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- Wed Oct 25, 2017 8:54 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Venting thread that still excludes eddy (2)
- Replies: 2639
- Views: 311758
Re: Venting thread
At least one of my students said he hadn't even noticed because he'd been indoors in the office all week, so I guess it could be worse. I've mainly noticed because I've not been able to cycle for almost two weeks. It's not all bad, really, after writing that I have been lounging around reading my ne...
- Wed Oct 25, 2017 4:43 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Venting thread that still excludes eddy (2)
- Replies: 2639
- Views: 311758
Re: Venting thread
I'm goddamn sick of the weather too. We just had two days without rain, but I had to work. I was looking forward to having today off and going outside, then I woke up to more rain - and yet the weather forecast had said it might rain for a bit . It's fucking useless if it doesn't correctly predict t...
- Tue Oct 24, 2017 9:35 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
- Replies: 4604
- Views: 1129634
Re: Help your fluency in a nifty way
Я закончил университет в мае и, с сентября, работаю английский язык в Санкт-Петербурге. Мне нравятся фирма и мои одноработники, а есть проблема: я на мели. После налога и аренды для квартиры, я зарабатываю рублей 20т на месяц–приблизительно $350. I graduated uniiversity in May and, since September,...
- Sat Oct 21, 2017 10:53 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Venting thread that still excludes eddy (2)
- Replies: 2639
- Views: 311758
Re: Venting thread
guys can you stop having political arguments in this thread thx
- Sat Oct 21, 2017 10:45 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Phonemes which are found in <5 languages or so
- Replies: 54
- Views: 14417
Re: Phonemes which are found in <5 languages or so
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...
- Fri Oct 20, 2017 9:14 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Phonemes which are found in <5 languages or so
- Replies: 54
- Views: 14417
- Fri Oct 20, 2017 1:58 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Phonemes which are found in <5 languages or so
- Replies: 54
- Views: 14417
Re: Phonemes which are found in <5 languages or so
Always thought the swedish sound sounded like /W/, which is rare enough itself and dying out in english
- Thu Oct 19, 2017 3:39 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread
- Replies: 3108
- Views: 653595
- Thu Oct 19, 2017 1:04 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Many people apparently think there's a [g] sound in "ng" wor
- Replies: 21
- Views: 5540
Re: Many people apparently think there's a [g] sound in "ng"
Where it becomes a problem is actually for /n/ and /m/ at the end of words in English, as the Japanese coda-/n/ (ん) is underspecified for POA and actually sounds like [ɴ] or [ŋ] a lot of the time. Isn't it common to pronounce /Vɴ/ as vowels with nasal offglides, not unlike French «in un an on» or P...
- Wed Oct 18, 2017 10:35 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Many people apparently think there's a [g] sound in "ng" wor
- Replies: 21
- Views: 5540
Re: Many people apparently think there's a [g] sound in "ng"
It's transcribed into Japanese as /ng/ (or /ngu/ at the end of words :roll: ) - at least for English, but not for Chinese and Korean. It's one pronunciation "error" the Japanese make that I've never really bothered correcting in lessons, as it doesn't impact their English much, and they might even h...
- Tue Oct 17, 2017 12:32 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
- Replies: 4604
- Views: 1129634
Re: Help your fluency in a nifty way
知っている人は知っている、ということ?
The people who know know, like?
The people who know know, like?
- Sun Oct 15, 2017 8:21 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Venting thread that still excludes eddy (2)
- Replies: 2639
- Views: 311758
Re: Venting thread
Rhetorical question: Why do people (usually cis straight males) have to make victims of others in order to qualify things as bad (like calling things they don't like or things of bad quality "gay" or "lame") I'm not the kind of person who refuses to reply to rhetorical questions. As a non-native sp...
- Wed Oct 11, 2017 7:22 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Aspies and peer pressure
- Replies: 14
- Views: 8644
Re: Aspies and peer pressure
"small c conservative"
- Sat Sep 30, 2017 8:01 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
- Replies: 4604
- Views: 1129634
Re: Help your fluency in a nifty way
There isn't even any such thing as "Asian food" in Asia Aber wahrscheinlich gibt es dort "westliches essen" :). But probably there's "western food" there :). まあ、そうだね。洋食っていう hah, i guess so. in japanese, "youshoku" 反対は和食。中国料理とかは、こんなシステムどこに探されるのかな the opposite is 'washoku', japanese food. i've no ide...
