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- Sat Jun 09, 2018 1:33 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread
- Replies: 3108
- Views: 664292
Re: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread
picture ['pʰɪk̚tʃ̯ɐ]
- Wed Jun 06, 2018 9:54 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread
- Replies: 3108
- Views: 664292
Re: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread
was: +stress [wɔz] -stress [(w)əz]
were: +stress [wɞː] -stress [wə]
where: [we̞ː]
were: +stress [wɞː] -stress [wə]
where: [we̞ː]
- Mon Jun 04, 2018 3:32 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: How to conflate verbs with verbal nouns
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4322
Re: How to conflate verbs with verbal nouns
A number of Celtic languages use verbal nouns in periphrastic constructions (though even with these, some copula verb is still being used). eg. "I'm doing" = Scots Gaelic Tha mi a dhèanamh be.PRS 1SG on do-VRBN Welsh Dw i'n gwneud be.PRS.1SG=1SG COMP do.VRBN But I suspect you mean more like the cons...
- Sat Apr 28, 2018 8:52 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Help your conlang fluency (2)
- Replies: 6633
- Views: 763922
Re: Help your conlang fluency
Jiva su frje, aj su ne sraulje neda.bbbosborne wrote:ana prolatyhero memem maŋ?
1s.NOM NEC-see-NEC thing Q
Should I watch "The Thing?"
If you like, but you don't have to.
- Tue Apr 17, 2018 11:53 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Help your conlang fluency (2)
- Replies: 6633
- Views: 763922
Re: Help your conlang fluency
Kwáti mánata tíz ássati?Vijay wrote:Meow grrr oogrrinexx. Grrux xcrratched aixe.
NEG PREP big-NMLZ just write-PST.PTCP thus
None. It's just written that way.
How would you say it then?
- Mon Apr 16, 2018 6:14 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Help your conlang fluency (2)
- Replies: 6633
- Views: 763922
Re: Help your conlang fluency
Xhee xrrap oogrr.Dē Graut Bʉr wrote:A cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills.
Fish.
Máis parhúz z'arúni ant' ásti.
There are many fish in the sea.
- Tue Mar 27, 2018 10:27 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Incorrect pronunciations you have (or have had) to unlearn
- Replies: 669
- Views: 156570
Re: Incorrect pronunciations you have (or have had) to unlea
I wasn't sure, but you're right.Vijay wrote:Isn't it sei?Znex wrote:I never learnt the Spanish numbers, but I know the Italian numbers from childhood (and later, the German numbers): uno, due, tre, quattro, cinque, se, sette, otto, nove, dieci.
- Mon Mar 26, 2018 4:23 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Incorrect pronunciations you have (or have had) to unlearn
- Replies: 669
- Views: 156570
Re: Incorrect pronunciations you have (or have had) to unlea
Because that's the conlang he and his dad share.KathTheDragon wrote:Vijay wrote:Me (in Mountain Lion)
I never learnt the Spanish numbers, but I know the Italian numbers from childhood (and later, the German numbers): uno, due, tre, quattro, cinque, se, sette, otto, nove, dieci.
- Tue Mar 20, 2018 7:08 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread
- Replies: 2225
- Views: 461653
Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread
Realistically, Uralic need not tell us very much - assuming a shift ejective > implosive > voiced stop, there's no reason to assume that it was still in the 'ejective' phase in PIU. My own Indo-Uralic material (a draft version is now at academia.edu) does not have very much to tell here. I don't se...
- Sat Mar 10, 2018 2:13 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
- Replies: 4604
- Views: 1141169
Re: Help your fluency in a nifty way
La semaine dernière j’ai travaillé au moins dix heures chaque jour et dormi moins de deux heures par nuit, étant sortie chaque soir jusqu’à l’aube avec des amis pour la fête de Pourim (c’est-à-dire, pour trop boire, tous costumés, moi magnifique dans la robe noire d’Audrey Hepburn dans « Diamants s...
