Zompist Bboard Again

Rhyley with an h, a y, and an e was on the list in 2011 That is abhorrent. Reminds me of an acquaintance I once knew named Jhynifer or something to that effect. (Hint: if you have to invent an exotic spelling of a common name, maybe you should just--and hear me out on this--pick a less common name?...

I don't think Akkadians text or chat much these days (and they also lacked a glottal stop, as far as we know). :P I thought the use of VC-V instead of ...-CV was how contrastive glottal stops were written. I think you're right actually. Isn't most Akkadian chat written by non-Mesopotamians? Well, m...

Thanks, everyone, for the feedback on Tianxia . I knew it meant "under heaven," but I'd never seen it used to not mean China specifically. While some daos are clearly sabres, the sort of dao Shu Lien wields would not be considered a sabre by most people, I don't think - 'sabre' strongly su...

(Of course, then there’s Squamish, with its use of 7 for glottal stop. Let’s not talk about that one please.) This seems perfectly reasonable to me. Non-Unicode Roman transliterations of Semitic languages routinely use <3> for ayin and <7> for aleph . Is this use of <7> common in Hebrew or Akkadian...

I recently watched Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (late to the party, I know), and it left me with a few questions about Mandarin. As a preamble, I do not speak any Mandarin; I only caught a few words that I recognized, like Jianghu and Tianxia . Most of what I know comes from a rather casual intere...

bradrn wrote: ↑Thu Jul 04, 2019 5:43 pm(Of course, then there’s Squamish, with its use of 7 for glottal stop. Let’s not talk about that one please.)

This seems perfectly reasonable to me. Non-Unicode Roman transliterations of Semitic languages routinely use <3> for ayin and <7> for aleph.

Travis B. wrote: ↑Wed Jul 03, 2019 9:44 pm I pronounce envelope (the noun) with LOT even though many people here pronounce it with DRESS.

Same.

Using a comma for the glottal stop is even worse than Tlingit's decision to use a period.

So; in transcribing /a:/, which would you use? 1) aa 2) á 3) ā 4) something else 5) just go eat a taco Usually either 1) or 3). I also quite like a꞉ — there’s one or two natlangs which already use it (I believe Halkomelem uses it), plus of course there’s zompist’s Wede꞉i. (Side note: Halkomelem (or...

Estav wrote: ↑Wed Jul 03, 2019 4:31 pm I just learned that entrails is generally pronounced with /ɛ/ like entry rather than with /ɑ/ like entree.

I use both in free variation. I still have no idea which is correct in envelope (the noun).

It took me years and years to get a tricon language I was satisfied with. Two things that really helped me: 1) reading Christopher Ehret's Reconstructing Proto-Afroasiatic (Proto-Afrasian) --his ideas are controversial, but just because the real Semitic didn't develop that way doesn't mean his ideas...

I pronounce the l's, which is one of the ways everyone knows I'm a foreigner of some sort I pronounce the L in balm sometimes, but only because otherwise it's homophonous with bomb . "Is there no [bɑm] in Gilead?" Well, I hope there's no bomb in Gilead... :P This wouldn't be a problem if ...

I asked elsewhere, and someone directed me to this . He hadn't used it personally, but he said that he and his wife, both linguists, had tried and enjoyed the company's Biblical Hebrew program. I haven't had time to sit down to a full lesson since picking it up, but it seems to be what I was looking...

mèþru wrote: ↑Tue Jul 02, 2019 1:20 pm I pronounce the l's, which is one of the ways everyone knows I'm a foreigner of some sort

I pronounce the L in balm sometimes, but only because otherwise it's homophonous with bomb. "Is there no [bɑm] in Gilead?" Well, I hope there's no bomb in Gilead...

"Coca-Cola" is still in use as the formal name for the drink usually called Coke however Pepsi is rarely referred to as "Pepsi-Cola" in speech or writing anymore. Is this because "coke" has multiple meanings whereas "Pepsi" can only refer to one thing? The la...

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Nortaneous wrote: ↑Sun Jun 23, 2019 1:32 pm

no

Really?

I mean, why would it be? What physiological motivation would there be?

I could buy V˞ > Vˁ > V̰. It would be unusual, but (for me at least) it wouldn't stretch credulity.

Ars Lande wrote: ↑Sat Jun 22, 2019 4:49 pmIn the Modern Wentish version, what does the repeated line 'an so lietch thi, Ab' mean?

If I had to guess, "if it pleases you, Father."

I've been thinking of learning Syriac (or failing that some dialect of Neo-Aramaic like Turoyo). Anyone know of a good program for thoroughly learning Syriac (i.e., to speak and think in it, not simply for reading the Pshitta)? Something with IPA references for pronunciation would be nice, and if it...

- Learnèd irregular plurals (crisis - crises, cherub - cherubim/cherubs, one ninja - three ninja/ninjas). For a lot of these there's a struggle between the learnèd plural and the regular plural, with different levels of acceptance for either (matrix - matrices and millennium - millennia are very ac...

Akangka wrote: ↑Fri Jun 21, 2019 5:10 am So, English, how do you differentiate yourself from other conlang? /ʍ/? Are you serious?

Uh, /ʍ/ really isn't that weird, and not many English dialects still have it anyway.