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Maz dremi'e axong. Išmul jenogonižgdv axong a'i'Iowa. Siwonigi axong evin oFarenha'it tosilčrenkel a'im vin, bon žeyalgi axong umowakin evin maz ayobad otos tikiltiktemš e'omalsi a'itwi vin. Moragn axong tirata'i odzadrel momoni. Maz-(s) dremi'e a-xong. Išmul (č)eno-gonižg-(t)-(f) a-xong a'i-Iowa. ...

So, maybe a timeline like this?



It was done in paint, so it's kind of crappy.

This website: FSI Language Courses is free, and it's more geared towards learning the languages than just grammar overviews, but it's a good resource, and it's free, lots of diversity.

Elector Dark wrote:There's also warez sites, namely, one specific warez site that I won't mention :3

Don't use namely and then not use a name you goddamn tease.

My teacher actually learned out of Learn Japanese New College Text, and she also has Japanese for Busy People, as well as Japanese in Mangaland, Genki, Youkoso, and a bunch of others. Goldmine!

Yeah, the problem is that textbooks are generally designed for people who likely don't have extensive/any knowledge of linguistic nomenclature. Agreed. This is a trait that is shared by the writers of Knowledge Bowl questions, which leads to me getting questions wrong when I answer with terms like ...

Well, before we did any kind of reading we did a lot of listening and speaking, and we wrote and practiced hiragana and katakana first (although we did start reading and writing before we got all the way through katakana). She avoided romaji as much as possible, she wanted us learning vocabulary in ...

My brain freaks out whenever I see ローマ字 because my Japanese teacher (a fiery red-headed white lady, funnily enough) has pounded it into my skull that ローマ字は駄目だぜ！(Emphasis my own)

高校で三年生から四年生まで日本語を勉強しました。いい先生がありました。でも、日本語を少しだけ話しますよ。そして、少しだけ書くのです。どうもありがとうございました、ラード先生！

p pʲ b bʲ t tʲ d dʲ k kʲ g gʲ Ɂ f fʲ v vʲ s sʲ z zʲ ʃ ʒ ç w j r l m n ŋ ts tsʲ dz dzʲ tʃ dʒ i u e o a For my new conlang Gogdir . Palatalized consonants are allophonic to their un-palatalized versions, and only become so before /u/ /o/ and /a/. Glottal stops are required between vowels, but can't be...

I had a friend the other day who used the plural of "acrostic" as "acrostixes", apparently as some kind of odd back-tracking from "matrix" :> "matrices". I thought it was a pretty interesting derivation, especially since it could be applied to "agnostic" :> "agnostixes", "bulimic" :> "bulimixes", "c...

A little more sharpening seems to reveal the last two letters are "G" and "K"



So "NO_R_GK" is what I make out.


EDIT: Maybe "BGK"?

@Bob and Bristel

Duly noted.

@finlay

Care to explain?

To be named, as part of my senior project this year. This is my first real phonemic inventory, so my focus is cool, non-English, and not bringing the kitchen sink. Consonants: /p b t d k g ʔ p j b j t j d j k j g j / /f v ð s z ʃ ʒ ç x f j v j ð j s j z j ʃ j ʒ j ç j / /m n ŋ m j n j ŋ j / /ɹ j w r ...

Zhen Lin wrote:/rj/ has been stable in Japanese for several centuries (or a millennium).

But the Japanese /r/ is more of an alveolar tap [ɾ].

This is your confidence level you magnificent bastard.

I call it Chocolate-Vanilla ice cream. I try to avoid it, opting for plain vanilla instead. I have never heard anyone refer to at as a "Twisty" or the like.

Mr. Bassett!?!?

It's a side effect of the... *ahem*... medication.

Just remember to see a doctor if it lasts more than 4 hours.

It all started as I was driving cross-country with my cousin's fiance so we could get to their wedding, oh, and we were all Latino. *shrug*. Anyway, we're driving and in true rom-com fashion we start falling in love, despite the fact we were driving her to get married! Well, it's not as if I could h...

I dream about that a lot; the school always seems to be based off of my middle school, which was based off of a pod system, with the aesthetics of my current high school. Luckily, the sprawling architecture and poor building design made "getting lost" an acceptable excuse for not going to your class...

Ah, that's what I thought you meant. I meant the link to the original image. It's the word "original" above the picture; it's in bold, underlines itself when you mouse over it. Typical hyperlink behavior.

I'm afraid I'm not twigging to your vibes.

Neat! Here's a little something I photoshopped (I laugh in defiance of the "Proper Usage" pdf at the Adobe website insisting that I use the phrase "enhanced with Adobe® Photoshop® software"). Bonus points to anyone who can identify the musician without clicking on the link. Original http://i.imgur.c...

That giant fish looks awful familiar...

I colored the beard in blue. It's there.