Zompist Bboard Again

I like <ň> for /ŋ/. <ñ> is also fine. <ƞ> looks nice. <ņ> would be cool if the cedilla connected to either one of the "legs", but it doesn't (at least in any font that I know, and if it does in some stylistic font, it's basically irrelevant), so it's generally not what I'd use even if ever...

The main reason I kept the plain locative case in Phenglộl as a "vague locative" even after having come up with specific locative cases was that I liked the suffixes; I repurposed the old locative for when the exact location of something is uncertain or changing constantly. It seemed like ...

Phenglộl got a score of 44.5 on phonology and 64 on grammar. (Hopefully no one finds it annoying that I linked to that other forum, it's just that it was where I posted about it... and I think literally 90% of the people here are also there, so...) For phonology: I took the question about voicing d...

Is there any native variety that merges TRAP and STRUT? Well, googling it I found this pdf about Aberystwyth English, which also mentions other possible dialects/accents/whatever with "overlap" between the vowels but concludes that the merger in at least the focused-on dialect/accent/what...

I gave up on this long ago and just always pronounce a written <h>. It's English orthography's fault, not the non-native speakers'. Same, except with homage . That's probably the only word where I wouldn't pronounce the /h/ and would use "an" with, at least more likely than the opposite. ...

Babel [bɑːbəl̪] babble [bæbəl̪] Bible [bɐɪ̯bəl̪] bubble [bɑbəl̪] (At least some of these may come out with a dark L, but I'm not really sure.) fracas [fɹ̠ækɑː] My first instinct was [fɹ̠æʃɑː] but then I noticed that it wasn't *frachas , so maybe [fɹ̠ækɑː]...? AND WTF, that's what Wiktionary says is...

I may have posted this to the other thread but for years I metathesised bowdlerise to boulderise . I still have to think about how to say it almost every time. ... I've always read it as *bowlderise . Every single time I've seen it. Whenever I've heard it, I've just taken it as if it was that and n...

i hope this is the right thread: once i was doing a school assigment really quickly and the person next to me asked if i was just "copy and pasting." i had no electronics near me, all i had was a textbook. i had absolutely no idea what she was asking, but then she added "from the boo...

In careful speech, probably. isle /ajəl/ I have "isle" /aɪ̯əl/ i do, except in fast speech, where it comes out as [äɫ] Oh, good to know I'm not just weird (at least in this case). I could swear that most of the times I've heard it, it's been /aɪ̯əl/, but there seems to be nothing online a...

lawnmower [lɔːmmoʊ̯ʔ̞ʷə], I think. Calvados [kʰælʋɐdəs~kʰælʋədɔs] - never heard of it, but either one seems instinctional in English bulletin [bʊlət̪ɪn~bʊlətʰɪn] or something; my /t/ varies and merges with /θ/ randomly hall [hɔːl̪], or [χ̞o̞ːl̪] if I was startled or distracted by something money [mɐ...

This seems really cool, I like how minimalistic the phonemic inventory is. Makes me think of some South American indigenous language for some reason, maybe Warao or something. Then again, I could just be thinking of Warao because Warao...🤤 Also seconding the Austronesian vibe. Also, a kind of Japane...