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masako wrote:I didn't do it in secret.

It mos minu di daf
It must've been we were stupid.


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Dis apn wen yu mek ocop.
That happens when you are doing things secretly.


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Dis nahf go no afek: dem reptayl bos neba co op imsef, kos dem a smah pas olda minu.
That would be of no use: the reptile overlords don't expose themselves, as they are smarter than any of us.


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Tropylium wrote:A lot of the time this doesn't really work though. Are commonalities between groups like Germanic and Balto-Slavic shared archaisms, late areal connections, or signs of a real genetic subgroup?

Or signs of a substrate language?


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A wo kayn a pam yu won tok bo dem?
What kind of trees you want to talk about?


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Soap wrote:If "disingenious" is an acceptable word

Or, I made a typo.


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Two in a row from a YouTube vid: "disingenious" (pronounced the second part as "genius") and "verbatim" (stressed on the first syllable, like Dutch (or, like I think the Dutch is pronounced, I'm not sure anymore)).


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Nortaneous wrote:bark bork woof bark barf, bark boof bonk woof bark bork honk hork illuminati wooga barf
animals aren't even real, they're holograms projected by the space lizards to keep us down

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Gut as. Fo-yu ges a gut sem fo-mi wan.
Good question. Your guess is as good as mine.


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masako wrote:I doubt a lion (of any kind) can pronounce (or produce) a consonant cluster.

O, fo ray, dem plosif.
Or a plosive, for that matter.


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masako wrote:Do you at least have a pronunciation guide?

It a soso "rol rol rol rol" olda taym.
It's just "growl growl growl growl" all the time.


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Ye. An im sim nahf no grama. It a soso rol-dem.
Yeah. And it doesn't seem to have grammar. It's just growls.


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linguoboy wrote:before I crack it over your head.

It should be "on" your head. "Over my head" there's just thin air.


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Ray, ray, no atol mi min fi set fiya pon Vijay o ol im tek Montan Layan langwic!
Of course, I didn't mean at all to scare Vijay or stop him using the Mountain Lion language!


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Ye. Mi in min fi yu kot op, oba dis montan layan tok a ridikyalas.
Yeah. No offense, but this mountain lion language is ridiculous.


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Travis B. wrote:I still can't take Mountain Lion seriously.

Mi stan ge yu bo dis.
I agree with you about this.


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Montan layan u daf bis, dem in me ray. Dem in me tok sef! Dem soso rol.
Mountain lions are dumb animals, they can't write. They can't even talk! They only growl.


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But doesn't this lead to a situation where changing the subject from one clause to another is exactly what you do? Yes, but since that subject is actually an object (in the matrix clause) that seemingly doesn't matter that much. Note I was just brainstorming before, it's not a set theory :). I also...

but apparently no good explanations as to why this should be so." Topicality? Subjects are often topics, and though it would make sense to expand on that topic by relativization, it would make less sense (and more difficult for the mind to process) to try to kinda shift the topic mid-sentence and i...

masako wrote:But which ocean?

Olda si a ful a fis.
All sees are filled with fish.


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Dē Graut Bʉr wrote:A cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills.

Fis.
Fish.


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linguoboy wrote:She taught us [ˈxʌu̯daː] and we adapted this to American English phonetics so as not to sound too pretentious.
(I don't know why I feel the need to defend the poor woman against aspersions 25 years after the fact, but there you go.)

Not too pretentious, no :).


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We're not talking about how I pronounce "Gouda" in Dutch but how I pronounce it in English. Well, you said "[she] taught us all to say /ˈxaudə/." I assumed she taught you the right pronunciation. But I now understand she taught you some basterdized version to match American English pronunciation :)...

There was a Dutch-American girl in our programme who taught us all to say /ˈxaudə/. Then she either taught you wrong or you misremembered. It's actually /ˈxɑuda/ or /ˈxʌuda/ :). Though depending on her accent, it might've come across as /ˈxɐuda/ (but the final vowel is /a/, definitely not /ə/). JAL

Nevertheless, I kinda liked that response, gave some insights into British weirdness :)


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