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- Fri Nov 03, 2017 7:57 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The dream thread
- Replies: 1807
- Views: 311363
Re: The dream thread
I dreamed about seeing my grandmother again. (Probably for a hundredth time.) And then I had a dream about being with a couple of my peers in a place that had the distinction of being the actual Hell — although you wouldn't guess it, it was quite ok, if a bit boring and with few video games. I was g...
- Thu Nov 02, 2017 3:24 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Your first conscript
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6488
Re: Your first conscript
Found it! Here are some excerpts:
The basic version, with some of the sounds represented by the modifier + another letter.
The extended version, with the modifier pairs replaced with custom letters.
The basic version, with some of the sounds represented by the modifier + another letter.
The extended version, with the modifier pairs replaced with custom letters.
- Wed Nov 01, 2017 3:25 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread
- Replies: 3108
- Views: 639860
Re: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread
Yes, that's what I meant.Vijay wrote:EDIT: Also, then it would be more like *[kʰæmˈboʊd͡ʒən], not *[kʰæmˈboʊd͡ʒijən].
- Wed Nov 01, 2017 1:27 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread
- Replies: 3108
- Views: 639860
Re: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread
[kʰæmˈboʊɾijən] Weird. I would expect [dʒ] and not [ɾ] there. The letter "d" is not usually palatalized to /dʒ/ before the letter "i". It only is standard in a few words, like "soldier" /ˈsoʊldʒər/. In most words, "di" before a vowel letter is pronounced /di/ […] Ok, but isn't the «-dia» supposed t...
- Wed Nov 01, 2017 11:54 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread
- Replies: 3108
- Views: 639860
Re: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread
Weird. I would expect [dʒ] and not [ɾ] there.[kʰæmˈboʊɾijən]
- Wed Nov 01, 2017 9:42 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The Innovative Usage Thread
- Replies: 2452
- Views: 413463
Re: The Innovative Usage Thread
Might be just me, but I primarily associate “recur” with “recurse” and not “reoccur”.
- Tue Oct 31, 2017 6:37 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The Innovative Usage Thread
- Replies: 2452
- Views: 413463
Re: The Innovative Usage Thread
But it's a separate word.
- Tue Oct 31, 2017 5:56 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Your first conscript
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6488
Re: Your first conscript
I don't know which one was the earliest, but one of my first conscripts was a slight alteration of Latin and looked like this: http://jezykotw.webd.pl/w/images/4/4c/100_3191.jpg (here with IPA values and transliteration: http://jezykotw.webd.pl/w/images/7/77/Anbo.png). There was another one, based u...
- Tue Oct 31, 2017 5:19 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread
- Replies: 3108
- Views: 639860
Re: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread
More or less.
- Tue Oct 31, 2017 5:19 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The Innovative Usage Thread
- Replies: 2452
- Views: 413463
Re: The Innovative Usage Thread
What's innovative about that?
- Tue Oct 31, 2017 11:20 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread
- Replies: 3108
- Views: 639860
Re: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread
It's not [i.a].ˈd̪ʲɛ.gɔ kɾuˑl̪ wrote:Why do you have that 'additional' /i/ there along with antepenultimate stress? That doesn't sound Polish.Pole, the wrote:[tanˈzaɲia]
- Mon Oct 30, 2017 5:09 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread
- Replies: 3108
- Views: 639860
Re: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread
My Polish:
[tanˈzaɲia]
[ˈrvanda]
[buˈrundi]
[uˈganda]
[tanˈzaɲia]
[ˈrvanda]
[buˈrundi]
[uˈganda]
- Sun Oct 29, 2017 11:09 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
- Replies: 4604
- Views: 1116231
Re: Help your fluency in a nifty way
Aren't these places written Сямэнь, Чэнду, Ханчжоу, Шэньчжэнь, Сиань, Нанкин, Ухань, Харбин in Russian?dhok wrote:Шиамен. […] Ченгду, Гангжоу, Шензен, Хиан, Нанджинг, Вуган. Гарбин […]
- Sat Oct 28, 2017 1:36 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The Innovative Usage Thread
- Replies: 2452
- Views: 413463
Re: The Innovative Usage Thread
Isn't that generally true of English inanimate noun juxtapositions (i.e. juxtapositions of English inanimate nouns)?Salmoneus wrote:thinking that "the Amazon stock price" is a possessive (the price of the Amazon stock).
