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I wonder if words ending in clusters/single stops that would result in a larger cluster from -d are more likely to be spontaneously given a new past tense form. Like, Chagen's example scrape ends in p and pt is a little bit difficult to say so would this change be more likely as opposed to a word l...

The languages of Europe all seem rather European, what with all the voiced fricatives and voicing as the only phonation distinction and whatnot. Not that there's anything wrong with that IF that's what you're trying to do. It's just that we don't know whether this was a conscious choice or the resu...

Sal, try not making a bunch of assumptions about me (or anyone else for that matter), and you'll come off a lot less holier than thou. And yes, you are coming across as that; if I were any less determined to keep this level (of exercise...) going, you would have just talked me out of trying to lose ...

More like Holy shit a noob got a triconsonantal language RIGHT FOR ONCE!!!.

Now that I have more time to reply... The problem with massive self-denial is that staying in control of it is so hard. That's why most people don't get good mileage out of it for long, even if they have impressive early results. But you're already started in, so don't just let go and devour the wh...

How many East Asian languages even have syllabic fricatives? Naxi, Yi, and Miyako are the only ones I can think of, unless you count the apical vowel, which adds Mandarin and Lisu. Apparently Hlepho Phowa has the apical vowel and syllabic /v/, though the latter contrasts only marginally with ɯ, whi...

Well now that I've gone through a nearly complete meltdown spiral (mostly IRL, though #isharia got a portion of it)... My goal is to reach 180 pounds. Obviously, I was trying to do that at a relatively brisk pace. This wasn't entirely because I want it gone fast (though I admit I do), but because ba...

Now someone mix that with Ubykh.

Well, now, you do seem to be making the assumption that I'll be going back to my previous level of food consumption ever. Unless I'm going to somehow gain weight while eating less than before and actually doing some exercise regularly (which I previously was not doing to any degree.) I've known my p...

There isn't a pan-American accent either. You're thinking of General American, and while that is widespread, it's also not absolute; there's several midwestern accents, California's a basket case (several, probably) all its own, the Pacific Northwest has its own quirks, you note the Appalachians an...

Hittite k is represented by h, as you previously agreed. Nakh and Hurrian H1s- results in initial affricate ts- Everything's in its place. This makes me want to cry Both have managed to get banned from Nostratic-L, by the way. Hilarious Nostratic-L now is a rather quiet place where often nothing is...

Mmm, ok. Well it could make sense if it's being used to mark the <c> that "irregularly" retains [k] before i/e.

Adjective Recoil wrote:The Salishan languages. Whose idea was it to have syllabic fricatives?

What do these two phrases have to do with each other?

But to answer your question, east asian langs is who.

Nortaneous wrote:rusanov can you make even one post without going beep boop i am a fascist

glossaphile why do you use <ç> for /k/, and graves for stress marking instead of acutes, and g-circumflex

I don't see any <ç>, that's just as arbitrarily justifiable as acutes, and what's wrong with ĝ?

Slightly less ain't gonna cut it. Thanks for assuming things that were never stated, I've cut my food consumption by well over half as well (It was far above what is necessary/advisable, so don't give me any bullshit about not eating enough). I'm not going to take 6 years or whatever to lose this we...

I think most Americans are not aware of *regional* British accents. Americans are aware, but have basically zero ability to distinguish them by their location. It's not that we can't hear different accents and their differences-- we can-- but we have next to zero real impression of where British ch...

Started doing sit-ups today. It's a good thing for my ultimate goal of losing weight, but god it showed me how badly out of shape I am, in a way my huffing and puffing while walking hasn't >< Situps aren't great for losing fat: might i recommend squats? jumping jacks? lunges? I'm also walking a bit...

Some Books All I get is a login prompt :( Yeah it does require you to have a google drive account. Just make a throwaway one, log out, and never use it again. Or keep it solely for this purpose. Also setting one up is not difficult, I think I clicked a few boxes from my alt gmail account and had it...

Of course not! He's just saying they shouldn't be different from their surrounding languages...oh, wait...

Started doing sit-ups today. It's a good thing for my ultimate goal of losing weight, but god it showed me how badly out of shape I am, in a way my huffing and puffing while walking hasn't ><

And you'll need probably 3-4 books to get a good idea.

I'm not saying you're wrong, but if a language throws around banners and shouts THERE'S A DIFFERENCE!!!~~~ it's worth investigating whether or not there actually is a difference in meaning, or just two (or however many) ways of marking the same thing.

Chagen wrote:Sanskrit frequently uses causatives not for literal "X makes Y Z" sentences but just to distinguish transitivity and intransitivity

As Yaali pointed out, there's no difference between making an intransitive transitive and making it causative.

Aurora Rossa wrote:I don't get it. How does America have six billion people?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxroiTRg7Tg

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