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- Thu Nov 22, 2012 1:12 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The Official ZBB Quote Thread
- Replies: 2878
- Views: 711058
Re: The Official ZBB Quote Thread
2. I'm plenty intelligent, thanks Not intelligent enough to figure this out on your own. Do you need a nanny to help you with everything in life? You pay nannies, you know; expecting people to do things for you for free when you should be able to do it yourself is the height of rudeness. You're act...
- Wed Oct 24, 2012 7:07 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Sources of "because"
- Replies: 68
- Views: 13065
Re: Sources of "because"
as a quick gloss, the で means 'for' or 'at' or something like that, and the の nominalises or something, so it's like "for the (doing), ...". it shows up in the counterpart question なんで (why? or "for what?"). there's also another word meaning why which is なぜ. i dunno what the difference is tbh. I di...
- Sun Oct 21, 2012 10:38 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Creativity of the day
- Replies: 1704
- Views: 372655
Re: Creativity of the day
din wrote:?
Howard Phillips Lovecraft wrote:Now and then the less organized ululations would cease, and from what seemed a well-drilled chorus of hoarse voices would rise in singsong chant that hideous phrase or ritual:
"Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn."
- Sat Oct 20, 2012 7:58 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Creativity of the day
- Replies: 1704
- Views: 372655
Re: Creativity of the day
ia ia miott thagndin wrote:1 thagn.png
- Fri Oct 19, 2012 7:19 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread
- Replies: 3108
- Views: 748838
Re: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread
grocery
grocer
grocer
spoilers wrote:[ˈɡɻoʊ.ʃɻ.i] ~ [ˈɡɻoʊ.ʃɻi]
[ˈgɻoʊ.sɻ] but I hardly ever use the word
- Wed Oct 17, 2012 1:06 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: How do languages deal with distinctions like watch/see?
- Replies: 41
- Views: 9719
Re: How do languages deal with distinctions like watch/see?
Japanese doesn't really bother; though you can use adverbs like <jitto miru> "look firmly {at accusative}" if you need to emphasize it, or verb compounds like <miharu> lit. look-stick-to or <mitsumeru> lit. look-fill-up.
- Tue Oct 16, 2012 10:21 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Trying to find a name for two cases...
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1816
Re: Trying to find a name for two cases...
Er... oh, you mean in VPs; in NPs, <ga> was possessive and <no> appositional.clawgrip wrote:Historically the markers for nominative (ga) and genitive (no) were interchangeable (so I've read)
- Sat Oct 13, 2012 2:50 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Cool or Trendy Languages
- Replies: 38
- Views: 9239
Re: Cool or Trendy Languages
So, how much does the "cool" factor determine the aquisition of a language? People will learn words and phrases, but not the whole language. "Tres chic!" Out of Chinese/Japanese/Korean and German/Russian, which do you think is most highly regarded by your native countrymen? People seem to be ignori...
- Fri Oct 12, 2012 4:42 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Reduction
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2027
Re: Reduction
It's very common in an oxygen-free atmosph-- oh VOWEL reduction.
Do people commonly consider the vowel devoicing in Japanese to be reduction? /i/ and /u/ are devoiced or "disappear" in a low-pitch syllable not next to a voiced consonant.
Do people commonly consider the vowel devoicing in Japanese to be reduction? /i/ and /u/ are devoiced or "disappear" in a low-pitch syllable not next to a voiced consonant.
- Tue Oct 09, 2012 4:58 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Gender of loanwords
- Replies: 45
- Views: 10078
Re: Gender of loanwords
Could this be transfer from llaüt/laúd/luth/liuto? (all masc.)Izambri wrote:For example, in Catalan biwa is masculine because other Romance languages, when adopting that Japanese word, assigned that gender.
.. or maybe all that is from the Arabic, also masc.
- Sat Oct 06, 2012 4:40 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Sound Change Quickie Thread
- Replies: 2827
- Views: 694058
Re: Sound Change Quickie Thread
Was there only one long vowel? If not, what happened to them?Rekettye wrote:/i u ɑ ɛ ɤ~o ø̞ə/
The idea is that */e/ lowered to /ɛ/ and */ø:/ to /ø̞/ with a schwa offglide
- Sat Oct 06, 2012 3:02 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The dream thread
- Replies: 1807
- Views: 359921
Re: The dream thread
But not eight per year.Ean wrote:People actually eat bugs while sleeping during their lifetimes.
