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I've heard "curiosity delay" on radio traffic reports and I think that's it's only meaning so I would be understood if I called it that.

There was a Lord's Prayer thread a long while back. I think I have a saved copy of it on my other computer, which I want to check to see how much my translation has changed between then and now, even though it's the same language .... ÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷ Poswa: This is a very loose translation. Both cultural...

I would love if you or anyone else here could find that video. I wasn't able to find it using any of the obvious query strings.

Wikipedia says both forms have been around for c. 500 years... I think that, though illogical, I prefer the eat>have orientation because it puts the action verb... Which determines the meaning of the whole idiom ......last.

http://www.incatena.org/viewtopic.php?p=853030#p853030 In this thread one person describes the shift even occurring in the syllable onset, thus not restricted to coda. To the original poster: would you say that you have the clear allophone even in words like "play"? I also remember someone posting a...

Also: laryngeals are real!! Everyone, even scholars, keeps trying to make connections like *teh2r~dór (dummy example) as if the laryngeal was just a relic of vowel coloring. Sure,that's a theory,but most people think it was the other way aeound.. if anything, a laryngeal should get stronger the furt...

There's also apparently teriwan "judge", which looks to me like it means there was a suffix -wan, to which were attached roots teri- and kutru-, meaning "judge" and "witness". These looks like obvious cognates to the mainline PIE words for three and four. Im not entirely convinced though. Linking ku...

for instance, where most translations have "give us this day our daily bread", the DR has "give us this day our supersubstantial bread". When I learned what this controversy was about, I just took the word out of my prayer altogether. Though to be fair, I think I was following the lead of Láadan he...

I remember a children's Bible from when I was very young, which was a pretty thick book but not really a translation, imo, but a retelling. E.g. the future Savior was mentioned immediately after the Garden of Eden story so that it would not end on a bad note. Very similar in shape and size...probabl...

I think this is just euphony.....can't play the song but in speech it'd be /hIm@n@i/ which is CVCVCV,unlike the other 2 forms.

Well, if theyre direct cognates, it would have to involve either metathesis of /u/ or deletion of it, so either way it'd be irregular. If its just / kʷet-/ its likely to have just meant "pair(ed)" in both languages.
I'm not sure if /kʷe/>/ku/ is normal or not for Hittite.

I see a Hebrew letter in there.... I think the script is good looking, but I also think it is a script ... you really shouldn't be calling it the Romanization if it's the people's native alphabet. If this was on earth, linguists would likely just use IPA as the Romanization like they do with some la...

I th2unk it's contextual... out loud, basically 100 percent facetious... in text, I'd still say 'lol' is best understood literally so to get the prope like intelligent image.

Another idea may be would be to keep the lRnygeals as is, nd shift /a o/ to grammatical identity with them, so that , essentially, all vowels come to behave az lagnrgeals and to this merges ablaut. E.g. Greek/ apator/ "fatherless " becomes a regular pattern, with the 2nd vowel of a noun u n noun alw...

Poswa: fuffa stable, constant, invariable; always šoppa name; permanent characteristic There is also kwi "constant, stable, not variable" which looks like it could be cognate to an obsolete word for ghost, or to a name for God (but not both). The etymology I have in the dictionary doesn't line up wi...

Genitive as patient is typologically unusual,yes, as though it had evolved from a verb meaning "of, to belong" which later disappeared. Not impossible but rarer than it's opposite afaik.

Yeah but, those are fricatives. The Germanic ejectives and I believe the khoisan ones were all stops(if they existed). Germanic gamma was apparently retained as a fricative wehere b&d became stops, so it was the sole voiced fricative in some states of Dutch. F>v And s>z may have been therefore compe...

I was playing a game similar to this but more complicated, and had different modes including a "Moon" mode in which the blocks glowed and dripping slime (although I think it was meant to be lava or some other cosmic substance) blocking my path and making the already difficult game even more difficul...

{Yippie cuyay} &{ van Nuys} are 2 othe r examples,though both probably generalized from other English words.
Edit: well, I've *seen* it spelled{ cuyay},so it must have seemed tp be the most logical spelling for someone.
Edit2: the Cuyahoga river probably helped with that.

Vietnamese seems to use it to distinguish/ wi/ from /uj/..
That is, {uy } spells /wi/, because Y is a vowel. {W}Is not used.

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Can see at least 3 readings here...

I can really only answer one question, and only with a subjective opinion, but hopefully this will help at least a little bit? Question 5: what's the difference between "rock" and "pop" (or "traditional pop")? Is "rock" just old pop that Tony Bennet isn't involved in? . Pop music seems to be much fa...

If there was no linguistic contact, how to explain the apparent PS wordshape of the PIE words for star, bull, seven and maybe six? Honest question. star : Im not sure what you mean. Wiktionary reconstructs the PIE as h 1 eh 2 ster, meaning it's a derivative of a verb stem meaning "to glow, burn". S...

Next word: to intervene, interfere Poswa: napfapae "to interfere, block, hinder", literally "to put thorns in (someone's) feet". Not all intervention is negative, of course, but I already have words for "help" so I wont post those here. I dont really have a good neutral word, though, like "particip...

courtyard Tautisca: hortus < PIE *g' h or-to- , cognate with Latin hortus and English yard . Next: guest Poswa: bwifo "guest, visitor". Early etymology is "in the palm of a house", where palm came to be used metaphorically for a general locative as the original locative marker often became silent. ...