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- Fri May 31, 2024 12:31 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: United States Politics Thread 46
- Replies: 1454
- Views: 449651
Re: United States Politics Thread 46
As mentioned above, the real choice is between fascism and non-fascism, not between American hegemony and a "multipolar" world -- seeking a "multipolar" world by installing a fascist in America will only result in a fascist-dominated world not the desired "multipolar" w...
- Fri May 31, 2024 10:23 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Pronunciation of Standard English in America (1919)
- Replies: 140
- Views: 334468
Re: Pronunciation of Standard English in America (1919)
"in the popular dialects" [θ] and [ð] are sometimes completely replaced by [t] and [d]: think [tɪŋk], that [dæt] — i've heard [dæt] before, but never [tɪŋk], at least not from a u.s. native speaker I think "popular" here might mean "AAVE". TH-stopping exists sporadical...
- Thu May 30, 2024 5:00 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Names, nouns and their (phonological) restrictions
- Replies: 45
- Views: 918
Re: Names, nouns and their (phonological) restrictions
And anyways, anyone who writes a system that won't accept arbitrary UTF-8 ought to be ashamed of themselves.
- Thu May 30, 2024 4:55 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Names, nouns and their (phonological) restrictions
- Replies: 45
- Views: 918
- Thu May 30, 2024 1:14 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: United States Politics Thread 46
- Replies: 1454
- Views: 449651
Re: United States Politics Thread 46
Anyone who thinks the Democrats are "elitist" is regurgitating Republican propaganda, if perhaps second-hand. Really? You don't understand how the likes of: Bill "NAFTA" Clinton Barack "Go to school!" Obama Hillary "$12 is enough" Clinton Joe "Stop strik...
- Thu May 30, 2024 9:50 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: United States Politics Thread 46
- Replies: 1454
- Views: 449651
Re: United States Politics Thread 46
I personally am a socialist, and really only vote Democrat because due to how our electoral system works, any non-vote for the Democrats equals a vote for the Republicans, who are infinitely worse as we all know. But at the same time, criticizing the Democrats without criticizing the Republicans sou...
- Wed May 29, 2024 3:34 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
- Replies: 961
- Views: 1086389
Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
The thing about true Wanderwörter is they are dead obvious -- words traveling between many unrelated and loosely related languages with gradual changes over space that do not obey typical sound changes within language groups as if they were inherited. I am sure if there were so many Wanderwörter peo...
- Wed May 29, 2024 3:15 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
- Replies: 961
- Views: 1086389
Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
My point is although these words are more or less distantly related, they can't be derived from a single PIE protoform. I'm affraid Fenwick and other scholars deceive themselves. :( And yet, you’re yet to give us any actual reasons why you think this… OK, I owe you an explanation. From my own resea...
- Wed May 29, 2024 2:59 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang fluency thread
- Replies: 2502
- Views: 1487202
- Wed May 29, 2024 2:36 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: United States Politics Thread 46
- Replies: 1454
- Views: 449651
Re: United States Politics Thread 46
The Democrats may not be ideal, but anyone who thinks that the Republicans are somehow better than them (including the people who think that the Republicans somehow favor the working class or that the Democrats should not be voted for because they are "elitist") [...] I don't have the imp...
- Wed May 29, 2024 1:16 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
- Replies: 961
- Views: 1086389
Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
But I have the impression that Talksubilos hasn't grasped that the inconvenience of the fact is an important facet of the semantics of afraid . But then I am not a native English speaker and may be wrong ;) What I get out of Talskubilos's use of the word afraid is that they are insisting that they ...
- Wed May 29, 2024 1:03 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang fluency thread
- Replies: 2502
- Views: 1487202
Re: Conlang fluency thread
- make, create, khayta
think-AGT.1.S-PRES COMP should-PRES COMP create-AGT.1.S-PRES-PAT.3.P.INAN words exist-COM-AGT.3.P.INAN-PRES-PAT.3.P.INAN /ay/ or /aw/.
