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- Sun Mar 24, 2024 12:00 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4731
- Views: 2098334
Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
Seems like you're going to have a more satisfying argument with the fusijui in your head, so I'll leave you to it.
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 10:59 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4731
- Views: 2098334
Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
Regarding the second syllable of "onion", what seems relevant to me is that whether pronounced slowly or quickly, in isolation or in context, there's a change in articulation between the "schwa-ish" part and "n-ish" part. At some point there's closure of the oral cavity...
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 10:32 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Confusing headlines
- Replies: 703
- Views: 553725
Re: Confusing headlines
I need to just read the Guardian regularly, it's a gold mine. Today I noticed:
Victoria police will still be involved in public drunkenness cases after decriminalisation, documents say
Victoria police will still be involved in public drunkenness cases after decriminalisation, documents say
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 7:26 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: "Experiencer"
- Replies: 40
- Views: 4967
Re: "Experiencer"
Andrew's Nahuatl grammar/textbook is the kind of enthusiastic oddness that just makes me happy, honestly. Unlike Egyptological grammar (or conventional/traditional Japanese, for that matter), which just comes across to me as grim solipsism in old pickle juice.
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 9:03 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4731
- Views: 2098334
Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
There used to be -- this is like >25 years ago now -- a tiny video clip on the internet of a Danish family gathering at the birthing bed to insert a steaming hot potato into their newborn's mouth so it would be able to speak Danish properly.
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 12:21 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Confusing headlines
- Replies: 703
- Views: 553725
Re: Confusing headlines
No, thank you, for reassuring me that it's not some unique personal problem I had with it!
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 12:01 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Confusing headlines
- Replies: 703
- Views: 553725
Re: Confusing headlines
"Zelenskiy says that there is no evil which Putin will not commit, in order to stay in power."
I mean... I think that's it.
I mean... I think that's it.
- Sun Mar 17, 2024 8:52 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Confusing headlines
- Replies: 703
- Views: 553725
Re: Confusing headlines
Another one from The Guardian : ‘No evil’ Putin will not commit to hold on to power, Zelenskiy says I initially took 'No evil' as being in apposition to 'Putin' (like if someone said "'Don't Be Evil' Brin"), which then directed me down the path of interpreting the rest of the headline to m...
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 11:30 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: What are you reading, watching and listening to? - All languages
- Replies: 998
- Views: 3639584
Re: What are you reading, watching and listening to? - All languages
It wasn't that good really, but I'm still charmed by the National Lampoon's version of "Dune", which was set on the dessert planet, covered in endless pure sugar, and our protagonist's fated role was to lead the faithful to the appetizers and entrees that they had been denied for untold ge...
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 2:57 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: A note on the Voynich Manuscript
- Replies: 3
- Views: 358
Re: A note on the Voynich Manuscript
The text of Beinecke MS 408 has some peculiar features, if it does represent some language (constructed or not) in plaintext. It makes heavy use of repetition: of individual "letters", such as the common family of words dain , daiin , daiiin ; of sequences such as the four or s in a row o...
- Tue Feb 27, 2024 4:34 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Confusing headlines
- Replies: 703
- Views: 553725
Re: Confusing headlines
Another one from the Grauniad: "Cat killer sentenced to life for Oxford murder as part of sexual fantasy" . Having read the article, I now understand the headline, but it stills sounds weird to me that, when someone first killed a cat and then later a human being, the headline about them ...
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 6:15 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Confusing headlines
- Replies: 703
- Views: 553725
Re: Confusing headlines
Another one from the Grauniad: "Cat killer sentenced to life for Oxford murder as part of sexual fantasy".
- Tue Feb 20, 2024 6:15 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: United States Politics Thread 46
- Replies: 1442
- Views: 448880
Re: United States Politics Thread 46
Just throwing in, it's worth looking under the hood at what is being classified as "liberal" and what is "conservative" in all such surveys. Far too many people pick them up and read in their own assumptions going forward with "following the science, man" -- besides, lo...
- Tue Feb 20, 2024 3:01 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Confusing headlines
- Replies: 703
- Views: 553725
Re: Confusing headlines
I love that one, Raphael!
- Tue Feb 20, 2024 2:59 pm
- Forum: End Matter
- Topic: The Index Diachronica
- Replies: 221
- Views: 384999
Re: The Index Diachronica
Biting my tongue pretty hard, man.
- Tue Feb 20, 2024 2:58 pm
- Forum: End Matter
- Topic: Uralic
- Replies: 1
- Views: 469
Re: Uralic
This is really nice; thank you for sharing it with us here! It's a good example of the kind of 'Index Diachronica' resources I think I would benefit from the most, too. I mean, I can definitely see the value of a 'database' model for those who want to look up specific sound-changes, for whatever rea...
- Sun Feb 18, 2024 4:02 pm
- Forum: End Matter
- Topic: The Index Diachronica
- Replies: 221
- Views: 384999
Re: The Index Diachronica
A little puzzled reading this; I remember a couple academic linguists pottering around with automated sound-change engines back in the late 80s and early 90s. I guess that just died out without memory or issue? That's kind of sad.
- Fri Feb 16, 2024 8:27 pm
- Forum: End Matter
- Topic: Tungusic sound changes
- Replies: 26
- Views: 4760
Re: Tungusic sound changes
The point is that this is a database , not just a bibliography. It’s comparable to other databases, like WALS and PHOIBLE. And the key thing about being a database is that it combines all the data from all these different sources, in a consistent and searchable form. That makes it possible to answe...
- Thu Feb 15, 2024 3:00 pm
- Forum: End Matter
- Topic: Tungusic sound changes
- Replies: 26
- Views: 4760
Re: Tungusic sound changes
Moose-tache is right I think, in that there's no single monograph on Proto-Tungusic and its sound changes. I do have the Routledge volume, and it still doesn't really provide that, in satisfactory detail. (Well, IMO, at least. In any case it's not as blatantly B.S. as EDAL's Tungusic circus.) I stil...
- Thu Feb 15, 2024 12:31 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang Random Thread
- Replies: 3051
- Views: 2863579
Re: Conlang Random Thread
I have been working on a Japan-lang derived from Old Japanese for a while now. Not that I have much concrete work done, but that's more because I'm a terminal researcher and keep changing my mind about what I want to do. That has been my story too, for a long time now. I don't think it's really (or...