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by Frislander
Wed Nov 29, 2017 8:37 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: How to make a spelling without diacritics?
Replies: 24
Views: 6350

Re: How to make a spelling without diacritics?

"ĥ" - does anyone even hear the difference between ĥ and h? Are there any languages that have both the sounds, in non-allomorphic distribution? Me, another native Polish speaker. Actually, both of these sounds are present in my speech. The truth is I have many sounds you probably don't and my Polis...
by Frislander
Wed Nov 29, 2017 5:01 am
Forum: Almea
Topic: New Almeopedia
Replies: 29
Views: 19746

Re: New Almeopedia

The direct link to the Almeopedia from your main page still takes you to the old version: you have to go through the Virtual Verduria page in order to get to it.
by Frislander
Tue Nov 28, 2017 8:04 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: How to make a spelling without diacritics?
Replies: 24
Views: 6350

Re: How to make a spelling without diacritics?

"ĥ" - does anyone even hear the difference between ĥ and h? Are there any languages that have both the sounds, in non-allomorphic distribution? In addition to those mentioned above, I'll add Arapaho, Cheyenne, Delaware, Crow, pretty much all of the languages of the Pacific Northwest, many of the Kh...
by Frislander
Tue Nov 28, 2017 3:23 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Romanization challenge thread
Replies: 3842
Views: 842493

Re: Romanization challenge thread

A thing: /p t t͡ɬ t͡ɕ k/ <p t ƛ q k> /pː tː t͡ɬː t͡ɕː kː/ <pp tt ƛƛ qq kk> /ʋ z l j ɣ/ <w z l j g> /fː sː ɬː ɕː xː/ <ff ss łł cc xx> /m n ŋ/ <m n ŋ> /mː nː ŋː/ <mm nn ŋŋ> /r ʁ/ <r ř> /rː ʁː/ <rr ř> Note: /ʋ z l j ɣ/ become voiceless [f s ɬ ɕ x] <f s ł c x> when clustered with eachother or with stop...
by Frislander
Fri Nov 24, 2017 10:30 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Renaming conlangs
Replies: 17
Views: 6322

Re: Renaming conlangs

You could take the route I did for the Texan Austrian language and call it Frislanderish ( Oehsteraijix coming from Oehsteraij "Austrian person" and - ix , which is a cognate of German - isch ). Somehow that just seems clunky to me (I'd even say Frislandish sounds better), I prefer the ideas I've g...
by Frislander
Fri Nov 24, 2017 6:35 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Renaming conlangs
Replies: 17
Views: 6322

Re: Renaming conlangs

Frisland looks and sounds very similar to Friesland , which is why I called my conlang "Frislandian" and not "Frisian", though I like the idea of "Frislandic" as an alternative name. I'm not gonna change it though because the name has already existed for some 4 centuries now, so I'm happy with it a...
by Frislander
Tue Nov 14, 2017 4:43 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Ossetian diachronics
Replies: 4
Views: 2154

Ossetian diachronics

This may have been asked before, but does anyone have any good sources/papers on Ossetian diachronic phonology, particulaly with regards to the development of ejectives. I just want to incorporate something on that in an essay I'm writing on language contact but I haven't been able to find any good ...
by Frislander
Mon Nov 13, 2017 5:03 pm
Forum: None of the above
Topic: British Sitcoms
Replies: 35
Views: 14926

Re: British Sitcoms

The League of Gentlemen . Not sure how much that counts, it's kind of a halfway house between sketch comedy and sitcom: it has an plot to each episode and a consistent setting but most of the scenes are pretty disjointed from the main narrative of the episode. Also I don't really find it that funny...
by Frislander
Sun Nov 12, 2017 5:28 pm
Forum: None of the above
Topic: British Sitcoms
Replies: 35
Views: 14926

Re: Random Thread

Waiting for God Yeah, you're not missing much, but basically think One Foot in the Grave set in an old people's home we a shit ton more cynicism (if that's even possible). That is indeed one of the greatest of all quotes, and one I actually use in real life. Also, "small... far away ", "so I hear y...
by Frislander
Sun Nov 12, 2017 8:49 am
Forum: None of the above
Topic: British Sitcoms
Replies: 35
Views: 14926

Re: Random Thread

We used to have a few British comedies airing on a local channel (courtesy of the BBC and PBS) every Saturday night, but that was it. One was relatively good, a few were kind of silly, and a few others we didn't even bother with. Can you remember which ones? For many years, it was always As Time Go...
by Frislander
Sat Nov 11, 2017 6:17 pm
Forum: None of the above
Topic: British Sitcoms
Replies: 35
Views: 14926

Re: Random Thread

mèþru wrote:Keeping Up Appearances
Yes, Minister
I love those too! I really wish I could watch more of them but I've only so much time and money.
by Frislander
Sat Nov 11, 2017 6:00 pm
Forum: None of the above
Topic: British Sitcoms
Replies: 35
Views: 14926

Re: Random Thread

We used to have a few British comedies airing on a local channel (courtesy of the BBC and PBS) every Saturday night, but that was it. One was relatively good, a few were kind of silly, and a few others we didn't even bother with. Can you remember which ones? Outnumbered Yes, that's fantastic show, ...
by Frislander
Thu Nov 09, 2017 9:25 am
Forum: None of the above
Topic: Happy Things Thread
Replies: 969
Views: 370521

Re: Happy Things Thread

Partly as a distraction from the awful work I have currently at university yesterday evening I went with many other members of the Cambridge University Guild of Change Ringers to the Thaikhun restaurant across the river from Magdalene, and reminded myself just how much I love Thai cuisine, particula...
by Frislander
Wed Nov 08, 2017 11:59 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
Replies: 4604
Views: 1116717

Re: Help your fluency in a nifty way

Aujord'hui il fait froid, mais il n'a pas plu.
Today it was cold, but it didn't rain.

