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- Fri Jan 10, 2014 2:18 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: If natlangs were conlangs...
- Replies: 120
- Views: 29887
Re: If natlangs were conlangs...
This thread was never good.
- Fri Jan 03, 2014 12:43 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Ressources on Japanese/Kana handwriting
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1803
Ressources on Japanese/Kana handwriting
So, there are a lot of ressources about how to learn kanji, but I find there are very few things about the minutiae of acquiring a good handwriting in Japanese, notably with hiragana. For instances, most ressources completely fail to mention that there are multiple ways to draw many of the hiraganas...
- Wed Jan 01, 2014 2:46 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: If natlangs were conlangs...
- Replies: 120
- Views: 29887
Re: If natlangs were conlangs...
This is turning into the Tautology Thread rather rapidly.
- Mon Dec 30, 2013 4:32 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: If natlangs were conlangs...
- Replies: 120
- Views: 29887
Re: If natlangs were conlangs...
Please stop talking about any subject which you don't know anything about. Which appears to be any subject but slavistics. Maybe.
- Sat Dec 28, 2013 5:03 am
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: A guide to small consonant inventories
- Replies: 129
- Views: 77231
Re: A guide to small consonant inventories
Sure, if you can't read.
- Fri Dec 27, 2013 4:49 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: If natlangs were conlangs...
- Replies: 120
- Views: 29887
Re: If natlangs were conlangs...
I think this kind of thread has been done before (and also should probably not be in L&L).
- Wed Dec 25, 2013 5:56 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The Contradictory Feelings Thread
- Replies: 933
- Views: 207366
Re: The Contradictory Feelings Thread
Since then I've been using 98% pure medical alcohol to brew shit. explain pls You get bored and have a stupid idea. You take 98% pure alcohol and mix it with grapefruit juice. You drink that shit. You don't remember what happened afterwards. You don't do it again. That is not "brewing", that is a r...
- Sun Dec 15, 2013 4:53 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The bad maps thread.
- Replies: 43
- Views: 55780
Re: The bad maps thread.
Copy paste the link instead of clicking on it.
- Thu Dec 12, 2013 5:39 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The Contradictory Feelings Thread
- Replies: 933
- Views: 207366
Re: The Contradictory Feelings Thread
I am not known to routinely call for the extermination of entire countries, nor I am to be held responsible for your unwarranted inferences. If you see calls for genocide at the turn of every sentence, that is a problem for your therapist. NE: also I would think me making a joke about Israeli people...
- Thu Dec 12, 2013 5:05 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The Contradictory Feelings Thread
- Replies: 933
- Views: 207366
Re: The Contradictory Feelings Thread
Ok so I am also racist because they read sentences with meanings that aren't intented because of passive-agressive persecution complex. There, happy?Astraios wrote:Not laughing at a joke about a whole country being destroyed != having no sense of humour.
- Thu Dec 12, 2013 5:04 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Linguistic Quackery Thread, take 2
- Replies: 812
- Views: 205715
Re: Linguistic Quackery Thread, take 2
It's about humans going to remote place and finding about their alien precursors who turned out to be dicks and also have been involved in shoddy business with bio-engineered life forms. I did a Thing back then where I wrote 4 paragraphs summing up the plot of a movie, and it turned out that the sum...
- Thu Dec 12, 2013 4:49 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The Contradictory Feelings Thread
- Replies: 933
- Views: 207366
Re: The Contradictory Feelings Thread
I am racist against Israeli only because they have no sense of humor.Astraios wrote:Racist.
EDIT: Like really, can't I post something entirely banal and unrelated to anything without you jumping on it and squeezing out every last measly drop of hatred you can?
- Thu Dec 12, 2013 2:50 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The Contradictory Feelings Thread
- Replies: 933
- Views: 207366
Re: The Contradictory Feelings Thread
Israeli getting blown away by the violent Wind of History.
