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Pole, the

I don't know, [l → ɫ → ɣ]?

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jal wrote:
linguoboy wrote:This has been driving me batty all week/
If it's incoming e-mail, you could send an e-mail to "everyone" repeatedly until you have pinned the culprit down.

With binary search, you can do it in logarithmic time!

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mèþru wrote:This thread should probably be renamed, by the way.

I don't know about this one, but the other one (“upcoming” German election…) definitely should.

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Qwynegold wrote:In what way is Finnish fusional?

It's somewhere in-between fusional and agglutinative in how the roots mutate in many ways upon adding morphological suffixes (e.g. käsi : kät-tä : käde-stä : käte-en).

I wouldn't call it purely fusional, but I wouldn't call it purely agglutinative either.

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I haven't seen a dentist in, like, a year or so. And even then it after another year or two of not seeing a dentist, and only because one of my teeth went unbearably wrong. I have been brushing my teeth only once in a few weeks — basically only after my teeth or the inside of my mouth feels bad. So,...

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Oh, I thought it's the enter key.

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You all fail English forever.

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Sorry for the subject matter, but the beginning of this one was for a moment a bit confusing: Childlike sex doll man given suspended prison term The man is childike because he likes to play with dolls ... oh, wait... ;-) No, it was a sex doll in the shape of a man that was childish and given a pris...

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Weirdly, on one hand she really did not seem to know how to use an actual physical keyboard, almost like she had never seen one before (e.g. she did not know where the return key was)

Where is the return key?

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alice wrote:
Hydroeccentricity wrote:Someone south of the border explain this to me:

Las Vegas Shooting: Gun Stocks Are On the Rise
Gun Stocks Rise After Deadly Las Vegas Shooting
It's very simple. A gun surrounds its owner with an impenetrable force field, so if everyone else has a gun, you need one too.

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masako wrote:tsepa yomu
Please read...

ma semye
...and comment.

Teboıb.
Noice.

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Yesterday I've watched the fourth episode of “The Orville”. I must say, the show is getting better and better. I find this so hard to credit despite having it on good authority. Well, it could be just me having a weird sense of humor (after all, I'm one of the few people who don't think “Teen Titan...

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Yesterday I've watched the fourth episode of “The Orville”. I must say, the show is getting better and better.

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RRR-doo! I was quite confused until I realized for Anglophones «ur» is /ɜr/ and for Americans /ɜr/ is [ɹ̩]. Anyway, for most names, I mind-pronounce them “as written” in Polish, potentially with some adjustments, so [bɛnˈɡali], [ˈurdu], [ˈtamil], [ˈxindi], [punˈdʒabi], [ɡudʒaˈrati], [maˈratθi], [ˈs...

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Ah.

So…

CONKney, then!

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linguoboy wrote:So I just learned that Konkani is pronounced [kõkɳi] in the language itself. All this time I've been saying /kahn'kaniy/.

So, Cockney? :P

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I'm thinking about quitting Netflix, but there's still Stranger Things 2 within few weeks and potentially Black Mirror 4 later this autumn, so it may wait.

Anyway, listening to Electric Light Orchestra.

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Also, I suggest keeping the "#C" column (number of apparent first-level cognates) updated whenever someone adds a word to the spreadsheet; sorting by this column will make searching for the most promising correspondences much easier. I wonder if it would be a good idea to have this auto-generated b...

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Annoying how this forum wants to make <i> in brackets italicise everything that comes after it... so I added a "blah" in the smallest font size to prevent that. How often has this italicising <i> in brackets caused problems here? A linguistic forum that hates phonetic [iblah], and and as well if th...

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Apparently, the idea was for a Johnson-Davis-Hammond triumvirate

What about a May-Hammond-Clarkson triumvirate? :P

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I think you will be ok with just Old Yalan correspondences. Although the morphological cues might be slightly outdated. Edit: Looks like it's been longer than I was aware of. WY and EY were made public in August 2012. A year later, in August 2013, a user named Muyam made an effort to reconstruct the...

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I got in the mood for some progressive rock that fits to a rainy day, Pekka Pohjola – Harakka Bialoipokku Interesting. What is this? Also, where does the title come from — I guess “bialoipokku” isn't Finnish, but I can't find what it is? I'm reading The Count of Monte Cristo. At current reading rat...

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Vijay wrote:Too much sugar? :D

+1

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Oh, don't be sad. We can always try and find some incriminating photos of Ivan Derzhanski and blackmail the IOLing Board into putting the Proto-T1 as the Team Contest problem. :P

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Wow, handsome! (Both you and the lemur.)

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