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Ich weiß nicht, was das sagt, aber ich kann wissen, dass das auf eine germanische Sprache ist.

Ich vergaß völlig, dir zu deinem Geburtstag zu gratulieren!
I totally forgot to congratulate you on your Birthday!

I fixed a particularly annoying bug in Attoforth that was causing terminating tasks to cause other tasks created after them to abnormally terminate as well; this was hard to track down because it had little to do with the apparent bug I was hunting, which was that when a certain task terminated, it ...

Ich hatte nicht gewusst, dass auf Deutsch man "Geburtstag hat".
I didn't know that in German one "has birthday".

Vielen Dank für die Korrekturen. Ich fange selbstbewusster an, Deutsch zu schreiben.
Thanks for the corrections. I am becoming more confident in writing in German.

All I can say is that the hardline Brexiteers want to ruin Britain. May's deal may suck, but rejecting it and opting for No Deal is utterly insane.

Yes, the US has NSA backdoors (e.g. the ones suspected to exist in every Intel and AMD processor) and national security letters and so on. You can be compelled to give up information if you are not under investigation for any crimes committed (the fact that you cannot be forced to give up informatio...

Ich habe Katzen gern, aber ich habe Katzen nimmer besessen, weil niemand, mit dem ich gelebt habe, ihnen wollte.
I want cats, but I have never had them, because no one I have lived with wanted them.

What do you think of the following sentences? He likes really football. You want to upload quickly the files. They for some reason are not really grammatical for me. The first for me should be He really likes football. The second for me should be You want to quickly upload the files or You want to ...

As for wood and would for me that is another case of two words which are homophonous in careful speech but not in everyday speech - wood here is consistently [wʊːt]~[wʊːd] while would is frequently [wʊː] and sporadically [wɨːt]~[wɨːd] in everyday speech.

Which is interesting because etymologically they're the same word even in English. Spelling pronunciation can be subtle. I have them the same, but i think if someone said the word in isolation i would be able to guess which one they meant from intonation. As is the case with wood/would. I just look...

Probably a better example (because there is no difference in vowel quality) for this is whether one has what I'd call the flour - flower merger. E.g. I merge them in careful speech, as [ˈfʟ̞ɑːɔ̯wʁ̩(ː)]~[ˈfɰɑːɔ̯wʁ̩(ː)], but in fluid speech they are distinct as [ˈfʟ̞ɑ(ː)ɔ̯ʁ]~[ˈfɰɑ(ː)ɔ̯ʁ] and [ˈfʟ̞ɑːɔ̯...

As far as I can tell, US Congressional Committees have the authority to legally subpoena stuff under threat of jail in case of non-compliance, too. In theory, yes, but the last time Congress has arrested and detained someone was 1935; since then, they have always referred such cases to the Departme...

Oh, I am not stating that the US government is innocent of anything here. And in this case, the British government ought to have been able to subpoena those documents from Facebook directly. But threatening someone belong to a third party with imprisonment, and imprisonment not in conviction for any...

One thing I see in people's transcriptions is representing rhotics after vowels like more [mɔːɚ], which to me indicates either a rhotic diphthong or a vowel followed by a separate rhotic vowel in a subsequent syllable. What makes me wonder is do you actually lack a distinction between vowels followe...

The company whose founder was forced to turn over data to the British parliament had not committed any crimes as far as I am aware. Rather, he was forced to turn over data for the purposes of investigating a third party, Facebook, from which they had originally obtained said data by decision of a US...

Part of me is delighted about this, but part of me deplores the erosion of any kind of real due process w.r.t. the seizing of data from people in foreign countries. Sure, the data is originally from Facebook and this helps expose potential (likely) wrong doing on their part, but at the same time thi...

My daughter frequently pronounces intervocalic /ð/ as [d]~[ɾ], e.g. words like other, another, and together, and I am wondering whether this is a new innovation, considering I do not recall anyone my age having this pronunciation (for me, intervocalic /ð/ is consistently [ð]).

jal wrote: ↑Fri Nov 23, 2018 4:12 am Chech

Das Wort auf Englisch ist "Czech". Frag mich nicht, warum Englisch polnische Rechtschreibung hier benutzt.
The word in English is "Czech". Don't ask me why English uses Polish orthography here.

phonetician: [ˌfõː(ɾ̃)ɘˈtʰɘʃɘ̃(ː)(n)]~[ˌfõː(ɾ̃)ɘˈtʰɘʃn̩(ː)]
Portuguese: [ˈpʰɔʁʷtʃəːˌɡiːs], before a vowel or semivowel [ˈpʰɔʁʷtʃəːˌɡiːz], carefully [ˈpʰɔʁʷtɕʉ̯uːˌɡiːs], before a vowel or semivowel [ˈpʰɔʁʷtɕʉ̯uːˌɡiːz]
overshare: [ˌoːvʁ̩ˈʃɛ(ː)ʁ]
oversharing: [ˌoːvʁ̩ˈʃɛːʁɘ̃(ː)ŋ]