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[*]Only tengado used the epiglottal stop />\/, and only CGreathouse had an epiglottal fricative /H\/. Did they contrast them with pharyngeals? Apparently most supposed pharyngeals are often actually epiglottal, so it's really only cool if you contrast the two . There isn't a pharyngeal stop for me ...

Nobody used /h~/. Rhinoglottophilia FTW! Is that even possible? It'd be hard to distinguish from oral /h/. Not necessarily. It probably causes nasalization of adjacent vowels or something. [*]Nobody used voiceless implosives.[/list] Are they even attested in any natlangs? Igbo, from /k_p/.

[*]Only tengado used the epiglottal stop />\/, and only CGreathouse had an epiglottal fricative /H\/. Did they contrast them with pharyngeals? Apparently most supposed pharyngeals are often actually epiglottal, so it's really only cool if you contrast the two . [*]Only Curlyjimsam used that Swedish...

I fixed it.

And yes, B is back vowels, and F is front vowels. I thought I explained my overcompressed notation, but maybe not, or else I did earlier in that thread.

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Trask saith: A central characteristic of Basque syntax is the use of -ko phrases. A -ko phrase may be constructed from virtually any adverbial, regardless of its internal structure, by suffixing -ko to it; this suffix induces certain phonological changes, notably the loss of the locative case-suffi...

OK – can you tell me further what the default word order is for a sentence like that? Then I might be able to have a go. I suspect there's something like topic-fronting going on. Oh, and what does s- mean? O'odham is nonconfigurational , so ... s- doesn't mean a whole lot... it marks a word as bein...

But what about when they DO cross? Surely you can't claim that they actually used a different sentence just to avoid having evidence that conflicts with the arbitrary 'straight lines are good' theory of linguistics? Lines aren't present in people's speech. They're drawn by syntacticians. "You can't...

How the hell'd you notice that? There isn't even a link yet that I can see (not that the filename is hard to figure out).

Nikura wrote:kolovoz (<croatian "kolovoz"... is it really from "kolo"=circle and "voz"=train ???!!)

I suspect the -voz is related to osam 'eight', although I'm not sure if the Croatian form ever had initial v- like Russian does.

skrivihop wrote:I think that they look elliptical....

I suppose it depends on whether you see the picture as looking straight down on the ecliptic or not (the approximate plane in which all the planets' orbits lie).

sorry, I don't understand Latin. But it is a magnificient animal. A quick and dirty translation: Also, there are those called elk. Their shape and type of hide is similar to a goat's, but they are a little larger and have stunted horns and legs without nodes or joints, and neither lie down to rest ...

http://swedia.ling.umu.se/bilder/faktarutor/landskap/osterbotten/osterbottenfra_r1_c3_f3.gif Alces Alces Sunt item, quae appellantur alces. Harum est consimilis capris figura et varietas pellium, sed magnitudine paulo antecedunt mutilaeque sunt cornibus et crura sine nodis articulisque habent neque...

If we're on the topic of whether /ks/ is a phoneme or something: http://www.spinnoff.com/zbb/viewtopic.p ... 710#149710. I see no evidence that it deserves any special mention in English phonology more than /ps/, /kS/, etc. IMO people are probably letting orthography misle them.

guitarplayer wrote:What the hell are you talking about?

Don't you keep the zompist.com change log open all the time and refresh every 2 minutes??????

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We were learning some -er verbs in French once and when the Madame got to ?tter , remove , she couldn't think of any English cognates or easy ways to remember it. Then some silly kid in my class said "remove the otter". I've remembered it that way ever since. :oops: Gah. This is English. We call th...

Although those seals are cute, they also look like they harbor some Lovecraftianly deep ancient nameless Cyclopean unspeakable evil.

I can't believe I went this whole time without noticing we have this picture on the fridge: (forgive the poor scanning)


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Is it just me or is my previous post very underlined? It's because you were talking about <u>, which happens to be the HTML tag for underline. When posting, check "Disable HTML in this post" if you're going to write things that overlap with HTML codes (similarly, disable BBCode if you want , , etc....

Eh, Swedish <u> isn't /u/. It's some godforsaken central vowel(s), maybe with lip rounding or spreading or something stranger (or is that /y/?). <o> is used for /u/ and /U/. (the exact values may be wrong; I've tried to avoid Swedish vowels, for sanity's sake).

theforceman wrote:Right is good, left is bad! How about sinister ('left' in Latin) vs right as in 'the right thing'? I can't remember the Latin word for right right now, sorry. (no pun intended)

Dexter. It already had the extra connotation of "skilled" in Latin before we got the word "dextrous".

Has anyone suggested that you add [] to your list of uses for <x>, cf. French deux?

Attractive. Now that is truly weird. :? Yes. I mean I thought the bald women fetish was weird, but voluptuous semi-animals?? You've been on the Internet for more than a few days and you've never heard of furries? *sigh* Kids these days, so sheltered... http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/1671/sailor.jpg...

...(The other tenses are praesens and imperfect, both with the praesens aspect, and future (and future perfect) with the future aspect) Ummm... don't you mean "present"? And I don't think present and future are aspects... :? Sometimes people still use Latin to refer to various grammatical features;...