Search found 207 matches

by Pabappa
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.
by Pabappa
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.
by Pabappa
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.
by Pabappa
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...
by Pabappa
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 ...
by Pabappa
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/.
by Pabappa
Thu Jul 21, 2005 10:08 pm
Forum: Almea
Topic: Lenani is up
Replies: 52
Views: 19950

Doulos SIL works well for me in both Firefox and Internet Explorer.

EDIT: If anyone is confused, I stole my username from the name in Skourene, not the other way around.