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Stop asking that. People keep answering you. Start listening. Nobody said there's something wrong with wanting to fit in. Everybody keeps telling you that YOUR WAY of trying to fit in is stupid and won't work. But you lack the capacity for metacognition. You cannot examine your own ideas. And so you...

no I don't think I ever skope with vlad

>:| Yes and I've been told that MY accent is markedly "Canadian" even though I never noticed anything about it until I started to listen more carefully to the speech of my friends from Places. One of the reasons I'm frustrated with your whole accent complex is that it seems to have started with a co...

jwt wrote: OTTER

TWIN OTTER

All things Salish are awesome.

But your thesis ... what *could* anyone say from just the abstract except "please show the actual document" ?

GreenBowTie wrote:Here's my flag

:D

Echobeats wrote:Let's not forget emotive conjugation

"Have you noticed that their stuff is 'shit' and your shit is 'stuff'?" - George Carlin

Well, that at least shows you're inconsistent as well. Not as much as I am, but definitely still inconsistent. (Unless it has something to do with /d/ specifically for you?) I don't think it does. Spider is the only raised-before-/d/ I can think of. I *do* have raising in places with [4] where that...

The "classical" definition of Canadian Raising is that /aɪ/ becomes /əɪ/ before unvoiced consonants (and in some dialects, /aʊ/ > /əʊ/ as well). But the more I've thought about this, the more I've realized that my own dialect, as well as anecdotally many others, have a lot of examples that don't fo...

Also after a week we are now sure that among the interesting features of the language is a four way contrast in basic stops voiced, unvoiced, aspirated and glottalized - it also has a system of consonant mutations and utilizes this four way contrast for grammatical purposes. It also has singular, d...

In Japanese, many things that would be prepositional in English ("The cat under the table ) is a relational noun phrase (" Teeburu no shita ni neko" or more literally "The table's bottom in/at cat".) The phrase ending in ni can't modify the noun directly. You'd say teeburu no shita no neko or teebu...

ohhhhhh i see whut u did thar

why do you have two right arms

Torco wrote:I realized recently, this thing I do

I use them quite often, topic-final sentences.

So

kind of like Yoda, you talk.

Skomakar'n do you have any photos where you're more than a foot from the camera? This isn't Livejournal.

Catscratch wrote:

If you're gonna do this, I'd recommend putting the sword in front of the cross instead of behind it. And maybe vertical.

phoenix wrote: It kinda did the opposite. Although I now know why we have hitobito but not **tabidabi.

Isn't it something like ... you never get rendaku after a syllable with a voiced stop?

You're forgetting that written language is very conservative. You might be able to read what he wrote, but could you share a discussion? Yeah. Definitely. At most you'd have to ask him to explain a couple of regional figures of speech but it's not like people in Twain's time were using conjugations...

murtabak wrote:True enough, and I'm not claiming to be an expert here. Lexical change obv depends on a 2nd source...

Really?

Radius Solis wrote:What's weak or illogical about doing something about those who repeatedly insist on thrusting incendiary arguments into other people's barely-related threads?

Really, Radius? Do we need sarcasm tags for rillz? I mean I even went so far as to use the word 'sheeple'.

Ad hominem! Ad hominem!

Octaviano's theory looks better by the minute.


EDIT: You know what might be cool? Delete this thread back to WeepingElf's first post, and let's talk about that, without Octaviano.

Yeah, GoatMan ... after Octaviano has shown us so much data and proof, after he's presented a case that would convince any reasonable person ... after he's replied so coherently and respectfully to everyone's questions, you want to BAN HIM because his theory shakes your narrow little world view? Maa...

HOW mean do I have to be for you to be relieved of the burden of proof completely ? What name do I have to call you to excuse you from having to show the correspondences everyone's after? We could make a team! You peruse your dictionaries, claim "discovery" every time you find one or two chance rese...

Octaviano: stop choosing to respond to the personal content of every thread. There is one issue you have dodged for twenty-two pages spread over three threads. Time to lay down THE proof that everyone has told you they need to be convinced. Nothing in your character will convince anyone. That is not...

Bumping this cause I'm linking to it from elsewhere. Also huge thanks to TheGoatMan for putting this together.