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- Fri May 10, 2024 9:35 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang fluency thread
- Replies: 2430
- Views: 1480673
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. [pʰāːŋ ʔɔ́ː ʔṵ tʰɨ̰ŋ ɾʊmɑ̄n ŋɑ́ lɨ́ tæ̀ sí] kind what POSS.3S language Romance...
- Fri May 10, 2024 9:02 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang fluency thread
- Replies: 2430
- Views: 1480673
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: 2430
- Views: 1480673
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: 903
- Views: 1083050
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: 2654
- Views: 274378
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: 539
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: 719
- Views: 136886
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: 539
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: 539
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: 903
- Views: 1083050
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: 903
- Views: 1083050
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: 903
- Views: 1083050
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: 3722
- Views: 450240
- Thu May 09, 2024 3:24 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
- Replies: 903
- Views: 1083050
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 2:53 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4681
- Views: 2058778
Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
I'm with Linguoboy here -- the reasons against the substratum hypothesis for do-support seem quite strong, and I am not going to repeat them here because they have already been stated in this thread.
- Thu May 09, 2024 2:51 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: United States Politics Thread 46
- Replies: 1417
- Views: 444600
Re: United States Politics Thread 46
I think Travis's point, which I agree with, is about which way to vote, not about discrediting protests. Please show me where in my OP I said a damn word about voting or not voting. He simply ignored the content of my post to ride his old hobby horse about voting. Obviously you would delegitimize c...
- Thu May 09, 2024 2:18 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: AIs gunning for our precious freelancers
- Replies: 719
- Views: 136886
Re: AIs gunning for our precious freelancers
Torco, you seem to believe that Trump as president won't result in Trump pushing fascism on a global scale. Do you seriously believe this is true? Do you seriously believe that Trump will not help support fascists outside the US such as Orbán and Putin?
- Thu May 09, 2024 11:52 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Challenge: American English as a separate language
- Replies: 30
- Views: 539
Re: Challenge: American English as a separate language
Let's see if I can puzzle things out: [ˈkʰʊː.ae̯.ˈɛːv.n̩ː.ˌɑ̃ː.ʁ̃ˤɯːp̚ˈpʰɑː.mʁ̩ˤː] Could I have an Arnold Palmer? [ˈtjɛːv.ˈɜ̃ːj.ˌae̯ˈdiː.əː.ˈwʌə̯m.ˈsʲpi.kɘ̃.ˌɪːʁˤ] Do you have any idea what I'm speaking here? It looks rather outlandish, but when I articulate it, I understand, and it isn't that diff...
- Thu May 09, 2024 10:57 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Challenge: American English as a separate language
- Replies: 30
- Views: 539
Re: Challenge: American English as a separate language
I think you're onto something here. The case can definitely be made that global communication does do a bit to slow the otherwise natural drift, though, mainly from American English to other varieties--e.g. I notice more and more younger Englishmen in media engaging in very American-sounding yod-dr...
- Thu May 09, 2024 10:41 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Challenge: American English as a separate language
- Replies: 30
- Views: 539
Re: Challenge: American English as a separate language
...and that I would have no expectation that a Brit would readily understand my own speech unless I was deliberately approximating GA... Curious... Any audio clips? I have no audio clips of my natural, everyday speech that I can readily locate at the moment, and my problem with that is that when I ...