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What do you think of the following sentences? He likes really football. You want to upload quickly the files. They for some reason are not really grammatical for me. The first for me should be He really likes football. The second for me should be You want to quickly upload the files or You want to ...

As for wood and would for me that is another case of two words which are homophonous in careful speech but not in everyday speech - wood here is consistently [wʊːt]~[wʊːd] while would is frequently [wʊː] and sporadically [wɨːt]~[wɨːd] in everyday speech.

Which is interesting because etymologically they're the same word even in English. Spelling pronunciation can be subtle. I have them the same, but i think if someone said the word in isolation i would be able to guess which one they meant from intonation. As is the case with wood/would. I just look...

Probably a better example (because there is no difference in vowel quality) for this is whether one has what I'd call the flour - flower merger. E.g. I merge them in careful speech, as [ˈfʟ̞ɑːɔ̯wʁ̩(ː)]~[ˈfɰɑːɔ̯wʁ̩(ː)], but in fluid speech they are distinct as [ˈfʟ̞ɑ(ː)ɔ̯ʁ]~[ˈfɰɑ(ː)ɔ̯ʁ] and [ˈfʟ̞ɑːɔ̯...

As far as I can tell, US Congressional Committees have the authority to legally subpoena stuff under threat of jail in case of non-compliance, too. In theory, yes, but the last time Congress has arrested and detained someone was 1935; since then, they have always referred such cases to the Departme...

Oh, I am not stating that the US government is innocent of anything here. And in this case, the British government ought to have been able to subpoena those documents from Facebook directly. But threatening someone belong to a third party with imprisonment, and imprisonment not in conviction for any...

One thing I see in people's transcriptions is representing rhotics after vowels like more [mɔːɚ], which to me indicates either a rhotic diphthong or a vowel followed by a separate rhotic vowel in a subsequent syllable. What makes me wonder is do you actually lack a distinction between vowels followe...

The company whose founder was forced to turn over data to the British parliament had not committed any crimes as far as I am aware. Rather, he was forced to turn over data for the purposes of investigating a third party, Facebook, from which they had originally obtained said data by decision of a US...

Part of me is delighted about this, but part of me deplores the erosion of any kind of real due process w.r.t. the seizing of data from people in foreign countries. Sure, the data is originally from Facebook and this helps expose potential (likely) wrong doing on their part, but at the same time thi...

My daughter frequently pronounces intervocalic /ð/ as [d]~[ɾ], e.g. words like other, another, and together, and I am wondering whether this is a new innovation, considering I do not recall anyone my age having this pronunciation (for me, intervocalic /ð/ is consistently [ð]).

jal wrote: ↑Fri Nov 23, 2018 4:12 am Chech

Das Wort auf Englisch ist "Czech". Frag mich nicht, warum Englisch polnische Rechtschreibung hier benutzt.
The word in English is "Czech". Don't ask me why English uses Polish orthography here.

phonetician: [ˌfõː(ɾ̃)ɘˈtʰɘʃɘ̃(ː)(n)]~[ˌfõː(ɾ̃)ɘˈtʰɘʃn̩(ː)]
Portuguese: [ˈpʰɔʁʷtʃəːˌɡiːs], before a vowel or semivowel [ˈpʰɔʁʷtʃəːˌɡiːz], carefully [ˈpʰɔʁʷtɕʉ̯uːˌɡiːs], before a vowel or semivowel [ˈpʰɔʁʷtɕʉ̯uːˌɡiːz]
overshare: [ˌoːvʁ̩ˈʃɛ(ː)ʁ]
oversharing: [ˌoːvʁ̩ˈʃɛːʁɘ̃(ː)ŋ]

For some reason I always have the (unspoken) pronunciation of [ˈmɛkəːbʁ̩(ː)]... Apparently, the American English pronunciation, according to the Cambridge Dictionary, is supposed to be /məˈkɑbrə/, which for me would be [mɘˈkʰaːbʁə(ː)].

Ich wünsche, dass jemand mein Deutsch korrigieren würde.
I wish someone would correct my German.

Ich habe heute auch gelernt, dass Google Chrome "Hundebaby" als "dog baby" übersetzt.
I have also learned today, that Google Chrome translates "Hundebaby" as "dog baby".

Welpin existiert, hört sich doch sehr klinisch an, da Welpe zur Fachsprache von Hundezüchtern gehört. Umgangsprachlich sagt man "Hündchen" oder "Hundebaby". Ich finde das Wort "Hundebaby" komisch. Wir würden "dog baby" niemals auf Englisch sagen. I find the w...

Imralu wrote: ↑Tue Nov 20, 2018 5:37 pm

Linguoboy wrote: ↑Mon Nov 19, 2018 11:25 amFasch niämols.

He pai ki ahau tēnā reo ā-iwi.
I like that dialect.

Ich glaube, dass das ein gewisses Alemannisch ist.
I believe that is some sort of Alemannic.

On one hand I am happy that I got math routines (think ln, exp, sqrt, sin, cos, tan, asin, acos, atan, sinh, cosh, tanh, asinh, acosh, atanh) written in Forth working. On the other hand I am not happy that, compared to the math.* routines in Python which I assume are using C library routines which I...

['ɒ:ɰɐɫ] for both. Is that the same vowel as in orange , moral , Florida etc.? (All of those usually have LOT in BrE.) For me aural has NORTH, [ɔː] with relatively weak lip rounding, and oral has FORCE, [oə] with rather stronger lip rounding. I don't know how dhok speaks them, but I should note tha...

I can make a distinction between the two, with aural as [ˈɒːʁʷʊ(ː)] and oral as [ˈɔːʁʷʊ(ː)], but this is artificial and not natural in the variety here.