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- Thu May 31, 2018 8:25 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Confusing headlines and other trips down the garden path
- Replies: 1058
- Views: 225634
Re: Confusing headlines and other trips down the garden path
There. That's where the garden path is. Spoiler: they are not, and have not been, planning a battle. Thanks, fooled with eyes open :). Me, too. (Now I'm not sure I know what it means :P). I interpreted the second one to mean: there's a sanitary product from Aberdeen (I didn't even bother parsing "s...
- Wed May 30, 2018 11:35 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Confusing headlines and other trips down the garden path
- Replies: 1058
- Views: 225634
Re: Confusing headlines and other trips down the garden path
I have my guesses as to what both of those headlines mean, but I'm not sure whether they're right.
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Libya's Street Racers & Revenge Porn: VICE News Tonight Full Episode (HBO)
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Libya's Street Racers & Revenge Porn: VICE News Tonight Full Episode (HBO)
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- Tue May 29, 2018 9:28 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The Official ZBB Quote Thread
- Replies: 2878
- Views: 644072
Re: The Official ZBB Quote Thread
linguoboy wrote:It happens in a very obscure Southeast Asian spoken variety called "Thai".malloc wrote:And for that matter, I have never seen the sound change l > n /_$ elsewhere.
- Tue May 29, 2018 9:26 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Aʻatun Scratchpad: Inventory questions
- Replies: 116
- Views: 63417
Re: Altrunian Conlang Scratchpad: Inventory questions
Aha, it is for me, too, if I use Chrome instead of Mozilla! 
- Tue May 29, 2018 7:39 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Aʻatun Scratchpad: Inventory questions
- Replies: 116
- Views: 63417
Re: Altrunian Conlang Scratchpad: Inventory questions
I'm on a desktop computer, and I don't see any chi's anywhere on this page.
- Tue May 29, 2018 7:01 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Aʻatun Scratchpad: Inventory questions
- Replies: 116
- Views: 63417
Re: Altrunian Conlang Scratchpad: Inventory questions
It definitely makes more sense to me for [x] to be an allophone of /x/ than of /h/. (Even if the symbols used for phonemes are arbitrary anyway).
- Mon May 28, 2018 11:50 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Aʻatun Scratchpad: Inventory questions
- Replies: 116
- Views: 63417
Re: Altrunian Conlang Scratchpad: Inventory questions
I don't think so, sorry.yangfiretiger121 wrote:Could [e̞ʋ~ᴇʋ ɑʋ] be considered vowels since [ʋ] takes [w]'s place?
- Sun May 27, 2018 7:54 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Confusing headlines and other trips down the garden path
- Replies: 1058
- Views: 225634
Re: Confusing headlines and other trips down the garden path
Damn, what was that person doing that was so bad he punched 'em in the fly?! Also, I didn't know Death took beer so seriously!Soap wrote:FIGHT ON FLIGHT: MAN SPITS BLOOD, PUNCHES FLY, DEATH THREATS OVER BEER
Yeah, he was a little over the top, but that fly really had it coming.
- Sun May 27, 2018 3:30 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Help your conlang fluency (2)
- Replies: 6633
- Views: 745365
Re: Help your conlang fluency (2)
Wowgrrr meow grroove kyom oogrry errorrxcrratching rrekin aeiougrrr agrrr poxxcrratching xo errorrrxcrratching wagrrr-wagrrr. adult.male.mountain.lion NEG know why many error-writing but human eat post-writing so error-writing go.away I don't know what the cause of the errors is, but he's removing ...
- Sun May 27, 2018 1:18 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Help your conlang fluency (2)
- Replies: 6633
- Views: 745365
Re: Help your conlang fluency (2)
Grrompixaeiougrrr agrrr oogrry poxxcrratching grrr kxxx, aixe beste grrakerrr xab caan grroove beste xcrratchingx, meow grroove errorrxcrratching. Zompist-human eat many post-writing CONJ burn thus other animal all can see other writing-PL NEG see error-writing Zomp is pruning posts so we don't hav...
- Sun May 27, 2018 1:13 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Aʻatun Scratchpad: Inventory questions
- Replies: 116
- Views: 63417
Re: Altrunian Conlang Scratchpad: Inventory questions
Nah, that would be five-vowel. Old post to the rescue!
- Sun May 27, 2018 10:19 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread
- Replies: 2225
- Views: 455367
Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread
If it did always have to follow the genes, my native language certainly wouldn't be English of all things.Howl wrote:I don't believe that language always has to follow the genes.
