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- Fri May 24, 2024 11:09 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Innovative Usage Thread
- Replies: 558
- Views: 662185
Re: Innovative Usage Thread
English strong verbs have a surprising tendency to trigger analogy, despite being highly irregular themselves (I think there's probably about forty synchronic "ablaut" patterns). I have read somewhere that verbs reached (rought?) peak regularity in the 11th century and since then more weak...
- Wed May 22, 2024 4:19 am
- Forum: End Matter
- Topic: The Index Diachronica
- Replies: 221
- Views: 383665
Re: The Index Diachronica
Today the ID came up in the course of a discussion I had with Alexandre François :o Examples — it would be nice to have examples for each sound changes. This shouldn’t be too hard for any halfway reliable source, although it would make for more work. Given the hyperlinked nature of the new ID , he ...
- Sun May 19, 2024 12:35 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: A planet that moved around its star at more than 99% the speed of light.
- Replies: 10
- Views: 280
Re: A planet that moved around its star at more than 99% the speed of light.
Subbing the Roche limit into the equation for orbital velocity, you get v = sqrt(GM/(r(cbrt(2M/m))) v = orbital velocity G = 6.67 × 10^(−11) M = mass of primary r = radius of satellite m = mass of satellite To maximise the orbital velocity, we need big M and m, and small everything else (could also ...
- Sat May 18, 2024 4:09 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: A planet that moved around its star at more than 99% the speed of light.
- Replies: 10
- Views: 280
Re: A planet that moved around its star at more than 99% the speed of light.
You could get a more reasonable distance if you're orbiting something really massive. Say you're orbiting a supermassive black hole of 500,000 solar masses at a distance of 0.005 au (460 thousand miles); your speed will approach the speed of light. And that is (self-evidently) outside the event hori...
- Wed May 15, 2024 6:42 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: English questions
- Replies: 1406
- Views: 451357
Re: English questions
But, on the other hand, the presence of -n’t seems to be key here: 3. ?? If I had not have had that cake, it would’ve gone mouldy. 4. * If I had have had that cake, it would’ve gone mouldy. Honestly 4 kinda works for me. Interesting… for me it’s completely ungrammatical, no uncertainty about it. &q...
- Wed May 15, 2024 6:38 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Word evolution game
- Replies: 2694
- Views: 277895
Re: Word evolution game
Unmotivated /s/ → /ɬ/ is attested multiple times, although areally not that widespread; Yue Chinese, some Central Tai languages, Hlai, Tanoan apparently. In SE Asia /s/ isn't as stable as it ought to be, it keeps turning into /t/ or /ɬ/ or some bullshit along those lines. edit: MiS's push chain woul...
- Wed May 15, 2024 6:29 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: English questions
- Replies: 1406
- Views: 451357
- Sat May 11, 2024 4:37 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Brassica SCA [v0.2.0]
- Replies: 129
- Views: 81422
Re: Brassica SCA [v0.2.0]
Development has slowed down a lot, but finally got around to fixing this! In the next release, you’ll be able to write extra ŋ kʷ pʷ ɨ ' θ at the beginning of the file, which will tell Brassica to recognise those multigraphs as ‘extra’ characters throughout all subsequent category redefinitions. Ay...
- Fri May 10, 2024 7:31 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Brassica SCA [v0.2.0]
- Replies: 129
- Views: 81422
Re: Brassica SCA [v0.2.0]
I always end up having to make a category "X" which is just all the left over shit like ŋ kʷ pʷ ɨ ˈ θ and never gets used for anything. Development has slowed down a lot, but finally got around to fixing this! In the next release, you’ll be able to write extra ŋ kʷ pʷ ɨ ' θ at the beginni...
- Fri May 10, 2024 2:45 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Challenge: American English as a separate language
- Replies: 30
- Views: 803
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...
- Mon May 06, 2024 7:39 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Syntax random
- Replies: 195
- Views: 114635
Re: Syntax random
I'm trying to reformulate this with a verb that doesn't require auxiliary negation: 1′. "We only aren't anaesthetists" → we're everything but anaesthetists 2~3′. "We aren't only anaesthetists" → we're anaesthetists and other things too 4′. ?"It's only anaesthetists which we ...
- Mon May 06, 2024 7:18 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Syntax random
- Replies: 195
- Views: 114635
Re: Syntax random
Here's my two cents: 1. "We only didn’t see the Louvre" → we didn't see the Louvre, but we did all the other things expected of tourists going to France 2. "We didn’t only see the Louvre" → we saw the Louvre, and did some other things 3. "We didn’t see only the Louvre" ...
- Sun May 05, 2024 6:36 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Random Thread
- Replies: 3735
- Views: 453916
Re: Random Thread
A totally unrelated random musing: Have humans made more transistors, or more things which aren't transistors? I think transistors win out by a large margin. This took longer to find than I expected, but I think I have a candidate: viral particles in the Covid vaccines. First, let's look at the tra...
- Sun May 05, 2024 2:54 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Random Thread
- Replies: 3735
- Views: 453916
Re: Random Thread
A totally unrelated random musing:
Have humans made more transistors, or more things which aren't transistors? I think transistors win out by a large margin.
Have humans made more transistors, or more things which aren't transistors? I think transistors win out by a large margin.
- Wed May 01, 2024 4:45 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Romanization Challenge Thread v2.0
- Replies: 988
- Views: 479134
Re: Romanization Challenge Thread v2.0
Seenku You're welcome 🙏 Initials: /p b t d ts dz c ɟ k g kp gb/ <p b t d ti di ki gi k g ku gu> /m n ɲ ŋ ŋm/ <m r ni n nu> /f s/ <su s> /l (j) w/ <l j w> Major syllable nuclei: /a ɛ ɔ e o (ɪ) ʊ i u/ <a c q e o x f j~i v~u> and so on for all <j v> /aː ɛː ɔː eː oː iː uː/ <a' c' q' e' o' i' v'> /ã ɛ̃ ...
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 6:30 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: "Experiencer"
- Replies: 40
- Views: 4800
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 4:48 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: English questions
- Replies: 1406
- Views: 451357
Re: English questions
Bilabially trilled coronal affricates (advibrates?) are found fairly frequently in Sino-Tibetan too; some language (can't remember which, Nort would know) has synchronic /ⁿdə/ → [ⁿdʙv̩]. Wikipedia says Namuyi has a full set of bilabially trilled affricates /pʙ bʙ tʙ dʙ/ but it's unsourced (well it'...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 6:31 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: English questions
- Replies: 1406
- Views: 451357
Re: English questions
I have heard it suggested that the Pirahã suddenly starting to use /tʙ̥/ around Everett was literally just a joke. Like they were bored and wanted to fuck with him so they started sticking raspberries in random words. Isn’t it also seen in Wariʼ, at least? Yeah. And Oro Win. EDIT: looking it up, ap...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 4:43 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: What are the phonotactics rules for Classical Latin?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1189
Re: What are the phonotactics rules for Classical Latin?
/s/ is always weird phonotactically. Some say it's a vowel.
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 4:42 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: English questions
- Replies: 1406
- Views: 451357
Re: English questions
I have heard it suggested that the Pirahã suddenly starting to use /tʙ̥/ around Everett was literally just a joke. Like they were bored and wanted to fuck with him so they started sticking raspberries in random words.