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*I have no idea how to form this sentence. 正しいと思うよ I think it's correct ええ、信じられない！ :) Ee, shinjirarenai! :) Whaa, I can't believe it. 彼はコンラングリストサーブに決めたと思うけど。だから、ここにポストするのが少なくなったね I think he 'chose' the conlang listserv, so he started posting less here. そうか。見捨てた。 Sō ka. Misuteta. I see. He abandoned...

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Neon Fox and vokzhen: That's interesting. In my earlier university, we were drilled to use passive voice in thesises.

And regarding soft and hard consonants, in Finnish the letter B is referred to as "soft P".

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Pole, the wrote:Ibland finns det på Duolingo roliga fraser. T.ex. ”Hennes fru är en präst”.
Sometimes there are funny sentences on Duolingo. E.g. “Her wife is a priest”.

Det är faktiskt möjligt i Sverige.
That is actually possible in Sweden.

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Mamy więcej rodzimych użytkowników nimieckiego na ZBB (na przykład Jipi, Elf, Cedh ...), ale oni nie uczestniczą w tym wątku za dużo. Nous avons plus locuteurs natives allemands au ZBB (par exemple Jipi, Elf, Cedh ...), mais ils ne participent beaucoup dans ce fil. Wij hebben meer Duitse moedertaal...

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Håller du på med Duolingo? Are you doing Duolingo? Ja, jag lär mig mycket nyttig ordförråd! Yes, I am learning very useful vocabulary! Hah, som jag trodde. Hah, as I thought. Det är nåt som är tokigt med din mening, men jag kan inte sätta fingret på det. Jag blir galen på det. Det är genusfel, men ...

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Related: Strange, ad-hoc terminology people use when talking about the sounds of their language. I've heard English speakers use "hard" vs. "soft" to mean "voiced" vs. "voiceless" in either direction (i.e. both "hard" = "voiced" and "hard" = "voiceless"), especially when talking about voiceless/voi...

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Rants about the passive voice are the best for this, in my experience; you get people trumpeting that "a sentence has to have a subject and a verb", or the person who I heard say, in all apparent seriousness, that "the passive voice should be eschewed." Not to mention the ones who go on about the e...

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Jag är en sköldpadda och jag äter halsdukarna. I am a turtle and I eat the scarves. *1) Butterbrot to jest kromka chleba z czymś na nim (masło, margaryna, jakaś inna pasta kawalkowa jakieś inne smarowidło , ser, wędliny...) *1) A Butterbrot is a slice pf bread with something on it (butter, margarin...

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Ich vermisse Toast. Wir kaufen keine Brote mehr, da eins immer verschimmelt, ehe wir mal die Hälfte verbrauchen. I miss toast. We don't buy bread any more because it always gets moudly before we've gone through half of it. ですね。こっちも多くのパンの種類は家族向けみたい。私はあれを買えない。 Desu ne. Kotchi mo ōku no pan no shurui ...

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Haha, look what I found: Colville-Okanagan alphabet song. It sounds kinda nice. There's also this alphabet chant. It appears as if they do have loads of epenthetic vowels in this language.

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linguoboy wrote:Even non-Americans (e.g. Swedish pop band Miike Snow in their eponymous single) imitate the pronunciation with /g/, so there's definitely a case for calling it "normative".

Guh, they should've listened to this song first: https://youtu.be/pzmI3vAIhbE

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In my latest random mess, the first word two words were oeg'g [ɞɣə̆ˠɣ] and xam'y [t̪͡ɬ̪ɑ̃m̚ə̃j] Uh-oh, I have bad news for you. You can't have velarized velars because they're already velar. And an unreleased nasal? Is that possible? Or is this some non-human language where these things would make ...

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I have a list where I write down beautiful sounding words that I happen to come up with. But I never get to use that list because a) I'm always deriving languages from parent languages, b) none of the words fit the phonology of whatever language I'm working with atm, and c) I don't remember to bring...

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finlay wrote:
Viktor77 wrote:I know what EU English is but I did not know that "to take a decision" was possible in British English.
neither did i tbqh. i sometimes think salmoneus makes things up and manages to get them in a dictionary.

another way of saying this must be a london thing because otherwise wtf

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Oh no! >__<

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"You" is unlikely to include sounds involving u, o, p, t, d, q, s, r and l. This is surprising. Wasn't it a thing that Eurasian languages often have something like t, d or s in the word for you? Some words are corrected less readily than others. So these many languages that do have t/d/s are still ...

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I just read the article. I'm wondering how it is possible for many languages to retain these specific sounds in specific words. Shouldn't sound changes muddle things up completely? Well, words don't always retain the same meaning after a sound change. Semantic drift affects them; it seems plausible...

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Ah, okay. I'll take a look in that thread again.

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Oh sorry, I never clicked Kath's link, so I didn't realize this had already been posted. :/

As for the Old Norse, I think it sounds as if it's read by Danes.

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OMG I have to share this clip about how various ancient languages supposively sounded like: https://youtu.be/50By01L7uzY PIE didn't sound consonant-heavy at all, like I had expected. Middle Egyptian sounds kinda nice somehow. Not as harsh as Semitic languages. But Old Chinese is hilarious! :-D What ...

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I just read the article. I'm wondering how it is possible for many languages to retain these specific sounds in specific words. Shouldn't sound changes muddle things up completely? "You" is unlikely to include sounds involving u, o, p, t, d, q, s, r and l. This is surprising. Wasn't it a thing that ...

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Whimemsz wrote:specific and/or complex changes from Algonquian languages

OMG @_@ The linguists who discovered these sound changes must be really clever.

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Wps, gwn i fe' dw i wedi gwneud: dw i wedi camgymryd "pediatrician" (paediatregydd;小児科医院) am "podiatrist" (podiatrydd;足病医) yng Google. Oops, I know what I did: I mistook "pediatrist/ician" for "podiatrist" in Google. Maen nhw'n edrych a swnio yn rhy debyg yn y Saesneg. :cry: They look and sound too...

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Pronouns, numbers and the Swadesh list.

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To make a truly alien language, one needs to break the fundamental principles of human cognition. Yeah, at the same time I don't want to make my races too unhuman. Trolls though could be less human than the other races. (rank between quasisocial and semisocial by this table). Huh, I've never though...

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