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I've been playing Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time for the 3DS. I'm doing a Master Quest playthrough this time. I just finished Jabu-Jabu's belly and am a little weirded out that there were so many cows inside a huge whale in this version.

Tsik dzilap ʇ’utsuru gaa’uma.
[ˈtsʰik̚ ˈdzilap̚ ˈkǀʼutsuɾu ˈɠaːʔuma]
ts=ikʰ dzid̪ʱ=a=pə kǀʼ<uts'>u=ru gaxa=ʔu=ma
AUX:IMP=I.ABS work=AFF.REAL=1S.NOM new<II>=II:OBL language=INDEF=on
I'm working on a new language.

I don't think d > ð > ʕ is too weird. In one of my langs I have *d > ʕ: *d lenites to *ð and then merges with *ɣ, which has an allophone of [ʕ] before back vowels; vowels then move around to make /ʕ/. I kinda find it weird that *t and *θ become pharyngeal(ized), though. What are the exact details yo...

I had a really rad dream about this superhero team. One of them had this power to summon demons through manholes. He'd throw up a manhole cover like a discus up to an open hole in the street, the cover would spin furiously around in the hole, start glowing, and a huge flaming tornado would erupt out...

I was on a precarious cliff with a friend and I had to convince him to fertilize an eagle egg while fending off a crow-girl. He couldn't manage it so I did it myself.

Georgian: ცერი ceri thumb (not analyzable) სალოკი თითი saloḳi titi index finger (lit. finger for licking) საჩვენებელი თითი sačvenebeli titi index finger (lit. finger for indicating) შუათითი šuatiti middle finger (lit. middle finger) არათითი aratiti ring finger (lit. no finger) უსახელო თითი usaxelo t...

It's done!

It's in English right now, right? Could we just skip jmcd and me and call it quits? I certainly wouldn't mind.

Nowadays Georgian has latin-based month names: იანვარი ianvari თებერვალი tebervali მარტი marṭi აპრილი aṗrili მაისი maisi ივნისი ivnisi ივლისი ivlisi აგვისტო agvisṭo სექტემბერი sekṭemberi ოქტომბერი okṭomberi ნოემბერი noemberi დეკემბერი deḳemberi I'm not sure why February begins with /tʰ/... I can onl...

In Georgian there's:
გუშინწინ / gušinc̣in / the day before yesterday
გუშინ / gušin / yesterday
დღეს / dğes / today
ხვალ / xval / tomorrow
ზეგ / zeg / the day after tomorrow
მაზეგ / mazeg / the day after the day after tomorrow

Yeah, in languages that have things like that there's apparently disagreement about the best way to analyze them: I've seen all of [ʔʷ w' wˀ w̰]. Phonologically I'd label them what makes most sense... do they pattern with other labialized/palatized stops or ejectives or glottalized resonants? Just b...

That's because a lot of men can't grow respectable facial hair until their twenties.

No, the reason [ʔʰ] probably doesn't really exist is because the glottal stop operates differently from other stops. During the production of [t], for instance, the vocal folds are completely open, even during the period the tongue creates closure at the teeth/alveolar ridge. The VFs remain open for...

From: English, Georgian, Russian, Spanish, French, Portuguese
To: English, Georgian, Russian, Spanish

I started up Pokemon Black after never finishing my first playthrough. A lot of the pokemon are really cool, but I wish you could get some of the rarer ones earlier in the game.

If you're looking for more technical accounts, I'd try searching things like causative-inchoative, unaccusative, valence change, complex predicate, anticausative, argument alternation. I don't know if I've seen a straightforward crosslinguistic survey of this type of stuff, but I wouldn't be surpris...

There's no foolproof way to predict what sort of argument alternations a verb root will exhibit, at least in English and the languages I've studied. There are patterns, though. If a transitive verb is agentive and more naturally telic, it probably doesn't have an unergative counterpart (transitive w...

It's significant, though, that all but one of your examples are substantivized. English is certainly very flexible with deverbal compounds, but not really so much with "NI". Consider: My cousins deer hunt all the time out in the country , He doctor recommended me a new allergy medication , Polysynth...

Wowww I wish I knew more Caucasians

Yesss awesome this is great They're extremely common in North America and the Caucasus... A minor quibble: I wouldn't call any Caucasian languages polysynthetic other than the NW ones, which account for about a tenth of the total. Speaking of, I'm fairly familiar with the NWC langs, and have a good ...

I had a dream that was a terrible amalgam of Breaking Bad and the Tim and Eric Show D=

This is interesting for sure, but I wish there were spectrograms to actually prove his points =/

Clusters with laterals? Apparently something like that happened in NWC languages.

Thank you~~
Khmer is such a cool sounding language

Can anyone recommend some good Cambodian 60s rock? I'm a fan of Dengue Fever but I want to broaden my horizons.