Zompist Bboard Again

The result is, to be honest, pretty confusing. A single syllable in Mandarin is often ambiguous, so it has to be paired with a synonym to be understandable. To a good extent, this is already happening organically in Mandarin, certainly with nominals and intransitive verbs (plus diminutives and deri...

Man thar ick drip ei fisc i watten for a giar at wat.
/man θar ɪk trɪp ə fɪsc i watn fɔr=ə car ət wat/
IDEF.PRON have_to.PRS NEG dip IDEF fish in water so_to make 3NSG wet
You don't need to dip a fish in water to make it wet.

Iç dleins his vusçes ewrig dâ, iwn thê tnaws fat iç mein. lÀƒ±ÅR (me not understanding...) I don't get it... "Ʒe rinse hans fisc hwariʒ daw, gin tha wait hwat ʒe ettle." /jə rɪns (h)ans fɪsc ʍari dɔː | cɪn θə weːt ʍat jə ɛtəl/ 1SG wash 3MSG.POSS fish every day | if 2SG know.PRS what 1SG m...

tu mamanana tu mai na ma turais na kilikiliisjuna kilimaa pensu paka na mai GEN IMPF-study+LNK=know GEN 3.m LNK 1.m change-PERF LNK REDP-clean-PERF-Dpast-1.sg fish-pl INSTRUCTIVE help LNK 3.m “My knowledge of him changed as i cleaned the fishes with his help” Ho, war is komt a cen hwarann? At leuth...

Eshire fei! Tan suine neshekajiru ien? I like it! Have you written about it anywhere? Naie, barliʒ ha ʒe wont mi that syne the sainse maunthen. That's ei brauliʒ nye tong, end am ʒe thenken um hwar at skud leuthe. /nei 'parli(x) ha j(ə) wɔnt mi (θ)at səin θə sens 'mɔːn(ə)θən | θats ə 'prɔːli nəi tʰ...

I recently saw this video on Youtube, which compares the various modern Germanic languages using a somewhat contrived text, and I thought it would be fun to translate the text in Fake Germanic. ... The cold winter is near, a snowstorm will come. Come in my warm house, my friend. Welcome! Come here,...

Marie Antoinette's nine sisters were all also named Maria.

Travis B. wrote: ↑Tue Aug 01, 2023 3:58 pm How do you pronounce hundred when you're not paying attention (i.e. not the careful, formal pronunciation) or, in particular, if you are saying something like two hundred and fifty six?

[ˈhɐ᷉dʐ̥əd̚] compared to more careful [ˈhɐndʐ̥ɻʷəd̥]

A diamond instead of a square feels more aesthetic to me, and then you can keep a pointy shape for both /t/ and /k/.

Also I agree /k/ should have the triangle, as the "kiki" phoneme.

At least for Balto-Slavic, the question is whether it ever had the tripartite system or whether it just developed the formations which the tripartite system was built upon in a different direction. (Slavic later formed something called aorist under Iranian influence, but it's cobbled together both ...

At least for Balto-Slavic, the question is whether it ever had the tripartite system or whether it just developed the formations which the tripartite system was built upon in a different direction. (Slavic later formed something called aorist under Iranian influence, but it's cobbled together both ...

Re bedroom, I think I have /d/ as [ɖ] because of the following [ɻ]. But I'm not a native speaker, so that doesn't count :D. A lot of English speakers do have retroflex assimilation like that, but it usually becomes an affricate rather than remaining a true stop. eg. My AuE idiolect: train [tʂɻ̥ɛɪ̯n...

- The realization of *o as a back rounded vowel (in this case, secondarily lost in Indo-Iranian) Also Tocharian *o apparently causes some rounding in preceding vowels and doesn't cause palatalisation, although it later unrounds to /e/ in Toch B (/a/ in Toch A). eg. *okʷs > *ëk > TA ak, TB ek *ǵómbʰ...

Just something that occurred to me, but it could be because of the tendency of "it' to be used as an impersonal or dummy pronoun, or as a referent to abstract entities. That's certainly what "it" has in common with German "es" at least, as opposed to German "das". ...

Being British, I don’t have the marry/merry/Mary merger, and I have DRESS (or MERRY) in both austerity and severity . I’m not aware of other pronunciations of either in normative BrE. Same for me, in AuE. Interesting, I (a non-native speaker) assumed and used /I/ because of severe /s@vI@/. The vowe...

anteallach wrote: ↑Thu Nov 24, 2022 9:29 amI don't recall hearing FLEECE in any of those; I'm used to KIT. Is FLEECE there an American thing?

Maybe, but I would use FLEECE as an Australian. It might be a specifically BrE thing?

Mon amitié avec Thomas, qui a commencée quand on est entrés au même collège, ça a pas durée longtemps. 1SG.POSS friendship with Thomas | REL.NOM have.PRS.3SG start.PST.PART-F when 1PL be.PRS.3SG enter.PST.PART-PL to=DEF.M same college | this have.PRS.3SG NEG last.PST.PART-F long_time 我和托马斯进入同一所大学的时...

Wenn man selb klar weiß, dass man schwiemmen will, braucht man dann nicht, sich darum zu kümmern, dass alle die anderen anziehen, wenn nur man alleine auszieht. (If you yourself know clearly you want to swim, you don't need to care then about all the others getting dressed when only you alone are g...

I see… any ideas as to why the other article put it in a completely different place, then? Don't ask me. But that's why if you're not sure, you want to find multiple pages and examples of sound changes to corroborate any particular sound change. If sound changes happen in any particular order, it's...

*ū from Middle English to Modern English regularly resolves to /au/ after GVS, so maybe you're missing a few steps there. On further investigation, it seems I do have ū→au, but then I have unconditional au→ɔː, which it seems I took from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_English_phonology#Diphtho...