- Wed Sep 27, 2017 10:51 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Venting thread that still excludes eddy (2)
- Replies: 2639
- Views: 311758
Re: Venting thread
Oh i hate that... I'm not allowed ibuprofen because of a stomach thing I had in my teens (it'd probably be OK but there's no way i'm risking it), but paracetamol/acetoaminophen* is not strong enough usually :| (I've been prescribed ibuprofen a few times by doctors but they have to give me a stomach ...
- Tue Sep 26, 2017 10:51 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Venting thread that still excludes eddy (2)
- Replies: 2639
- Views: 311758
Re: Venting thread
go?????
- Wed Sep 20, 2017 12:35 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Venting thread that still excludes eddy (2)
- Replies: 2639
- Views: 311758
Re: Venting thread
Have it ready next time, like just respond with ひどーいな or something The staircase wit thing reminds me of this morning - I was woken up by a woman at my door selling stuff (at 10:something, so I probably should have been up anyway lol), and she'd already launched into her spiel for about 20 seconds b...
- Wed Sep 20, 2017 12:33 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Incorrect pronunciations you have (or have had) to unlearn
- Replies: 669
- Views: 154324
Re: Incorrect pronunciations you have (or have had) to unlea
oh god i had to look that word up (chitin) when I was reading a book because i'd never seen it before and i still ended up pronouncing it wrong...
- Mon Sep 18, 2017 11:02 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread
- Replies: 3108
- Views: 653595
Re: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread
Malayalam Also, what do people without FOOT-STRUT distinction have in such borrowed words as curry ? Do they just not talk about these things? ... well, it's a STRUT vowel, so those without a FOOT-STRUT distinction just use /ʊ/, which is their vowel for both. Don't ask it to make sense, it's been a...
- Mon Sep 18, 2017 7:47 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Venting thread that still excludes eddy (2)
- Replies: 2639
- Views: 311758
Re: Venting thread
My pharmacist has, up until tonight, been great. Tonight, however, she discovered that I did not know the word 償還払い ("reimbursement"). This prompted her to tell another pharmacist "of course, she's a foreigner so she doesn't understand Japanese," look up and write down the English words for the sym...
- Tue Sep 05, 2017 11:45 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Venting thread that still excludes eddy (2)
- Replies: 2639
- Views: 311758
Re: Venting thread
I assume anyone who's actually interested has far since grubbed up my ISP and specific location; because, after all, this is all Techie-Land now. Oh, I'm not very Techie, I wouldn't even know how to do that if I wanted. And it would be stalkerish, wouldn't it? I don't think this is the kind of foru...
- Tue Aug 22, 2017 11:17 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Happy Things Thread
- Replies: 969
- Views: 374560
Re: Happy Things Thread
I saw it - drove about four hours from where i'm staying to a tiny town in the line of totality on the border of KY/TN. Really amazing
- Thu Aug 17, 2017 8:12 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
- Replies: 4604
- Views: 1129634
Re: Help your fluency in a nifty way
よろしく〜〜〜Viktor77 wrote:On attend ton arrivée avec impatience!finlay wrote:Tomorrow I'm going to America.
We're excitedly awaiting your arrival!
i'm excitedly awaiting to arrive!!!
- Thu Aug 17, 2017 8:11 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
- Replies: 4604
- Views: 1129634
Re: Help your fluency in a nifty way
ヴィクターさんの家Vijay wrote:അമേരിക്കയിൽ എവിടാണ് finlay പോകുന്നത്? ഇങ്ങോട്ട് വരുന്നില്ലെന്ന് ഞാൻ വിശ്വസിക്കുന്നു.
[əˈmeːɾikʲejɪl ɛʋɪˈɖaːɳɯ fɪnˈleː ˈpoːwn̪n̪əd̪ɯ]? [iˈŋoːʈɯ ʋɛˈɾʊn̪n̪ɪllɛn̪n̪ɯ ɲaːn ʋɪɕʋɛsɪkʲʊn̪n̪u].
Where in America are you going? I doubt you'll be here.
Viktor's house :p
- Thu Aug 17, 2017 1:23 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Incorrect pronunciations you have (or have had) to unlearn
- Replies: 669
- Views: 154324
Re: Incorrect pronunciations you have (or have had) to unlea
I was surprised that Gestapo doesn't have /ʃ/