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- Sun May 12, 2024 6:58 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Word evolution game
- Replies: 2661
- Views: 274646
Re: Word evolution game
*ts > *ɬ [ɬɑ' n ʒo:] tsanjô "our language" See this is what I mean by evil sound changes. I’ve actually seen evidence of a dialect of a language (I can’t recall exactly but ISTR it was Sinitic) that had *s > ɬ as a result of a push chain; since we’re only seeing one element of the shift, ...
- Sun May 12, 2024 5:07 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4683
- Views: 2061115
Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
I'm no expert, but I do have a Larousse, which says the word was singular or plural till the 18th century; while Etymonline says the English word became plural in the 17th century. while in English the plural agreement is inconsistent and varies by dialect ("maths is..." etc.). I don't th...
- Sun May 12, 2024 4:57 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Word evolution game
- Replies: 2661
- Views: 274646
- Sun May 12, 2024 3:28 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: AIs gunning for our precious freelancers
- Replies: 722
- Views: 137008
Re: AIs gunning for our precious freelancers
The big thing is this: would life be better with, say, China as global hegemon? I am pretty sure that the end of America's role as global hegemon would simply mean its being replaced by another global hegemon, and not some benevolent "multipolar" world that some might assume.
- Sat May 11, 2024 3:00 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Word evolution game
- Replies: 2661
- Views: 274646
Re: Word evolution game
[ɮ] > [ʒ]
[tsɑ'ʒõ:]
tsalǫ̂
"our language"
[tsɑ'ʒõ:]
tsalǫ̂
"our language"
- Sat May 11, 2024 1:02 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: War in the Middle East, again
- Replies: 420
- Views: 74128
Re: War in the Middle East, again
I was linked to this wonderfully refreshing view of the whole situation: 50 Completely True Things (by a Palestinian American). I agree with 98% percent of that. The 2% I don't agree with is the one versus two-state solution part - because the Israeli gov't and the settlers have destroyed the chanc...
- Sat May 11, 2024 12:28 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4683
- Views: 2061115
Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
Where does Swedish-Norwegian-Danish -en definite article come from? ON inn, which IIRC further back was originally a demonstrative, which is also reflected by South Jutish æ even though that comes before the noun under WGmc influence (I have heard that Jutland was originally WGmc rather than NGmc-s...
- Fri May 10, 2024 9:35 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang fluency thread
- Replies: 2431
- Views: 1481104
Re: Conlang fluency thread
Pirenáj: Tento traducír a la Pirenáj, peróc tap mout tempos. [tə̃.to tɾa.du.s̻iɾ a la pi.ɾə.naʃ pə.ɾɵk tap mot tə̃.po] I try to translate into Pirenáj, but it takes a lot of time. Phàang óo ũ thĩung ruman ngá líu tàe sí. [pʰɑ̀ːŋ ʔɔ́ː ʔṵ tʰɨ̰ŋ ɾʊmɑ̄n ŋɑ́ lɨ́ tæ̀ sí] kind what POSS.3S language Romanc...
- Fri May 10, 2024 9:02 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang fluency thread
- Replies: 2431
- Views: 1481104
Re: Conlang fluency thread
Niwanĩ ẽe yän thĩung ga ho lae ék thäe nyẽu màe.
[niwɐnḭ ʔɛ̰ː jɑ̤n tʰɨ̰ŋ ɡɑ̄ hɔ̄ lǣ ʔɛ́k tʰæ̤ ɲɘ̰ mæ̀]
tone.GROUP DAT more language PROX.S than COMP 1S able.to speak EGO
This language has more tones than I can pronounce.
[niwɐnḭ ʔɛ̰ː jɑ̤n tʰɨ̰ŋ ɡɑ̄ hɔ̄ lǣ ʔɛ́k tʰæ̤ ɲɘ̰ mæ̀]
tone.GROUP DAT more language PROX.S than COMP 1S able.to speak EGO
This language has more tones than I can pronounce.
- Fri May 10, 2024 8:48 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang fluency thread
- Replies: 2431
- Views: 1481104
Re: Conlang fluency thread
Ék ĩ dàeim yän mà thĩung ga màe.
