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'Bout time I updated the Frislandian to reflect the changes that have takes place since [color=#00BF0]1. Absence of any phonemic POA for stops further back than velar - 1[/color] 2. Phonemic voicing - 1 3. Two and only two parallel series of phonemes at each POA at which at least one stop is present...

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ˈd̪ʲɛ.gɔ kɾuˑl̪ wrote:Also, is there a pronunciation of afraid as /əˈfrɛd/? I was taught that at school but I found it nowhere else in the world.

Not anywhere I'm familiar with, with the possible exception of parts of Scotland.

θ̪ *snorts with stifled laughter* But seriously yeah Phoible is fairly useless in several respects: another problem I find is how it sticks to the traditional IPA chart so rigidly that it leaves things like ejectives, aspirated consonants and affricaes out of the main table in a separate list which...

There was some interdental consonant transcribed as h̪͆ (or was it x̪͆?) in some now extinct (?) language, but I can't remember which. Does anyone recollect this? There's the voiceless bi dental consonant /h̪͆/, which is transcribed /x̪͆/ in the context of the only language it is known to exist in:...

and another with the Chinese surname "Xie", which I pronounced /ʒi:/ To be fair, that's a lot closer than the head porter managed at my matriculation with the surnames "Looi" (Mandarin "Lei") and "Xia", which she pronounced [luaɪ] and [zaɪə]. One would have thought that after probably decades now o...

Why isn't anyone calling out Jordan Peterson on his presupposition that premodern societies were more peaceful or stable than ours? Because no-one knows Jordan Peterson, nobody cares about Jordan Peterson and we have bigger problems in the world right now? What you tell of him makes him look like a...

2. Layout It looks like you're starting to get the hang of the phonetic chart. However, /p/ and /b/ are better categorized as plosives, rather than specifically as labials. They are labials, but they're labial plosives, and usually grouped with the other plosives. Similarly, I understand it's custo...

My first hearing of the word "gay" was in the negative sense, I remember one particular instance when I was small when someone who used to bully me a lot told me my dad was gay and I ran from the playgroud crying, it was only later I learned the "normal" meaning.

There's also the additional issue of some languages being classified as being f one word-order type when in fact the situation is much more complicated, for instance Japanese is often referred to as an SOV language when in fact the driving factor with regards to word order is its topic-comment stru...

Basically, most languages in general have 1 (that is, no) case, with SVO languages making up the majority of those, and SOV languages did make up the bulk of multi-case languages (then again, considering SOV and SVO languages combined constitute like 90% of world languages...). However, these were ...

Yeah, that's what happens when you teach the writing system without discussing phonetics. See also "English has five vowels" and other similar issues. Also there are dialects which do pronounce a [g] in those words, generally concentrated around Lancashire, Cheshire and Merseyside (my mother uses th...

So right now I'm pretty infuriated by IT(...) but for some reason on my laptop I had made a typo That's weird that your mailing software didn't catch that. I'm not an expert of mailing protocols, but I tried an equivalent thing using Gmail as the client and it complained instantly at not being able...

a half-American, half-British hybrid. We call this "mid-atlantic" Another factor is that a lot of what makes an accent noticeable simply disappears when we sing. The accent's particular rhythm and intonation patterns disappear behind the melody; the accent's "timbre" and "vocal setting" are also le...

So right now I'm pretty infuriated by IT(...) but for some reason on my laptop I had made a typo You are infuriated by IT for making a typo yourself ? And you didn't notice, for weeks, that you didn't receive any e-mail from the university, after not testing whether the rerouting worked in the firs...

So right now I'm pretty infuriated by IT. Basically for university I had decided to route my university email through my own email client (Outlook/Windows Mail), but for some reason on my laptop I had made a typo for the outgoing mail server (I wrote "stmp" rather than "smtp"). But I've only gone to...

finlay wrote:"small c conservative"

Well I mean you could put it that way but in other respects I don't fit even into that kind of conservatism, like I believe that the full equality of women, ethnic minorities, disabled people, LGBTQ+ people etc. in society still has not been acheived for instance.

Huh. Never encountered the idea of "underage" in an alcohol context, other than regarding the US. The legal drinking age in the UK, incidentally, is 5, other than for medical or emergency purposes.* *18 is the minimum alcohol purchasing age; 16 is the minimum alcohol drinking age with a meal in lic...

Firstly, sort out your bracket usage with regards to the phonology: remember // for phonemes, [] for phonetics (also a chart would be nice). Also your syllabificatin seems highly unusual, you're putting the syllable breaks (generally denoted by a [.] by the way) after all word-internal consonants, e...

I generally didn't experience much pressure to begin with though because people generally kind of accepted me as I am and didn't usually engage in that sort of thing bar one or two occasions. Pity; although people tut-tut about youth drinking, it's actually the best time for it - it becomes less an...

I think the velar laterals of some languages of the Chimbu-Wahgi group might count, though given that some of those haven't got that much documentation (indeed I'm not sure how many re that well-known other than Melpa), so that may push the total up to above five. In the same area there's also Archi...

Well I have a slightly different experience since I was definitely immune to peer pressure till sometime round 16, when I went into 6th form and actually started socialising with my peers, where I did experience the odd bit of pressure with regards to one or two events and the consumption of alcohol...

Vijay wrote:He already said it was Atlantic-Congo.

Yeah but I was going for specifically the "Atlantic" group within that.

Atlantic? And if so Senegambian?

"Let the Lion Roar!" What, is this A Song Of Ice and Fire ? Is Corbyn Stannis? The lion is the symbol of Britain (and of England specifically). The English football team, for instance, has a crest of three lions. Our Olympic and Paralympic teams ("Team GB") have as logos lions in the colours of the...

We all wore our college gowns (black with blue facings) over our suits/dresses (I now love British academic dress with all my heart). The gowns are great. Unfortunately, we're then never allowed to wear them in any situation every again. This may be a big reason why people become professional acade...