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Armenian also uses a digraph in its native script for , which suggests to me that it either didn't use to have it or it lost an 'original' u like the other mentioned languages. Afaik Armenian ու was never a diphtong but modeled according to its Greek usage, just like Georgian Asomtavruli ႭჃ. Correc...

Acid Badger

Darkgamma wrote:
Fanu wrote:For me it's something like [ˈaŋsʃʷvaɪ̯s], with a heavily roundes sch or so. Weird word.
Angsschweiß
Where are YOU from then? Hmm I have an idea about them dialects

I'm from the region around Frankurt/Main. The land of Bembel and Ebbelvoi.

Acid Badger

GschCrV ? Where did you see that? Possibly you heard ɡəʃCr Not in Standard German, no, but in fast speech, I know people - including me - who have [ˈgʃpʁɔχɴ̩] for /geˈʃprɔχən/, for example. There's also the lovely A ngstschw eiß /ˈaŋst.ʃvaɪs/ [ˈaŋkʃːv̥aes] :D -- What I transcribed as [v̥] sometimes...

Acid Badger

Cathbad wrote:EDIT: and I don't think it's just ç/c that does this.

Afaik all the stops do that.(?)
I really need to learn some Turkish one day. Turkish is cool.

Acid Badger

Guitarplayer wrote:What is it with people going to Renaissance and/or Medieval fairs with LotR costumes on :O Ain't no Elves in the pre-16th century.

+1

FANU

Acid Badger

blank stare II wrote:Sexual Orientation: Homophobic
Status: Abstinent, probably celibate(not asexual)

Are you a catholic priest or so?

Acid Badger

Astraios wrote:No, Fanu. I am your father.

I'm not Luke

Acid Badger

It's so weird, but Io, you look like my father when he was younger.

Acid Badger

WeepingElf wrote:Wow, an excellent diachronic account of morphosyntactic alignment in Kartvelian, one of the coolest language families on Earth. Rock'n'roll! A million thanks!

I second that. Thank you very much for sharing it!

Acid Badger

Wardruna - Heimta Thurs

Acid Badger

German usually uses lernen "to learn" vs lehren or beibringen "to teach". The latter is literally something like "to bring by/at".

Italian has imparare or studiare and insegnare.

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spats wrote:
TaylorS wrote:I love how English uses "X-X" reduplication to mean "real X".
Best use of reduplication EVAR.

Finnish evidently does this, too.

German too, at least I hear it quite frequently among my friends.

Acid Badger

Rosso and its variations (meaning "red") are the most common Italian surnames, as far as I know. Then there's still Giuseppe Verdi ("green").

Acid Badger

The word for the rest of an apple is also One of Those Words in German, AFAIK. Yeah, there's a link to an earlier article on that from the "Knäppchen, Knäuschen und Knörzchen" article I linked to. For the end piece of bread I'm familiar with Knust, Kanten, Knöppchen . FWIW, where I was in the South...

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I think he might rather mean the disgusting ice cream that comes in liter boxes from the supermarket? Especially disgusting if it's cheap-ass "White Brands" like Ja and stuff :? I don't understand. Can you explain in more detail? Ja! is a brand of cheap food and stuff sold in German supermarkets be...

Acid Badger

In German that's a Softeis (yeah, soft-), as oppsed to normal Eis(creme).

Acid Badger

You often don't do capitalization on the internet in casual contexts, people get it wrong all the time in real life, and separated compounds can be seen everywhere today, not only the internet. It may be noted that this is essentially how German was written in the early modern period, so what goes ...

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You often don't do capitalization on the internet in casual contexts, people get it wrong all the time in real life, and separated compounds can be seen everywhere today, not only the internet. It may be noted that this is essentially how German was written in the early modern period, so what goes ...

Acid Badger

faiuwle wrote:
Monsegdara wrote:Oh and Nasals germinate
That is not a pretty mental image.

Acid Badger

The more I read about Hiirawə the more I like it.

Acid Badger

Irish orthography really isn't that bad once you know the rules - sure, it's not very intuitive for an English speaker, but it serves Irish's needs pretty well. Gaelic is pretty weird, though. Too many silent consonants. Seconded, though I am far from knowing how to read Irish. Nevertheless I think...

Acid Badger

Ingush for its phonology, its near-to-kitchen sinky grammar and the 385646 irregular forms of everything

Acid Badger

Some nice ideas how to get rid of /tɬ tɬʼ/ ?

Acid Badger

Aber, während das Indonesische praktisch ohne Grammatik lebt, hat Sanskrit zuviel davon, und hier ist es, wo wir unsere Vorteile haben, denn Deutsch wird von manchem Kenner als die Sprache angesehen, die unter den modernen Sprachen noch die grösste Ähnlichkeit mit dem Sanskrit hat. *side eyes that ...

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Guitarplayer wrote:/vɪ.ki.ˈpeː.di.a/

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