Zompist Bboard Again

ʃ [ʃ] is occasionally heard for [s] in words like assume, sumach, "especially in dialect speech" schnapps is [ʃnæps] chassis is [ʃæˈsiː], chiffon is [ˈʃɪfɔn], mustache is [məˈstæʃ] not a pronunciation question but when he distinguishes between different uses of the word "chamois"...

i'm out, reading the ephemera forum is the zbb equivalent of reading youtube comments

it is perfectly understandable why someone whose people are being massacred would speak in anger against those who subscribe to the ideology that drives that massacre. violence, or the call to violence, against an oppressor by a member of the people it is oppressing is fundamentally, qualitatively ...

the palestinian people are *actually being mass murdered* in an ongoing genocide. the genocide or forced removal of palestinians are the only two possible (obviously not mutually exclusive) end results of the ideology of zionism holding and keeping state power. i don't agree with someone calling for...

I'm talking about, for instance, the way that they forcibly occupied a university building. oh my god they trespassed in a building on their own college campus!!! how violent!!!!! this is exactly the same as groups of thugs tear-gassing students and shooting fireworks into crowds of unarmed people,...

How many millions of Israelis need to participate in protests before you stop saying things like this? I, personally, have called out this behaviour many times in this thread alone, and more elsewhere on the Internet. Perhaps I should just keep on repeating that Zionism is not Netanyahu-ism , in th...

uhhh individualism is not a prerequisite for the development of the scientific method

the difference between a vowel and a syllabic approximant is blurry, and while i don't agree with the assessment of NAE "er" as a true syllabic consonant rather than a vowel, i won't dispute it. but i find it very difficult to believe that a (presumably) native speaker of any variety of en...

Travis B. wrote: ↑Sat Mar 16, 2024 8:01 pm This is English, but my /ɜr/~/ər/ can be both [ʁ̩ˤ] and [ʁ̩ˤː] depending on whether it is followed by a fortis obstruent or not.

are you asking us to believe that your realization of what is almost universally either a vowel or a V+C sequence is in fact a syllabic uvular consonant

similarly i don't think i've ever encountered the word "delectable" outside of an advertisement

Minor R — wuster "sister" Case Sg Pl Nom vústɛr vúʃtʊs Acc vústɛr vúʃtɔz Dat vústrɛ vúʃtɔ Gen zvúʃʧʊrz vúʃtɪ I'm guessing the z- in the genitive singular isn't supposed to be there (though I'd be intrigued if it was). good catch! I'm enjoying this project! thank you!

anything below 68 F is unbearably cold, anything above 74 F is unbearably hot

the more i learn about them, the more i feel that the divisions between alphabet/abjad/abugida/syllabary are too blurry to stand up to any real scrutiny

i don't know that i'd agree that anything in the OP actually constitutes a flaw. the lowercase/uppercase doesn't seem like it would be an issue because the overlapping prefixes aren't likely to get confused: you're not taking medication by the megagram or measuring data by the millibyte. if the u.s....

alphabet and spelling all phases of gothic are written with the gothic alphabet traditionally attributed to wulfila; the text presented in this thread is of course a transliteration. a description of the spelling and pronunciation of old gothic can be found elsewhere ; this post of course is concer...

nouns (phase two—early modern gothic) one of the most distinctive sound changes between phases 1 and 2 is the nasalization and subsequent denasalization of vowels. among other effects, this led to the loss of a distinction between strong and weak nouns, since the nasal consonants that defined the l...

apologies

Mrs. is commonly [ˈmɪsəz] or [ˈmɪsɪz], but occasionally [ˈmɪsɪs]. [ˈmɪzɪz] "is said to be a sure test of Southern speech"; another southern pronunciation is [mɪz], sometimes with a lengthened [z] This kinda just sounds like he refuses to believe "Ms" is a thing, and thinks it's ...

s, z except and accept are distinguished: [ɛkˈsɛpt] vs [ækˈsɛpt] think this may have come up before but he states schism is pronounced [sɪzm] the standard pronunciation if grisly is [ˈgrɪslɪ] grease is [griːs] but greasy is generally [ˈgriːzɪ]; he lists [ˈgriːsɪ] only as a variant, with [-z-] found...

i went the perpetual community college route