That reads like a rather long-winded "no", Sal
Perhaps it's less confusing if I ask "has anyone come up with a phonological model which is applicable to all known (spoken!) languages, etcetera"? Or does that merely amount to the same thing?
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- Mon May 28, 2018 2:04 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The Grand Phonological Theory of Everything
- Replies: 13
- Views: 10116
- Sat May 26, 2018 10:41 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The Contradictory Feelings Thread
- Replies: 933
- Views: 211682
Re: The Contradictory Feelings Thread
Desk-bound software engineering. Arguably this belongs in the venting thread.jmcd wrote:That doesn't sound good. What sort of work is it?
Perhaps, although I wouldn't be able to stay long.jmcd wrote:We could maybe find a moment that suit all three of us?
- Fri May 25, 2018 3:59 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The Contradictory Feelings Thread
- Replies: 933
- Views: 211682
Re: The Contradictory Feelings Thread
Oh What's up with your work? Briefly: I was diagnosed with ME/CFS 21 months ago and have been off work more or less continuously since. I've been back a few times this month, but it has turned out to be too much too soon. You don't happen to be in Edinburgh this summer yourself, do you? I'm unlikel...
- Thu May 24, 2018 9:24 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The Contradictory Feelings Thread
- Replies: 933
- Views: 211682
Re: The Contradictory Feelings Thread
Verily, it eggs-cruciates.
Meanwhile, after four weeks of two half-days, I have to stop work again.
Meanwhile, after four weeks of two half-days, I have to stop work again.
- Mon May 21, 2018 5:24 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The Grand Phonological Theory of Everything
- Replies: 13
- Views: 10116
Re: The Grand Phonological Theory of Everything
Rory, that's very useful. It casts a lot of light on my original motivation for asking, which pertains to my ongoing quest to create a set of rules for my multi-language SCA which don't get stranded somewhere between individual but underspecified phonologies and global but overspecified phonetics. B...
- Thu May 17, 2018 1:10 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: A Very Brief Explanation of the British Election
- Replies: 323
- Views: 97359
Re: A Very Brief Explanation of the British Election
Breaking news!!! Read all about it here!!!
"A new customs proposal hoping to prevent a hard border in Ireland after Brexit has been agreed by cabinet."
You know where you heard it first!!!
"A new customs proposal hoping to prevent a hard border in Ireland after Brexit has been agreed by cabinet."
You know where you heard it first!!!
- Mon May 14, 2018 1:54 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The Grand Phonological Theory of Everything
- Replies: 13
- Views: 10116
The Grand Phonological Theory of Everything
Is there a theory of phonology which is applicable to all known languages. i.e. it can elegantly explain all sound changes, allophonies, inventories, and so on? Straightforward feature theory (Jakobsonian?) can't cope with scalar-valued features like vowel height, and adding scalar values doesn't re...
- Fri May 04, 2018 3:19 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The Contradictory Feelings Thread
- Replies: 933
- Views: 211682
Re: The Contradictory Feelings Thread
Well, so much for that. My contracting firm is not willing to let me out of my contract, regardless of what my manager's manager was offering them in return. My manager told me that, in 18 months, the time limit after which I am actually free of my contract, if I'm not happy with where I am working...
- Thu May 03, 2018 5:50 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The Contradictory Feelings Thread
- Replies: 933
- Views: 211682
Re: The Contradictory Feelings Thread
Welp. My current manager gave me a counteroffer; he would see if he could break me out of my contract with my contracting firm and he would give me a open spot on GE's next generation product's team, and he would offer me the same or better than how much I am being offered already. I told him that ...
- Tue May 01, 2018 10:53 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The Contradictory Feelings Thread
- Replies: 933
- Views: 211682
Re: The Contradictory Feelings Thread
Welp. I just gave my notice, talked with my manager, my contracting company manager, and my team lead about leaving, and this all just happened , practically unplanned. I was never really looking to change jobs, but rather this new job just fell in my lap and I never did anything to not change jobs...
- Tue May 01, 2018 10:51 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Creativity of the day
- Replies: 1704
- Views: 334036
Re: Creativity of the day
alice is enlightenedRisla wrote:That is indeed a skein.alice wrote:Niiiiiice! What is the technical name for such a thing - does it qualify as a "skein"?Risla wrote:Lookit the yarn I spun!
