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I would suggest one of either [n], [ŋ], [nj], [ŋj], or [j].

There are a couple of new tools to talk about, such as my vocabulary generation tool Gen, and the Visual SCA. (Which doesn’t exist yet, but would be a complete update of the SCA, handling things like transposition, management of your phoneme inventory, and highlighting changes between runs.) About ...

You talk a whole lot about your own dialect but seem to just ignore what other people say about their own. I use it as an example a lot because it is a variety that I can speak of reliably other than General American, whereas for most other language varieties I can generally only go by what I have ...

Bristel wrote:Mibizeñoon: tyeemá [tʃeːma˥]

Old Bengedian tsēma [ˈtseːma] > Bengedian čem [t͡ʃem]

lsd wrote:you too old in the forum gotta read again rules of welcome to newcomers (it's newbies privileges )

Um... what?

Matt wrote:That we left should impress Phoebe.
A friend asked me how I would draw a syntax tree for this sentence and I'm stumped. Is that we left behaving as an NP here?

Yes, "that we left" is an NP, at least that's how I parse it: (That (we left)) ((should impress) Phoebe).

Nortaneous wrote:Hathe yemı'i [jemɨ̰ː] (dialectal)

> Old Bengedian jemī [jeˈmiː]
> Bengedian yemí [jɛˈmiː]

Am I doing it right?

Marion Blancard wrote:One which comes to mind is /raiz/ in English, which can be either "raise" or "raze".

You mean /reiz/, right...? Right?

" That's the kind of thing [that] people would find weird if they saw you doing. " Is that bolded bit grammatical for you? It's the first thing my brain came up with, but for some reason it rings false, even though I can't come up with a better way of saying it. Also, can silly be made into an adve...

Here are the "exceptions" to the raising of /ɐi/ in my speech: The following are raised where the "classic" rule says no: "tiger" [tʰəɨɡɹ̩] "spider" [spəɪdɹ̩] "hide" [həɪd] "bible" [ˈbəɨbɫ̩] "bridle" [ˈbrəɪdɫ̩] (Could be either way...) "cider" [ˈsəɪdɹ̩] The following are not raised where the rule ex...

Not sure if this has been brought up yet, but I'm imagining the way most untrained English speakers cannot pronounce pure [e] or [o].

By the way, I've sent all my PMs out.

You must also provide an English translation, as not everyone is going to know these languages. Okay, so I'm up first. Great, I'll get to it :) So how do I handle this English translation thingy? Do I just put it in the PM with everything else, or what? Just making sure cuz I don't want to jeopardi...

I knew Virtual Verduria probably wasn't telling us everything, but this...

Bob Johnson wrote:

Bedelato wrote:for me it produces a minimal pair barred /bɑɹd/ vs. bard /bʌɹd/

What do you have for <bird>?

Do <warrior> and <worrier> contrast? <war> and <were>? <far> and <for>?

Yeah, [bɻ̩ˠd], [wɔɻˤ], [wɻ̩ˠ], [fɑɻˤ], [fɔɻ̩] (unstressed [f͏ɻˠ]).

I have beer [biɻˠ] etc. Hey, you know what? Let me take a shot at one of these. How do you say...? card lard bard guard barge embargo arbor garb carbon garble hard barred yard large cargo harbor marble art carp ark parse arch Arthur scarf It's a pretty long list, you don't have to do all of these if...

My usage pattern is the same as linguofreak's: I've got a cold sounds okay but * I have got a cold is an obvious Britishism. On "got" vs. "gotten", pretty much what you expect: "I've got a cold" means "I have a cold"; "I've gotten a cold" means "I just caught a cold" or "I've caught a cold before". ...

Awesome, KneeQuickie's back up :D I'd volunteer Bengedian... again... (Gettin' tired of it yet? Well too bad, I'm doin' it anyway :P) As long as I'm not scheduled during Christmas break (I'm going somewhere where there's no Internet). That pretty much eliminates the second half of December. Any othe...

Just a couple of weeks ago I discovered the esoteric programming language Thue . It's basically just string rewriting; the program is an initial string and a set of rewrite rules, which are applied at random. I've used it to make a Bengedian word generator. Hasn't seen much use yet, but yeah. Here's...

How do you guys pronounce "wool"? It appears like it would be pronounced with a /ʊ/ but I say it something like [wɤ̝ɰˤ] Really? To me it looks like it would rhyme with "pool", and I pronounce it that way: [wulˠʷ] Also some other things I have to catch up to: foyer : /fojɹ̩/ [foɪjɹ̩] wreath : /ɹiθ/ ...

Yeah.
Appreciate you trying to help, but next time, before you suggest something, check whether it's already here. Redundancy isn't always good.

No, UTF-8 doesn't need a byte-order mark, but for some reason most programs put one in there anyway. blahblah_utf8.PNG blahblah_cmd.PNG What do you think that garbage in the console window is? Just to say stuff: the Windows console uses code page 437 by default. It doesn't understand Unicode. While ...

How do you guys pronounce: middle milk mill mall mild (I'm wondering about how you guys realize /l/'s in certain situations) My pronunciations are: [mɪɾɫ̩] [mɪɯ̯k] [mɪʟ] [mɒː] [maɪɫd̚] I have [mɪɾˡl̩ˤ] [mɪlˤk̠] 1 [mɪlˤ] [mɔlˤ] 2 [mɐɪl̩ˤd] It's pretty consistent compared to yours . Even "talk" still...

Zoris wrote:How do you say the vowel in the following words? Included is my pronunciation;

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rather   [ɛ]
lather   [æ]
gather   [ɛ]
capture  [ɛ]
captain  [æ]
catch    [ɛ]
batch    [æ]

I have /æ/ for all of those.

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