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It works in linux Firefox, fails in linux Chromium, works in linux Opera 12.16 (the newest version of Opera is based off Chrome, so prolly not worth checking), placement works in Konqueror (the only other browser I have installed) but everything from Curiously, the voicing of medial consonants (e.g...

It works in linux Firefox, fails in linux Chromium, works in linux Opera 12.16 (the newest version of Opera is based off Chrome, so prolly not worth checking), placement works in Konqueror (the only other browser I have installed) but everything from Curiously, the voicing of medial consonants (e.g....

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Dhok is the one who has problems with women and Darkgamma is the one who said he was born in 5 different countries at the same time once. Also he has a thing for Slavs. Well, basically, I had a thing. I grew up. I'm more into Indo-Iranian languages than Slavic now, although Proto-Balto-Slavic itsel...

Exactly. It doesn't have the obvious unity that say Germanic does, but without significant new evidence detailing why it should not be a grouping, it's got validity.

The sound changes have also been displaced it seems, though not their heading.

Last I checked there was a weak majority in favor of unity. The evidence against is more lack of many widespread strong unifying factors than decisive differences. But you're right Latino-Faliscan and Osco-Umbrian are starkly different branches.

Um Ron might be a little different but that also might be him sounding 'weak', I'm not sure. I can't recall any great difference between Harry and Hermione tho.

I've read that, in a few natural languages, vowel roundedness has been transferred to adjacent consonants, with the vowel becoming unrounded and the consonant becoming labialized. I was curious as to whether it might be at all plausible for a similar change to occur, affecting only one particular v...

Cev/Rhetorica: scouse is the easiest one to learn to recognise, because it turns coda (sometimes even non-coda) /k/ into an affricate or fricative (sometimes lightly, sometimes very strongly). Also, it fronts /A/, /U/, and /u/ quite strongly, and I think the first element in /oU/ as well. Having ju...

Astraios wrote:What about the coronal past in Iranian?

That's just the passive participle suffix in *-t-os.

[The 'most Romans had three names' thing is a bit of a myth. The three-name model we learn about applies only to upper class Roman adult males from the late Republic and early Empire, and even then not to all of them. Earlier, and among lower classes and among women, there were fewer names; later, ...

Vowel system: /a ɛ ɔ i ɨ u aː ɛː ɛi̯ oː ɔu̯ iː ɨː uː/ and some other diphthongs that don't matter here. /eə̯ oə̯/ develop from various sources, mostly /e a/ before nasals (which then drop word-finally) but w+unstressed vowel also gives oə̯. What should I do with them? Note that /eə̯/ is pretty rare...

The number of names also varies, most Romans had 3, most moderns have 2, some had/have only one, some as many as they want (medieval turkish warlords). Could you elaborate on exactly what you mean by 'number of names'? I think I know, but I can't be sure. Gaius Julius Caesar, David Cameron, Timur (...

I didn't know Angelfire moved to China and changed their name.

Just wondering, for those of you in the USA: what features of an accent of English would you recognise as typically British? What if anything do you make of strong regional accents, like Scouse, Geordie, Pitmatic, Weegie, Brummie, Cockney, and so on? They all merge into 'weirdo British dialect whic...

Now we just need someone to check in Cuba.

Do you make a hobby of stalking my profile for new posts to express righteous liberal (emphasised by Click) wrath at? I have no idea where you see politics in Nessari's post. Frankly, I'm baffled. He's seeing what he wants to see. And interpreting the way he wants to interpret, rather than what I m...

Strange. It displays for me. You're in China. I get this from clicking on the link: 错误 您所请求的网址（URL）无法获取 当尝试读取以下网址（URL）时： http://icon.nipic.com/block.gif 发生了下列的错误： Access Denied. 拒绝访问 Access control configuration prevents your request from being allowed at this time. Please contact your service prov...

Drydic: ah, OK then. To be fair, I should have realized your point myself when I originally wrote that, but I was freshly woken up on not near enough sleep. At the least I should have checked, but I didn't, so my apologies. Sidenote on this: It'd be awesome if someone updated Prokosch's A Comparati...

Which "such"? Verner's law is about the f T x -> B D G change (word-internally). More specifically, it's about a subset of exceptions to that change. Also, the change (with the exceptions) arguably wasn't Proto-Germanic, although it was/is common Germanic. PGerm f T x have very little to do with th...

Basilius wrote:

Nessari wrote:<...> the PIE plain voiced series (excepting cases where Verner's Law applied) devoiced to p t k kʷ.

Verner's law didn't apply to this series. I am sorry.

I guess there were no such cases then

In Latin, the fricatives /f/ and /h/ only appear word-initially though. Elsewhere it's /b/, /d/, /g/ and /w/ (also /gw/ after nasals). In Osco-Umbrian the fricatives appear in all positions, even intervocally (and after nasals? too lazy to look it up). So Latin -Vbus corresponds to Oscan (or was it...

Hi pot, I'm kettle, pleasure to meet you. PIE *bh is in most of those positions in Germanic as well. It's perfectly plausible to reconstruct a phoneme *b~ƀ there, which was a stop initially, next to an obstruent, and finally (if it occurred there, I can't remember and it's not worth looking up), and...