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by Pole, the
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...
by Pole, the
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:

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The basic version, with some of the sounds represented by the modifier + another letter.

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The extended version, with the modifier pairs replaced with custom letters.
by Pole, the
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

Vijay wrote:EDIT: Also, then it would be more like *[kʰæmˈboʊd͡ʒən], not *[kʰæmˈboʊd͡ʒijən].
Yes, that's what I meant.
by Pole, the
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...
by Pole, the
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

[kʰæmˈboʊɾijən]
Weird. I would expect [dʒ] and not [ɾ] there.
by Pole, the
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”.
by Pole, the
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.
by Pole, the
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...
by Pole, the
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.
by Pole, the
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?
by Pole, the
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

ˈd̪ʲɛ.gɔ kɾuˑl̪ wrote:
Pole, the wrote:[tanˈzaɲia]
Why do you have that 'additional' /i/ there along with antepenultimate stress? That doesn't sound Polish.
It's not [i.a].
by Pole, the
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]
by Pole, the
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

dhok wrote:Шиамен. […] Ченгду, Гангжоу, Шензен, Хиан, Нанджинг, Вуган. Гарбин […]
Aren't these places written Сямэнь, Чэнду, Ханчжоу, Шэньчжэнь, Сиань, Нанкин, Ухань, Харбин in Russian?
by Pole, the
Sat Oct 28, 2017 1:36 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: The Innovative Usage Thread
Replies: 2452
Views: 413463

Re: The Innovative Usage Thread

Salmoneus wrote:thinking that "the Amazon stock price" is a possessive (the price of the Amazon stock).
Isn't that generally true of English inanimate noun juxtapositions (i.e. juxtapositions of English inanimate nouns)?
by Pole, the
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...
by Pole, the
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...
by Pole, the
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

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.
That's why I've written “standard values”.
by Pole, the
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...
by Pole, the
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 ...
by Pole, the
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

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
Keep warm.
by Pole, the
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.
by Pole, the
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...
by Pole, the
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?

rotting 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
So, Shakespearean English was basically Scottish? :D
by Pole, the
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 ...
by Pole, the
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.