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- Sat Oct 23, 2021 8:20 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Sound Change Quickie Thread
- Replies: 1333
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Re: Sound Change Quickie Thread
the paper i read could be eighty years old ... now that I think of it, im almost sure the only permissible clusters were nasal+stop, which we typically today think of as being not a cluster at all, even if it's bound to word-internal position. that said, there is a language in Polynesia, Tuvaluan, w...
- Sat Oct 23, 2021 6:18 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Sound Change Quickie Thread
- Replies: 1333
- Views: 823008
Re: Sound Change Quickie Thread
Polynesian went through a stage in which internal consonant clusters inherited from PMP still remained, but final consonants had dropped out. e,g, you could say "manta" but not "matan". this would be a fallback solution if nothing else feels right .
- Sat Oct 23, 2021 12:45 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Introverted society
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2985
Re: Introverted society
kind of reminds me of the autistic society, to be honest .... it depends really if the trait is biologically bound to last forever, which is probably the best way to answer the question ... because if not, i imagine that the few extroverts in society would command such power that they would take cha...
- Sat Oct 23, 2021 10:31 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: United States Politics Thread 46
- Replies: 1424
- Views: 445704
Re: United States Politics Thread 46
Thank you to Moose and to bradrn for defending me, though, honestly, it hasnt changed my mind. All I see is more talking over my head, speaking for me, and looking for cloaked interpretations of my words, as though I were a 5-year-old barely able to get a coherent sentence out and, at best, given th...
- Fri Oct 22, 2021 4:48 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4692
- Views: 2063922
Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
i believe the anecdote but i think the kissa word is actually one where the k really spells /k/ and not the palatal sound. i remember being surprised because i thought IPA [ɕ] would be a prefect sound for onomatopeia of urination.
- Fri Oct 22, 2021 1:48 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4692
- Views: 2063922
Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
my dad pronounces ziti with a true [t], not flapped, but i wasnt able to explain to him how it was strange in terms he understood. he may have picked it up from Greek, assuming that Greeks, at least in America, use the same word to refer to the dish.
- Fri Oct 22, 2021 12:55 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Semi-democracies in conworlds
- Replies: 19
- Views: 10163
Re: Semi-democracies in conworlds
I want to add for the sake of contrast that it's common in my writing to have democracies where voting is done in blocs through the census. For example, suppose a neighborhood has 468 people. When the combined census-election happens, they send their representative, who gets 468 votes at the nationa...
- Fri Oct 22, 2021 9:50 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Semi-democracies in conworlds
- Replies: 19
- Views: 10163
Re: Semi-democracies in conworlds
East Germany's Parliament afforded seats not only to political parties, but also to organizations within their society, which were outside the party system and, so far as I know, their representatives were not elected by the people but rather by the organizations themselves. I try to avoid borrowing...
- Thu Oct 21, 2021 5:33 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Sound Change Quickie Thread
- Replies: 1333
- Views: 823008
Re: Sound Change Quickie Thread
No I dont think so... I've never heard of a language that has differenbt forms for a consonant based on what the POA of a consonant in an adjoining syllable is. closest i can think of is Latin's /l/~/r/ allomorphy, but that is dissimilation, and is responsive only to one consonant: another /l/.
- Thu Oct 21, 2021 4:46 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: United States Politics Thread 46
- Replies: 1424
- Views: 445704
Re: United States Politics Thread 46
I think youre being just as unfair to libertarians here as you are to conservatives. Please note that up above I never agreed with your claim that, as you say, libertarians are the kings of the "you'd believe exactly what I do if you were only smart enough and educated yourself" stance . I...
- Thu Oct 21, 2021 11:42 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: United States Politics Thread 46
- Replies: 1424
- Views: 445704
Re: United States Politics Thread 46
i still want to reply to this, though its perhaps a good thing i waited two days and that the conversation has mostly moved on ,............ So many leftists seem to, at best, view conservatives as no more than miseducated leftists, as if our interests are the same as yours but we just can't see it ...
- Thu Oct 21, 2021 10:17 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Random Thread
- Replies: 3731
- Views: 452297
Re: Random Thread
yeah Antarctica is definitely the tamest continent, in that there are MILLIONS of penguins walking around all vulnerable like that and yet they mostly survive unmolested .... but even there, there are exceptions. the large body size of Antarctic penguins vs other penguins might be the reason why the...
- Thu Oct 21, 2021 7:18 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Confusing headlines
- Replies: 701
- Views: 552596
Re: Confusing headlines
Australia is close to southeast Asia, where (at least in SIngapore), corporal punishment is a primary means of punishment for theft and some other crimes. This includes Australian tourists. It may be that the mental image of caning as punishment is more established in Australia than in other English...
- Thu Oct 21, 2021 6:33 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: United States Politics Thread 46
- Replies: 1424
- Views: 445704
Re: United States Politics Thread 46
https://twitter.com/i/events/1450987166843035650
Trump expected to launch new social media platform, TMTG, freeing conservatives from the need to use Twttr, Parler, Gab, etc
Trump expected to launch new social media platform, TMTG, freeing conservatives from the need to use Twttr, Parler, Gab, etc
- Tue Oct 19, 2021 8:05 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Semi-democracies in conworlds
- Replies: 19
- Views: 10163
Re: Semi-democracies in conworlds
Ive been doing a lot of this lately .... i found a way to mix politics and writing, and realized that democracy could exist in a world with primitive technology. Democracies are the most interesting form of government for me, since in a monarchy or military dictatorship, there is no question of &quo...
- Tue Oct 19, 2021 5:17 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: an Autistic consociety
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3240
Re: an Autistic consociety
if you mean in isolation, on their own planet, then yes, Im pretty sure a society like this would be viable. They would have some things that we do not, and we have some things that they will not, but I dont think autism in and of itself would stop humans from dominating the ecosystem, controlling a...
- Tue Oct 19, 2021 11:27 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: United States Politics Thread 46
- Replies: 1424
- Views: 445704
Re: United States Politics Thread 46
the Left will never understand the Right. What else is there to say? I think that's basically correct. One way I've seen it described is that, to conservatives, rights are negative. You don't have any rights to anything. What you have is freedom from a certain number of things, but no more. Anything...
- Tue Oct 19, 2021 6:55 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Graphemic space
- Replies: 15
- Views: 5107
Re: Graphemic space
i started with an alphabet that i acknowledged was Romanesque .... but as I worked with it over the years, I realized there were a lot of shapes that had just never occurred to me. We have only one Q, one G, etc .... but letter shapes with bumps and bolts in other places would still look Romanesque....
- Sat Oct 16, 2021 9:05 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conworld random thread
- Replies: 309
- Views: 164406
Re: Conworld random thread
Well it's occurred to me that if Romania really is an island of paradise in an otherwise war-torn world, refugees from both the Axis and Allies would be flooding into Romania from the very outset of war, and that's a loose end I can't tie up even with a coup d'etat followed by Sovietization. Perhaps...
- Sat Oct 16, 2021 8:24 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conworld random thread
- Replies: 309
- Views: 164406
Re: Conworld random thread
Some details I wanted to put in a separate post for ease of reading .... The point of divergence will be August 30, 1940, the date of the signing of the Second Vienna Award, in which Romania ceded important territory to a country it had until then been seeing as an ally. The point of convergence may...