- Sun Mar 04, 2018 7:40 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread
- Replies: 3108
- Views: 664292
Re: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread
conlangery [ˈkʰɔ̃ˌɫɛ̝̃ŋᵊɻʷi]
conlang [ˈkʰɔ̃ˌɫɛ̝̃ŋ]
conworld [ˈkʰɔ̃ˌwøʊ̯d̥]
constructed language [ˌkʰɔ̃ˈsʈʂ̯ɻʷɐk̚təd̥ ˈɫɛ̝̃ŋɡwɨdʒ̥̯]
conlang [ˈkʰɔ̃ˌɫɛ̝̃ŋ]
conworld [ˈkʰɔ̃ˌwøʊ̯d̥]
constructed language [ˌkʰɔ̃ˈsʈʂ̯ɻʷɐk̚təd̥ ˈɫɛ̝̃ŋɡwɨdʒ̥̯]
- Thu Feb 22, 2018 5:43 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
- Replies: 4604
- Views: 1141169
Re: Help your fluency in a nifty way
我不知道我還不至於說那個,但是用英文的时候,「length」真的不可以指「height」。 Ich weisse nicht, dass so weit ich gehen würde, aber „length“ kann auf „height“ auf Englisch nicht wirklich beziehen. Dwn i'm 'swn i'n mynd mor bell â hynny, ond fedr "length" ddim yn wir gyfeirio at "height" yn Saesneg. I don't know that I'd go that far...
- Tue Feb 20, 2018 7:09 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread
- Replies: 3108
- Views: 664292
Re: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread
poor [pʰoː]
cure [cç̯ʷʉə̯~cç̯ʷɵə̯]
manure [mɨ̃ˈnʲʷʉə̯~mɨ̃ˈnʲʷɵə̯]
cure [cç̯ʷʉə̯~cç̯ʷɵə̯]
manure [mɨ̃ˈnʲʷʉə̯~mɨ̃ˈnʲʷɵə̯]
- Mon Feb 19, 2018 4:24 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread
- Replies: 3108
- Views: 664292
Re: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread
[ˈjʉːɻʷəp]
[jʷəˈɻʷɛ̝ɪ̯̃nəs]
[jʷəˈɻʷɛ̝ɪ̯̃nəs]
- Mon Feb 19, 2018 5:13 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
- Replies: 4604
- Views: 1141169
Re: Help your fluency in a nifty way
ところで、弁当はカレシに作ってただでかな?
tokoro de | bentou wa kareshi ni tsurutte tada de ka na
By the way, is it (really) common to make bento for boyfriends? (In Japan I mean, of course)
I've just tended to see it done a bit in Japanese media, that it's the done thing for any girl newly dating someone.
tokoro de | bentou wa kareshi ni tsurutte tada de ka na
By the way, is it (really) common to make bento for boyfriends? (In Japan I mean, of course)
I've just tended to see it done a bit in Japanese media, that it's the done thing for any girl newly dating someone.
- Sun Feb 18, 2018 1:53 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
- Replies: 4604
- Views: 1141169
Re: Help your fluency in a nifty way
Gibt's so wenig Leute, die ein/e Gatte/in oder ein/e Freund/in haben?? Ich hätte schwören können, dass ich mehr Leute als die kennen hätte. :oops: Est-ce que y'a si peu de gens qu'ait un/e époux/se o un amour?? J'aurais juré que j'aie connu plus de gens que ça. Tem tão pouca gente que tenha um/a cô...
- Thu Feb 15, 2018 6:43 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Questions about inflected prepositions
- Replies: 12
- Views: 8256
Re: Questions about inflected prepositions
But how did they form? Why did people start sticking bits onto them? How did i start becoming iddo or iddi , for example? Or did it? If Welsh i comes from Proto-Celtic *de then maybe the inflections were always there and i just got shortened again and again? Literally, they're just from sequences o...
- Thu Feb 15, 2018 3:57 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
- Replies: 4604
- Views: 1141169
Re: Help your fluency in a nifty way
Ach, ich denke, dass etwas Norwegisch eingeschlichen müsste.linguoboy wrote:Bisch Rhiländer worre?Znex wrote:Frohe Valentinsdag, alle!
