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both the cop and the geologist are called Viggo
that is awesome

Wait, Walmart didn't used to sell food? Huh. I assumed they sold everything, from the way people speak about them. So they just sold... what, bric-a-brac-y household items? If by "bric-a-brac-y household items" you mean clothes, home and personal electronics, gardening supplies, furniture, applianc...

are there any examples of verbs in the passive in English that are ungrammatical without their "by"-phrase? and if counting agents marked with "by" as core arguments disqualifies English passives as "true passives" or "truly intransitive", then where is an example from a language that DOES have "tru...

Tarannar wrote:Before it was popular, [English] may have been considered a conlang.

āki. ba non chot.
no. not ever.

welllll

Halkomelem (a Salish language) has articles that distinguish whether something is in sight or not, so it's not that much of a stretch to imagine pronouns that distinguish someone present from someone elsewhere

<Drydic> anyways Baloo's plane was basically the Millenium Falcon in seaplane form

yeah a lot of Eddy's questions have as their most correct answer "you're asking the wrong question", which sadly he's shown he can't understand at all

I would just like to point out (constructively, I hope!! -- I'm not trying to just hurt your feelings for nothing) that this ties in closely with things that I have also said in private about That Thing You Do A Lot ...

Sevly wrote:Digraph nie vedet ue deue sie nie?
/ˈdəɪgraβɪ njɪ ˈβɛdɛts wə zɛʊ z njɪ/
What's wrong with digraphs?

i chot! e kīp sūtstem soh ba `oyu!
nothing! wear them digraphs proudly!

you'd think one would want to map j to ь and not ъ ...
hey maybe it was a typo??

I can't really think of when christian factions "ganged together against the non-Christians" ... if anything the competition between Christian countries and between catholic and protestant colonists drove them to snatch up land faster? I actually remember in history class they taught us how the Fren...

Also, <-- Canadian. Which part of Canada? It looks like there's not so much uniformity... Vancouver. And I actually grew up here, which is somewhat rare, so I've been told a couple of times that I have an accent in my own hometown . Using my own family and Shit I've Read as a guide, features of the...

No that's a different thing and I think it's probably more widespread than Canadian Raising. It is potentially but not necessarily comorbid with CR though. EDIT: like I've always thought of it as a more "American" pronunciation but it does occur around here. I don't have "aig" myself but I remember ...

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The diphthong in "fount" is short and unraised ([aw]). Perhaps the /n/ controls the raising, while the /t/ controls length? It looks like they do. Then I'd expect a similar distribution of features in pint (and ninth ) vs. find . Is my guess correct? Also, what do you have in whilst and wild ? <-- ...

Rhyme is pretty much a modern phenomenon and maladapted to any language that is not 1. synthetic (rhymes are too easy and thus unremarkable in langs where the endings are all the same) and 2. simple-vowelled dropping out of conlang here you don't know what you're talking about. Rhyme -- specificall...

R.Rusanov wrote:Jętěrǫpĭtě utĭlĭsarě ritmǫ jętěr lęgas čě jabęt kalĭtates de vokalię, rago.
Stop using rhyme in languages that have vowel qualities, please

kik su`
lol wut

ná'oolkiłí wrote:I'll revive my thread on Txeumé soon to give a more detailed explanation

e nīkeb ya paksoh. anaka`ip i tsutsān `an bul i paksu` i chichi`tsuk hwān.
please do that. I'd like to understand what that structure is doing.

R.Rusanov wrote: (The speakers of this language are auburn eyed silver haired humanoids on a planet where the main enemy are blind cave worms, how's that for subverting expectations?)

wup ti tū.

ná'oolkiłí wrote:=tʃ=dze=s
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kāsha`ich ma i kebe`īl mushets yan?
want to give us an explanation of this?

6 through infinity: LURK MOAR for a little while, and then these things won't even have to be pointed out

yonder.

Why not? I didn't put the pirates in the equatorial strait!

Pirates control the red bit. There are a lot of pirates. My pirates and your malaria people fight over the purple bit.