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- Sat May 04, 2024 10:32 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Word evolution game
- Replies: 2631
- Views: 273518
Re: Word evolution game
[ɔː] > [uɔ̯] ['juɔ̯s] iós "(to a woman of higher rank than oneself) Mrs., Ms.; (with titles of office) madam; (of judges, justices) your honour" [ej] > [æj] ['jæjç] ieich "(to a woman of higher rank than oneself) Mrs., Ms.; (with titles of office) madam; (of judges, justices) your hon...
- Sat May 04, 2024 8:57 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Word evolution game
- Replies: 2631
- Views: 273518
Re: Word evolution game
[œ] > [jɔ] ['jɔt͡s] oets "(to a woman of higher rank than oneself) Mrs., Ms.; (with titles of office) madam; (of judges, justices) your honour" [çː] > [jç] / V_ ['ʝejç] giecch "(to a woman of higher rank than oneself) Mrs., Ms.; (with titles of office) madam; (of judges, justices) you...
- Sat May 04, 2024 5:01 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Word evolution game
- Replies: 2631
- Views: 273518
Re: Word evolution game
I am getting sick of voiceless palatal affricates...
- Sat May 04, 2024 4:59 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Syntax random
- Replies: 188
- Views: 113890
Re: Syntax random
We didn’t see [only the Louvre]. ⇒ We only didn’t see the Louvre. Yet, the first sentence exists in surface structure with a completely different meaning! For you, that meaning is unambiguously different; for me it’s ambiguous, and can be the same under highly marked circumstances. But, apparently,...
- Sat May 04, 2024 1:36 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4666
- Views: 2057302
Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
Exactly. And in this case there are no convenient historical events that we can firmly peg a transition in our periodization to (such as how 1066 is used as a demarcation between Old and Middle English). Nitpick: The Old to Middle transition is normally dated to 1200, for which the historical peg w...
- Sat May 04, 2024 11:45 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
- Replies: 882
- Views: 1082297
Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
Dunno if this has been discussed already here, but PIE *Hebl- 'apple' may not be a loanword at all, and instead just be a metastethised form of *meHlom. Can't track down the paper from academia.edu I originally read that in, but the gist is that an intermediate form *Heml- underwent ml → bl. Also, ...
- Sat May 04, 2024 11:00 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: War in the Middle East, again
- Replies: 397
- Views: 73335
Re: War in the Middle East, again
There's been (often masked) Zionists actively attacking encampments here in the US, as Emily states.
- Sat May 04, 2024 10:53 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Word evolution game
- Replies: 2631
- Views: 273518
Re: Word evolution game
[cɕ] > [ɕː] ['œɕː] diórhe "(to a woman of higher rank than oneself) Mrs., Ms.; (with titles of office) madam; (of judges, justices) your honour" [cɕ] > [kj] ['ɟʝe.kjæ̥] gaiciah "(to a woman of higher rank than oneself) Mrs., Ms.; (with titles of office) madam; (of judges, justices) yo...
- Sat May 04, 2024 10:47 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4666
- Views: 2057302
Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
Right, begining of the Old English period , not language. It's not like the ol' Angles went to bed one night speaking Proto-Germanic and woke up the next morning speaking Old English. "English", "Old English" and "Proto-Germanic" are all labels we arbitrarily tack on a...
- Sat May 04, 2024 10:46 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: The Contradictory Feelings Thread
- Replies: 666
- Views: 753330
- Sat May 04, 2024 9:57 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4666
- Views: 2057302
Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
You do know there is no good answer for that.Otto Kretschmer wrote: ↑Sat May 04, 2024 7:01 am Is there a set date when English language became well, English instead of being just Proto West Germanic?
- Sat May 04, 2024 9:55 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: The Contradictory Feelings Thread
- Replies: 666
- Views: 753330
Re: The Contradictory Feelings Thread
I implemented what I thought were continuations for zeptoscript... but it turns out they are not. Reason being that my "continuations" freeze the state of the stacks* in time, for it to be restored verbatim any number of times, but proper continuations apparently allow the stack(s) to be m...
- Sat May 04, 2024 12:35 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Word evolution game
- Replies: 2631
- Views: 273518
Re: Word evolution game
[χ.χ] > [qχ] ['œ.qχi] diórde "(to a woman of higher rank than oneself) Mrs., Ms.; (with titles of office) madam; (of judges, justices) your honour" Hardening of initial [ɣ]. ['gai̯.cæ̥] žiyat "(to a woman of higher rank than oneself) Mrs., Ms.; (with titles of office) madam; (of judge...
- Fri May 03, 2024 11:05 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Word evolution game
- Replies: 2631
- Views: 273518
Re: Word evolution game
[ħ.ħ] > [χ.χ] ['œχ.χɛ] diórde "(to a woman of higher rank than oneself) Mrs., Ms.; (with titles of office) madam; (of judges, justices) your honour" [ei̯] > [ai̯] ['ɣai̯.ɟæh] žiyat "(to a woman of higher rank than oneself) Mrs., Ms.; (with titles of office) madam; (of judges, justices...
- Fri May 03, 2024 10:19 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Word evolution game
- Replies: 2631
- Views: 273518
Re: Word evolution game
[ʕ.ʕ] > [ħ.ħ] ['ðœħ.ħɛ] diórde "(to a woman of higher rank than oneself) Mrs., Ms.; (with titles of office) madam; (of judges, justices) your honour" Coda [s] > [h] ['ɣei̯.jæh] žiyat "(to a woman of higher rank than oneself) Mrs., Ms.; (with titles of office) madam; (of judges, justic...
- Fri May 03, 2024 7:04 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Word evolution game
- Replies: 2631
- Views: 273518
Re: Word evolution game
[b d ɡ] > [β ð ɣ] ['ðœr.rɛ] diórde "(to a woman of higher rank than oneself) Mrs., Ms.; (with titles of office) madam; (of judges, justices) your honour" [p t k b d ɡ] > [f s x p t k] ['ʑei̯.jæs] žiyat "(to a woman of higher rank than oneself) Mrs., Ms.; (with titles of office) madam;...
- Fri May 03, 2024 4:01 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Confusing headlines
- Replies: 701
- Views: 551080
Re: Confusing headlines
Two in one day! This one isn’t from a newspaper, but manages to be tremendously confusing all the same: A portable Common Lisp toolkit for building inspectors (As one commenter put it, ‘I was excited to learn how building inspectors were using Common Lisp’…) When I first read the text in bold, befo...
- Fri May 03, 2024 12:06 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Word evolution game
- Replies: 2631
- Views: 273518
Re: Word evolution game
[jɔ] > [œ] ['dœr.dɛ] diórde "(to a woman of higher rank than oneself) Mrs., Ms.; (with titles of office) madam; (of judges, justices) your honour" [iː] > [ei̯], along with [uː] > [ou̯] ['ʑei̯.jɑt] žiyat "(to a woman of higher rank than oneself) Mrs., Ms.; (with titles of office) madam...
- Fri May 03, 2024 10:48 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4666
- Views: 2057302
Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
Re Low German: What you have in Germany are regiolects. The South is different, but in the North they are not based on the old dialects, but on the Standard, they only take over some features from the dialects, like intonation / accent, and some regional words. People normally don't feel constraine...
- Fri May 03, 2024 10:44 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4666
- Views: 2057302
Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
I think you're lumping a lot together here, and also accents like Milwaukee (would you call it a dialect? is the grammar and/or vocab that different from the standard?) are relatively new, as opposed to all your other examples that are of very old varieties. The main differences between Milwaukee d...