Are you Rhenish now?
Oop, I think a bit of Norwegian must have slipped in.
- Thu Feb 15, 2018 5:13 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
- Replies: 4604
- Views: 1141169
Re: Help your fluency in a nifty way
祝你們情人節快乐! Frohe Valentinsdag, alle! Happy Valentine's Day, everyone! 情人節怎麼樣,你們?有沒有能和你們的伴侶或者好朋友會合? :-D Wie geht/ging Valentinsdag für euch? Habt ihr getroffen ihrer eure Partner oder enge Freunde? How is/was Valentine's Day for you guys? Did you get to meet up with your partners or close friends? 那天在...
- Mon Feb 12, 2018 8:22 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
- Replies: 4604
- Views: 1141169
Re: Help your fluency in a nifty way
Medra i glywed y gân yn 'n mhen i wrth i mi dd arllen hwnnw! Er mod i'm yn nabod y gân 'ma, a dweud y gwir. Lle ddysgest ti "caniad"? Sa i'n ei adnabod e ond yn enw y Caniad Solomon. Where did you learn "caniad"? I only recognise it from the name of the Song of Solomon. Iawn, a dweud y gwir, dw i'm...
- Mon Feb 12, 2018 4:52 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
- Replies: 4604
- Views: 1141169
Re: Help your fluency in a nifty way
Me lesrau kowa un nai shunau i gili pral miro dji! Un tchatchepaha, me prindjrau gar kai gili. Ich kann das Lied im Kopf hören, während ich das lese! Jedoch ich kenne dieses Lied eigentlich nicht. Je peux entendre la chanson dans ma tête lorsque je la lise! Bien que je connaisse pas en fait cette c...
- Mon Feb 05, 2018 4:20 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread
- Replies: 3108
- Views: 664292
Re: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread
Looks like I tend to elide the /t/ in that consonant cluster: [tʰe̞ɪ̯s(t)s gʊd̚] [tʰe̞ɪ̯s(t)s bæːd̚] [tʰe̞ɪ̯s(t)s fɐ̃ni] Looks like you have the bad-lad split. That's pretty universal in Australian English apparently. You're Australian and you have [e̞ɪ̯] rather than [æɪ̯] for the "FACE" vowel? Not...
- Sat Feb 03, 2018 10:53 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread
- Replies: 3108
- Views: 664292
Re: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread
Looks like I tend to elide the /t/ in that consonant cluster:
[tʰe̞ɪ̯s(t)s gʊd̚]
[tʰe̞ɪ̯s(t)s bæːd̚]
[tʰe̞ɪ̯s(t)s fɐ̃ni]
[tʰe̞ɪ̯s(t)s gʊd̚]
[tʰe̞ɪ̯s(t)s bæːd̚]
[tʰe̞ɪ̯s(t)s fɐ̃ni]
- Fri Feb 02, 2018 11:12 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
- Replies: 4604
- Views: 1141169
Re: Help your fluency in a nifty way
我小的時候,去過新西蘭。這還是唯一的我澳大利亞外訪問過國家。 Ich habe nach Neuseeland gefahren, als ich war ein Kind. Es ist das einzige Land noch, das ich außerhalb von Australien besucht habe. Je suis allé à la Nouvelle-Zélande quand j'étais un enfant. C'est encore le seul pays que j'aie visité dehors de l'Australie. Eu fui pa...
- Thu Feb 01, 2018 9:22 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
- Replies: 4604
- Views: 1141169
Re: Help your fluency in a nifty way
Ko te pepa tāku wārete, ehara nā taua te kāpia, te tēpara. Ka āhuahua ki te tāra Merikana, ā, ka whakamihia rawatia. He tūā-rauiti. My wallet is made of paper without any glue or staples. It looks like an American dollar, and I often get compliments about it. It's fairly slim. 折り紙かな? 那麼是摺紙嗎? Ὀριγάμ...