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Okay, I have a rather boring pattern; all of them are monosyllabic in everyday speech, but all of them with high vowels can break into disyllables when enunciated carefully: real : /ˈril/ > [ˈɰˤi(ː)ɯ̞̯] or, carefully, [ˈɰˤiː(j)ɯ̞(ː)] deal : /ˈdil/ > [ˈd̥i(ː)ɯ̞̯] or, carefully, [ˈd̥iː(j)ɯ̞(ː)] cruel...

This 'always' business made me think of a bizarre negative pregnant, "I haven't always gotten sick in the winter." Weird huh? There's a bunch of ways to take it. Yes. In that case, distinctions would have to be made prosodically: "I haven't always gotten sick in the winter." -- Denial of a previous...

So, I messed with the phonology and orthography of my new and unnamed language to make it a little easier to use (and also a little more Finnic, which was my original intent for the phonology): Phoneme Inventory http://tnypic.net/cab44.png http://tnypic.net/2c15b.png Allophony - [q ɢ qː χ χː] are al...

Hey Lyra, your English accent sounds slightly German.

So, today, I said "I've had colds in the summer all the time". Is this ungrammatical? I might say, "I've always gotten sick in the summer time," if someone asked about allergies. If you replace 'all the time' with 'always' it works for me. Well, I didn't mean that i got them every summer. My dad wa...

Skomakar'n wrote:Hir ist nikht eine nüwe sprakhe, aber eine nüwe rekhtskhrijbung für thüwdskh, daz ikh habe gemakht. Ist si nikht ser skhön?
Here is not a new language, but a new orthography for German that I have made. Isn't it just beautiful?

Es foult me nejt gut.
I don't like it.

Ea dh'atlachaigh, hvat it Atbuthr Opnschee Londonne bee godhr. (Jah thaht -lah-khaey, hvaht it Ad -buth-uhr Op -uhn-schyay-yuh Lon- don -nyeh Bi- yay -yuh goth -uhr) sorry about the awful pronunciation guide. I can't be bothered with IPA right now. I can excuse the lack of IPA if you give us a glos...

Vancouver English accent (also in Spanish) Oh? Could I beg you to record a comparison between your Vancouverite Spanish accent and your Salvadoran Spanish accents? I said a Vancouver English accent in Spanish. Yes, thats what I said. If i ever say Vancouverite in relation to language, be assured th...

Serafín wrote:Vancouver English accent (also in Spanish)

Oh? Could I beg you to record a comparison between your Vancouverite Spanish accent and your Salvadoran Spanish accents?

Ezerasmausgimlakk stuttgauttgǫǫto /e.ze.ɾas.maus.'gim.lakː stutː.'gautː.gɒːt.o/ [e.ðe.ɹaθ.mauθ.gim.lakː stutː.'gautː.ɢɒːt.o] Ezerasmaus-gim-lakk stutt-gaut-gǫǫt-o The Rasmus-ACC-DEF enjoy-IMPERF.PRES-1ST.SING-IND I like The Rasmus. na pue itla nye na'ekam anuyek unya After this I know why I have no...

Ezerasmausgimlakk stuttgauttgǫǫto /e.ze.ɾas.maus.'gim.lakː stutː.'gautː.gɒːt.o/ [e.ðe.ɹaθ.mauθ.gim.lakː stutː.'gautː.ɢɒːt.o] Ezerasmaus-gim-lakk stutt-gaut-gǫǫt-o The Rasmus-ACC-DEF enjoy-IMPERF.PRES-1ST.SING-IND I like The Rasmus. I think I'll have to re-work the phonology and suffixes - these see...

Shrdlu wrote:Being Sweden

Are you then the embodiment of the entirety of Sweden?

Rainlander wrote:Bordurian.

...Along with several maps of the country.

Or Proto-Bordurio-Syldavian.

Canadian (actually near you, Jerian)

I can do (in descending order of quality): Russian, Indian, Received Pronunciation, Glaswegian Scottish, General Irish, Mancunian, Cockney, Australian, German, Kiwi, South African (plus a few more I may have forgotten to mention)

So, today, I said "I've had colds in the summer all the time". Is this ungrammatical?

finlay wrote:Sasaketisu sileyeselfansate.
i need a cock

Di ver með Ejn geborn, nejn?
You were born with one, no?

This Picture used to have a bloody great Crack running through it, but I gimped it out. Can you tell where it was? Was it between the woman and the child? No, actually it ran across Großopa and Großoma's* Foreheads. *That's what we called them. EDIT: Yes, I know the standard forms are Uropa and Uro...

http://tnypic.net/797b4.jpg This is a Picture of my Great-Grandmother, Great-Grandfather, and Great-Aunt (who I never met) on my paternal Grandmother's side. Three of my Grandparents were born in Russia and immigrated to Canada during WWII, having escaped Soviet Russia by fleeing with the retreatin...

Jabechasqvi wrote:Whoa, someone who still uses Netscape Navigator? You must be some kind of living fossil, like those plesiosaurs that supposedly live in Loch Ness or something.

Well, ether he doesn't use bookmarks, or he just pulled it up for the lulz.

dhokarena56 wrote:Did somebody say pretentious?

You're not serious. You had that installed since '98, and you just pulled it up as a joke.

Right?

zompist wrote:

Hubris Incalculable wrote:To cleave:
Split or sever (something), esp. along a natural line or grain.
Stick fast to: "Rose's mouth was dry, her tongue cleaving to the roof of her mouth".

These are two different words. And also not what finlay was referring to.

Okay. I misunderstood.

My bad.

To cleave:
Split or sever (something), esp. along a natural line or grain.
Stick fast to: "Rose's mouth was dry, her tongue cleaving to the roof of her mouth".

One word: Chromium.

Sure, it takes an age to start, but after that, it runs like a dream.