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- Wed Mar 21, 2012 1:26 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Indo-European Feminine Gender
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1776
Re: Indo-European Feminine Gender
Actually maybe it was you who had said that, my memory's pretty unreliable when it comes to remembering names.
- Tue Dec 27, 2011 10:47 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Ear infections cause Australian languages
- Replies: 54
- Views: 12458
Re: Ear infections cause Australian languages
Wouldn't people with hearing loss be better able to hear sibilants than stops and nasals, anyway? It seems like /s/ and /S/ are some of the loudest sounds in the English language. I've always wondered how they manage to distinguish all those N sounds.
- Fri Dec 02, 2011 12:56 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Only slightly different words
- Replies: 56
- Views: 9933
Re: Only slightly different words
Rad red rid rod Rudd raid read ride road rude .... Plus roid and some nonstandard verbs with -ed.
- Sun Jul 03, 2011 8:30 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Lexicon Building
- Replies: 4308
- Views: 794295
Re: Lexicon Building
inwo soppšim "to give an Inwo answer" where Inwo was a girl who thought she knew everything based on very little experience, and was also very literal minded. Kind of like Rain Man who thought that all hot bathwater was unsafe just because he saw his brother injured that way once 20 years ago. next...
- Wed Mar 23, 2011 9:35 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The dream thread
- Replies: 1807
- Views: 315977
Re: The dream thread
I was hungry and went to a building that had three Asian restaurants in it. The first two refused to serve me chow mein as an entree, they only offered it as a side dish. The third did offer, but in order to get any food I had to go through their complicated ordering system which I didnt understand ...
- Sun Dec 19, 2010 8:40 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Origin of Pharyngeal Fricatives and other consonants?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2707
Re: Origin of Pharyngeal Fricatives and other consonants?
I dont know if it's attested, but a change of any or all voiced fricatives to /ʕ/ doesnt seem unrealistic, as many languages have changed fricatives such as /f/ or /s/ or /š/ into /h/.
- Thu Jul 21, 2005 10:08 pm
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Lenani is up
- Replies: 52
- Views: 19950
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EDIT: If anyone is confused, I stole my username from the name in Skourene, not the other way around.
EDIT: If anyone is confused, I stole my username from the name in Skourene, not the other way around.