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Me three. I always have allergies, and they're worse at some times than at other times, but I don't recall them ever being that bad. My sense of smell is often shitty, though (because my nose is stuffed - but again, there are stuffed noses and then there are stuffed noses). Linguoboy, this may be a ...

Is this really the right thread for a political discussion?

Never thought about it that way, thanks! I was thinking it would make sense because, well, feet are the lowest part of your body.

jal wrote:

Vijay wrote:Who is "Yu"?

Min in se bo wo yu tok.
I don't know what you're talking about.


JAL

jal wrote:Yu must be a magic man!


JAL

Yeh!
This!

Huh, that's odd. Now I don't see anything about 37 million. It does however say "27,300,000 (2015)" for me. Maybe I misread that 27 as 37? Interesting, it sounds like you have access to a more updated edition of Ethnologue than I do. :) The estimate I cited was from 2001. :P I don't know to what ex...

"Yu" kaun hai?
Yu who is
Who is "Yu"?

AFAIK, in Romanian, the equivalent for 'on foot' is pe jos . This always confuses me because pe means 'on', but jos does NOT mean 'foot' but rather 'down' or 'low'! Apparently, pe jos can also mean something like 'on the floor' at least in some contexts. Are there any other languages that use an exp...

I suspect they've pulled that number from Ethnologue, where it says that all varieties of Minnan together are spoken by 37 million people in mainland China . Wait a minute, doesn't Ethnologue say that 25.7 million people speak Minnan in China (I presume this means mainland China)? Or is that outdat...

OK, on second thought, 80 million is probably way off. See below for brainstorming that led me to this conclusion :P But when I click on to the page about Yuehai, it says only 13 million. :? I know, but it comes with a question mark, and that estimate is from 1998, whereas the other one is from 2009...

The Cantonese spoken in Hong Kong is not identical to the prestigious standard spoken in Guangzhou. However, the Yuehai dialects including Guangzhou dialect are apparently mutually intelligible. This says there are about 80 million speakers of all the Yuehai dialects combined, including Guangzhou di...

Malayalam has /jj/ and /ʋʋ/.

Wowgrrr meow grroove kya grrowl aeiougrrr grrowrrr-grrowrrr xcrratching ke barre men.
adult.male.mountain.lion NEG know what say human cub-cub writing POSS about(?) LOC
I don't know what to say about Nort's new orthography.

Wê ad'òp d'ìum ẽe b'iuhaei càe hí mà ciujôp càing sí? INT sound same DAT word many REL INST LANG-cat mountain DIR [wɛ̤ ʔɐɗɔ̀p ɗɨ̀m ʔɛ̰ɛ ɓɨˈhǣi cæ̀ hí mɑ̀ cɨˈɟɔ̤p cɑ̀iŋ sí] Are many words homophones in mountain lion? Grrm, Wowgrrr meow grroove. "Grrowrrr" grrr "grrr." Rrekin bat grrowl oogrry makrra...

Grrowrrr hai, wowgrrr hai, grrmph hai, xab grrowrrr. Rrekin wowgrrr grrr grrmph meow grrowka grrowrrr. mountain.lion.cub is adult.male.mountain.lion is adult.female.mountain.lion is all mountain.lion but adult.male.mountain.lion CONJ adult.female.mountain.lion NEG small mountain.lion There are moun...

Grrowrrr.
Yes.

Grrowrrr grrowrrr grrowrrr!
The mountain lion cub is a good mountain lion!

Grrowrrr! Grrowrrr grrek grrowrrr grrarrr.
yes mountain.lion live mountain.lion home
Yes! Mountain lions live in the Americas.

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Montan layan in fit de bikton (o olda wan ton, fo mata). Dem u denja bis. Mountain lions don't belong in cities (or any settlement for that matter). They are dangerous animals. JAL Grrowrrr meow grrek xirrygrrarrr, rro aeiougrrr meow grrek grrowrrr grrarrr? mountain.lion NEG live city-cave or human...

Kabhi kabhi grrowrrr bi grrek xirrygrrarrrr.
sometimes sometimes mountain.lion also/two live city-cave
Sometimes, mountain lions live in cities, too.

I just say [θɛjŋk].

No.

A conversation at work today reminded me that the euphemistic term for a corpse in Malayalam is the English phrase dead body . The other term for a corpse is the Sanskrit loanword [ɕəˈʋəm], which nowadays is apparently considered crude. So instead of asking "[ɕəˈʋəm en̪d̪iˈjeː]?" 'where is the corps...

I think something similar might be true of Malayalam, too, but I should probably test the 'not' part at least on my dad, and I need different sentences because I'll be damned if I have any clue how to talk about conlanging in Malayalam. :P Maybe something more like "in the field, the landlord doesn'...