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- Sun Jun 02, 2024 6:45 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Triscriptal alchemical German
- Replies: 12
- Views: 330
Re: Triscriptal alchemical German
What would make this better is if we could find one of these texts that also incorporates Tironian notes . The only Tironian note I've ever seen used anywhere is ⁊. Sure, it may be the only one in modern usage, and then pretty much just in Ireland and Scotland, but are we just considering documents...
- Sun Jun 02, 2024 6:28 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Triscriptal alchemical German
- Replies: 12
- Views: 330
Re: Triscriptal alchemical German
The only Tironian note I've ever seen used anywhere is ⁊.Glass Half Baked wrote: ↑Sun Jun 02, 2024 5:54 pm What would make this better is if we could find one of these texts that also incorporates Tironian notes.
- Sun Jun 02, 2024 3:43 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Triscriptal alchemical German
- Replies: 12
- Views: 330
Re: Triscriptal alchemical German
Here's another example of the same idea in print, with German in blackletter and Latin in antiqua:
<☿🜄> = Mercurial-Wasser, <componiret>
<philoſophiſche>, <antimonialiſchen>
<☿🜄> = Mercurial-Wasser, <componiret>
<philoſophiſche>, <antimonialiſchen>
- Sun Jun 02, 2024 1:34 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Triscriptal alchemical German
- Replies: 12
- Views: 330
Re: Triscriptal alchemical German
There's bibliographies of alchemical texts but I don't think there's a list of ones that are specifically written like this.
- Fri May 31, 2024 5:22 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Pronunciation of Standard English in America (1919)
- Replies: 144
- Views: 334779
Re: Pronunciation of Standard English in America (1919)
That's the standard pronunciation outside America.bradrn wrote: ↑Fri May 31, 2024 4:54 amI’ve always pronounced it with /æ/, but it’s probably a spelling pronunciation.vlad wrote: ↑Fri May 31, 2024 1:27 am[æ]quaman (1967)
[ɑ]quaman (1973) (also [sju]perman at one point)
- Fri May 31, 2024 1:27 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Pronunciation of Standard English in America (1919)
- Replies: 144
- Views: 334779
Re: Pronunciation of Standard English in America (1919)
- Fri May 31, 2024 1:09 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Triscriptal alchemical German
- Replies: 12
- Views: 330
Triscriptal alchemical German
So it used to be common in western Europe to use two different scripts to represent different languages. Usually this was blackletter for Germanic languages and roman/antiqua for Latin or Romance languages. Here's an example from a grammar of Spanish: https://i.imgur.com/NK08yL3.jpeg The modern equi...
- Tue May 28, 2024 3:40 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Names, nouns and their (phonological) restrictions
- Replies: 49
- Views: 1137
Re: Names, nouns and their (phonological) restrictions
Interestingly, most of our data is in the Latin alphabet, which had to go through 16th century Spanish conventions. I really don't know how much material we have in the native script, but I think it's really not much. It's more than you might think. Here's Moteuczoma in the Codex Mendoza (is there ...
- Mon May 27, 2024 2:43 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Names, nouns and their (phonological) restrictions
- Replies: 49
- Views: 1137
Re: Names, nouns and their (phonological) restrictions
E.g. Moteuczoma is literally "He-is-Lordly-Angry", but there's a distinction between the verb ninoteuczoma "I am lordly angry" and the noun niMoteuczoma "I am He-is-Lordly-Angry". It's kind of like how English handles movie/book/song/etc. titles. What's going on with h...
- Mon May 27, 2024 5:15 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Names, nouns and their (phonological) restrictions
- Replies: 49
- Views: 1137
Re: Names, nouns and their (phonological) restrictions
Do natlangs tend to give names more leeway in regards to phonology and their syllable structures than other nouns? Or maybe less ("only endings 1 and 2 are used for names, everything else is a normal noun")? Names are just nouns, except when they're not. That is, they are not a syntactic ...
- Thu May 23, 2024 12:21 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4731
- Views: 2108623
Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
Chinese Pidgin English used my as the general first person pronoun. (Similarly, Pidgin Portuguese used minha as the nominative, for some reason.)Glass Half Baked wrote: ↑Wed May 22, 2024 10:49 pmEnglish pidgins always, AFAIK, analyze the objective form as the "main" form
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 9:15 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Settler colonialism in action
- Replies: 183
- Views: 6661
Re: Settler colonialism in action
Racists like Linguoboy should not be tolerated.
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 11:27 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The "How Do You Pronounce X" Thread
- Replies: 1782
- Views: 4940147
Re: The "How Do You Pronounce X" Thread
Not a specific word, but rather some phonemes. What specific articulation are your coronals? Maybe /r/ as well but that's barely coronal. I'd be interested in any languages, but primarily English. I've heard (IIRC) that the distribution between apical and laminal /s/ is random throughout dialects, ...
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 4:26 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The "How Do You Pronounce X" Thread
- Replies: 1782
- Views: 4940147
Re: The "How Do You Pronounce X" Thread
How do you pronounce "various" and "rule"? I'm particularly curious as to whether non-rhotic speakers have a syllable final rhotic in the bisyllabic pronunciation or the first, or an onset /ɹj/. I'm not sure how one objectively distinguishes the two possibilities. I don't have a...
- Sun Feb 18, 2024 2:18 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Most popular song in each language
- Replies: 9
- Views: 939
Re: Most popular song in each language
[hr] Chinese (Mandarin): Teresa Teng - 月亮代表我的心 (24.1 million) I think the biggest lesson of this bullet point is that the Chinese internet doesn't use Spotify. (And possibly that Cantonese-speakers use it more than Mandarin-speakers.) Could also be that there's some other more popular Mandarin song...
- Sun Feb 18, 2024 9:17 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Most popular song in each language
- Replies: 9
- Views: 939
Most popular song in each language
I've been trying to make a list of the most popular song in each language. I'm primarily using Spotify plays as the measure of popularity, though that might not be representative for certain songs. It's hard because most sites/services do not let you search by language or identify the language at al...
- Mon Feb 12, 2024 6:37 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: United States Politics Thread 46
- Replies: 1458
- Views: 450660
Re: United States Politics Thread 46
His precise words were: ‘I would encourage them to do whatever the hell they want’. If that’s not supporting a Russian invasion, I don’t know what is. That it’s a hypothetical scenario doesn’t make it better or excuse it. If a Russian invasion of Kazakhstan were the only way to prevent a genocide, ...
- Mon Feb 12, 2024 6:13 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: United States Politics Thread 46
- Replies: 1458
- Views: 450660
Re: United States Politics Thread 46
Of course not consciously, but everyone who talks about things frames things. In this context, his framing was that he talked about countries "not paying there bills", when there aren't any actual bills involved. He is talking about NATO defense expenditure commitments, which have been an...
- Mon Feb 12, 2024 5:21 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: United States Politics Thread 46
- Replies: 1458
- Views: 450660
Re: United States Politics Thread 46
In which "context" would a "tiny isolated phrase" about telling Russia to do whatever the hell it wants to my country, ending in a gruesome death for me, either be appropriate, or be something that I should accept, respect, or support? The context is a hypothetical scenario that...
- Mon Feb 12, 2024 5:15 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: United States Politics Thread 46
- Replies: 1458
- Views: 450660
Re: United States Politics Thread 46
Trump didn't "frame" anything. Of course not consciously, but everyone who talks about things frames things. In this context, his framing was that he talked about countries "not paying there bills", when there aren't any actual bills involved. He is talking about NATO defense ex...