- Mon Apr 30, 2018 1:21 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Creativity of the day
- Replies: 1704
- Views: 334036
Re: Creativity of the day
Niiiiiice! What is the technical name for such a thing - does it qualify as a "skein"?Risla wrote:Lookit the yarn I spun!
- Fri Apr 27, 2018 5:52 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: What do you call...
- Replies: 22
- Views: 14391
Re: What do you call...
Going back to my original question, in:
The Prime Minister said this: she had full confidence in her Home Secretary.
is it correct to calll "this" a pronoun, even though it stands for something which is not a noun?
The Prime Minister said this: she had full confidence in her Home Secretary.
is it correct to calll "this" a pronoun, even though it stands for something which is not a noun?
- Wed Apr 25, 2018 4:43 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The Contradictory Feelings Thread
- Replies: 933
- Views: 211682
Re: The Contradictory Feelings Thread
Going back to work next week at last, after fifteen months. Good luck! Thank you! I actually just came to this thread to post that I'm quitting my job. I gave a month's notice about three weeks ago, and after some negotiations today with the boss (apparently it's way easier to figure out the payrol...
- Tue Apr 24, 2018 2:48 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The Contradictory Feelings Thread
- Replies: 933
- Views: 211682
Re: The Contradictory Feelings Thread
Going back to work next week at last, after fifteen months.
- Sun Apr 22, 2018 4:48 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: What do you call...
- Replies: 22
- Views: 14391
What do you call...
Consider the bolded words in: Far off I heard it : a telephoneme. He told me this : all languages are derived from Basque. These look very like anaphoric pronouns, except that they refer to something not yet mentioned rather than already mentioned. Are they still "anaphors", or something else like "...
- Tue Mar 20, 2018 11:05 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Does Germanic have native terms for "cube" and "sphere"?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4997
Re: Does Germanic have native terms for "cube" and "sphere"?
That's enough to start with; thanks.
- Tue Mar 20, 2018 7:14 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Does Germanic have native terms for "cube" and "sphere"?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4997
- Sun Feb 18, 2018 7:35 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: How should I assign gender to words?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 7925
Re: How should I assign gender to words?
Sexing words is always tricky, but it's easier with older words which aren't so worn away and have the, er, important bits still intact. *Gendering* words, however, is pretty much up to you. It depends what you mean by "gender" - is it merely a way of classifying words to govern how they agree with ...
- Sat Feb 17, 2018 5:26 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Venting thread that still excludes eddy (2)
- Replies: 2639
- Views: 317609
Re: Venting thread
The (expletive)-ing (expletive)s at the (expletive)-ing DWP think I'm no longer too (expletive)-ing ill to (expletive)-ing do my job and have (expletive)-ing stopped my ESA. My total income is now zero.
- Sat Feb 17, 2018 5:21 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Obscure question about Greek
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3946
Obscure question about Greek
It is too obviously a word-for-word rendering of the Latin sentence, which for that matter, is an equally servile calque on the Greek. This is referring to the OHG sentence phigboum habeta sum giflanzotan , "somebody had planted a fig tree", with reference to the present perfect formation with "to ...
- Thu Jan 25, 2018 9:29 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Age, Leisure Work and Motivation
- Replies: 24
- Views: 13565
Re: Age, Leisure Work and Motivation
Deplorable backsliders, the lot of you. I've conlanged for at least three hours a day, every day, since I was ten years old.
Seriously, though, I've noticed it too, and it's just part of growing up. Ask anyone who's every been in a band for several years, for example.
Seriously, though, I've noticed it too, and it's just part of growing up. Ask anyone who's every been in a band for several years, for example.
- Tue Jan 23, 2018 1:17 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Age, Leisure Work and Motivation
- Replies: 24
- Views: 13565
Re: Age, Leisure Work and Motivation
I haven't "finished" a conlang since I started doing this way back in my early teens, but I have had a lot of fun along the way. What is this "finished conlang" thing you're talking about? Do tell. I always thought finishing a conlang was like the proverbial irresistible force proverbially meeting ...
- Tue Jan 09, 2018 6:48 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Wat Porridgeton, of Burbridge, Lancs.
- Replies: 0
- Views: 6762
Wat Porridgeton, of Burbridge, Lancs.
Does history provide us with any more details about this singularly transported individual?
- Mon Jan 01, 2018 10:05 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Quick question about French
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3100
Quick question about French
Are there any words with /yj/, which would presumably be spelled <uille>?