Zompist Bboard Again

bradrn wrote: ↑Fri May 31, 2024 4:54 am

vlad wrote: ↑Fri May 31, 2024 1:27 am

Emily wrote: ↑Fri May 31, 2024 12:16 am

• 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.

That's the standard pronunciation outside America.

Emily wrote: ↑Fri May 31, 2024 12:16 am

• he transcribes the first vowel in aqueduct as [æ]

[æ]quaman (1967)
[ɑ]quaman (1973) (also [sju]perman at one point)

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...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

Glass Half Baked wrote: ↑Wed May 22, 2024 10:49 pmEnglish pidgins always, AFAIK, analyze the objective form as the "main" form

Chinese Pidgin English used my as the general first person pronoun. (Similarly, Pidgin Portuguese used minha as the nominative, for some reason.)

Racists like Linguoboy should not be tolerated.

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, ...

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...

[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...

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...

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, ...

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...

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...

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...

We already knew that was his position, but now it's official: Trump has openly said that back in the White House, he would tell Putin to "do whatever the hell he wants" to Putin. (All the English-language news outlets I could find are running an AP report that accepts Trump's own ridiculo...

It is normally taken as a given that /t/ before /n/ or /ən/~/ɪn/ in most NAE varieties is realized as [ʔ]. I noticed recently that this actually only applies when the preceding syllable is stressed. It does not apply to words like hesitant or militant , which undergo neither flapping nor glottaliza...

It is normally taken as a given that /t/ before /n/ or /ən/~/ɪn/ in most NAE varieties is realized as [ʔ]. I noticed recently that this actually only applies when the preceding syllable is stressed. It does not apply to words like hesitant or militant , which undergo neither flapping nor glottaliza...

Nahuatl canauhtli "duck"
French canard "duck"