Je m'ai reveillé à onze heures, donc je ne sais pas si il y a gel comme hier matin.
I got up at 11 so I don't know if there was frost like yesterday morning.
by Frislander
Tue Nov 07, 2017 4:34 pm
Forum: None of the above
Topic: The Contradictory Feelings Thread
Replies: 933
Views: 205198

Re: The Contradictory Feelings Thread

So last night I accepted the friend request of a guy I've known for about a month now meeting him through college chapel. He's a history student, but basically the only thing we've talked about on the couple of occasions we've actually spoken were church-related and I have definitely enjoyed my conv...
by Frislander
Mon Nov 06, 2017 5:08 pm
Forum: None of the above
Topic: Venting thread that still excludes eddy (2)
Replies: 2639
Views: 301878

Re: Venting thread

And yeah, even in Cambridge, Britten is not going to draw in the punters, I suspect. Does he even have accessible pieces? Other than the YPGttO, the Britten I've heard can be divided into the 'inaccessible' and the 'aggressively unpleasant'... although I suppose that by the standards of his day he ...
by Frislander
Sun Nov 05, 2017 7:34 pm
Forum: None of the above
Topic: Venting thread that still excludes eddy (2)
Replies: 2639
Views: 301878

Re: Venting thread

So at Cambridge I'm part of a classical music ensemble, and we just gave a concert in a college chapel. We started out with an audience of 5. We ended with an audience of 3 (I reckon it was the Britten that drove them away: Lachrymae isn't exactly one of his more accesible pieces). I mean I did enjo...
by Frislander
Sun Nov 05, 2017 1:59 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: vowel sound changes 3: this time it's personal
Replies: 4
Views: 2497

Re: vowel sound changes 3: this time it's personal

/a e ɛ/ raise to [æ ɛ ɪ] I think you've mixed up your symbols, /e/ is lower than /ɛ/, so you'd expect a raising change to show /ɛ/ > /e/ not the other way round. As for the nasalisation, my instinct is to say no, no vowel is "more resistant" to nasalisation, but nasal vowels are less distinct phone...
by Frislander
Sat Nov 04, 2017 6:27 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
Replies: 4604
Views: 1116717

Re: Help your fluency in a nifty way

Vijay wrote:What about j'était, or does that not count?
C'est une coquille.
That's a typo. :wink:
by Frislander
Thu Nov 02, 2017 9:57 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
Replies: 4604
Views: 1116717

Re: Help your fluency in a nifty way

Alegre si puedo ayudarte. Tu francés es muy bueno, aparte de dos errores, y una pequeña argucia. Happy to oblige. Your French is actually very good, apart from two little mistakes and a minor quibble. Merci, j'était assez surpris moi-même quand j'ai commencé écrire de nouveau en français. Thank you...
by Frislander
Thu Nov 02, 2017 9:46 am
Forum: None of the above
Topic: A Very Brief Explanation of the British Election
Replies: 323
Views: 93509

Re: A Very Brief Explanation of the British Election

Halian wrote:
Salmoneus wrote:Indeed, part of the wider debate is the Tory attempt to force through 'Henry VIII powers', that would take legislative power away from Parliament altogether and give it to the Prime Minister.
What
Shit, I must have been half-sleep reading it because I missed that, but yeah, wtf Sal?
by Frislander
Wed Nov 01, 2017 12:08 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread
Replies: 3108
Views: 640468

Re: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread

ˈd̪ʲɛ.gɔ kɾuˑl̪ wrote:Khmer
[kʰmɛː~kʰmɜː]
by Frislander
Wed Nov 01, 2017 11:59 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
Replies: 4604
Views: 1116717

Re: Help your fluency in a nifty way

J'écrirai en français de plus en plus parce que pluseirs gens dans la faculté en Cambridge sont français et je veux parler couramment en français avec mes nouveaux amis. I'll be writing in French more and more because several people in the faculty in Cambridge are French and I want to speak fluentl...
by Frislander
Thu Oct 26, 2017 11:58 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Phonemes which are found in <5 languages or so
Replies: 54
Views: 14241

Re: Phonemes which are found in <5 languages or so

Some dialects of Haida have /ʔʷ/, which is pretty unusual if I'm not mistaken. I think I mentioned this before but this is pretty much universal in the Circassian dialect continuum (this is a result of a historical change of uvular ejectives (labialised or not) to glottal stops), I thought it was t...
by Frislander
Thu Oct 26, 2017 11:04 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Phonemes which are found in <5 languages or so
Replies: 54
Views: 14241

Re: Phonemes which are found in <5 languages or so

I was going to propose the nasalised glottal fricative, but apparently rhinoglottophilia is much more common than I thought.