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Wow, I hadn't even noticed that this had been marked for preservation. Truth be told, I'm actually a little embarassed by the sheer silly amateurishness of my German in all of my posts. But I do now recall something from my collegiate study of German (which went only a little better than my high sch...

Isn't Cornish the bastard child of Brythoneg and Germanic languages? Did Cornish used to be spoken in Devon? I have a Cornish for beginners book and tape. Well, it certainly wasn't born out of wedlock and though there may have been speakers of Cornish or some other Southwestern British language in ...

so? Well, as Mr. Burke explained, /j/ (or /y/ in some transcription systems) can behave like a vowel or a consonant, it and /w/ are sort of in between the two categories. I suppose in words like <yet> /jEt/ one could contrue it as a consonant, but the examples you listed from Verdurian have /j/ in ...

Keith? Omma yw te, sos? Dynargh dhe'n ZBB! Yth esen vy owth ankevy bos les dhys adro an yethow gwrys. Dyowl! Hwythyz yw ow gorher yn tevri! :? Dre happ my re gavas an bord-ma. Rez yw dhymm gorre ow folennow a-dro dhe Saprutum arte y'n kezroezweyth, dell hevel ... Mez pyw y'n byz-ma a'm azwonn omma?...

For a time, on another forum, I quoted myself in my signature, but it was using my real name. That was mostly for a lark, I had been wondering how long it'd be before I gave the game up, or before someone figured it out. It actaully took rather a long time, I think I switched to Thucydides or someth...

My solution is to rent, which is cheaper, less onerous, and only lacks the big-screen experience, which is itself usually negated by the truly awful audiences that swarm into modern the?ters. Sometimes small theaters (like the 19th Street The?ter back home) are exceptions on both price and noxiousne...

Sheesh, I think I'm the only person under the age of twenty five left in the world whose first instinct when he wants a piece of software is to save up and actually pay for it.

That's got to be the part that gets me most lost when looking at Irish. All of those 'little' particles bouncing around just confuse me. I can handle as many affixes jammed on to things as you like, but having so many tiny words flitting about in a sentence disorients me horribly. Sorry - I realise ...

I prefer Flaidish the most. It's somewhere between familiar and alien in wonderful way. However I do really like Old Skourene, which satisfied my anticipation handily.

I've seen <7> for the glottal stop in a number of academic publications, so I suppose Mr. Rosenfelder just happens to be at the bleeding edge of orthographic representation.

I'd pretty much been in eager waiting for Skourene, now that Mr. Rosenfelder's graced us with that, I feel contented.

the lower-case styled but upper-case sized retroflex voiceless dental stop will take a little getting used too. What? Your mother. I guess Firefox must be having display issues, because all of the retroflexes are showing up as somewhat oversized. They're shaped like lower case letters, but with upp...

I've been waiting for this for some time. I'm quite fond of the Skourenes and I've been curious about their language for a while. I've only read a little, but it seems to promise some intriguing substance. I like the natural gender with a four-way distinction. The retroflexes are displaying for me (...

alieneye wrote:

Dewrad wrote:Also known as "Dewrad comes through on his campaign promises".

I considered the promise still unfulfilled.

Seriously, will the thread go on?

When he has time.

I've often imagined that a considerable number of people on this board would have been counted as Ewemi. I would certainly not be suited to the traditional role of an Ezičimi man. The rough comparison of Ewemi to nerds (dorks, geeks, et cetera) certainly seems to fit. Modern society certainly seems ...

They Skourenes usually suggest the Greeks to me.

This is very interesting stuff Izopiru. I especially appreciate the attention paid to dialects.

His visage is, in its own way, hypnotic.

LLOYD BENTSEN

Attractive. Now that is truly weird. :? Yes. I mean I thought the bald women fetish was weird, but voluptuous semi-animals?? You've been on the Internet for more than a few days and you've never heard of furries? *sigh* Kids these days, so sheltered... http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/1671/sailor.jpg...

blackhand wrote::feverishly awaits the Sarroc grammar:

Oh dear, it looks like we'll need those flu vaccines after all.

I suppose I'm late in the compliment game, Zompist, but Meshaism is a fascinating creation.

Asexual nerds as a distinct gender! I love it.

I tend to prefer, "Zompist," or, "Mister Rosenfelder," but it takes extended direct contact for me to break down and be casual, even on a deucing message board.

Now, I wait humbly and quietly patient for the grammar of Old Skourene.

Why did this discussion come to be about Binghampton? Maknas and me are contrasting our dialects. Mine assimilates nasals before /t/ by adding a /p/, whereas his does not. Binghamton came up as a point of comparison. The town's name and the apparent preferred pronounciation of the natives, and Maka...

It's a pain to say, "Binghamton," correctly too. Um, how is it supposed to be pronounced? If I just say it, I'd say [bIN{mtn=] (no [p] or [h] there for me)... It's supposed to be pronounced about as you say it, but I try to put a /p/ in there that shouldn't be (some locals are jestingly vehement ab...