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- Mon Jun 03, 2024 1:09 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: conlang speech segmentation...
- Replies: 5
- Views: 119
Re: conlang speech segmentation...
in writing, the spaces between words are enough to produce the self-segmentation of the language flow... Greek called...couldn't stop laughing long enough to leave a message. :) And Chinese, and Japanese, and Thai, and Lao, and Khmer, and Burmese, and… For that matter, even in speech it’s not alway...
- Sun Jun 02, 2024 6:17 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
- Replies: 971
- Views: 1087134
Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
The usual explanation is that it's a fully phonological process where a final -s on one word in a clause like *wĺ̥kʷoms péḱyonti "they are looking at the wolves" bleeds over to the start of the following word ( *wĺ̥kʷoms spéḱyonti ). It looks uncovincing to me. Opinions hold zero argument...
- Sat Jun 01, 2024 3:30 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Triscriptal alchemical German
- Replies: 15
- Views: 552
- Sat Jun 01, 2024 12:19 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: The New ZBB Quote Thread
- Replies: 324
- Views: 341666
Re: The New ZBB Quote Thread
I believe this thread is reserved for quotes made by people on this board.TomHChappell wrote: ↑Sat Jun 01, 2024 12:11 pm“with a straight face, Youtuber Sabine Hossenfelder said” wrote: I’m not autistic; I’m just rude!
Or maybe German.
(But I repeat myself.)
- Sat Jun 01, 2024 4:19 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: bradrn’s scratchpad
- Replies: 124
- Views: 81430
Re: bradrn’s scratchpad
It simply means ‘one which verbs’ / ‘one which is verbed’. So it’s usually concrete, but with the right verb it could be more abstract.Man in Space wrote: ↑Fri May 31, 2024 9:25 pm Can maʔ--to be used for abstract nouns or is it more strictly for concrete objects/persons?
- Fri May 31, 2024 7:20 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: bradrn’s scratchpad
- Replies: 124
- Views: 81430
Re: bradrn’s scratchpad
Nominalisations, participles and passives This is a rather small part of the verbal system, but an important one. This is mostly due to derivation: Eŋes makes very extensive use of nominalisations and participles for word-formation. Even quite basic vocabulary can be derived via nominalisation, as ...
- Fri May 31, 2024 2:31 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Pronunciation of Standard English in America (1919)
- Replies: 144
- Views: 334840
Re: Pronunciation of Standard English in America (1919)
Yep, Wiktionary agrees with my last suggestion: /tɹeɪ/ is ‘traditional British pronunciation, now virtually obsolete’.
- Fri May 31, 2024 2:30 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Pronunciation of Standard English in America (1919)
- Replies: 144
- Views: 334840
Re: Pronunciation of Standard English in America (1919)
i'm confused about what people are saying about "trait" and it sounds like others are too. the book says trait is pronounced /treːt/ in the u.s. and /treː ~ treɪ/ in the uk. i'm an american and in my entire time on god's green earth i have never once heard it pronounced without a final /t...
- Fri May 31, 2024 4:54 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Pronunciation of Standard English in America (1919)
- Replies: 144
- Views: 334840
Re: Pronunciation of Standard English in America (1919)
he transcribes the first vowel in aqueduct as [æ] [æ]quaman (1967) [ɑ]quaman (1973) (also [sju]perman at one point) I’ve always pronounced it with /æ/, but it’s probably a spelling pronunciation. trait has a silent final t in british english ...does it not in American? I’m surprised that it does in...
- Thu May 30, 2024 4:35 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Names, nouns and their (phonological) restrictions
- Replies: 49
- Views: 1164
Re: Names, nouns and their (phonological) restrictions
In France, the all-powerful registrars only tolerated national celebrity or calendar names... until the births resulting from immigration family reunification made this untenable, with the influx of ex-colonised people into the beloved bosom of their ex-colonizers... They say getting the registrars...
- Thu May 30, 2024 7:49 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
- Replies: 971
- Views: 1087134
Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
I disagree; s-mobile appears before consonants, which isn't the case. *h₃ekʷ- , *h₃negʰ- and *h₂eḱru all begin with laryngeals, which last I checked are generally considered to be consonants. (I am aware of the arguments for vocalic allophones; it seems a little odd to me that a language would be c...
- Thu May 30, 2024 4:46 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
- Replies: 971
- Views: 1087134
Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
I say Wanderwort when I mean it. ;) Apparently not, since you just used it to describe a word loaned the incredible distance... across the Mediterranean. This is the precisely why I call it a Wanderwort . :D I think you may have missed the considerable sarcasm in Ketsuban’s post. ‘Loanword across t...
- Wed May 29, 2024 4:16 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
- Replies: 971
- Views: 1087134
Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
I’m sorry, but I’m afraid this isn’t an ‘explanation’: it’s merely a vagueness. Even if I assume that many IE words are Wanderwörter , you’ve still given me no reason to believe that the specific word *meh₂l- is a Wanderwort itself. Given the strong evidence for its antiquity in Fenwick’s paper, wh...
- Wed May 29, 2024 3:37 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
- Replies: 971
- Views: 1087134
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 1:25 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
- Replies: 971
- Views: 1087134
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 1:14 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
- Replies: 971
- Views: 1087134
Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
Yes, Talskubilos is the very same person as Octavià. And his misspelling and his misuse of the word afraid is a trademark of his. I don't think he always fears that this or that is true when he says he was 'affraid', rather that he thinks that way. Actually, to me it reads as perfectly good English...
- Wed May 29, 2024 12:54 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
- Replies: 971
- Views: 1087134
Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
Talskubilos, are you related to Octavia? (They posted on a similar topic about 5 years ago.) As I recall, Talskubilos is Octavia, under a different name. Yes, Talskubilos is the very same person as Octavià. And his misspelling and his misuse of the word afraid is a trademark of his. I don't think h...
- Wed May 29, 2024 12:20 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
- Replies: 971
- Views: 1087134
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. :( Talskubilos, are you related to Octavia? (They posted on a similar topic about 5 years ago.) As I recall, Talskubilos...
- Wed May 29, 2024 11:58 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
- Replies: 971
- Views: 1087134
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… (As they say, ‘what is presented without eviden...
- Wed May 29, 2024 2:34 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
- Replies: 971
- Views: 1087134
Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
The discussion following the post you quoted includes links to a pair of papers by Rhona Fenwick which I think adequately address the entire topic without any need to posit a Wanderwort. The Anatolian terms are just the result of s-mobile; the irregular metathesis from *meh₂l- to *h₂eml- (> *h₂ebl-...