Zompist Bboard Again

dhok wrote: ↑Sat Oct 13, 2018 2:19 am ['ɪ̃nɨˌnɛʔ] internet

(careful speech: ['ɪ̃ntəˌnɛt̚ʔ])

I didn't know you were non-rhotic - and this isn't one of those cases where one rhotic is dropped because there's another rhotic in the same word.

[ˈɘ̃ʁ̩̃ˌnɜʔ], or when speaking somewhat carefullly, [ˈɘ̃ɾ̃ʁ̩̃ˌnɜʔ]

I've never heard of that usage either. If I was talking about people from Phoenix, I would say "people from Phoenix" "Phoenixers" is what occurs to me. (Other cities I would use -er with include New York, Newark, Pittsburgh, Oakland, and Cleveland. Overall -an is common enough I...

It wouldn't have occured to me to pronounce either 'Phoenix' or 'Phoenician' with /o/, as the spelling so clearly indicates /i/. Do Americans really say /fonIks/ (for the bird or the city (or the person)), or do you just have the /o/ in the adjective form? Personally, I have /fi:'ni:Sn/, phonemical...

Considering that /ə/ and /oʊ/ commonly alternate, where the former is an unstressed counterpart to the latter, it would not surprise me if people pronounced Phoenician as both /fəˈniːʃən/ and /foʊˈniːʃən/; indeed, I myself use both pronunciations, depending on the exact degree to which I stress the ...

I nominate "synergy" for the very worst word in the English language.

I pronounce initial /ð/ as either a dentialveolar [t̪] (without aspiration), an interdental [ð] (particularly after vowels, as in of the , which is always pronounced with an interdental [ð]), or a dentialveolar [n̪] (after nasals); otherwise /ð/ is an interdental [ð] or, if under conditions where ob...

I prefer not to use SCAs but rather to simply apply sound changes from memory. In the case of some of my languages, such as the Tshyak languages, the phonologies are manageable for me without needing an SCA. In the Laqar languages, on the other hand, there is quite elaborate sound change, but using ...

I've never heard of "druck store"; I pronounce drug store with [k], but druck store to me indicates /k/, i.e. a short vowel with preglottalization, whereas drug store for me has a long vowel with no preglottalization, i.e. it has /g/.

I am really happy with how Attoforth is coming along. I now have a working File-Access API (well, working as far as the parts I have tested) and Wordlist API, and I have some basic concurrency primitives, namely locks and condition variables, working. It still has a ways to go, but it is nice to hav...

Another good example is the pronunciation of high school in NAE dialects with Canadian Raising of /aɪ/ where the vowel of high is raised (even though typically Canadian Raising does not operate across word boundaries).

As for sandhi effects in compounds, consider the common AmE pronunciation of "newspaper" with, um, voicing assimilation. For me this is a case of frozen voicing assimilation. Synchronically my normal realization of /z/ that is not syllable-initial (and not preceded in the same word by an ...

Laptop /ˈlæpˌtɑp/ for me is clearly [ˈʟ̞ɛʔp̚ˌtʰaʔp]~[ˈɰɛʔp̚ˌtʰaʔp] and not [ˈʟ̞ɛːp̚ˌtʰaʔp]~[ˈɰɛːp̚ˌtʰaʔp], which is unambiguously [ˈlæbˌtɑp]; vowel length is very salient for me, and indeed, if people pronounce words with the wrong vowel length I am apt to hear the consonants wrong.

I have fifth /fɪθ/ [fɘθ], sixth /sɪksθ/ [sɘʔksː] (or in quicker speech, just [sɘʔks]*, or in careful speech, [sɘʔksθ]), eighth /eɪθ/ [eθ], and twelfth /twɛlθ/ [tʲʰwɜɤ̯θ]. I was under the impression, though, that my pronunciations were essentially standard phonemically. * Interestingly enough, this c...

I pronounce bonsai as [pãːnˈdza(ː)e̯], i.e. /bɑnˈzaɪ/.

I pronounce Skrull as [skʁʌ(ː)ɤ̯] and Skrulls as [skʁʌːɤ̯s] ([skʁʌːɤ̯z] before a vowel or semivowel).

I pronounce squirrel as [skwʁ̩ʷ(ː)ɯ̯] and squirrels as [skwʁ̩ʷːɯ̯s] ([skwʁ̩ʷːɯ̯z] before a vowel or semivowel).

I got my Forth implementation, Attoforth (the name is kind of a misnomer, since it has things that a "small" Forth probably would not have, like preemptive multitasking - I mostly chose the name because the name was not taken, out of the zillions of Forth implementations out there), workin...

I should resurrect my Írsc, which has a similar concept, except that it is a descendant of Old Norse rather than being influenced by Ingvaeonic. I shelved that one due to limited resources about Old Norse (e.g. the only real Old Icelandic dictionary I found was one from Old Icelandic to English, whe...

Ich sollte auch mein Deutsch mehr üben.
I should also practice my German more.

Also related, but with contraction of "will" it seems I contract it more contexts than many people, because I keep getting red underlines when I write things like "I wonder if anyone'll respond" or "it seems no-one'll do it" or even "this man'll do it", which...