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- Fri Dec 13, 2019 11:47 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The "How Do You Pronounce X" Thread
- Replies: 1782
- Views: 4935859
Re: The "How Do You Pronounce X" Thread
How do you pronounce you in "I love you", "He gives you a present", etc? Is it informal to reduce it? Also, Is pronoun reduced after a preposition in "I'm doing this for you" or "I'm sleeping with her"?
- Sun Dec 08, 2019 11:07 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: If natlangs were conlangs
- Replies: 584
- Views: 504935
Re: If natlangs were conlangs
You can't just make a people in the middle of an ancient sea trade route and say that it's isolated for a lot of time! Please fix this, whoever made Andaman Islands. At least Taiwan aboriginal do trade from Philipines!
- Sat Dec 07, 2019 1:14 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Happy things thread!
- Replies: 1211
- Views: 716453
Re: Happy things thread!
Of all the culinary threads imaginable, the one comparing american and british cuisine is doubtlessly the least interesting. I don't get it. Why? I mean, if culinary can be very different inside the border. I expected it to even more different between countries. In Indonesian, Padang cuisine and Ja...
- Sat Dec 07, 2019 12:05 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: n00b question on linguistic terminology
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3927
Re: n00b question on linguistic terminology
When reading a gloss, this can be useful: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_g ... reviations
- Thu Dec 05, 2019 9:31 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Random Thread
- Replies: 3731
- Views: 451540
- Thu Dec 05, 2019 12:05 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Sound Change Quickie Thread
- Replies: 1333
- Views: 822788
Re: Sound Change Quickie Thread
Actually, pretty good. Swahili lacks a prenasalized voiceless stop. In fact actually, the presence of prenasalized voiceless stop that is unusual.
- Thu Dec 05, 2019 11:07 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Pronunciations you had to unlearn
- Replies: 805
- Views: 540812
Re: Pronunciations you had to unlearn
For some reason, I pronounced Funimation as [fʊ.nɪ.meɪ.ʒən]. It turns out that it's pronounced [fʌ.nɪ.meɪ.ʃən]
- Thu Dec 05, 2019 10:45 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Random Thread
- Replies: 3731
- Views: 451540
- Wed Dec 04, 2019 8:04 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Random Thread
- Replies: 3731
- Views: 451540
Re: Random Thread
It turns out that even in some Muslim countries, burqa is still associated with extremism. https://www.thejakartapost.com/news/201 ... versy.html
- Wed Dec 04, 2019 1:27 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Inflecting the main verb but not the auxiliary?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 8299
Re: Inflecting the main verb but not the auxiliary?
Hungarian also have auxiliary that is not conjugated. I think that it's pretty common for a voice to be marked on the main verb instead of auxiliary, but I might be wrong.
- Mon Dec 02, 2019 9:07 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Language Practice (Help your fluency)
- Replies: 701
- Views: 1063740
Re: Language Practice (Help your fluency)
Tidak, saya tidak menyesal apa-apa. Nderek kawula, "menyesal" inggih menika tembung damelan ingkang intransitif, dadosipun mboten saged dipunminggahi obyek. Menawi sampeyan kersa minggahi obyek, "menyesal" kedah dipunminggahi panambang -i ugi obyekipun limrahipun "apapun&qu...
- Sun Dec 01, 2019 6:02 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang Random Thread
- Replies: 2993
- Views: 2850609
Re: Conlang Random Thread
I don’t see how this is relevant to TurkeySloth’s question. As I understand it, TurkeySloth describes a scenario where e.g. ‘kanga’ and ‘roo’ have separate, individual meanings related to the concept of a ‘kangaroo’ (such as describing parts of a kangaroo). But Kanga and Roo are separate, related (...
- Sat Nov 30, 2019 5:17 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4688
- Views: 2062412
Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
I just looked it up when you mention that the Chocktaw for turkey was fakit.
- Fri Nov 29, 2019 9:14 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Language Practice (Help your fluency)
- Replies: 701
- Views: 1063740
Re: Language Practice (Help your fluency)
Uh, no. My krama is still rusty. Hast du die Seite überhaupt angesehen? Ich denke, dass du zumindest das Englisch verbessern kann. Ich verstehe gar nicht, was es bedeutet. Have you looked at the site at all? I think you could at least correct the English. I don't even understand what is meant. (As ...
- Fri Nov 29, 2019 5:41 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4688
- Views: 2062412
Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- abso-fucking-lutely like in English
- It's good thing I changed my username. Since Akangka means chicken in Chocktaw language.
- Thu Nov 28, 2019 8:04 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Language Practice (Help your fluency)
- Replies: 701
- Views: 1063740
Re: Language Practice (Help your fluency)
This is my first time trying krama inggil in this board Da du bekannt scheint mit dieser Sprache, könntest du vielleicht die Wikipediaseite verbessern. Jetzt ist es sogar kein verständliches Englisch... Since you seem familiar with this language, perhaps you can improve the Wikipedia page. At the m...
- Thu Nov 28, 2019 6:00 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Language Practice (Help your fluency)
- Replies: 701
- Views: 1063740
Re: Language Practice (Help your fluency)
Do you think my usage of definite article is good? Because Grammarly keeps complaining about that. Napa dalem sampun ndamel definite article kantos leres? Grammarly lajeng-lajengan komplain. Apakah Anda berpikir penggunaan definite articleku benar? Karena Grammarly terus-terusan komplain. This is m...
- Thu Nov 28, 2019 5:42 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: [v5.2.0 now out] Conkey keyboard layout
- Replies: 124
- Views: 95599
Re: Conkey keyboard layout [v1.1.0 now out!]
I won't write a Haskell program with -XUnicodeSyntax. I don't know why GHC dev team introduced it.
- Tue Nov 26, 2019 10:59 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Random Thread
- Replies: 3731
- Views: 451540
Re: Random Thread
I suppose your professor arrived in September or October? You definitely could get these temperatures at night or in the morning in Paris (a bit warmer than Utrecht) in September. 12°C or even 8°C during the day wouldn't be surprising in October. And if the building has central heating, it's entire...
- Tue Nov 26, 2019 9:50 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Languages that feel cool
- Replies: 27
- Views: 13831
Re: Languages that feel cool
On the other hand, the English phonology looks cool to me. Indonesia's phonology looks boring. It looks like Average Joe phonology. However, Indonesian's morphology is the cooler one.