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A dessert consisting of a sweet carbonated beverage poured over ice cream: In Australia we call those spiders. Not even joking ... "Everything in Australia is trying to kill you" meme confirmed. O_O most likely with gestures because the words "left" and "right" require conscious effort for me. Me, ...

Grunnen wrote:Maybe some clicks in southern Africa and some ejectives in the PNW would make it into this category?

/xʼʷ χʼʷ/ are believed to be found only in Tlingit.

How do you pronounce "Halloween"? I pronounce it like "Hallow ween", but I've heard some people pronounce the word as if it were "Holloween". There was a separate thread on this a while back: H/æ/lloween versus H/ɑ/lloween I wonder if the "Holloween" pronunciation originates from people mistakenly ...

Pole, the wrote:I don't know, [l → ɫ → ɣ]?

Or ʎ > ʝ > ɣ, assuming <ll> was /ʎ/ at some point...

processes [ˌpʰɹ̠ˁɑˈsɛsɪz]
review [ɹ̠ˁɪˈvju~ɹ̠ˁiˈvju]

"'za" from "pizza". ...Seriously? Is that pronounced as spelled, or as /sa/ by analogy, or...? /zɑː/. Wiktionary categorizes this as "(US, Canada, slang, 1970s, 1980s)," but they only display three quotes that use this word, and they're from 1994, 2006, and 2010. The 1980s marker makes sense--it so...

linguoboy wrote:"'za" from "pizza".

...Seriously? Is that pronounced as spelled, or as /sa/ by analogy, or...?

For some reason I just can't imagine a long fricative or approximant followed by the same fricative/approximant, since it's basically a fricative that lasts for three times the usual length. I mean, of course I can imagine how it sounds , but the thought of hearing it in a conversation is about as ...

I maintain that the best evidence points to either a magical/alchemical text or glossolalia. Yes, it is probably a magical or alchemical text. But whatever it is, it may have inspired a similar work in the 1970s. Which in turn has inspired several similar works since then. If I had any artistic abi...

For some reason I just can't imagine a long fricative or approximant followed by the same fricative/approximant, since it's basically a fricative that lasts for three times the usual length. I mean, of course I can imagine how it sounds , but the thought of hearing it in a conversation is about as ...

I strongly suspect there are people for whom the vowel in "bin" is actually longer than that in "beaten". Confirmed: /t/ before /n/ becomes a glottal stop in my dialect, and preglottal vowels are quite clipped for me; meanwhile I will tend to lengthen a prenasal lax vowel to heighten contrast with ...

My only curiosity is, here, why no one has brought up all the many arguments that the Voynich is a recent fake? In other words, a conlang. One with enviable production values? I''m not a Europeanist, so I'm not speaking from intimacy so much as from scenting bullshit projected on others: the Voynic...

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dotard Didnt realize that was an actual legitimate word, i just figured someone had replaced the re- in "retard" with do- to imply "one step lower than" (think of musical note scale, which in Eng is do, re, mi, fa, etc) I'm familiar with the word, but it's strange to ...

Zaarin: what you said was "some parts of northern interior Florida are Southern... Even then, though, it's very different from Deep South as seen in Georgia..." - and, given that 'northern interior Florida' and 'Georgia' are right next to one another, I was questioning how "very different" they rea...

And... seriously, if you drive across the Florida-Georgia border the culture is instantly "very different"? Borders don't have that sort of effect even in Europe, and here they're long-standing borders often dividing entirely different language groups! *checks* Hmm, this time I really did say that ...

Also I'd point out that Florida is the southernmost state but is not in the South; in fact, the overwhelming majority of residents in my city are from New York, Ontario, or Québec. Bullshit. That's your city, that's not the whole state. If Tallahassee isn't in the South, then where the hell is it? ...

KathTheDragon wrote:An X float, where X is the carbonated beverage.

+1 The carbonated beverage is usually root beer but could be Coke. Of course, cream makes me sick so I don't eat ice cream.

:o I've lived in the South almost my whole life and never heard Italian with an /aɪ/. Oh, Austin. Austin really is not part of the South, though. Why not? It's in one of the southernmost states (it's less than four hours away from Mexico and was formerly owned by Mexico), it was part of the Confede...

Imralu wrote:

Salmoneus wrote:Just re-iterating that /u/ in Buddha and /V/ in Muslim sound extremely American. Like saying /aI"r{k/ or /aI"r{n/..

Or /aɪˈtæljən/ ...

Specifically Southern; most Americans have /ɪˈtæljən/.

I couldn't find the original claim, but apparently the hypothesis had something to do with the drawings of baths and fountains. There are large sections dedicated to botany and astrology, which is suggestive of a medical or alchemical text. I still prefer this theory, though: https://xkcd.com/593/ ...

I couldn't find the original claim, but apparently the hypothesis had something to do with the drawings of baths and fountains. There are large sections dedicated to botany and astrology, which is suggestive of a medical or alchemical text. I still prefer this theory, though: https://xkcd.com/593/ ...

What exactly is the basis of that assumption? The bizarre and fascinating illustrations don't seem suggestive of that topic.

The Voynich manuscript is so delightfully bizarre. A part of me wants to know what it is; a part of me would be disappointed to lose the mystery. Linear A for a conlang, but since its phonetic characteristics have supposedly been deciphered but not publicly released, that's kinda off-putting tbh... ...

It's unusual, I'd have thought - not being an expert! - to see a heavy reliance on word order in a 'polysynthetic' language. Unusual but not unheard of. Some polysynthetic languages, like Mohawk, have very free word order, but some of the polysynthetic languages of the PNW are much stricter. Sorry,...

chitin (just heard a friend get this wrong recently) Which part--the "ch"? Apparently, it's somewhat common for people to use /tʃ/ in "lichen", which seems wrong to me. But we all use /tʃ/ in "cherub(im)", so nobody has a totally solid basis for arguing against the use of /tʃ/ in such words. /ˈʧɪtɪ...