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Raphael wrote: Thu Jan 25, 2024 6:45 am I'm posting this mainly because it got me thinking about how someone who doesn't know much about linguistics might interpret it:
bradrn wrote: Wed Jan 24, 2024 9:07 pm
I’ve never been entirely sure about the precise quality of my /r/s, but I’m pretty sure they are labialised, yes.
Er, and how might they interpret it? I’m almost afraid to ask…
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bradrn wrote: Thu Jan 25, 2024 6:48 am
Er, and how might they interpret it? I’m almost afraid to ask…
My first guess is that they won't really interpret it at all, because they'll have no idea what it's about.
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Darren wrote: Fri Feb 02, 2024 9:38 pm A good start, but too many consonants. How about:

/k/
/ɣ/
/m n ŋ/

With progressive rhoticity triggered by vowels turning /ɣ m n ŋ/ into [ʀ mbʙ ndr ɴɢʀ], and blocked by /k/.
Gleb, is that you?
/j/ <j>

Ɂaləɂahina asəkipaɂə ileku omkiroro salka.
Loɂ ɂerleku asəɂulŋusikraɂə seləɂahina əɂətlahɂun əiŋɂiɂŋa.
Hərlaɂ. Hərlaɂ. Hərlaɂ. Hərlaɂ. Hərlaɂ. Hərlaɂ. Hərlaɂ.
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Darren wrote: Sun Feb 11, 2024 2:10 am […] the longest monomorphemic word attested so far is the ideophone /kiɑkɑɸikɑiɑkɑɸɑkɑ/ which (quite aptly) describes a rapid unintentional movement involving frequent impacts (for instance a small child being dropped into an industrial tumble-drier).
Darren wrote: Sun Feb 11, 2024 2:10 am Suffice to say humans are technologically more advanced than Mitsiefa people and fairly similar physiologically (except Mitsiefa people have sixteen heads with a hundred bulbous green eyes each, forty-foot-long poisoned tentacles and the ability to teleport through miles of solid rock and spark hydrogen fusion in their stomachs).
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zompist wrote: Thu Feb 22, 2024 4:26 pmIf our work doesn't get banned in Florida, we're doing something wrong.
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foxcatdog wrote: Mon Feb 26, 2024 12:56 am britification
[ɰᵝa̠ʔa̠ɕi]
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T-stopping equals BRITIFICATION.

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hwhatting wrote: Tue Feb 27, 2024 6:16 am
Raphael wrote: Tue Feb 27, 2024 4:31 am Having read the article, I now understand the headline, but it stills sounds weird to me that, when someone first killed a cat and then later a human being, the headline about them starts out by calling them a "cat killer".
I have brought your wrong priorities to the attention of our feline overlords. They will pay you a visit.
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WeepingElf wrote: Tue Mar 19, 2024 8:21 am R. M. W. Dixon once quipped about incomprehensible grammars that in many of them, the theoretical framework needed to understand them will probably be extinct long before the language described is.
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bradrn wrote: Tue Mar 19, 2024 10:24 am Fascinatingly, the Egyptian–Coptic volume I happen to have open right now notes that ‘I stick to the very old appellation Pseudo-Participle, because [… it is] completely void of any semantic or syntactic meaning, which has its advantages too’.
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Many good quotes in that thread bewailing the state of linguistic terminology:
fusijui wrote: Wed Mar 20, 2024 7:26 am Andrew's Nahuatl grammar/textbook is the kind of enthusiastic oddness that just makes me happy, honestly. Unlike Egyptological grammar (or conventional/traditional Japanese, for that matter), which just comes across to me as grim solipsism in old pickle juice.
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From the Glebst of gleb thread:
Creyeditor wrote: Sat Mar 23, 2024 4:41 pm I like ##, the ghost phoneme: 0000u0uuuuuu101uuu0uu0u00uuuu0
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Torco wrote: Tue Apr 02, 2024 8:58 am do as the vikings did and supplement vitamin D with cod. if you start getting ideas about raiding monasteries, consult your GP again.
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zompist wrote: Tue Apr 02, 2024 4:21 pm
alice wrote: Tue Apr 02, 2024 2:27 pm
Ares Land wrote: Sat Mar 30, 2024 3:33 pmAlso, rickets were very common.
Actually, "rickets" is singular; I can't imagine what a single "ricket" would be. :D
A small rick.

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Travis B. wrote: Thu Apr 11, 2024 5:35 pm
Darren wrote: Thu Apr 11, 2024 4:35 pm
Travis B. wrote: Thu Apr 11, 2024 11:37 amSeriously, what part of [ˌɑ̃ːʁ̃ˤɯːp̚ˈpʰɑːmʁ̩ˤ(ː)] is hard to understand?
Aarghoop Paamrrgh?
The way you spelled that makes me think [ˌɑːʁˤɡuʔpˈpʰãːmʁ̩ˤːk].
This is peak ZBB. It was either going to be something like this or Nortaneous summoning Cthulhu in the Romanization Challenge Thread thanks to one of his romanization schemes. I love it. This is one of those things that is such a niche discussion that I would never be able to explain to my friends.
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Travis B. wrote: Sat Apr 20, 2024 12:33 pm Nort, are you deliberately trying to summon Cthulhu?
Travis B. wrote: Sat Apr 20, 2024 3:39 pm
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hwhatting wrote: Thu Apr 25, 2024 11:18 am
linguistcat wrote: Wed Apr 24, 2024 11:20 pm I'm trying to figure out how cat spirits might speak a variation of Middle Chinese.
How could cat-like spirits speak any language but Miao?
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malloc wrote: Sun May 05, 2024 2:52 pm
bradrn wrote: Thu May 02, 2024 1:10 pmAntepenultimate stress is something which a lot of theories have trouble with.
Yeah, there's a reason they call this phenomenon "stress" I suppose.
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zompist wrote: Sat May 04, 2024 5:10 pm Any sentence, or word, can start to sound dubious if you stare at it too long.
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alice wrote: Mon May 20, 2024 2:32 pm
zompist wrote: Sun May 19, 2024 5:13 pm If you're orbiting a black hole, avoid the plunging region:

https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/17/world/bl ... index.html

Responsible black hole owners will put up warning tape, but this is not always present.
Standards have really deteriorated since we were young, haven't they?
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zompist wrote: Sun May 26, 2024 4:53 pm The more remote a place was, the less translation was done— e.g. Ivan the Terrible should have been translated John the Awesome.
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