I think I should make more words with /ay/ or /aw/.
- Wed May 29, 2024 11:42 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: United States Politics Thread 46
- Replies: 1454
- Views: 449651
Re: United States Politics Thread 46
The Democrats may not be ideal, but anyone who thinks that the Republicans are somehow better than them (including the people who think that the Republicans somehow favor the working class or that the Democrats should not be voted for because they are "elitist") is frankly either a fool or...
- Wed May 29, 2024 10:44 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang Random Thread
- Replies: 3051
- Views: 2866117
Re: Conlang Random Thread
What I have done with Fad'ami is first to give each morpheme a number of different forms depending on what precedes it phonetically, and secondly to primarily put things like geminates, aspirated consonants, and ejectives in roots, and avoid them in affixes (there are a couple notable ejectives in a...
- Tue May 28, 2024 4:16 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Resources Thread
- Replies: 99
- Views: 70772
Re: Resources Thread
Um, French verbal clitics are already morphemes, and always have been…! Really? I thought they were still clitics. So what are some papers that discuss this aspect of French morphology? Clitics are morphemes… I’m wondering if you perhaps mean ‘affixes’? In response to which I submit that ‘clitic’ a...
- Tue May 28, 2024 10:08 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang fluency thread
- Replies: 2502
- Views: 1487202
Re: Conlang fluency thread
jal wrote: ↑Tue May 28, 2024 5:23 amDem fo specal luk ahcip fi tok.Travis B. wrote: ↑Sat May 25, 2024 10:11 pmYour posts look hard to write.Rounin Ryuuji wrote: ↑Sat May 25, 2024 9:39 pm[í.ˑɫ̪ʷò̞ᵝ jǿ̞ᵝˑc͡çì t̪ʰí.jò̞ᵝː.n̪ɐ̞́ˑ.s̪ʉ̀ᵝ.ɾ̪ʉ̀ᵝ t̪ʰi̯é̞ːˑ.ɲò̞ᵝː ɐ̞́ˑ.ɾ̪ʲì]
They especially look difficult to speak.
- agree with (trans.), q'atti
agree-AGT.1.S-PRES-PAT.2.S
Agreed.
- Sun May 26, 2024 10:37 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang fluency thread
- Replies: 2502
- Views: 1487202
Re: Conlang fluency thread
- vary (intr.), caat'e
- many (coll.), niina
know-AGT.1.S-PST.IPFV-NEG exist-DAT language Japan-GEN many sounds-GEN vary-ADJ.PAT-GEN-P
I did not know Japanese had so many allophones.
- Sun May 26, 2024 7:54 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang fluency thread
- Replies: 2502
- Views: 1487202
Re: Conlang fluency thread
Ximaajafaabin zon man.
think-ADJ.PAT-COMPARE-RES-ABL-AGT.2.S DIST.S.INAN 3.S-ACC
You have put more thought in that than me.
think-ADJ.PAT-COMPARE-RES-ABL-AGT.2.S DIST.S.INAN 3.S-ACC
You have put more thought in that than me.
- Sun May 26, 2024 3:36 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Happy things thread!
- Replies: 1221
- Views: 719061
Re: Happy things thread!
Congrats!
- Sat May 25, 2024 11:48 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang fluency thread
- Replies: 2502
- Views: 1487202
Re: Conlang fluency thread
alphabet, alfabet letter, character, sign, symbol, khaafu Bakizinuya fad'amii aana khaafutam alfabetit ingalisit taguyeyat'a ⟨p⟩ ay ⟨v⟩. use-AGT.3.S.INAN-HAB-PAT.3.P.INAN language-POSS.1.P-ERG all letter-GEN-P alphabet-GEN English-GEN COP-AGT.3.P.INAN-PRES-PAT.3.P.INAN-NEG ⟨p⟩ or ⟨v⟩. Fad'ami uses ...