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- Sun Aug 05, 2018 3:52 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: General American and actors
- Replies: 27
- Views: 20600
Re: General American and actors
Getting the vowels wrong can even affect perception of the consonants . I think I've posted before about not being able to understand perceiving a German friend's final consonants as devoiced when, on closer listening, they clearly weren't and finally determining that what gave that impression was l...
- Fri Aug 03, 2018 10:13 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: General American and actors
- Replies: 27
- Views: 20600
Re: General American and actors
The matter with GA is that most NAE varieties have features in common with it, but most varieties have differences as well. Probably the closest NAE variety to GA is Western American English, whose primary differences are the cot-caught merger and fronting of /uː/. That said, though, some subvariet...
- Fri Aug 03, 2018 9:52 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Innovative Usage Thread
- Replies: 572
- Views: 662473
Re: Innovative Usage Thread
Does anyone else have /wʌnt/ for went?
I think this might be related to my pin-pen merger, but it's hard to say because I can't think of any other words where I have /ɛ/ > [ʌ].
I think this might be related to my pin-pen merger, but it's hard to say because I can't think of any other words where I have /ɛ/ > [ʌ].
- Wed Aug 01, 2018 3:15 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Innovative Usage Thread
- Replies: 572
- Views: 662473
Re: Innovative Usage Thread
Today I heard "YouTube" as a count noun meaning "video available on YouTube". (E.g. "There's a YouTube you can watch.")
- Tue Jul 31, 2018 10:59 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Happy things thread!
- Replies: 1215
- Views: 717637
Re: Happy things thread!
Most of my happy things these days seem to be related to crises averted. Case in point: I was glad to hear yesterday that wildfire seems to be receding from my in-laws' homes in Oregon. My brother- and sister-in-law live on a rural route with their children and grandchildren and there's a huge blaze...
- Tue Jul 31, 2018 10:09 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: British Politics Guide
- Replies: 1948
- Views: 1020874
Re: British Politics Guide
Thank you. Still less extreme than Sal's 83/14 ratio though. Perhaps he got his numbers from a more current source, which already shows the effects of the recent crisis? Looks like it's from a survey of voting intentions that predates it. See: https://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Poll-Only-13-percent-of-...
- Mon Jul 30, 2018 10:04 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: British Politics Guide
- Replies: 1948
- Views: 1020874
Re: British Politics Guide
Oh come on Hunt! You failed a test so simple that no one even thought it would be a test. Bloody hell that was a fuck-up and a half, but hey at least it's an actual slip of the tongue in a way, not a bare-faced lie like all the times he claimed the government was investing in and cared about the NH...
- Fri Jul 27, 2018 9:44 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Morphologised Initial palatalizations?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 14191
Re: Morphologised Initial palatalizations?
ANYWAY: on the OP, this must surely have happened somewhere in Italy? I can't think of any examples from Italy proper, but you reminded me that Sursilvan Romansh has umlaut in some masculine nouns and adjectives which, when combined with palatalisation, leads to some alternations like: tgiern "...
- Thu Jul 26, 2018 4:21 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4725
- Views: 2077231
Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
Interesting to see that English "the world over" has an exact parallel in Swedish världen över.
- Thu Jul 26, 2018 2:36 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Morphologised Initial palatalizations?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 14191
Re: Morphologised Initial palatalizations?
No, because /e/ didn't generally trigger palatalisation of /t/ in Romance. Cf. VL partem > Sp parte.akamchinjir wrote: ↑Thu Jul 26, 2018 2:33 pm Wouldn't that be the "e" triggering palatalisation to its left?
Moreover, the palatalisation is observed even before back vowels, e.g. VL dictu(m) > Sp dicho.
- Thu Jul 26, 2018 2:30 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Morphologised Initial palatalizations?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 14191
Re: Morphologised Initial palatalizations?
(Am I right to think that it's relatively rare for something to trigger palatalisation to its right?) Isn't this essentially what happened with Latin /ct/ in Spanish, Occitan, and Romansh? E.g. VL noctem > Sp noche . I believe progressive palatalisation is also found in the history of Slavic, as we...
- Thu Jul 26, 2018 10:40 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Morphologised Initial palatalizations?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 14191
- Mon Jul 23, 2018 9:28 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Innovative Usage Thread
- Replies: 572
- Views: 662473
Re: Innovative Usage Thread
It might help to think of big-ass as just another way of saying huge . But his point is that it isn't for all people. IMD, "Look what a big-ass avocado this is!" sounds more commonplace. It allows predicative use of adjectives intensified with -ass , but that is still marked as innovative...
- Thu Jul 19, 2018 11:35 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4725
- Views: 2077231
Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/stul.12062 Ich danke dir! I found this an odd sentence: "Some government officials wonder whether anyone organised the protests—possibly fuel smugglers, political rivals or powerful families that benefit from the subsidies." Using "any...
- Wed Jul 18, 2018 11:19 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Language Practice (Help your fluency)
- Replies: 711
- Views: 1064421
Re: Language Practice (Help your fluency)
Is irgendjemand auf eine Unterscheidung zwischen "tote" und "ausgestorbene" Sprachen gestossen?
Has anyone encountred a distinction between "dead" and "extinct" languages?
Has anyone encountred a distinction between "dead" and "extinct" languages?
- Wed Jul 18, 2018 11:05 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4725
- Views: 2077231
Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
Link?
I know that many traditional dialects in B-W have a contrast here, but my recollection from my time in Freiburg is that the city dialect has merged them.
- Tue Jul 17, 2018 11:35 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Innovative Usage Thread
- Replies: 572
- Views: 662473
Re: Innovative Usage Thread
Then there are things such as the merger of than and then as /ðɛn/ in much of NAE Technically not a merger since etymologically they are the same word and, IIRC, lexicalisation of the two variant forms only takes place with the standardisation of the language in the 1700s. It would probably be more...
- Tue Jul 17, 2018 3:16 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4725
- Views: 2077231
Linguistic Miscellany Thread
For quick questions, minor observations, and anything else language-related that's too trivial to merit its own thread. Today a friend said "Bahai" and he had to repeat it twice before I could parse it. The /ə/ in the initial syllable was so fleeting it just sounded like "pie" to...
- Tue Jul 17, 2018 1:29 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: ZBB Census 2018
- Replies: 89
- Views: 129504
Re: ZBB Census 2018
Basics Username: Linguoboy Name: Da Other nicknames: Big Cat Birthplace: Baldimer, Marilyn, USA Place of residence: Chicawguh, Illinoy, USA Any particular reason you live there now? Came up for college and stayed. Occupation: Librarian. Pets: ブーちゃん (a.k.a. "Boobers"), an eleven year-old A...