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- Sat Dec 28, 2013 9:10 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The Official ZBB Quote Thread
- Replies: 2878
- Views: 651205
Re: The Official ZBB Quote Thread
Yes. Over 9000.
- Fri Dec 27, 2013 6:33 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: If natlangs were conlangs...
- Replies: 120
- Views: 30275
Re: If natlangs were conlangs...
Not to mention getting the diachronics wrong sometimes.
- Fri Dec 27, 2013 6:30 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Compose key for Windows
- Replies: 16
- Views: 8165
Re: Compose key for Windows
It can't handle more than dead_key + key > character.Aino Meilani wrote:It's more tedious to set up and modify, and I'm not sure it can handle cases more complicated than dead key + key → character. Or can it? Can it do the equivalent of compose + six keys → tens of characters (I actually use this!)?
- Fri Dec 27, 2013 2:01 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The Official ZBB Quote Thread
- Replies: 2878
- Views: 651205
Re: The Official ZBB Quote Thread
what drugs did they have to put you on to make you think Nort is centrist?
- Thu Dec 26, 2013 11:53 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The Official ZBB Quote Thread
- Replies: 2878
- Views: 651205
Re: The Official ZBB Quote Thread
Via a quite torturous route, but yes, in the beginning.
- Thu Dec 26, 2013 5:48 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The Official ZBB Quote Thread
- Replies: 2878
- Views: 651205
Re: The Official ZBB Quote Thread
Eddy, do you really believe that CUM Quesa would watch something like that, and, if he did, would suddenly be turned into an anti-Semite? Do you believe that white supremacism is that persuasive? Not everyone shares my inhibitions toward watching right wing media, and the ZBB (and the world more ge...
- Thu Dec 26, 2013 4:59 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: The Miniature Conlangs Thread
- Replies: 55
- Views: 15739
Re: The Miniature Conlangs Thread
I'm thinking of making a language where the case of the arguments is marked on the noun, and tense-aspect information is marked on the arguments. I might even try and make it triconsonantal. If you do, please don't have root-internal vowel alternations distinguish person or number entirely by thems...
- Thu Dec 26, 2013 2:10 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The Official ZBB Quote Thread
- Replies: 2878
- Views: 651205
- Wed Dec 25, 2013 7:49 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: A guide to small consonant inventories
- Replies: 129
- Views: 79093
Re: A guide to small consonant inventories
I've been looking up allophony for these. Many of these have allophony like [m] ~ or [l] ~ [r] which means it'll be a bit misleading to assert that the language "lacks /m/" or "lacks /r/". Doesn't Hawaiian have alveolar~velar variation, at least in the stops? Dialectally. The shift t > k didn't qui...
- Tue Dec 24, 2013 3:19 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The Official ZBB Quote Thread
- Replies: 2878
- Views: 651205
Re: The Official ZBB Quote Thread
<Cev> wait
<Cev> I got a B in sociology?
<Cev> That class I just stopped going to halfway through the semester?
<Cev> huh
<Cev> Must've done awesome on the first test I guess
- Tue Dec 24, 2013 2:44 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: It's Irish, Jim, but not as we know it!
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4581
Re: It's Irish, Jim, but not as we know it!
Not even joy at them dying? That's some really bad writing 
- Tue Dec 24, 2013 2:37 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The Innovative Usage Thread
- Replies: 2452
- Views: 425784
Re: The Innovative Usage Thread
When I was a kid I used to use an weird form for the reflexive, "your-own-self", as in, "Go get your own self!" I've heard that before. I don't believe I've ever heard it in the emphatic form before, though. 'He his own self was the sole winner of the contest' nah "Go get your own _____!" Types of ...
- Mon Dec 23, 2013 6:06 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Linguistic Quackery Thread, take 2
- Replies: 812
- Views: 208831
Re: Linguistic Quackery Thread, take 2
I have a feeling that that reason is animosity towards NYC/the Yankees.Civil War Bugle wrote:Also, everyone in my area except me seemed like a Red Sox fan for some reason, even though we didn't live in New England.
- Mon Dec 23, 2013 11:02 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Linguistic Quackery Thread, take 2
- Replies: 812
- Views: 208831
Re: Linguistic Quackery Thread, take 2
My father is from Michigan, and thus is a Detroit Lions supporter. I think this contributed to my zero interest in American sports.
- Sun Dec 22, 2013 6:47 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Linguistic Quackery Thread, take 2
- Replies: 812
- Views: 208831
Re: Linguistic Quackery Thread, take 2
If you're going to change the term, use pigskin.
- Sun Dec 22, 2013 12:11 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: ZBB Census 2013
- Replies: 221
- Views: 58964
Re: ZBB Census 2013
And I've been on dozens where any off-topic comment brings a lecture from a mod and frequently some form of black mark.
- Sun Dec 22, 2013 11:44 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: ZBB Census 2013
- Replies: 221
- Views: 58964
Re: ZBB Census 2013
It's not, we just have far less of any sort of taboos against it. Despite some efforts for them *stink eye*
- Sun Dec 22, 2013 7:19 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Sound Change Quickie Thread
- Replies: 2827
- Views: 630081
Re: Sound Change Quickie Thread
It could shift. But it doesn't hafta shift.Boehijt wrote:If a language would have ʃ as its only sibilant fricative, would it shift to s? Or would it stay ʃ?
- Sun Dec 22, 2013 12:29 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Examples of truly unique conlang features?
- Replies: 57
- Views: 15592
Re: Examples of truly unique conlang features?
What I think is a unique orthographic feature is found in the writing system of the Kohol Empire, where vowel distinctions are shown by changing the colour in which the symbols are written (e.g. a word ka and a word ke would be written with the same symbol, but with the colour red in one instance a...
- Sat Dec 21, 2013 3:47 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: English /tr dr/ affrication
- Replies: 28
- Views: 8783
Re: English /tr dr/ affrication
...anyone can "choose" to not affricate them. And what variety of rhotic you have probably doesn't have a whole lot of bearing on the matter.
- Sat Dec 21, 2013 12:38 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The North Caucasic Thread
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3608
Re: The North Caucasic Thread
Yay it worked! :3
- Fri Dec 20, 2013 11:08 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The North Caucasic Thread
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3608
Re: The North Caucasic Thread
The website says the file upload was interrupted :'(Nesescosac wrote:In addition there's this paper on long-distance agreement and topic in Tsez.
- Fri Dec 20, 2013 9:05 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Are palatals coronal or dorsal?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5159
Re: Are palatals coronal or dorsal?
Going back to /w/, [ u], [ɣw] and [gw] are traditionally analyzed as the same phoneme in Spanish too, /u/, with the same allophone distribution you find in /i/ [ i]~[j]~[dʒ] (or [ i]~[ʝ]~[ɟʝ]). English is having a hand in phonologizing a /gw/ vs. /u/ distinction though: pronouncing borrowings such ...
- Thu Dec 19, 2013 12:23 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Phonemic /əɪ/ in Inland North outside of /t d/-flapping?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2865
Re: Phonemic /əɪ/ in Inland North outside of /t d/-flapping?
[læʊs] vs [læ.oʊs]
- Thu Dec 19, 2013 11:17 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The Contradictory Feelings Thread
- Replies: 933
- Views: 211506
Re: The Contradictory Feelings Thread
Could be burst cappilaries too, from lack of sleep. I should note that this isn't something to worry about very much.