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Ive always had <macabre > with final -b because i learned it from https://i.imgur.com/ddU50.jpg

O cše gu kjen, unôm šov fjos and many PART dog, 10 9 16 -10 3 16 COM f 16 And many dogs, 1,000,00f 16 /4,294,967,311 10 ** wavabo 😄 lol Šarbepo fumbe, wataežabo! I like your new name! Dē wiessē? Whose? akam chinjir šarbattšel. akam chinjir name-3p-TRANSL-3p.past Akam chinjir changed their name. ---...

Thanks, this is nice. Poswa gets a 74 for phonology. I may have misread one or two questions but they would be in the 1 point section, not the 5 point section. Khulls gets 28.5. I'll do the grammar questions later since I'd have to think more deeply to answer them, though at first blush I'd say that...

The creator of Láadan said that most of the people interested enough to buy her book were men ... And I'm one of them. Láadan interests me and I'm interested to see more languages in the same mold. It influenced my own conlangs too, but most of what I borrowed from Láadan has been slowly wrung out.....

Did you mean to put four dots, not two, beneath all breathy vowels but /u/? I only ask because a similar curiosity on another thread turned out to be an error due to Unicode display problems and cut and paste.

Šarbepo fumbe, wataežabo!
I like your new name!

What are the three diphthongs? Given the one example , I'd say that yes, these sound like true diphthongs but I'd like to see more. A diphthong always has a fixed stress contour. If the /i/ in /ai/ can ever serve as the syllable peak, then it undercuts everything else and you would need to analyse i...

Ars Lande wrote: ↑Thu Nov 15, 2018 9:44 am integer is pronounced with a /d͡ʒ/. My whole world is crumbling.

I said/ In'ti.gər/ when I was young, but I was 10 and had no reason to say it out loud for several more years. Was reading my sister's high school math book, I yhink.

"Thank God!", says massacre Facebook page leader This is about a murder case from 2 years ago that went cold and has been out of the spotlight for a long time. Given the many massacres that have occurred since then, this headline will almost certainly be misread by nearly everyone who has...

next: numb Amal: yushra v - be/feel numb (physical or emotional) | yushiya n - numbness next: callus, blister Poswa: watu Wafombo watebop , tappipam pobbadži. foot-1p-LOC-Ø-1p blister-C-1p-ACC, pine.forest-LOC barefoot.walk-1p.past I got blisters on my feet from walking barefoot in the pine forest....

Americanized pronunciations of European surnames are in their own class, I think. The longer the family has lived in the USA the more likely they are to have settled on a pronunciation that flows smoothly with other English words. Polish and Italian surnames especially are likely to have a wrong-on-...

I used to jog around in a t-shirt and shorts all the time in subfreezing weather. The mitochondria of the cell will burn fat to heat the body, so if these orcs have sufficiently decoupled mitochondria, going bare-chested in winter weather won't be a problem. But mitochondria are evolutionarily very ...

sorry, i knew i shouldbve written that better. there was a college slang term "herb", not marijuana, but a mildly derogatory insult for a person, similar to "nerd" but not very well known. there are a few traces of it on urbandictionary .

Late reply but ... yeah, this person wasnt British and I agree that it would be wrong to say "an uvular" even in British English and even though the first syllable carries the stress. But I suspect it's a common mistake. It may be more common among people whose L1 is English but have studi...

I use color as well in my spreadsheet, but to make it easier to read I've had to use distinctive foreground colors as well. If you run out of colors or can't decide, perhaps you could give 2 languages the same background color but different colors for the text.

I meant the first u. "Oovular", I only saw it because it was written "an uvular stop". Probably he got the second u still correct. Also lapis, from the other thread, which I've been thinking was /ei/, butve never said out loud.

Zaarin wrote: ↑Thu Nov 08, 2018 10:37 am I've heard /ei/ in lapis; it made me cringe.

my mistake, though I've never said it out loud. I only know it from a video game and , as lapis lazuli, the Bible. Wiktionary as of yet does not list lapis as an English word.

I think that's just proto-Germanic /-aną/, the infinitive ending, ancestor of German -en. There was only one declension .

fracas This is one of those words Ive never said out loud, but if I was reading a title that had the word in it, I'd probably just fudge it with a weak vowel somewhere between [æ] and [ɑ]. Or perhaps just [a]. So for the whole word I'd say [fr(ɑ~æ).kəs]. ÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷ How about Babel ? I say /'bei.bəl...

Travis B. wrote: ↑Tue Nov 06, 2018 6:53 pm I used to pronounce velar as [ˈvɜːɰʁ̩(ː)].

me too. Between myself and others here, I've seen mispronunciations for labial, alveolar , velar, and uvular. Labial with /æ/, alveolar with 3rd syllable stress, velar with short e, and uvular without the /j/.