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There is an Arabic word tabl "drum", from Persian word tabir/tabil (same meaning), which would be a variation of "tanbur" (luth) ultimately from Sumerian "pantur" (long luth). The shift from luth > drum is explained quite transparently as the sound box of many ancient lux was structurally a drum (an...

Pole wrote: Compared to /e: wa/ in some places in French – yep.

This changes has multiple intermedieray steps though:

eː > e > ei > oi > oe > wɛ > wa

Put this way there's nothing really special about it.

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Drydic Guy wrote:Great, now dhok's terrible phase is enshrined forever.

Don't worry no one actually reads back this thread [inb4 doing it just to disprove this sentence]

You don't actually speak Welsh, shut up.

Another possibility, iirc, may be that Vulgar Latin simply never underwent the -om > -um change that affected Classical Latin, and thus instead retained the Old Latin final -om up until the dialect split into Romance languages.

There are different things going on. Intervocalic [b] is generally preserved as [v/β] in all romance languages, but there might be sporadic loss habeo > *ayyo > ai/ho/he (but habere > avoir/avere/haber; habere habeo > aurai/avrò/habré) tenebam > tenía (but cantabam > cantaba) Intervocalic [d] is los...

SHHH!

Dammit we got enough stupid people, no need to put up ads.

The problem with what you just said is that, in this particular thread, while I have indeed very straightforwardly expressed what I thought, I have also been uncaracteristically not rude, I have simply made argumented statements about what I think GR is doing; these are probably not pleasant stateme...

Actually, the real problem is that you do nothing on this board other than go around trying to start argument with people - in this case, with somebody who hadn't said anything at all for an entire week before you went at him! I'll trust your expertise as a grand professional of the activity of doi...

Basilius > Radius asked what was the difference between several similar sounding kinds of emotions that were mentionned. He was asking a technical, psychological question, and expected a similar answer. Instead, Gray R. implied, pretty clearly, that Radius was an idiot who didn't know what words mea...

Gray Richardson > stop trying to defend the thesis of authors whom you haven't read [especially when your main mode of argumentation to do so is to systematically assume that your opponent is an idiot who just doesn't get the point being made (yes this is what you're doing, no matter how politely an...

Zayk wrote:<Legion> you're irrational!!!!

ahahaha

You realise this was me parodying you, right?

Well no you don't, since you're a retard.

French notably likes to have latinate correspondents (often adjectives) to common nouns or verbs: fater > père/paternel bishop > évêque/épiscopal church > église/ecclésiastique sheep > mouton/ovin cattle > vache/bovin building > immeuble/immobilier flesh > chair/carnivore, carnassier horse > cheval/...

I know that of course. But that someone who has already commited 250+ posts on this forum hasn't yet learned that is dishearting.

In general, I can't stand velar or uvular fricatives. They hurt my ears to listen to, and they hurt my throat to try and say. Thus, I dislike any languages with extensive use of these sounds. Also, I for some reason, don't like any languages with a very phonetic alphabet, like spanish, or Turkish. ...

Notice how most people who post in this thread now are noobs.

Lock this thread.

It occasionally snows in North Africa you know.

I too get tested regularly to see if I have AIDS. Of course I am still a virgin, but you never know, many people catch AIDS everyday, what if I'm one of them??? What do you mean "not at risk"???

Because: 1) Not everyone is a poseur with a i-phone or a small flat computer which they call a phone but who are they kidding exactly 2) V is actually much easier to read in a glance than 11:05 [this is the reason you don't find watches with this latter kind of display anymore] 3) There are watches ...

Pthagnar wrote:being an epicurean is fucking hard and I have no idea how the ancients managed it.

i keep trying, but just when I think I'm out, the double daemons of the Church and Socialism pull me back in

bíí’oxúyoo wrote:Not to mention reality.

Pthagnar wrote:that's a weird way to put "Fascism and Buddhism"

So... two different French dialects. In both dialects, the c- in the word's root became [g] (Latin caue- + diminutive suffix - ola , cf. Latin cauea > French cage ). In Parisian French, word-initial [k, g] were palatalized to [tʃ, dʒ] before [a], but that didn't happen in Anglo-Norman. Nitpick: as ...

You people are insane. How is "Yoyo John aba"any more likely to say "this is John" (how do you even know such a structure exists in the first place?) than "I am John" or even "Hello John", or "John is a boy" or... No, this excerpt is gibberish and anyone arguing otherwise ought to be lapidated with ...

Oh come on, that text is easy peasy. Just go through it methodically and it's obvious: yoyo = ? john = john aba = ? "this is john"?? because it's the simplest translation, it's the first introductory sentence in the book, so that kind of sentence is likely No it isn't, in any fashion. Learning does...

French schoolchildren are taught something more like this: http://us.123rf.com/400wm/400/400/penguinn/penguinn1104/penguinn110400008/9214417-alphabet-d-39-ecriture-precises-sur-une-feuille-de-papier.jpg Certainly not. http://eppee.ouvaton.org/IMG/jpg/ecolier.jpg http://www.doc-cp-ce1.net/polices_ca...