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Do you "go for" one, "take" one, "have" one, "do" one, or what? Similarly for a shower, a nap, a rest, a look, and so on. How about languages other than English, if they have a comparable idiom?

Clitic-wise, I'm unsure-ish. (drum roll)

Morrígan wrote:

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araceli wrote:

Morrígan wrote:Won my small-claims case, I got a refund for my useless IPL system...

International Phonetic... what?

Indian Premier League.

Even better.

Or even India Pale Lager?

Linguistics-related dream: I was in the library belonging to either my secondary school or university, and I gravitated towards the linguistics section, where I found several Teach Yourself books, including Teach Yourself Eastern Finnish.

Morrígan wrote:Won my small-claims case, I got a refund for my useless IPL system...

International Phonetic... what?

Risla wrote:I have been accepted to the CELTA course! I even survived the phone interview! (which combines two very anxiety-provoking things: phones and interviews).

Many congratulations!!! We hope it works out fantastically for you.

I have a phone interview for the CELTA on Thursday. On one hand, I'm pretty excited, especially since it will hopefully provide me with a decent way out of this awful situation, but on the other, the whole thing is kind of terrifying and I'm quite afraid I'll make a fool of myself and fail (even th...

Where you have a conjunction followed by an infinitive, as in "how to do it" and "whom to castigate for not knowing the proper names of grammatical constructions". How is this realised in other languages, where it's done differently?

Any examples? Are there few enough alternations in Quechua to list them all in a ZBB post?

Exactly as the title says. I don't know if there are languages with none, but there must be at least one with very few.

This is also clearly why Dutch settlers became so much less prone to violence when they settled in southern Africa! [ɣ] is clearly a pernicious phone. Not as pernicious a phone as this: http://www.britishtelephones.com/pictures/t722.jpg I don't remember if it was voiced or voiceless, though, but de...

How would you characterise the sounds which native speakers of French produce when trying to say [ð] and [θ]? They're not quite [z] and [s].

Dutch, German, many Scandinavian languages, Portuguese...

Have you considered using U+1f4a9?

That's a very attractive orthography.

Herra Ratatoskr wrote:

Rhetorica wrote:

Terra wrote:Perhaps the fact that "moose" doesn't have a different plural form re-enforces this idea even more.

The correct plural of "moose" is "meese." I thought everyone knew this?

So, could you call moose nuggets...

...meese's pieces?

BBC-friendly version: meese pee?

Astraios wrote:Conlenger.

Beem. (umlauting plural of "boom".)

Rhetorica wrote:

Terra wrote:Perhaps the fact that "moose" doesn't have a different plural form re-enforces this idea even more.

The correct plural of "moose" is "meese." I thought everyone knew this?

The modern English umlauting plural everyone forgets. As conlangers we, of all people, should know this.

My Bescherelle includes this verb, but I lack a dictionary. Is it the reflex of Latin cadere, and in what contexts is it used if at all?

Do expressions like "forty-two head of cattle" apply here?

clawgrip wrote:Same thing happens with fish. Of course all the ones that end in -fish are singular, but even most of the ones that don't but are typically fished for. In fact I'm having trouble thinking of fish that do take plural regularly...shark, ray, eel...what else?

But you still hear fishes...

And why not? This thread is for discussion of fantasy that follows the "Tolkienian" model, whatever that is, and does it right and/or well.

Don't mention Brooks or Eddings; they're too obvious.

HandsomeRob wrote:If there was, I have no idea what it would have been.

Come on, you know perfectly well it was filled with an enormous profile of your head

I dont read much fiction these days, but one that I really enjoyed was Susanna Clarke's "Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell" - I thought that the mixture of rgenecy era and celtic folklore was a very original new setting for fantasy. Also Anne Rice's Vampire books are in many ways fantasy - I enjoyed t...