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The butt-hating Jamaican evangelical is pretty hilarious, actually. I think we're about due for some Japanese Weird, so here it is: RoboGeisha . And be warned, it is no ordinary Weird, nor even ordinary Japanese Weird. (... and that Red House commercial is freaking classic.) I've encountered a lot ...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v193/eddy_the_great/cosmic_obama.jpg I honestly don't know what to make of this one. Presumably it came from some kind of New Age or mystical artist aiming to portray Obama as some sort of cosmic force leading us to a transcendent future. Maybe. Reminds me of the a...

shouldn't the woman have her tits hanging out

3-D holographic display is almost here! You know, I've seen probably a half-dozen different potential 3D display technologies discussed over the last couple of years. Most of them seem useful, all of them seem cool, but to me one has always stood out among the rest as the most, eh, "authentic". Tha...

Surgery by light of cell phones. I've navigated a mile into drainage systems by cellphone light. Walked all the way through (~3 miles) w/ a regular flashlight. While it's true that cellphones are increasingly finding use as lighting devices (as well as, interestingly, replacing the lighter-sway at ...

So Haleza Grise wrote:

ghur wrote:Did you even read the article? Of course it's not a coincidence.

Geez, simmer down.

Well, he has a point.

STOAT

I remember when Jackie Chan announced he was getting married at least two women attempted to commit suicide, one succeeding. Well, I don't remember it--it was before I was born, but I remember reading it several times in I Am Jackie Chan . So I guess what I'm trying to say is that the key is to be a...

Salmoneus wrote:Yes, I know. Although I think laminal refers to any sound where the articulator is the blade of the tongue, rather than the tip - no matter how far back from the tip it may be.

Quite right--poor wording on my part.

Salmoneus wrote:IMI, its completely unapical. Tip of the tongue is behind the bottom gums. Except in /tS/, when it starts apical and moves laminal, but nnever as laminal as by itself.

The apex is the tip of the tongue, and the lamina the bit right behind it, to clear up any confusion.

(ai) is always /?/ and (au) is always /o/. ... ... Flaid /fl?d/ rhymes with 'plaid', not 'played'. Well, in that case, it's Mark's fault for choosing such a silly example word. I'd never heard it used once in my life. As one who, like Mark, survived the 70s (the period when the flaids were created)...

Ok, the program is semi-done. So far, it'll convert any Elkar?l text that requires only one face. I haven't implemented multi-face support yet (sounds fancy) because I have to leave soon; it won't really be very hard. The reverse transliterator should be easy too. So here it is: http://cgi-bin.spac...

pharazon wrote:

Dudicon wrote:Voicing, implosives, and fricatives[/b] (shown on tek)

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Voicing: (l):-(l]
Implosive: (ll):-(ll]
Fricative: ~():-(]~

Shouldn't that last character be > rather than ]?

Whoops, thanks for pointing that out.

Suggestion: Insert a spacing symbol because it?s hard to tell where one word begins and the other ends. I know there are some languages (Amharic?) that use : to space words, and :: to space sentences. Obviously you can?t use :, but you need something else. Maybe . to space words (more clearly, spac...

I had always pronounced "Aidan" as /aid{n/, until I learned it was a real name and turned off my linguistic receptors when reading it.

And it seems obvious to me that Mark used "plaid" as the example word because the transcription of the /{/ sound is the same as in "Flaid."

Thanks, everyone, for the enthusiastic responses!

zompist wrote:Great job, Dudicon. Nice schmematization of the nasals, too. Or should I say:

(({:l-)|( {l(:-(|<

{|(:-(|(88 (l(:-()) (l(:-|)) <{-:->|(

Probably awful Elkar?l, but I think it should be at least understandable.

<7> is pronounced as a glottal stop everywhere, and the word "Flaid" is pronounced /fl{d/, as in "plaid."

Well, I've completed the Elkar?l ASCII transcription scheme, and I have to say it turned out to be harder than it looked. I've tried to stay as true as possible to the graphical nature of Elkar?l's writing system, but in a few places I've had to work with things a bit to get them to come out right. ...

DarkFantasy wrote:Dudicon, how's the Elkari emoticons coming?

Going well--I've got all the phonetic bits done and am starting on the prefixes and suffixes.

DarkFantasy wrote:I would like somebody to do it If nobody else wants to, I wouldn't mind.

I'm actually working on it right now, and making good progress!

Rory wrote:Am I the only person who realised Mark was joking?

Looks like DF was the only person who didn't, though even that's questionable. Sorry, Rory, you're not special.

zompist wrote:():o(|.)E - Representing Elkar?l using emoticons

You know, that actually strikes me as quite a good idea.

I for one like the use of colons to indicate long vowels, for whatever reason, especially in the case of Wede:i. I'd explain further, except that I don't think I could.

The premise is a simple love story between two school girls So we'll get to see the conservatism of Verduria in action as the main conflict. I wrote a fanfic set in Verduria once, but everyone said it was socialist propaganda. Eh? Lesbian relationships in Verduria are quite common, and perfectly so...

..fridged... I'm not sure if that's a misspelling of "frigid" or just a weird derivative of "fridge," but either way it strikes me as dang funny for some reason. :D :D Derivation from "fridge". I'm too lazy to write "refridgerated". Of course, now I have to write this explanation, so it kinda defea...