- Thu Oct 26, 2017 2:33 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Venting thread that still excludes eddy (2)
- Replies: 2639
- Views: 301367
Re: Venting thread
So, two men violently attack a woman with a nail-spiked club. The punishment? The attacker has to pay a fine. The court reasoned the woman was unfaithful and she deserved to be beaten (even to death) because a sacred book said so. Is this the beginning of Shari'a? Plot twist: no, because the book wa...
- Wed Oct 25, 2017 1:54 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Odd pronunciation of a Chinese name
- Replies: 26
- Views: 7368
Re: Odd pronunciation of a Chinese name
Had some similar situations in the pre-school class, for instance when I was able to read all letters and write them in upper case, but I was supposed to know only some of the letters (e.g. vowels*) and write them in cursive. Or when I got laughed at by the staff for rotating a drawing while colorin...
- Wed Oct 25, 2017 11:05 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Singing pronunciation in different languages
- Replies: 16
- Views: 6134
Re: Singing pronunciation in different languages
That's why I've written “standard values”.gestaltist wrote:Actually, singers are trained in Poland to drop nasalization of word-final vowels because it "sounds better" and is an accepted alternative pronunciation anyway.
- Wed Oct 25, 2017 12:24 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Singing pronunciation in different languages
- Replies: 16
- Views: 6134
Re: Singing pronunciation in different languages
So, my question and the reason for starting the thread, is to see if others have information about strange pronunciations that occur in the singing in English or other languages. I know that tones are typically ignored in singing in tonal languages, but aside from that, I don't really know anything...
- Sun Oct 22, 2017 6:14 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Phonemes which are found in <5 languages or so
- Replies: 54
- Views: 14216
Re: Phonemes which are found in <5 languages or so
The problem is that phonemes are not really comparable (as Zompist has said somwhere, though I can't recall where off the top of my head), even if they're labelled the same, because they have different ranges of allophones. This. The vowels in IPA are just symbolic representations of sections of a ...
- Sat Oct 21, 2017 12:49 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Venting thread that still excludes eddy (2)
- Replies: 2639
- Views: 301367
Re: Venting thread
Keep warm.Imralu wrote:Standing outside the building where there's supposed to be a Swahili meetup now and all the lights are out ... my social anxiety is through the roof anyway, so part of my brain is relieved but I won't let myself leave yet
- Fri Oct 20, 2017 3:46 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Phonemes which are found in <5 languages or so
- Replies: 54
- Views: 14216
Re: Phonemes which are found in <5 languages or so
Well, that pretty much sums up my feelings, too, at least for Polish.
- Fri Oct 20, 2017 3:16 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Phonemes which are found in <5 languages or so
- Replies: 54
- Views: 14216
Re: Phonemes which are found in <5 languages or so
I'm a little confused about what your point is. Are you just saying /ʃ/ has historically been used to transcribe retroflex fricatives, too? No, I'm saying /ʃ/ has been used to transcribe the fricatives of Polish and Mandarin. If you're saying the Malayalam fricative commonly described as “retroflex...
- Fri Oct 20, 2017 2:21 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: What are you reading, watching and listening to?
- Replies: 469
- Views: 135503
Re: What are you reading, watching and listening to?
So, Shakespearean English was basically Scottish? :Drotting bones wrote:I don't know if this works for other people, but getting the accent right helps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYiYd9RcK5M
- Fri Oct 20, 2017 2:17 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Phonemes which are found in <5 languages or so
- Replies: 54
- Views: 14216
Re: Phonemes which are found in <5 languages or so
Malayalam has both /ɕ/ AND /ʃ/ (definitely NOT */ʂ/). How common is that? Depends mainly on how you define /ʃ/ and /ʂ/. Polish /ʂ/ used to be transcribed /ʃ/. Mandarin /ʂ/ used to be transcribed /ʃ̺/. If we take the most conservative definition of “retroflex” into account (i.e. “pronounced against ...
- Fri Oct 20, 2017 7:46 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: A Very Brief Explanation of the British Election
- Replies: 323
- Views: 93310
Re: A Very Brief Explanation of the British Election
Knowing the British, everybody will ignore the Brexit deadline comes, and it will join all the wars and other legal decisions from centuries ago that technically are still on-going, but in practice nobody cares about anymore.