- Sun May 27, 2018 2:52 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread
- Replies: 3108
- Views: 653395
Re: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread
This reminds me of my mom's friend Sarita saying [stʰajl] around 2:15 of this video . In that case, though, I believe it is one of several hyperforeignizations used by all the people speaking in the video (all of whom are friends of my mom's, which pretty much by definition means they're Malayalees ...
- Sun May 27, 2018 2:39 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Aʻatun Scratchpad: Inventory questions
- Replies: 116
- Views: 63417
Re: Altrunian Conlang Scratchpad: Inventory questions
Okay, but what about outside of there?Zaarin wrote:Some variation of /i e o a/ is pretty common in North America.Vijay wrote:I find /i e̞ u ɑ/ more likely than /i e̞ o̞ ɑ/.
- Sat May 26, 2018 8:59 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Aʻatun Scratchpad: Inventory questions
- Replies: 116
- Views: 63417
Re: Altrunian Conlang Scratchpad: Inventory questions
I find /i e̞ u ɑ/ more likely than /i e̞ o̞ ɑ/.
- Sat May 26, 2018 7:35 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Help your conlang fluency (2)
- Replies: 6633
- Views: 745365
Re: Help your conlang fluency (2)
Tweetrrr?
A bird?
A bird?
- Fri May 25, 2018 9:02 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
- Replies: 4604
- Views: 1129456
Re: Help your fluency in a nifty way
I think it's just walad (ولد), i.e. 'boy'.
- Thu May 24, 2018 8:14 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread
- Replies: 3108
- Views: 653395
Re: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread
I used to. In fact, I used to say something like [ʔiːŋgɭɪʃ] and I guess didn't stop until I got sick of my brother making fun of me for it all the time.bbbosborne wrote:does anyone say english with an /i/ and not an /ɪ/??
- Wed May 23, 2018 8:37 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Confusing headlines and other trips down the garden path
- Replies: 1058
- Views: 225634
Re: Confusing headlines and other trips down the garden path
For a relatively clear reason, I was tempted to reply, "Not MY sausage!" but this forum doesn't really have the appropriate smiley to go along with it, and it felt like a pretty corny joke anyway.Travis B. wrote:For some reason I read this in a NSFW fashion.linguoboy wrote:In summary, sausages ruin relationships.
- Sun May 20, 2018 11:09 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Help your conlang fluency (2)
- Replies: 6633
- Views: 745365
Re: Help your conlang fluency
Tab Wowgrrr grrowrry grrr Wowgrrr meow aeiougrrr. 
then adult.male.mountain.lion happy COMP adult.male.mountain.lion NEG human
Then I'm happy I'm not a human.
then adult.male.mountain.lion happy COMP adult.male.mountain.lion NEG human
Then I'm happy I'm not a human.
- Sun May 20, 2018 3:05 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Aʻatun Scratchpad: Inventory questions
- Replies: 116
- Views: 63417
Re: Altrunian Conlang Scratchpad: Inventory questions
I would expect either fronting of some sort or no change. (That's not to say there aren't necessarily other possible outcomes).
- Sun May 20, 2018 2:34 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Population numbers for languages
- Replies: 16
- Views: 12028
Re: Population numbers for languages
Ευχαριστώ, Io! :) Huh, that's odd. Now I don't see anything about 37 million. It does however say "27,300,000 (2015)" for me. Maybe I misread that 27 as 37? Interesting, it sounds like you have access to a more updated edition of Ethnologue than I do. :) The estimate I cited was from 2001. :P Whuhuh...
- Sat May 19, 2018 6:34 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Help your conlang fluency (2)
- Replies: 6633
- Views: 745365
Re: Help your conlang fluency
Aeiougrrr meow grroove kya grrowl.
human NEG know what talk
The humans don't know what to talk about.
human NEG know what talk
The humans don't know what to talk about.
- Fri May 18, 2018 8:56 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Aʻatun Scratchpad: Inventory questions
- Replies: 116
- Views: 63417
Re: Altrunian Conlang Scratchpad: Inventory questions
There are cases of /l/ changing to in some Dardic languages. Surely getting [ʋ] from there should be pretty trivial. Even as a direct change, I'm not sure /l/ > [ʋ] is really implausible.
- Thu May 17, 2018 9:53 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Confusing headlines and other trips down the garden path
- Replies: 1058
- Views: 225634
Re: Confusing headlines and other trips down the garden path
Not really that confusing, but when I read this paragraph in an issue of Time magazine: Besides, North Korea's founder, Kim Il Sung, had a signature philosophy of juche , best defined as patriotic self-reliance. This would seem impossible to reconcile with accepting promises of nonaggression from ag...