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Pole, the wrote:I can't stop watching Jim Sterling's channel.

Also, he has a linguistic peculiarity: he pronounces «-ction» words as /-ktʃən/. Ever come across that before?

Hmm, are we using "offglide" in the same way? I understood "nasal offlglide" in the Pole's comment to refer to the use of nasalized semi-vowelic glides like [ɔw̃]. It's hard for me to imagine how something like [w̃] would assimilate in POA to the following consonant (would it become something like ...

Where it becomes a problem is actually for /n/ and /m/ at the end of words in English, as the Japanese coda-/n/ (ん) is underspecified for POA and actually sounds like [ɴ] or [ŋ] a lot of the time. Isn't it common to pronounce /Vɴ/ as vowels with nasal offglides, not unlike French «in un an on» or P...

As they say: hate the job, love the money, overthrow the bourgeoisie.

Also, while are native realizations of «ng» as [ŋɡ], AFAIK there are no native realizations of «th dh» as [th dh]. There are, in compound words, e.g. shithole , masthead madhouse , handhold . Well, fair point. Still, these are undisputably distinct from /θ ð/. What about “threshold”? Is this a case...

I was toying with a similar idea, playing off of Carrasquer Vidal's model. If the basic difference between *ke- and *ka- (so-called plain velars) is the original vowel quality, not vowel coloring, even though both vowels correspond to *e in almost any other position, what if the difference between ...

The attachment is a visual summary of my findings. Using a linear graph to visualize a discrete scale (e.g. a number of grammatical cases) is a bad practice. Consider using a different type of a graph. Basically, most languages in general have 1 (that is, no) case, with SVO languages making up the ...

Mandarin pronunciation is a minefield, so it's ironic that this particular name is quite easy— they could approximate it quite well as "way-June". Well, it's only easy if you expect other languages to share the English quirk of using «j» for a stop consonant. «ei» as /ai/ surely looks German, but «...

After all, if you "drop the G" from "walking", you get "walkin'", with an /n/... it's got an apostrophe and everything! And surely if 'dropping the G' were just turning something from /N/ to /n/ - a change with no loss of elements or gain in simplicity - then it wouldn't be such a common indicator ...

Goka gopıbouŋ di gogepaı.
Rivers are wet and long.

As a child, I first learned „chuj” in the meaning of a bad behaving male (a “dickhead”), and only later I realized it's vulgar for “penis”. On the other hand, I learned „pedał” is a bad word after I used it in its non-slur meaning (“pedal”) and then was accused by an adult of using it unknowingly as...

That reminds me of that old anecdote - a German, an Englishman, and a Frenchman are tasked with writing about lions. The German locks himself in a library for twenty years and writes a ten-volume universal history of the lion, compiling and evaluating everything that has ever been written about lio...

So right now I'm pretty infuriated by IT(...) but for some reason on my laptop I had made a typo That's weird that your mailing software didn't catch that. I'm not an expert of mailing protocols, but I tried an equivalent thing using Gmail as the client and it complained instantly at not being able...

Tropylium wrote:

Pole, the wrote:/k ɡ/ → /kː ɡː/ // [V+short]_ → (dissimilation) /tk dɡ/ → /tsk dɡ/?

Geminate dissimilation is not really a thing that happens.

It might be anecdotal, but Polish miękki, lekki → dialectal/colloquial miętki, letki.

Firefox has changed its settings layout and now instead of a neatly structured preferences tool, they've dumped everything on one page, Chrome-style.

masako wrote:

Pole, the wrote:Noice.

nyasampa
Thank you very much.

(It's funny because I changed «baıb» /baɨb/ “to be good” to «boıb» /bɤɨb/ “???” to match the English “noice“ non-standard pronunciation.)

Tegambneiŋ kvu ragnırıŋjoı do tako-doı?
Aren't your links supposed to be the other way around, by the way?

“pretty”

In the interests of accuracy, might it be worth either renaming this thread, or starting a new one? It could be called "The British Politics Thread" or similar. Sal's last post was certainly about *a* British Election, but there's little more to be said about *the* British Election... What if we ke...

Well, all of that makes a lot of sense to me, but is there any precedent for a voiced fricative producing distinctive vowel coloring? Yes, see German /x/ vs /ʁ/. For that matter, is there precedent for rounding blocking a vowel-coloring effect? Yes, see English /ɛr ɪr ʊr → ɜr/ vs /ɔr → ɔr/. If you ...

I think it's the inclusion of “Black” and ”less educated” in the same entry that caused most of the backlash. Similar thing happened recently to a certain cartoon character that had “can't read” as a part of her description.

Wait, you never told us you're the governor of Georgia!

Gestern bin ich aus dem Supermarkt zurückgekommen und ich bin von dem Wind und Regen gefangen worden. Das Gehen war schwierig und nachher waren meine Kleider klatschnass. Yesterday I was going back home from the supermarket and I was caught by the wind and rain. It was difficult to walk and my clot...

Others not likely without similar shifts affecting /k/ in other environments. How big is the pohonology? It looks roughly like that: /m n/ /p b t d (tʃ) k ɡ/ /f v (θ) s z (ʃ) x/ /l r j w/ Later on, /tʃ ʃ/ → /tʃˠ ʃˠ/ → /tsx sx/. Edit: Would it be plausible to have /θ/ → (fortition) /tθ/ → /tx/ inste...

How would you approach the following ones?

/k/ → /tsk/ // V[+short]_{a o u}, V[+short]_$
/k/ → /ts/ // _{a o u}
/θ/ → /tx/
/ks/ → /x/