- Fri Oct 05, 2012 1:25 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: "Go" as a nonhuman "speech" marker
- Replies: 23
- Views: 4407
Re: "Go" as a nonhuman "speech" marker
and so I went "nah that's not right"
- Thu Oct 04, 2012 6:09 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread
- Replies: 3108
- Views: 748838
Re: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread
Lolz you all took me seriously about "mirror" Could you not tell that something transcribed as [mɹ̩ːː↗] was being tongue-in-cheek? Though I confused it by then being deadpan about the correct transcription immediately after. Soz Pretending to be trolling all along after making a mistake is rather t...
- Wed Oct 03, 2012 6:47 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Linguistic Quackery Thread, take 2
- Replies: 812
- Views: 227257
Re: Linguistic Quackery Thread, take 2
English is a Germanic language, after all; where do you think those elements came from?Wattmann wrote:reactionface.pngVuvuzela wrote:...through either Latin or Icelandic.
- Wed Oct 03, 2012 12:18 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The Innovative Usage Thread
- Replies: 2452
- Views: 478840
Re: The Innovative Usage Thread
Bear grease in Nuwati's, olive oil in other lines.linguoboy wrote:How do people interpret this sentence?
What's actually in the balms, olive oil or bear grease?
- For example, bear grease has been substituted for extra virgin olive oil in Nuwati’s line of balms.
Are people confusing "for" and "with"?
- Tue Oct 02, 2012 8:47 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread
- Replies: 3108
- Views: 748838
Re: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread
Well English isn't typically described as a tonal language with three degrees of length...Rekettye wrote:Have you ever heard anyone from Northern Ireland speak? XDBob Johnson wrote:Mrr? Are you sure you've transcribed that correctly?Rekettye wrote:mirror [mɹ̩ːː↗]
Though in "careful speech" it's probably [mɹ̩ɹ̩] or [mə˞ɹə˞].
- Mon Oct 01, 2012 7:16 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread
- Replies: 3108
- Views: 748838
Re: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread
Mrr? Are you sure you've transcribed that correctly?Rekettye wrote:mirror [mɹ̩ːː↗]
- Sat Sep 29, 2012 9:05 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread
- Replies: 3108
- Views: 748838
Re: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread
strange things happen when rough phonetic borrowings from dead languages that aren't ever used in common speech are involvedEan wrote:That's the first time I've seen -ae as a schwa and spontaneous ghost -s's.
- Sat Sep 29, 2012 7:13 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread
- Replies: 3108
- Views: 748838
Re: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread
[ˈveɪnə ˈkævəz]Ean wrote:How do you say venae cavae?
i'm not a doctor but i've watched many on TV
- Fri Sep 28, 2012 7:44 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: PC pronouns
- Replies: 56
- Views: 20291
Re: PC pronouns
those appear to be from different proposals2+3 clusivity wrote:So English has "zhe" and "zir" as PC pronouns
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender-neutral_pronoun
- Thu Sep 27, 2012 10:01 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The Innovative Usage Thread
- Replies: 2452
- Views: 478840
Re: The Innovative Usage Thread
it's not that old http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WA67mDsQvsc
- Fri Sep 21, 2012 10:18 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Linguistic Quackery Thread, take 2
- Replies: 812
- Views: 227257
Re: Linguistic Quackery Thread, take 2
/fɪʃ/ is descended not from its call but from the noise it makes passing through the waterlinguofreak wrote:There also exists a set of changes that turns // into /fɪʃ/.
- Sun Sep 16, 2012 7:13 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Linguistic Quackery Thread, take 2
- Replies: 812
- Views: 227257
Re: Linguistic Quackery Thread, take 2
Hubris Incalculable wrote:Vuvuzela wrote:Ean wrote:"That's what the Monks want you to think!"
- Sat Sep 15, 2012 5:38 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Polysemy in function/non-lexical words.
- Replies: 37
- Views: 8102
Re: Polysemy in function/non-lexical words.
Well English has the -of vs -'ve distinction, which often is merged as /əv/ in speech. Obviously not merged in writing, but growing up a lot of kids dont even realize theyre different words and write things like "I should of known". But that's something particular to the perfects of those modals, o...