- Thu Dec 12, 2013 1:57 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Linguistic Quackery Thread, take 2
- Replies: 812
- Views: 205715
Re: Linguistic Quackery Thread, take 2
He watched Prometheus too many times. Prometheus is about aliens using their DNA to kickstart all Earth-life as we know it, rather than just hominids (which is a premise I actually find a lot easier to believe than aliens just splicing their genetics into an existing system to create us specificall...
- Sun Dec 01, 2013 9:13 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: How to design a non-European phonology
- Replies: 622
- Views: 168543
Re: How to design a non-European phonology
Current project (temptatively named "Ananke"). 1. Absence of any phonemic POA for stops further back than velar [half mark for only one stop-POA behind velar, or for prominent allophonic stops behind velar] 2. Phonemic voicing 3. Phonemic voicing only on stops and fricatives 4. Voicing distinction o...
- Sat Nov 30, 2013 11:17 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The bad maps thread.
- Replies: 43
- Views: 55780
The bad maps thread.
This is a thread about maps that are bad, not in appearance, but in content, maps that look all professional but are actually a game of "what is wrong with this picture". Here is an example: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/15/Bubonic_plague-en.svg This map is meant to represent the p...
- Fri Nov 29, 2013 8:12 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Of French Verbs, first person singular
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1318
Re: Of French Verbs, first person singular
The first person -s came in analogy with a number of verbs where this was the result of natural sound changes, eg: facio > *fattsjo > fajts > fais nascor > *nascio > *nastsjo > najsts > nais finio > *finiscio > *finistsjo > finis This could theorically have been extented to -er verbs, but in those i...
- Thu Nov 21, 2013 1:38 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Octopuke
- Replies: 63
- Views: 17095
Re: The Official ZBB Quote Thread
If we're expected to post quotes of the calliber of your last contribution, we might as well talk about something else indeed.linguoboy wrote:People, the subject line says, "Quote Thread". I'm pretty sure the Pointless and Annoying Pedantic Debate Thread has always been in Ephemera.
- Sun Nov 10, 2013 6:24 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Wenetic Scratchpad- NP: Gods above.
- Replies: 82
- Views: 34811
Re: Wenetic Scratchpad- NP: Gods above.
bump to save thread from pruning
- Fri Nov 08, 2013 5:20 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: English as Fusion of French and Anglic
- Replies: 54
- Views: 11846
Re: English as Fusion of French and Anglic
("paraphiletic with" doesn't mean anything; a group is just "paraphiletic", or it isn't)
- Thu Nov 07, 2013 7:58 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: The Real Sound Change Game
- Replies: 52
- Views: 9867
Re: The Real Sound Change Game
Stop using // guys, use [], those are sound changes, not phoneme changes (also phonemes aren't real hth).
- Thu Nov 07, 2013 2:49 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: English as Fusion of French and Anglic
- Replies: 54
- Views: 11846
Re: English as Fusion of French and Anglic
Your use of "paraphyletic" is backward.
- Thu Oct 31, 2013 6:50 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: English as Fusion of French and Anglic
- Replies: 54
- Views: 11846
Re: English as Fusion of French and Anglic
There aren't much similarities between French and English grammar that cannot be attributed either to their common IE origin or more locally to them being SAE languages (in the later cases, those similarities will be found in other neighbouring languages like German or Spanish). The only specific si...
- Thu Oct 31, 2013 2:44 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: English as Fusion of French and Anglic
- Replies: 54
- Views: 11846
Re: English as Fusion of French and Anglic
English has no more French and Latin vocabulary than many other European languages did until they underwent massive movements of renativisation. German only looks "so much more germanic" than English because they've consciously replaced numerous greco-latin compounds with germanic calques. Borrowing...
- Wed Oct 23, 2013 7:04 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Multiple-choice question about nasal vowels in French
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2032
Re: Multiple-choice question about nasal vowels in French
I'd tend toward a mixture of b and c; nasalisation can indeed be pretty weak, but it's not normally completely absent.