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by finlay
Wed Oct 25, 2017 8:54 am
Forum: None of the above
Topic: Venting thread that still excludes eddy (2)
Replies: 2639
Views: 301778

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...
by finlay
Wed Oct 25, 2017 4:43 am
Forum: None of the above
Topic: Venting thread that still excludes eddy (2)
Replies: 2639
Views: 301778

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...
by finlay
Tue Oct 24, 2017 9:35 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
Replies: 4604
Views: 1116630

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,...
by finlay
Sat Oct 21, 2017 10:53 am
Forum: None of the above
Topic: Venting thread that still excludes eddy (2)
Replies: 2639
Views: 301778

Re: Venting thread

guys can you stop having political arguments in this thread thx
by finlay
Sat Oct 21, 2017 10:45 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Phonemes which are found in <5 languages or so
Replies: 54
Views: 14240

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...
by finlay
Fri Oct 20, 2017 1:58 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Phonemes which are found in <5 languages or so
Replies: 54
Views: 14240

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
by finlay
Thu Oct 19, 2017 3:39 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread
Replies: 3108
Views: 640373

Re: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread

-10°
by finlay
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: 5347

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...
by finlay
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: 5347

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...
by finlay
Tue Oct 17, 2017 12:32 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
Replies: 4604
Views: 1116630

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?
by finlay
Sun Oct 15, 2017 8:21 am
Forum: None of the above
Topic: Venting thread that still excludes eddy (2)
Replies: 2639
Views: 301778

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...
by finlay
Wed Oct 11, 2017 7:22 am
Forum: None of the above
Topic: Aspies and peer pressure
Replies: 14
Views: 8095

Re: Aspies and peer pressure

"small c conservative"
by finlay
Sat Sep 30, 2017 8:01 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
Replies: 4604
Views: 1116630

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...
by finlay
Wed Sep 27, 2017 10:51 pm
Forum: None of the above
Topic: Venting thread that still excludes eddy (2)
Replies: 2639
Views: 301778

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 ...
by finlay
Tue Sep 26, 2017 10:51 pm
Forum: None of the above
Topic: Venting thread that still excludes eddy (2)
Replies: 2639
Views: 301778

Re: Venting thread

go?????
by finlay
Wed Sep 20, 2017 12:35 am
Forum: None of the above
Topic: Venting thread that still excludes eddy (2)
Replies: 2639
Views: 301778

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...
by finlay
Wed Sep 20, 2017 12:33 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Incorrect pronunciations you have (or have had) to unlearn
Replies: 669
Views: 149823

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...
by finlay
Mon Sep 18, 2017 11:02 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread
Replies: 3108
Views: 640373

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...
by finlay
Mon Sep 18, 2017 7:47 am
Forum: None of the above
Topic: Venting thread that still excludes eddy (2)
Replies: 2639
Views: 301778

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...
by finlay
Tue Sep 05, 2017 11:45 am
Forum: None of the above
Topic: Venting thread that still excludes eddy (2)
Replies: 2639
Views: 301778

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...
by finlay
Tue Aug 22, 2017 11:17 pm
Forum: None of the above
Topic: Happy Things Thread
Replies: 969
Views: 370490

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
by finlay
Thu Aug 17, 2017 8:12 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
Replies: 4604
Views: 1116630

Re: Help your fluency in a nifty way

Viktor77 wrote:
finlay wrote:Tomorrow I'm going to America.
On attend ton arrivée avec impatience!

We're excitedly awaiting your arrival!
よろしく〜〜〜
i'm excitedly awaiting to arrive!!!
by finlay
Thu Aug 17, 2017 8:11 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
Replies: 4604
Views: 1116630

Re: Help your fluency in a nifty way

Vijay wrote:അമേരിക്കയിൽ എവിടാണ് finlay പോകുന്നത്? ഇങ്ങോട്ട് വരുന്നില്ലെന്ന് ഞാൻ വിശ്വസിക്കുന്നു. :P
[əˈmeːɾikʲejɪl ɛʋɪˈɖaːɳɯ fɪnˈleː ˈpoːwn̪n̪əd̪ɯ]? [iˈŋoːʈɯ ʋɛˈɾʊn̪n̪ɪllɛn̪n̪ɯ ɲaːn ʋɪɕʋɛsɪkʲʊn̪n̪u].
Where in America are you going? I doubt you'll be here. :P
ヴィクターさんの家
Viktor's house :p
by finlay
Thu Aug 17, 2017 1:23 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Incorrect pronunciations you have (or have had) to unlearn
Replies: 669
Views: 149823

Re: Incorrect pronunciations you have (or have had) to unlea

I was surprised that Gestapo doesn't have /ʃ/