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by Znex
Sat Jun 09, 2018 1:33 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread
Replies: 3108
Views: 640326

Re: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread

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by Znex
Wed Jun 06, 2018 9:54 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread
Replies: 3108
Views: 640326

Re: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread

was: +stress [wɔz] -stress [(w)əz]
were: +stress [wɞː] -stress [wə]
where: [we̞ː]
by Znex
Mon Jun 04, 2018 3:32 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: How to conflate verbs with verbal nouns
Replies: 2
Views: 4043

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...
by Znex
Sat Apr 28, 2018 8:52 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Help your conlang fluency (2)
Replies: 6633
Views: 726562

Re: Help your conlang fluency

bbbosborne wrote:ana prolatyhero memem maŋ?
1s.NOM NEC-see-NEC thing Q
Should I watch "The Thing?"
Jiva su frje, aj su ne sraulje neda.
If you like, but you don't have to.
by Znex
Tue Apr 17, 2018 11:53 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Help your conlang fluency (2)
Replies: 6633
Views: 726562

Re: Help your conlang fluency

Vijay wrote:Meow grrr oogrrinexx. Grrux xcrratched aixe. :P
NEG PREP big-NMLZ just write-PST.PTCP thus
None. It's just written that way. :)
Kwáti mánata tíz ássati?
How would you say it then?
by Znex
Mon Apr 16, 2018 6:14 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Help your conlang fluency (2)
Replies: 6633
Views: 726562

Re: Help your conlang fluency

Dē Graut Bʉr wrote:A cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills.
Xhee xrrap oogrr. :wink:
Fish.

Máis parhúz z'arúni ant' ásti.
There are many fish in the sea.
by Znex
Tue Mar 27, 2018 10:27 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Incorrect pronunciations you have (or have had) to unlearn
Replies: 669
Views: 149792

Re: Incorrect pronunciations you have (or have had) to unlea

Vijay wrote:
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.
Isn't it sei?
I wasn't sure, but you're right.
by Znex
Mon Mar 26, 2018 4:23 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Incorrect pronunciations you have (or have had) to unlearn
Replies: 669
Views: 149792

Re: Incorrect pronunciations you have (or have had) to unlea

KathTheDragon wrote:
Vijay wrote:Me (in Mountain Lion)
:thinking:
Because that's the conlang he and his dad share.

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.
by Znex
Tue Mar 20, 2018 7:08 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread
Replies: 2225
Views: 448607

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...
by Znex
Sat Mar 10, 2018 2:13 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
Replies: 4604
Views: 1116590

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...
by Znex
Sun Mar 04, 2018 7:40 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread
Replies: 3108
Views: 640326

Re: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread

conlangery [ˈkʰɔ̃ˌɫɛ̝̃ŋᵊɻʷi]
conlang [ˈkʰɔ̃ˌɫɛ̝̃ŋ]
conworld [ˈkʰɔ̃ˌwøʊ̯d̥]
constructed language [ˌkʰɔ̃ˈsʈʂ̯ɻʷɐk̚təd̥ ˈɫɛ̝̃ŋɡwɨdʒ̥̯]
by Znex
Thu Feb 22, 2018 5:43 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
Replies: 4604
Views: 1116590

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...
by Znex
Tue Feb 20, 2018 7:09 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread
Replies: 3108
Views: 640326

Re: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread

poor [pʰoː]
cure [cç̯ʷʉə̯~cç̯ʷɵə̯]
manure [mɨ̃ˈnʲʷʉə̯~mɨ̃ˈnʲʷɵə̯]
by Znex
Mon Feb 19, 2018 4:24 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread
Replies: 3108
Views: 640326

Re: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread

[ˈjʉːɻʷəp]
[jʷəˈɻʷɛ̝ɪ̯̃nəs]
by Znex
Mon Feb 19, 2018 5:13 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
Replies: 4604
Views: 1116590

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.
by Znex
Sun Feb 18, 2018 1:53 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
Replies: 4604
Views: 1116590

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...
by Znex
Thu Feb 15, 2018 6:43 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Questions about inflected prepositions
Replies: 12
Views: 7985

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...
by Znex
Thu Feb 15, 2018 3:57 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
Replies: 4604
Views: 1116590

Re: Help your fluency in a nifty way

linguoboy wrote:
Znex wrote:Frohe Valentinsdag, alle!
Bisch Rhiländer worre?
Are you Rhenish now?
Ach, ich denke, dass etwas Norwegisch eingeschlichen müsste. :o
Oop, I think a bit of Norwegian must have slipped in.
by Znex
Thu Feb 15, 2018 5:13 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
Replies: 4604
Views: 1116590

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...
by Znex
Mon Feb 12, 2018 8:22 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
Replies: 4604
Views: 1116590

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...
by Znex
Mon Feb 12, 2018 4:52 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
Replies: 4604
Views: 1116590

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...
by Znex
Mon Feb 05, 2018 4:20 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread
Replies: 3108
Views: 640326

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...
by Znex
Sat Feb 03, 2018 10:53 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread
Replies: 3108
Views: 640326

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]
by Znex
Fri Feb 02, 2018 11:12 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
Replies: 4604
Views: 1116590

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...
by Znex
Thu Feb 01, 2018 9:22 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
Replies: 4604
Views: 1116590

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...