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- Thu Aug 30, 2018 9:54 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
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Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
Crab rangoon can be either for me; it is a count noun when speaking of individual units of crab rangoon ("Could you give me a couple crab rangoons?"), and as you see right here when I speak of crab rangoon in a collective fashion it is a mass nouns.
- Wed Aug 29, 2018 11:22 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Confusing headlines
- Replies: 701
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Re: Confusing headlines
And it's been on the BBC for a while and it keeps catching me: Top tips for making your family swim awesome. I don't get it. Maybe it's just a British thing. Here, one of the great shibboleths of class in language is traditionally distinguishing adverbs from adjectives: using adjectives adverbially...
- Sun Aug 26, 2018 5:35 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4680
- Views: 2058692
Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
Oh, an alternative way of looking at changes like ter > tcher... sulcalisation! Rhotic vowels are typically sulcalised - indeed, /3/ is typically sulcalised even in non-rhotic dialects. And what effect does sulcalisation often have on neighbouring consonants? Affrication! I should note that in addi...
- Sat Aug 25, 2018 10:37 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang fluency thread
- Replies: 2430
- Views: 1480641
Re: Conlang fluency thread
Zíkę yúšilə laqárča q'ahtəwóxô lô sa.
some-PF sentence-PF Laqar-ALL carry.IPFV-PST-A:1S-P:3PF should DED
I should translate some sentences into Laqar.
some-PF sentence-PF Laqar-ALL carry.IPFV-PST-A:1S-P:3PF should DED
I should translate some sentences into Laqar.
- Fri Aug 24, 2018 10:45 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4680
- Views: 2058692
Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
I distinctly remember that from a young age I pronounced mister as [ˈmɘɕtɕʁ̩(ː)] before I switched to the pronunciation [ˈmɘsʲːʁ̩(ː)], which is more common here.
- Thu Aug 23, 2018 10:28 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Secret Conlang for Spies
- Replies: 17
- Views: 8956
Re: Secret Conlang for Spies
I on the other hand found it easy to learn to pronounce [x] and still tend to hear initial [ts] and [s] as the same sound. However, learning to pronounce German /x/ (which really should be called /ç/) was trickier because I had to learn how to pronounce the allophone [ç] in isolation (because my nat...
- Thu Aug 23, 2018 10:49 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Secret Conlang for Spies
- Replies: 17
- Views: 8956
Re: Secret Conlang for Spies
I used to hear German initial /ts/ as [s], distinguished from German initial /z/ by voicing alone.
- Wed Aug 22, 2018 11:07 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang fluency thread
- Replies: 2430
- Views: 1480641
Re: Conlang fluency thread
Lahẽləla laź žiśǫnútęk'əl laź məlęnútęča sótorô ze.
language-PF-POSS.1S very split-IPFV-PART.ACT-NOM=ABL very join-IPFV-PART.ACT-NOM=ALL vary.IPFV-3PF DIR
My languages vary from very isolating to very synthetic.
language-PF-POSS.1S very split-IPFV-PART.ACT-NOM=ABL very join-IPFV-PART.ACT-NOM=ALL vary.IPFV-3PF DIR
My languages vary from very isolating to very synthetic.
- Wed Aug 22, 2018 9:04 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Secret Conlang for Spies
- Replies: 17
- Views: 8956
Re: Secret Conlang for Spies
Actually, the conbination of English, Hebrew, and Romance speakers should specify a single stop series of /p t k/ because English-speakers often hear initial, stressed onset, and final [p t k] as /b d g/ due to English /p t k/ being aspirated initially and at the start of stressed onsets and preglot...
- Wed Aug 22, 2018 8:49 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Secret Conlang for Spies
- Replies: 17
- Views: 8956
Re: Secret Conlang for Spies
English speakers should rule out /ts/ and /x/ as phonemes.
- Wed Aug 22, 2018 6:25 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Romanization Challenge Thread v2.0
- Replies: 969
- Views: 477483
Re: Romanization Challenge Thread v2.0
/m n ɲ ŋ/ m n ń ŋ /p t k/ p t k /ts/ c /ᵐb~mᵇ ⁿd~nᵈ ᶮdʒ~ɲᵈᶾ ᵑɡ~ŋᶢ/ b d j g /f s ʃ x h/ f s ś x h /w ɾ l j/ w r l y /i iː ɪ~e eː ɛ ɛː æ æː ɑ ɑː ɔ ɔː o~ʊ oː u uː/ i ii é éé e ee ä ää a aa o oo ó óó u uu /nᵈemæːnᵈem bɛlɛ, jiːwoːɾokɑjnenᵈ ʃɛndɑsŋitijɛːxɔluːtuwɛːtijɛːnɛjimætɑmᵇæːti/ démäädém bele, yiiwóó...
