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Had a dream about a forum town. People sat on their porches just silently staring at each other under a hot sun. Occasionally, a family would huddle together, an elder would right something down, and send their kid to go post the note on this huge wall on one side of town. The other families would ...

I live in the US, more specifically the lower Midwestern state of Missouri and speak what linguists apparently call the south midland dialect. Although I have generally moved away from that and toward more standard General American features. I really don't know what accents I could do well. I think ...

tour [tʰor]
poor [pʰor]
cure [kʲʰr=]
fury [fʲr=.ri]

Flower [flauw@r]
Flour [flauw@r]
Flier [flaiy@r]
Flayer [fleiy@r]
Flair [fler]
Floor [flor]
Flora [flor@]

Whoa, someone who still uses Netscape Navigator? You must be some kind of living fossil, like those plesiosaurs that supposedly live in Loch Ness or something.

Hubris Incalculable wrote:More important than the problem with tthat image is this: WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU STILL USING IE?

Indeed, I can't remember the last time I used it, except when I accidentally clicked on the icon a few months ago.

You spelled the name of the language wrong, for starters. The name only has one "e".

sucaeyl wrote:How do I pronounce epiglottals?

My question as well. I have never been able to figure those out.

Fucking Manx exhibits dialectal variation, and Man is only like 200 square miles in area. Whoa really? Even putting aside the present paucity of speakers, it barely even has room for people to isolate themselves all that much. It could hardly take more than hour to drive from one end of the island ...

The Icelandic language is a truly baffling concept to me: in the eleven centuries of the seperation of Icelandic from the rest of Scandinavia (even despite the contact by ship), and even with such a large area and extremely large impassable areas, Icelandic has failed to produce a considerable dial...

@Linguoboy: Somehow despite my monolingualism, I can't help but feel like that looks like an odd form of German.

Protolanguages are no simpler than any other kind of language. The term simply refers to languages which have given rise to language families. The languages which spawned those families had all the functionality and complexity of modern languages. You need only look at Proto-Indo-European to see tha...

@Rainlander: From what language is it translated?

Aiďos wrote:Not even alien, I can pronounce them with a little effort, but they sound almost exactly like apical velars.

Doesn't that hurt the membrane under your tongue? I certainly can't turn my tongue that far back because the membrane won't let it bend that far.

What kind of novel? What was it called?

Grammar of Japanese. Can't someone write tips And facts about the language? Japanese has strongly left branching syntax, meaning it puts modifiers and arguments before the head rather than after it. The subject and object always come before the verb because the verb heads the sentence. Adjectives a...

If you know nothing about it, then what interests you about it?

clawgrip wrote:phase 2
h → w / V__V (there are only two exceptions (that I know of): haha and ahiru)

I would think this change happened before /ɸ/ > /h/ since it seems more likely for /ɸ/ to become /w/ through an intermediary like /v/ than for /h/ to labialize.

TaylorS wrote:#2 means this crap can be dismissed out of hand, then. Are they still claiming Alex the Great spoke Proto-Slavic, LOL?

Whoa really? Someone should put that in the linguistic crackpottery thread.

This thread is now about Erge. Erge conrang is brest conrang. Arr Erge conrang information is written in Erge. Erge is brest conrang. Arka must prove it is inferior to Erge because Erge is superior to Arka. Erge is most superior comprex. Erge conrang has 150,000,000 words in Erge conrang. Erge conr...

Do you know how expensive that shit is? Seriously. Many if not most of the, as they are known in the industry, "shemales", who do porn are doing it to pay for that very operation. Also, it's important to draw a distinction between transgender and transsexual. Transsexuals are, very specifically, pe...

Torco wrote:sure they do! they're called trans girls!

Sometimes anyway. I thought they mostly had sex reassignment surgery.

Elector Dark wrote:Thepiratebay, stolen amazon gift cards to buy kindle books...
Nothing too worrying.

Eh, I dunno, I have tried torrenting grammars but never managed to find many that way, except maybe for languages with a great deal of grammatical information already online.

This reminds me of the law someone suggested some weeks ago that as a thread on the ZBB progresses, the chances of the topic shifting to gay sex approach 1, or so I seem to recall them saying.

Torco wrote:¿ you'd *like* to *like* both dudes and dames ?
why don't you just... you know... like dudes and dames?

I think he means it would be cool if he were bisexual, but unfortunately is not.