[ʔɛ́k ʔḭ dæ̀im jɑ̤n mɑ̀ tʰɨ̰ŋ ɡɑ̄ mæ̀]
1S should play more INST language PROX.S EGO
I should play with this language more.
[ʔɛ́k ʔḭ dæ̀im jɑ̤n mɑ̀ tʰɨ̰ŋ ɡɑ̄ mæ̀]
1S should play more INST language PROX.S EGO
I should play with this language more.
- Fri May 10, 2024 3:51 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
- Replies: 909
- Views: 1083334
Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
For what it's worth I find myself equally unconvinced by arguments of the form "X is common, which argues against its truth because it implies X doesn't change easily due to sound change and we know Proto-Indo-European broke up into daughter languages so we should expect it to show unstable st...
- Fri May 10, 2024 3:03 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Word evolution game
- Replies: 2661
- Views: 274646
Re: Word evolution game
[ɯw] > [iw] ['t͡siw.kɔjs] ciúcuois "( archaising, formerly to a woman of higher rank than oneself ) Mrs., Ms.; ( of judges, justices ) your honour" Labialization of consonants is transferred to following vowels. ['d͡ʒaː.d͡ʒɒ] giágiua "( archaising ) madam, ma'am; ( in fantasy literatu...
- Fri May 10, 2024 2:59 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Challenge: American English as a separate language
- Replies: 30
- Views: 565
Re: Challenge: American English as a separate language
we don't have any different orthographies than our spanish cousins that i can think of: it's mostly a matter of lexicon: they say judías where we say porotos or frijoles, they say guindillas for our ajies or our chiles, they say ordenador for our computadores/as, that kind of thing. oh, and of cour...
- Fri May 10, 2024 10:37 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: AIs gunning for our precious freelancers
- Replies: 722
- Views: 137008
Re: AIs gunning for our precious freelancers
it's common for people to think they're rulers are good: a lot of being a ruler is convincing the ruled that you're good, after all. A multipolar world would be one with an increased amount of violence as the various poles jockey for position with one another. I really hope I don't have to convince...
- Fri May 10, 2024 8:54 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Challenge: American English as a separate language
- Replies: 30
- Views: 565
Re: Challenge: American English as a separate language
Since Travis brought up subtitles: I have the impression that movies, TV shows, etc. rarely get different BE and AE subtitles, while, at least on Netflix, you can apparently often choose between Spanish Spanish, Latin American Spanish, Portuguese Portuguese, and Brazilian Portuguese subtitles. It s...
- Fri May 10, 2024 8:46 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Challenge: American English as a separate language
- Replies: 30
- Views: 565
Re: Challenge: American English as a separate language
[ˈkʰʊː.ae̯.ˈɛːv.n̩ː.ˌɑ̃ː.ʁ̃ˤɯːp̚ˈpʰɑː.mʁ̩ˤː] [ˈtjɛːv.ˈɜ̃ːj.ˌae̯ˈdiː.əː.ˈwʌə̯m.ˈsʲpi.kɘ̃.ˌɪːʁˤ] Kind of on a tangent, but do you have any idea what kind of quantitative vowel length difference you have? When I try and read out your examples they always seem pretty reasonable, except the vowel length...
- Thu May 09, 2024 8:53 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
- Replies: 909
- Views: 1083334
Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
"That argument pretty much can be summed up as "the less typologically plausible phonology should be favored specifically because we don't see it any daughters", TBH." I think a more fair paraphrase is that a stable situation like /k q/ would be more likely to survive, so it str...
- Thu May 09, 2024 5:06 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
- Replies: 909
- Views: 1083334
Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
As for PIE lacking post-velar consonants other than the laryngeals, Proto-Semitic is reconstructed in a similar way (though some Semitic languages at least have shifted /k'/ to /q/), and this is indeed the reason why Indo-Europeanists call them "laryngeals". Thing is, the *k *kʷ *q hypoth...
- Thu May 09, 2024 4:40 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
- Replies: 909
- Views: 1083334
Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
And on that note, IIRC I have seen people who have posited that the laryngeals were something like *x *xʷ *χ.
- Thu May 09, 2024 3:43 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Random Thread
- Replies: 3723
- Views: 450574