- Wed Aug 22, 2018 6:01 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Romanization Challenge Thread v2.0
- Replies: 969
- Views: 477483
Re: Romanization Challenge Thread v2.0
This is my standard orthography: /laˈqʰaɾ/ laqhaar /m n/ m n /b d dz dʐ ɡ/ b d j ǰ g /pʰ tʰ tsʰ tʂʰ kʰ qʰ/ p t c č k q /pʼ tʼ tsʼ tʂʼ kʼ qʼ ʔ/ p' t' c' č' k' q' 0 /s ʂ ɕ χ h/ s š ś x h /z ʐ ʑ ʁ/ z ž ź ġ /ɾ l/ r l /w j/ w y When stressed: /i e ɛ a ɔ o u/ í é è á ò ó ú /ɛ̃ ã ɔ̃/ ẽ ã õ When unstressed:...
- Tue Aug 21, 2018 10:37 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Romanization Challenge Thread v2.0
- Replies: 969
- Views: 477483
Re: Romanization Challenge Thread v2.0
This is an alternative spelling from my normal one: /laˈqʰaɾ/ laqhaar /m n/ m n /b d dz dʐ ɡ/ b d dz dr g /pʰ tʰ tsʰ tʂʰ kʰ qʰ/ ph th tsh trh kh qh /pʼ tʼ tsʼ tʂʼ kʼ qʼ ʔ/ p t ts tr k q 0 /s ʂ ɕ χ h/ s sr sy x h /z ʐ ʑ ʁ/ z zr zy j /ɾ l/ r l /w j/ w y /i e ɛ a ə ɔ o u/ i é è a e ò o u /ɛ̃ ã ɔ̃/ ę ą ...
- Tue Aug 21, 2018 7:25 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Romanization Challenge Thread v2.0
- Replies: 969
- Views: 477483
Re: Romanization Challenge Thread v2.0
/laˈqʰaɾ/ /m n/ /b d dz dʐ ɡ/ /pʰ tʰ tsʰ tʂʰ kʰ qʰ/ /pʼ tʼ tsʼ tʂʼ kʼ qʼ ʔ/ /s ʂ ɕ χ h/ /z ʐ ʑ ʁ/ /ɾ l/ /w j/ /i e ɛ a ə ɔ o u/ /ɛ̃ ã ɔ̃/ Stress is phonemic, and can be on any of the last three syllables of a word. Consonant length is also phonemic. There is no phonemic vowel length. All syllables a...
- Tue Aug 21, 2018 11:49 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The "How Do You Pronounce X" Thread
- Replies: 1782
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- Mon Aug 20, 2018 10:35 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang fluency thread
- Replies: 2430
- Views: 1480641
Re: Conlang fluency thread
«heavy-3SM» əc «heavy-PST-3SM» «sílmə» əc «selãtəwə» tewúwo ləśbówə go. "heavy-3SM" and "heavy-PST-3SM" "sílmə" and "selãtəwə" equals.IPFV-A:3PM-P:3PM like.IPFV-A:1S-P:3SM EGO I like that "heavy-3SM" and "heavy-PST-3SM" are sílmə and selãt...
- Mon Aug 20, 2018 10:23 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang fluency thread
- Replies: 2430
- Views: 1480641
Re: Conlang fluency thread
C'i laqárlo došécəre źélə selãtəwə ze.
DIST.SM Laqar=INST write-GER=DAT too heavy-PST-3SM DIR
That was too hard to write in Laqar.
DIST.SM Laqar=INST write-GER=DAT too heavy-PST-3SM DIR
That was too hard to write in Laqar.
- Mon Aug 20, 2018 7:55 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang fluency thread
- Replies: 2430
- Views: 1480641
Re: Conlang fluency thread
All in all, Early Middle Laqar verb conjugation involves a fuckload of different forms (mind you that those tables do not involve any nominalizations beyond the gerund or any voices other than the default), and the sound changes that produced those forms and how they interact can be quite complicate...
- Mon Aug 20, 2018 7:46 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang fluency thread
- Replies: 2430
- Views: 1480641
- Mon Aug 20, 2018 7:38 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The "How Do You Pronounce X" Thread
- Replies: 1782
- Views: 4935240
Re: The "How Do You Pronounce X" Thread
Has anyone here heard centralization of /oʊ/ in the Upper Midwest? I notice that my daughter frequently has [əʊ] for it when most people at least close to my age or older here have some sort of allophony between [o] and [oʊ] (e.g. I have [o] except before vowels and sometimes finally, where then I h...