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- Fri Nov 27, 2020 1:03 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The "How Do You Pronounce X" Thread
- Replies: 1782
- Views: 4936607
Re: The "How Do You Pronounce X" Thread
/mənˈ(j)uː(ə)ɹ/
- Fri Nov 13, 2020 8:33 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The "How Do You Pronounce X" Thread
- Replies: 1782
- Views: 4936607
Re: The "How Do You Pronounce X" Thread
Same as "Big Sir", /bɪɡ səɹ/
- Wed Oct 28, 2020 9:05 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Paleo-European languages
- Replies: 808
- Views: 1006017
Re: Paleo-European languages
Dare I ask, what "Romanian 2" and "Catalan 2" are?
- Thu Aug 27, 2020 8:58 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: ZBB Conlang Index (check first post)
- Replies: 32
- Views: 34108
Re: ZBB Conlang Index (check first post)
Finally got around to changing my format to be more web-friendly; it's now at https://zyxw59.github.io/ljb/zyxw59 wrote: ↑Fri Jul 27, 2018 3:05 pm Proto-Ləjbɦahe and descendants: https://github.com/zyxw59/ljb
- Tue Aug 11, 2020 10:32 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The "How Do You Pronounce X" Thread
- Replies: 1782
- Views: 4936607
Re: The "How Do You Pronounce X" Thread
/na(j)iv/ /naɪ.ɛvɪti/ /-teɪ/
Not sure where that /ɛ/ comes from…
Not sure where that /ɛ/ comes from…
- Mon Aug 10, 2020 8:32 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Star Trek (spoilers are likely)
- Replies: 116
- Views: 75141
Re: Star Trek (spoilers are likely)
The first trek I watched in its entirety was DS9, and I absolutely loved it. I've tried watching TNG but I'm not a fan of the monster-of-the-week structure (it's great for watching random reruns, but not suited for bingeing). I watched Picard and Discovery, and appreciated having a season-long plot,...
- Tue Jul 07, 2020 5:27 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Innovative Usage Thread
- Replies: 556
- Views: 662037
Re: Innovative Usage Thread
I think the wording I'd produce naturally would be something like "My wife and my's X" or "My wife and mine's X", which looks totally ungrammatical to me written out, but when I say it aloud it feels natural.
- Sun Jul 05, 2020 6:32 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4692
- Views: 2064669
- Tue Jun 16, 2020 9:19 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: What do you call ...
- Replies: 413
- Views: 1018392
Re: What do you call ...
Flash drive or thumb drive (but it's been years since I've regularly used one, thanks to improvements in the speed and convenience of sending files over the internet)
- Sat May 16, 2020 7:39 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4692
- Views: 2064669
Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
I don't think of "burning CDs" as metaphorical at all — the CD burner uses a laser to activate heat-sensitive dyes in the disk.
- Sat May 16, 2020 5:16 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: The Contradictory Feelings Thread
- Replies: 666
- Views: 754219
Re: The Contradictory Feelings Thread
I'm about to start DMing a D&D game on Tuesday. On the one hand, I'm really excited, but on the other hand, this is basically the first time ever that I've DM'd (apart from a couple sessions when I was in middle school), so I'm afraid I'll do a bad job of running the game. In college, I spent so...
- Thu Apr 23, 2020 8:38 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Random Thread
- Replies: 3734
- Views: 453078
Re: Random Thread
I love the smell of coffee, find the taste alright, but my stomach disagrees with the caffeine content (or maybe something else; decaf still makes me feel sick, but to a lesser extent than regular) Fortunately, black tea is sufficiently caffeinated to give me a productivity boost without making me f...
- Sat Apr 11, 2020 12:05 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Dream sharing thread
- Replies: 218
- Views: 291231
Re: Dream sharing thread
A couple nights ago, I had a dream in which there was a real place and/or people called Catan (like the board game), and their wikipedia article linked to another article, about their language. The native name for the language started with the phoneme /ʰd͜b/ — a pre-aspirated voiced alveolo-labial ...
- Sun Mar 01, 2020 9:54 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Confusing headlines
- Replies: 701
- Views: 552792
- Wed Jan 22, 2020 10:47 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Confusing headlines
- Replies: 701
- Views: 552792
Re: Confusing headlines
Not only does it have 7 nouns in a row in its intended parsing, the main verb also looks like a noun, making it look like a preposition followed by nine nouns.
- Sat Dec 07, 2019 10:18 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Rare/unusual natlang features
- Replies: 119
- Views: 110474
Re: Rare/unusual natlang features
Russian "царь" and German "Kaiser" are both eponyms from Caesar.
- Sat Oct 26, 2019 12:05 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Confusing headlines
- Replies: 701
- Views: 552792
- Wed Aug 21, 2019 9:45 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Confusing headlines
- Replies: 701
- Views: 552792
Re: Confusing headlines
Sobering report on guns used in crimes
- Tue Jul 02, 2019 4:24 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4692
- Views: 2064669
Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
If it's a type of (river) dolphin specific to the Yangtze, it's a [Yangtze] river dolphin. If it's a dolphin that just happens to have been found in the Yangtze, it's a [Yangtze River] dolphin. A [New York] [city bus] could be any city bus in the state of New York (but still probably in NYC); a [New...
- Thu Jun 27, 2019 1:25 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The "How Do You Pronounce X" Thread
- Replies: 1782
- Views: 4936607
Re: The "How Do You Pronounce X" Thread
The only of those words I've ever heard of is omniscience, and I've never heard it pronounced any other way than /ɒmˈnɪʃəns/