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by Io
Sat Jul 27, 2013 2:54 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: English definition of "song"
Replies: 14
Views: 3255

Re: English definition of "song"

LeCiagoPanda wrote:Your thoughts?
ocd or sperg; perhaps both?
by Io
Tue Jun 11, 2013 5:28 am
Forum: None of the above
Topic: ZBB member photos, part 5. (Something for the weekend, sir?)
Replies: 5496
Views: 764632

Re: ZBB member photos, part 5. (Something for the weekend, s

Ah, so, I cannot into the new Flickr Intr-facer, this should work now http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3742/9015 ... cd59_o.png
by Io
Tue Jun 11, 2013 4:41 am
Forum: None of the above
Topic: ZBB member photos, part 5. (Something for the weekend, sir?)
Replies: 5496
Views: 764632

Re: ZBB member photos, part 5. (Something for the weekend, s

jal, the img is uploaded on tinypic, are you at work? Could be blocked or IDK. Here it is on Flickr: http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3785/9013 ... a695_b.jpg

Herr Dunkel, eigentlich das bin ich.
by Io
Thu Feb 28, 2013 11:45 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Lessons in Palestinian Arabic: Now on Lesson 2
Replies: 26
Views: 5605

Re: Lessons in Palestinian Arabic: Now on Lesson 2

A couple comments: It's interesting that 3ArAbiyyè means "wagon, cart, toy car" ... I though it meant "Arabic" This reminds me of and old blog entry of a fellow ZBBer http://phoenixblog.typepad.com/blog/2007/11/do-you-speak-abaric.html I talked to him back then to tell him than in Bougre there is a...
by Io
Mon Feb 25, 2013 8:55 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Lessons in Palestinian Arabic: Now on Lesson 2
Replies: 26
Views: 5605

Re: Lessons in Palestinian Arabic: Please review transcripti

What's up with Palestinian ayin? When I went on a hike north of Nazareth towards the direction of طرعان and I had to ask people about it, others stopped me to ask me where I'm going so I heard its name from probably half a dozen people and all of them pronounced it with a really REALLY strong ayin. ...
by Io
Fri Feb 22, 2013 5:35 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Sounds That You Can/Can't Pronounce Easily
Replies: 322
Views: 55258

Re: Sounds That You Can/Can't Pronounce Easily

LOOK ERRBODY, I PRESENT YOU MY WORST NIGHTMARE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St%27at%27imcets_language The glottalized consonants of St'at'imcets contrast not only with plain consonants, but also with sequences of plain consonant + glottal stop, or glottalized consonant + glottal stop, in either ord...
by Io
Mon Feb 18, 2013 4:29 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: dunkles å in Austro-Bavarian
Replies: 4
Views: 1731

Re: dunkles å in Austro-Bavarian

One more question but this time about consonants: how does the voicing/devoicing correspond (if at all) to the High German consonant shift?! Is the 'd' in Dag and Deifi retention of the original d or is that a later development? Likewise the fricativisation of b. On the other hand it seems the voici...
by Io
Sun Feb 17, 2013 8:45 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Common L2 English mistakes
Replies: 56
Views: 10328

Re: Common L2 English mistakes

Imralu, the ones Pole and I refer to are former dual forms, since we've dropped it many centuries ago уста has been retained as plural in some dialects, however I'm not aware of the same for врата.
by Io
Sat Feb 16, 2013 5:23 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Common L2 English mistakes
Replies: 56
Views: 10328

Re: Common L2 English mistakes

Also, Polish "usta" 'mouth'. Here you get the odd person using plural with уста, but it's really rare, my mother, for example, uses plurals inconsistently with it. In pretentious journalist speak you can hear при затворени врата when they talk about a hearing, discussion or whatever, it annoys the ...
by Io
Sat Feb 16, 2013 5:14 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Common L2 English mistakes
Replies: 56
Views: 10328

Re: Common L2 English mistakes

omg those 4 (four) nouns :o

hebrew is so kawaii :3

oh you hebrew~~
by Io
Thu Feb 14, 2013 4:14 am
Forum: None of the above
Topic: LaTeX: How do you insert IPA characters?
Replies: 30
Views: 11249

Re: LaTeX: How do you insert IPA characters?

but that's exactly what i'm contesting i.e. that you won it, it couldn't be clearer what i meant when i said you simply happened to be on the winners' side.
by Io
Wed Feb 13, 2013 5:29 pm
Forum: None of the above
Topic: LaTeX: How do you insert IPA characters?
Replies: 30
Views: 11249

Re: LaTeX: How do you insert IPA characters?

