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Ooh, this looks like fun. I'll grab Jr-3 for a group of humans.

KathAveara wrote:Anyone happen to have an alternative download for Comrie's Aspect? I can't get it through the link provided by Uz-Translations, and naturally, the Google Books preview is rather inadequate.

Here ya go.

Thanks. Here's another speedy.

That's fantastic, Ceresz! Very atmospheric :) Thanks :)! Ceresz: The landscape is gorgeous. Reminds me of an MTG card, actually. Still pretty. Hah, thanks ;). Here's some more crap. Wanted to paint a figure, but then I realized I suck at painting figures. I need more practice. http://dl.dropbox.com...

That is actually och though (at least according to the prescriptive rules that I've seen), so you're more educated than you think. Swedish connects a lot of things with och . Jag ska sitta och läsa. Try putting it in the present tense or past tense. Would you say Jag går och handlar or Jag går att ...

How often do people pronounce the infinitive marker as /at:/? Not very often it seems. :/ Many people even confuse with och in writing. :x I know. I've seen infinitives introduced with <&>. It happens, but thankfully not very often. I'd expect it to happen quite a bit when reading a text aloud. Peo...

Ulrike Meinhof wrote:

*Ceresz wrote:You do have a point though, seeing as I wouldn't pronounce the first att as [atː] if I were to even keep it in the sentence.

Uhm... then how would you pronounce it?

Oh, that should be *would. Sorry.

Swedish has för att (lit. "for to") and därför (att) (therefore, lit. "there for (to)"). Don't forget that att is both a particle to introduce infinitive verbs in some constructions (Eng. to ) and the complementiser (Eng. that ), so in those examples, I'd translated the att into English as "that" b...

Thanks! It's an imagined environment. Part of the factory is actually a photo which I just used as a quick reference for laying down the composition. I love painting environments, but I always seem to have some trouble placing interesting focus points in them, such as buildings, vehicles and other o...

Just a quickie. I really need to get in shape. I might spend some more time detailing it later, or start something a bit more interesting.

The easiest way to settle this would be with a recording, even though I doubt it'll turn out to be favorable for Helios's transcriptions, at least in regard to the stress.

Soo, I'm trying to decide some sound changes for Kàmo, and I can't figure out what to do with /ɾ/. What can this phoneme turn into? For the purpose of convenience, assume that all syllables in the language are (C)V (this is pretty close to being the case anyway). g ɣ gʟ I believe /ɾ/ → [ʃ] and /ɾʲ/...

How many rounds are left? It looks like I'm gonna be busy for about a week starting Sunday or Monday.

This sounds like fun. I'd like to join, if possible.

It has VOWELS Especially if you take a look at the traditional dialects and not the modern ones which are basically accents/variants of the standard language. In the traditional dialects you can find long and short ô , which is usually described as a vowel "somewhere between å and ö " (a good refer...

Shit, you're right. It's not my fault the two symbols are so similar, though, someone should do something about that >:| Anyway, my actual point is still correct (see Pashto ) :) Also, Kui . If I'm not mistaken, Proto-Dravidian is usually/some times reconstructed without a velar nasal, seeing as it...

I started watching QI from the beginning the other day, which reminded me of this guy and this girl . Well, uh, that fact will come up later... most of my knowledge comes from QI, after all. :? Well, I've watched all the episodes of QI already, but 90% or so of the knowledge I gained through watchi...

One of my Comp E professors once showed us a family tree "proving" his lineage from Charlemagne, and then noted that everyone in the department had a similar chart. So I guess there must be some relation between computer engineering and being 3/1024ths Frank, right? Right? It's mathematically impos...

Lyktorna wrote:Native: English
Ancestral: Cantonese, Tagalog, Hokkien, German, (English)

All of the above except German are/were natively spoken by my grandparents, but their kids were apparently under intense pressure to be "white." Shame.

Your username means "the lanterns" .

My L1 is Swedish, but if you go back a few hundred years I guess some of my ancestors spoke French, German and some other languages. Not that it really matters. The only other language I was kind of brought up around is English, but that doesn't really count. So it's only Swedish, really.

what's with all you people who say you have [ɨ]... in English ? Umm, that's the schwi , a near-close unrounded central vowel, which exists in English dialects that have two or three centralized, reduced vowels (i.e. most). Marking it as [ɨ] is simply marking it as what it is, considering that that ...

Central Swedish Why am I not surprised :roll:? Bittersweet: Finnish Ah, that's a good way to put it. I don't really dislike it, but I don't love it either... It just sounds so silly, but at the same time it's quite awesome. Like Icelandic Saami (Northern) Japanese Dislike Danish Dutch Portuguese (B...

rickardspaghetti wrote:

Astraios wrote:

rickardspaghetti wrote:Ers Höghet. *bows*

Va? Varför bockar du dig? Vad gjorde jag? D:

You looked like prince Carl Philip.

Nu fick du mig att småflina lite, Rickard .

That's awesome, äreo.