Zompist Bboard Again

I will note that English apical alveolar stops are frequently some degree of palatalised anyway, especially in British English. Often when you do the phonetic analysis you find that it's frequently better to transcribe it as something like [ts] than as [t]. Similarly, one can point to borrowing patt...

Part of the problem with the Royal coverage was not simply that is was long, but that it displaced normal programming across most of the main terrestrial channels for ages (not just the BBC but ITV as well, with Channel 4 being wise to take their slightly more left-leaning view and not jump on the b...

I think you're being sarcastic, but honestly that is kind of my takeaway from that article: Yeah, they lost some trading and some jobs, but they expect to have an agreement with Brussels before long and meanwhile they're seeking new opportunities elsewhere but they don't expect to realise the benef...

This Brexit thing seems to be working out just fine: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-56017419 I think you're being sarcastic, but honestly that is kind of my takeaway from that article: Yeah, they lost some trading and some jobs, but they expect to have an agreement with Brussels before long and ...

The thing is though I would like to specifically caution that we can't make any definitive statements that this is indeed the case until someone does an actual comprehensive survey/one of us finds such a survey.

It's apparently a result of having FPTP in a more-than-two-parties system - very recently, I've seen "what would happen if the election were hold tomorrow" poll-based projections that had Labour and the Tories extremely close in terms of share of the popular vote, but had the Tories with ...

I would point out that a sufficiently rich coastal environment can support a fair density of even hunter-gatherers à la the Pacific Northwest, while more swampy environments can do similar, particularly with some immersion-tolerant crops like sago in the Sepik River area. In the case of the latter I...

Right, time to discuss stress more fully. When I last mentioned stress, in a passing comment in the first post, I said this: Stress is basically word-initial. Some speakers show shift to the post-initial in cases when the initial has a schwa and the post-initial a non-schwa vowel, but this isn't uni...

Right time to resurrect this thread with some further posts on some random bits of things I've uncovered about the language since this thread was last written on. I've got three main ideas that I would like to discuss here. In this post I'm planning to discuss new discoveries as to relative segment ...

In the latest piece of critical research failure-driven incompetence, Liz Truss ("we import 2/3rds of our cheese" woman) has managed to upset UK trade talks with Japan by insisting that Stilton be included, apparently not realising that 1. the Japanese seem to have no great appetite for ch...

New Caledonia?

Vanuatu?

Speaking anecdotally, and based mostly on the evidence of my own personal experience as a person with Asperger's and my limited exposure to other individuals on the spectrum, we generally seem to be aware that we're lacking something in the social skills department, particularly when we find ourselv...

Micronesian?

Thank you, this is very welcome, gives us some breathing space as a board for a few days.

Richard W wrote: ↑Fri Jul 17, 2020 6:55 pmIn short, I think l > ŋ is unlikely for an IE language, but given the right neighbours, it could happen.

Or how about entirely on its own on an island for much of its earlier history?

Looking at the weird set of consonants on display, I'm gonna guess that it's a variety of Mekeo?

I'm on Frislandic iteration number umpteen, and as it's been for the past few times it's an Indo-European language, with a few particular distinctive sound changes, including merging the *T and *D series while retaining the *Dh series as aspirates. Now I've decided to add an extra distinctive sound ...

So because Bozza isn't done with pettily ejecting Tory stalwarts from the party in a bid to undermine his own majority, the Conservative MP Julian Lewis has had the whip withdrawn. Why? Because he got the job of Chairman of the Intelligence and Security Committee over Chris "Always Failing Upwa...

Are there any grammars of specific languages anyone would recommend that discuss noun incorporation? I have "A Grammar of Akwesasne Mohawk" by Nancy Bonvillain, which has a decent section on it. However, the other grammars I've found so far are either languages that don't feature noun inc...