And what sort of sophistry is it to imply I said what I said because of being in the losers position and not because that's how it is?
by Io
Wed Feb 13, 2013 4:30 am
Forum: None of the above
Topic: LaTeX: How do you insert IPA characters?
Replies: 30
Views: 11249

Re: LaTeX: How do you insert IPA characters?

I copy/paste them from Wikipedia XD I type into google "typing ipa" and use the first link. [as though we had never won the war...] But you didn't, you just ended up being on the winners' side. Likewise we didn't lose the war, we were just on the losers' side. Also, thanks Gulls for asking exactly ...
by Io
Tue Feb 12, 2013 12:07 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Common L2 English mistakes
Replies: 56
Views: 10328

Re: Common L2 English mistakes

Imralu wrote:Speak for yourself. I've had Upper Intermediate students that have told me that that's one of the hardest things for them.
I spoke for myself? I wasn't generalising like you.
by Io
Mon Feb 11, 2013 6:59 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Common L2 English mistakes
Replies: 56
Views: 10328

Re: Common L2 English mistakes

Imralu wrote:What a nightmare! I think all these words that usually only appear in questions and negatives are really difficult for most students (yet, any, anyone, anywhere, much, many).
That's far from being the one of the real nightmares of English.
by Io
Sun Feb 10, 2013 8:43 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Common L2 English mistakes
Replies: 56
Views: 10328

Re: Common L2 English mistakes

Another common mistake is did + past simple form — I didn't worked yesterday. A colleague at work NEVER uses 'will' for future actions, but would instead, I'm not sure why, overall his emails are written in a pretty good English, I suspect that he might think it's somehow more polite or idk.
by Io
Sat Feb 09, 2013 7:32 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: dunkles å in Austro-Bavarian
Replies: 4
Views: 1731

dunkles å in Austro-Bavarian

Any clues which [a]s have transitioned to dunkles å (I'm specifically not indicating any phonetic values to it as it seems to vary) and which have remained [a]s? Obviously notwithstanding the 'ei' diphthong and a from oa, I suspect when speakers are saying words with [a] while speaking in their dial...
by Io
Sat Feb 09, 2013 3:54 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Proto-Elamite Article on BBC (Quality: who knows?)
Replies: 4
Views: 1198

Re: Proto-Elamite Article on BBC (Quality: who knows?)

ZOMFG JOURNALISTS USING SENSATIONALIST LINGO IN HEADLINES TO GET PEOPLE READ THEIR ARTICLES!!~!!!!
by Io
Sat Jan 19, 2013 10:47 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Most beautiful/ugliest languages
Replies: 119
Views: 26744

Re: Most beautiful/ugliest languages

bíí’oxúyoo wrote:the fuck where did you come from and who are you? That was unnecessary, I posted it because it was apropos of the discussion which you would have seen if you had read the post I referred too.
Forgive me, for I've guessed wrongly viewtopic.php?p=919041#p919041
by Io
Thu Jan 17, 2013 4:41 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: English swearwords in other languages
Replies: 75
Views: 14642

Re: English swearwords in other languages

Sorry for not reading all the posts and possibly posting what's already been said: A couple or so years ago there was a typhoon in SEAsia called Long Wang, named after a Chinese... something, emperor?! In Turkish 'sik' means 'cock', as in penis, the verb 'to fuck' is derived from it too, I knew an E...
by Io
Thu Jan 17, 2013 4:13 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Most beautiful/ugliest languages
Replies: 119
Views: 26744

Re: Most beautiful/ugliest languages

bíí’oxúyoo wrote:Nobody's gonna comment on the song I posted? :?
Did you post it because you wanted comments? Appraisal? Feeling needy?
by Io
Wed Jan 16, 2013 9:47 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Most beautiful/ugliest languages
Replies: 119
Views: 26744

Re: Most beautiful/ugliest languages

(I like [χ], but the majority of Dutch accents that have a [χ] are pretty ugly, and [χ] doesn't really help matters. I do like it in Hebrew, for example) Yeah, most Hebrew speakers I've heard make their [χ] very softly, and the language is very flowy. Here's a song by Yael Naim . http://www.incaten...