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Seems interesting (I'm big ups for anything which puts retroflexes in Latin) but I need more crunch. Let's get some grammar going. How about translating the bear joke (ursus in tabernam introiit et cerevisiam imperavit...)?

Lots of people here are not native speakers of English . Can't we just assume it was an unfortunate choice of words and move on? Everyone makes mistakes, like when George W. Bush said Pakis thinking it was akin to Kiwi or Canuck ? I am amazed at the lack of cognitive dissonance on your part. Don't ...

Boşkoventi wrote:-- "Good" and "food" don't rhyme, but they used to.

Not in southern British English or American English, but in northern British dialects they do.

No special word for it, I've never even seen mestizo ice-cream like that before.

I don't mind smooth ice-cream like that, but that does look like a particularly vile and unappetising example.

First off, why are there separate letters for /ks/ and /ps/, and for no other clusters? What privileges those two? The unusual use of special letters for the consonant clusters [kʰs] and [pʰs] can be explained by the fact that these were the only combinations allowed at the end of a syllable. With ...

I wholeheartedly agree with the embargo on nooblangs, but an episode on common beginner mistakes might be productive.

You German People shouldn't have Complaints. You capitalize Every Noun and it is an Annoyance. This was a relatively standard Practice in English until fairly recently, and I seem to recall reading an Article which stated that it improves reading Comprehension by providing a distinctive visual Hook...

I'm kind of surprised you didn't want to give them to the ktuvoks... The intent was to see what would happen if their armies had the resources to eradicate those swamps and rid Eretald of ktuvoki influence completely, thus preventing the later resurgence of Dhekhnam. If I wanted to empower the ktuv...

(That's Things To Do With A Time Machine: Almean Edition .) Here's the rules. You have a TARDIS. You are able to go to any one point in Almean recorded history and change something. The goal is not to try and create a better "present" - it is to dick around with history and see what happens. For ins...

Most people seem to have /l/; I don't often hear /klan/-dudno and /klaneli/ (never ever heard /klanekli/ and it sounds so wrong I doubt I'd recognize it straightaway). But Llangollen is /(k)laŋgɒθlən/ (never /(k)laŋgɒ(k)lən/), and Pwllheli is /pwəθɛli/ (never /pwə(k)lɛli/). So... It varies; it's no...

The distinction between *p/*m and *pʷ/*mʷ would appear to be inherited from Proto-Oceanic, which has separate *p/*ᵐb/*m and *pʷ/*ᵐbʷ/*mʷ. (Citation: Ross, Malcolm D.; Andrew Pawley; Meredith Osmond, eds. (1998). The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic: Volume 1, Material Culture. Canberra: Australian National ...

I can't be at all certain about it since I'm no phonetician, but from feeling the way my mouth moves I'd guess [ʋʷ], possibly with slight prevelarisation. (Intrusive R is only rounded if the previous vowel is rounded.)

e: Southern England, native speaker, probably should mention that, huh.

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[wɪkʰᵻ'pʰidiə]

My suggested revision: Paradise Oskar is a facade , behind which we find the 20 year old singer-songwriter Axel Ehnström from Helsinki. Axel couldn't sing before he learned to walk, but he has always been willing to learn things. This characteristic landed him the opportunity to study music at the P...

Jetboy wrote:Any particular reason for /k q qʷ/ instead of /c k kʷ/?

Some people presume areal influence from PNC which had uvulars.

I too prefer /x χ xʷ/, but it's the same basic principle and I'd reached the same conclusion independently.

So yes, they might.

Drydic Guy wrote:Oh, also, nothing but MS Works can read MS Works files, since MS is a bitch and won't release its format.

There's an open-source library for reading wps files cryptically named libwps, or the online converter service Zamzar; this page gives recommendations.

zompist wrote:I also added a couple of .wav files, though I am not entirely happy with them.

The example sentence ("If you love Kebri so much...") is missing the pǎe which is present in the recording.

I believe Dhokarena is talking about this line To count 1-8, you use the fingers, starting with the left little finger (indeed, the fingers are named jûhɛ^ŋ , ròhɛ̂ŋ , etc., up to rɔ`rhɛ̂ŋ , the right little finger). As a corollary, perhaps, Lé point with the left little finger. which looks more lik...

"OW".

Ollock wrote:By the way, Episode One is up: http://conlangery.conlang.org/2011/05/3 ... y-conlang/

Couldn't help but notice that in the intro you pronounced it [koŋlæŋgəɹi].

A fourth could be that syllable breiks are not indicated: <hauista> can be /ha.uista/ [haujsta] (plural elativ of <haku>) or /hau.ista/ [hawwista] (partitiv of <hauis>) learn to spell ffs I agree that "breik" is hideous (there's a better way of less ambiguously indicating a FACE vowel, and it's <br...

The cleavage of ST [Sino-Tibetan] into a Sinitic and TB [Tibeto-Burman] branch rests on a hypothetical ST vowel *ə which has been retained in OC [Old Chinese] but has merged with ST *a in TB. There are occasional hints, however, that the TB proto-language might have also made this distinction (STC ...

b{FORCE}ʒw{BATH}

With initial {NURSE}, {FOOT} or {GOOSE} it sounds like some sort of medical condition.