Xephyr wrote:Anyone else get a kick out of the wording here? Yeah, I think we've already pretty well established the language's EXISTENCE... what Daniel Suslak (and other field linguists) are doing is something else.Daniel Suslak, an Indiana University linguistic anthropologist, is compiling a dictionary to record the existence of the language.
Unless...
"After three years of living with the Ayapaneco and learning and meticulously documenting their language, I have at last sufficiently demonstrated, in my estimation, that the Ayapaneco language does, in fact, exist." -- Daniel Suslak's PhD thesis
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Hotsauce debate
jal wrote:Let's not derail this thread in a hotsauce debate people, it's a quote thread.
Glossing Abbreviations: COMP = comparative, C = complementiser, ACS / ICS = accessible / inaccessible, GDV = gerundive, SPEC / NSPC = specific / non-specific
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Pthag wrote: <pthag> all i can think of is that maybe american linguistics tends to be full of lumpers
<pthag> or the people who compiled the american dataset for WALS were lumpers
<pthag> or the people who came across the bering strait were genetic idiots who could barely keep five phonemes in their head at once and so were rightly genocided
<pthag> well i mean lumpers specifically w.r.t phoneme lists
<pthag> it seems like a plausible sort of institutionalised how-to-train-linguists thing?
<pthag> when you kids go out and start doing fieldwork, remember to bear in mind the complex and beautiful nature of allophony and keep your phoneme lists tight and controlled
<pthag> MEANWHILE IN EUROPE
<pthag> chaos, anarchy and totalitarianism reigns, nobody has any discipline whatsoever and compiles huge phoneme sets
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[quote="linguoboy, in "The Welsh Copula","]Any time I hear rydw I'm like "OH NOES! Cymraeg Byw claims another victim from beyond the grave!"[/quote]
Maybe it's just me, but I really enjoyed this reaction.
Maybe it's just me, but I really enjoyed this reaction.
agus tha mo chluasan eòlach air a’ mhac-talla fhathast / às dèidh dhomh dùsgadh
(mona nicleòid wagner, “fo shneachd”)
(mona nicleòid wagner, “fo shneachd”)
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But it's good enough to be kept for posterity.Eddy wrote:Because no one likes hearing their work cliticized.
(I suppose that belongs in the Jokes Thread but oh well).
Zompist's Markov generator wrote:it was labelled" orange marmalade," but that is unutterably hideous.
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To provide some context, of course, I was saying that in response to this thread: why are clitics of such interest to Indo-Europeanists?
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Clitorics???TomHChappell wrote:I would imagine anyone who ever hopes to have sex with a woman would be interested in clitics.Eddy wrote:To provide some context, of course, I was saying that in response to this thread: why are clitics of such interest to Indo-Europeanists?
Zompist's Markov generator wrote:it was labelled" orange marmalade," but that is unutterably hideous.
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Asterix and Clitorix
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There was a king named Clutorix, though he seems to be mostly known today as Clodri (a Welsh form of the name).
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brandrinn wrote:"Akhmed, what did you learn in madrassa today?"schwhatever wrote:Hahahahaha, oh they're serious...that link wrote:The danger is that, over time, the usage of our generation will grow so different from the usage of previous generations that we will find their works impossibly foreign, as though we essentially speak in another dialect.
"Sheet, mom, it ain't nothing but a bunch a' hamzas and qaffs in that book they got."
"Are you talking about the Qur'an? But it's the backbone of our literary heritage!"
"Yeeuh, bitch. I'm all like, 'I can't read none of that shit, yo,' and they be goin' crazy over it."
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Herodotus.Drydic Guy wrote:HE DOES NOT SAY BEKOSXephyr wrote:A mysterious, unknown language he's been spontaneously talking in since as long as he could speak?
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Well, Phrygian of course.
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agus tha mo chluasan eòlach air a’ mhac-talla fhathast / às dèidh dhomh dùsgadh
(mona nicleòid wagner, “fo shneachd”)
(mona nicleòid wagner, “fo shneachd”)
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Eddy wrote:Right on!Matt wrote:What's the difference between a banjo and a trampoline?
You take off your shoes before jumping on a trampoline.
Dibotahamdn duthma jallni agaynni ra hgitn lakrhmi.
Amuhawr jalla vowa vta hlakrhi hdm duthmi xaja.
Irdro. Irdro. Irdro. Irdro. Irdro. Irdro. Irdro.
Amuhawr jalla vowa vta hlakrhi hdm duthmi xaja.
Irdro. Irdro. Irdro. Irdro. Irdro. Irdro. Irdro.
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I find that exchange all the more funny because I had specifically included a note to Eddy in that post, explaining that it was just a joke and not a political statement.
Kuku-kuku kaki kakak kakekku kaku kaku.
'the toenails of my grandfather's elder brother are stiff'
'the toenails of my grandfather's elder brother are stiff'
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I fucking love this man.Pthug wrote:no, it won't. except in the sense that one of the many lead atoms hanging around in your nervous system has "a lot of weight" compared to a randomly selected carbon atom.Shm Jay wrote:And my vote will have a lot of weight
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Errata:
Pthug wrote:the chemistry is a metaphorXephyr wrote:Plutonium-239 decays to Uranium-235, which decays to Thorium-231, which decays to Proactinium-231, which decays to Actinium-227, which decays to Thorium-227, all of which are heavier than lead. So yes.bulbaquil wrote:What about the handful of plutonium atoms brought over from the Fukushima event? (Of course, they'd be radioactive and experience radioactive-y things like half-lives, but...)
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roninbodhisattva wrote:Well, that's life for you.Mecislau wrote:That means you were quite literally in the very same classroom as me.roninbodhisattva, saying what class he'd sat in on, wrote:Language Contact with Victor Friedman and Lenore Grenoble.
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Even better than a proto-conlang, it's the *kondn̥ǵʰwéh₂s
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Xephyr wrote:Translation from Salmonish to English: "I have no idea what metal is, except that it's not Classical music, nor played with a didgeridoo, bougarabou, or noseflute."
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Viktor77 wrote:That hardly seems effective. The box could just float back to shore. Unless it was meant to sink, which still seems ineffective.Pthug wrote:you put them in a box and throw them into the seaViktor77 wrote:How exactly do you "bury someone at sea?" Did they cremate him first and dump his ashes? Did they dig him a grave in the sand at the bottom of the ocean? What does it mean to "bury someone at sea?"
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Um... with rivets?Drydic Guy wrote:Because, clearly, we are all stalkers who only want to find and CENSOREDCENSOREDCENSOREDCENSOREDCENSORED with rivets.Travis B. wrote:But Bedelato, why are you so ambiguous about where you are from here? NAE varieties are not nearly as homogeneous as you may think they are; saying you are from the US is not saying much here at all.
At, casteda dus des ometh coisen at tusta o diédem thum čisbugan. Ai, thiosa če sane búem mos sil, ne?
Also, I broke all your metal ropes and used them to feed the cheeseburgers. Yes, today just keeps getting better, doesn't it?
Also, I broke all your metal ropes and used them to feed the cheeseburgers. Yes, today just keeps getting better, doesn't it?
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Ossicone wrote:Anyway, lesson learned - don't have sex in weird carpet rooms.
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Try to wrap your heads around the first sentence!linguoboy wrote:How could I answer a call that you were going to make but didn't?Shrdlu wrote:I was going to call you but you didn't answer.
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The fun stuff is that the phrase is perfectly understandable to me.
Btw, just posting to say "Yay, for being quoted!".
Btw, just posting to say "Yay, for being quoted!".
If I stop posting out of the blue it probably is because my computer and the board won't cooperate and let me log in.!