Zompist Bboard Again

I seem to have a hard time wrapping my head around Skou phonology.

I have never heard any of these phrases except asphalt and pavement but find pavement confusing especially when British people are involved.

Nerulent wrote: ↑Sat Jun 12, 2021 5:19 pm Auē! Tino uaua tēnā reo!
Wow, Dinka looks hard!

He aha ai?
Why?

Somehow I'm reminded of "The Germans"... Monty Python's humour is general is filled with references to Nazi Germany, to a degree which I found frankly bizarre as a child. I get that they were trying to be taboo-breaking, but why that particular taboo again and again? This is exactly the o...

Well, I'm not quite there, but I'm close. I think trying to make every ninth post a Malayalam lesson and every tenth post about some Dravidian language variety is slowing me down a bit.

Apparently, some people in the part of Kerala my parents are from also use these expressions: [ˈmoːn̪d̪i] - 'evening' [ˈmiːrɯ] - The video claims that this word means 'ant(s)'. We say [uˈrumbɯ] or [ʊˈrʊmbɯ]. However, I think my dad said that (he thinks) [ˈmiːrɯ] means a specific kind of ant that we ...

The Future Tense and Epistemic Mood(?) I just recently realized that I never wrote a lesson talking about how to discuss things that will happen in the future in Malayalam! I did briefly mention it in my introduction to verbs but then didn't explain it any further, so now, I think I'll try to expla...

Both sound fine to me. I have a slight preference for (b), since it’s slightly more concise. But you can make (a) more concise as well if you use direct speech: a′) "When people ask me whose side I'm on, my first instinct is usually to respond, 'Not yours!'" To me at least, it would also ...

This reminds me of my first year as a teacher. It was a crash course in teenage slang. It's not only teenagers either! The latest thing is to use What! as an exclamation of surprise. And even six-year-olds do it. It's actually kinda cute. (Just to be clear, these are French kids, and the English wo...

I did go out to a restaurant last week with my mom, but I'm definitely not leaving the house now.

No valid one, at least. You are perhaps referring to Holzer's idea that the Cimmerians spoke "Temematic" No, tbh, I had no idea of any of that and was just wondering why Wikipedia makes it look like Cimmerian may have been another branch of Indo-European altogether. Wikipedia tends to err...

Yeah, I think it does take getting used to. When I was younger and went to India with my mom, she'd take me to visit all kinds of relatives. By the time we got back to my grandma's house (where we were staying), I'd be exhausted and feel like doing nothing other than watching TV. Fortunately, becaus...

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Ares Land wrote: ↑Sun May 30, 2021 2:50 pm

Chilli!

Bolognese!
Lasagna!

Stuffed sweet peppers!

All of these and no one said meatballs?!

bradrn wrote: ↑Mon Jun 07, 2021 9:30 pmIt helps that I read very quickly, and remember most of what I read.

JEALOUSY!

ration, rational Likewise, I dont remember any specific event in which I said these words out loud with the wrong pronunciation and was corrected, but Im pretty sure that at least for ration I encountered it in print first and assumed it would rhyme with all of the other -ation words I knew. ration...

Is there any reason to believe that Cimmerian wasn't just an Iranian language? No valid one, at least. You are perhaps referring to Holzer's idea that the Cimmerians spoke "Temematic" No, tbh, I had no idea of any of that and was just wondering why Wikipedia makes it look like Cimmerian m...

Oh, wow, thanks! :) To answer my other question myself, Vanhove says in his "Beja Grammatical Sketch": "The morphological structure of the lexicon is partially organised in consonantal roots to which various patterns apply, as in Arabic, the contact language. Beja is the Cushitic lang...

Nō ēhea rauemi āu ako o te reo Dinka? What resources are you using to learn Dinka? Ko tēnei , ko tēnei , ko tēnei , ko tēnei , ko tēnei , ko tēnei , ko tēnei rāua ko tēnei :?: This , this , this , this , this , this , this , and (of course) this :P He aha te tikanga o te kupu 'ɣɛn' e toru te whakap...

I think the first time I saw the word sundry was in Learn Tamil in 30 Days, where at first, I thought it said Sunday . :lol: I used to think hamburger in French was pronounced [ɑ̃byʁʒe]. For some reason that seems like a reasonable assumption to me. Well, in French, am is often pronounced [ɑ̃], bur ...

Yes, that is Richard Strand's page. I once managed to (inadvertently) piss him off by writing (almost all of) this as part of my job at the time.