listener has to change in order for the sentence to be grammatical.

Hmm... I'm not entirely sure I'm understanding the example. (Wouldn't "you-s have benefitted yourself and (e.g.) your people, but not the country" be more appropriate?)

BUT I am convinced that I should not leave those slots on my subject-object grid blank, and will presently fill them in.

In Old Skourene, in the Ergative-Absolutive paradigm of verbs, how does it work when the subject is in the same person as the object, but they have different numbers? In particular, the second person: *Thou did something to you. *You did something to thee. In English this is pragmatically impossible...