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Aiďos wrote:Also, what is best for apple? Arze [ˈarzə], anarze [aˈnarzə], beritha [beˈriða] or bercea [ˈberʃa]?

Arze; bercia makes me think of a tree of some kind, maybe a conifer. I may have to steal that.

If you're going to use word order for tense, maybe throw mood and/or aspect into it. Also, consider forming the past and the future tenses with entirely different paradigms (word order for past vs. say, auxiliary verbs for future).

Tones, and pitch accent generally. They make the language ugly, and writing it down is difficult. If they were at least regular in Cantonese or Mandarin, I wouldn't mind, but they're all over the place. What do you mean by "regular" in this context? The difference in tone between two words is entir...

Tones, and pitch accent generally. They make the language ugly, and writing it down is difficult. If they were at least regular in Cantonese or Mandarin, I wouldn't mind, but they're all over the place. Non-rhotic accented English is painful to listen to. Reduplication. It just... sounds stupid. Pol...

Everybody knows about stereotypical Californian English with "like" for every other word, but I've noticed something about the position of said word. "Like" usually occurs either with the topic of a sentence ("John is like, six feet tall", "Harry like, did a 720 on his board") or with the topic of a...

Wattmann wrote:IMO, /v/ would fit in better in the approximant row. Otherwise it's either baroqueifying or messing up your conception

I'm not sure exactly what you mean. Like the Polish W?

This is for a language called Anaraste (anaxrastɛi). It's not too ambitious, very easy for an English speaker. Consonants Nasal: m n Stop: b t d k g Fricative: v θ s (ts) ʃ (tʃ) x Approximant: j Trill: r Lateral approximant: l Vowels Front Near-front Central Near-back Back Close i u Near-close Close...

I had a rather frightening dream, which I can best relate as a story. My house is surrounded by the trees. A forest of them, bare of leaves, black as the snow on the ground is white. The moon, full and unnaturally large, looms overhead. I stand just outside my door, looking into the abyss of wood an...

For some reason, my last name, Carpick, is very rare so far as I know; I think it's a corruption of a Slavic word. Anybody have any idea what that could be? Looks like it's a corrupted or variant spelling of Karpik , which exists as a family name in Polish and means "little carp". Derivations of th...

My native language is English. I'm half Chinese (although I look like a white guy; people are always surprised to learn I'm part Asian) and part English, Scottish, Belarusian, and Ukrainian. My mother emigrated from Hong Kong with her family when she was 12 in the early 1970s, so she and her family ...