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I can't recall if anybody's mentioned check — the loan into English with a modern meaning far more broad than its original one. This: the classic example of a loanword growing far beyond its original sense is check , though that too is so old that I was surprised to find out it where it came from.

This mess reminds me of the Taiwanese use of "Wi-fi" for both Wi-fi and mobile Internet via 3G/4G/etc. ("data") — an example of a borrowing with a wider meaning than in the original. They ask "do you have Wi-fi" just as people ask "do you have data" here in V...

Travis B. wrote: ↑Tue Jul 26, 2022 4:51 pm It has no meaning in "ordinary English"!

Yes, but what would it mean if it did?

jal wrote: ↑Tue Jul 26, 2022 7:10 am I somehow doubt that. The /r/ should become (partially) voiceless because of the aspiration, is that what you're alluding to?

For me at least, it is aspirated, and--as you say--also unvoiced.

You are asking a specific technical question about the git version control system, not a general linguistic question about the English language. Even I do not know the particular meaning intended here, and I use git and GitHub heavily; I do not think the ZBB is the best place to ask this question. ...

Are you sure that it's about libraries? It sounds to me like someone who is politically right-wing talking about "squashing" people whom they see as "libs". It is about libraries, (a commit removing libraries, but I use the online editor, so I made it a squashed merge) and I hav...

I mean, it could mean 'compressed', when talking about programming in C or something similar, I suppose. Though I never encountered that word myself. It is traditional for C and C++ libraries, particularly on Unix-like systems, to have names of the form lib<name>, such as libc and libsdl2. Note tho...

bradrn wrote: ↑Sat Jul 23, 2022 10:01 am I mean, what was the sentence in which you saw the word?

The sentence is "Lib-squashed".

Ares Land wrote: ↑Sat Jul 23, 2022 10:17 am Doesn't that refer to squash, the C compression library?

I have no clue what that is.

bradrn wrote: ↑Sat Jul 23, 2022 4:12 am Context please?

I have no context for it, other than that "lib" is short for "library".

What might "lib-squashed" mean?

Four or five days ago, I saw a Youtube channel named "Explore Lucid Dreaming". (I didn't watch any of the videos.) The following night, I had three lucid dreams in a row. Is there a name for that kind of effect?

/ˈkro.ti.ə/ [ˈkɹo.ti.ʌ] and /kroˈe.ʃə/ [kʰɹoˈ(w)e̞(j).ʃʌ]. Ugh. It's actually the /r/ that's aspirated in both. I do not know why, though. I have three schwas: [ɪ], [ə] or [ʊ] (I can't really tell the difference easily), and [ʌ]. All are phonemically /ə/, though. What I meant here is that /ə/ for m...

I can only think of one sentence in German:

Ich habe Durst.
I'm thirsty.

Edit: Why did I forget it's "I have thirst" and not "I am thirsty"?

This is backwards. [ə] occurs as an unstressed allophone of a number of different vowels, while /ʌ/ is contrastive against all other stressed vowels. You say [bʌt] when speaking carefully, and only say [bət] when speaking quickly and the word has attached to a larger prosodic unit that drags the st...

Why is stress omitted from your transcription? Because I think it's pretty clear that, despite the brackets, this is not actually a narrow phonetic transcription but a broad phonemic one. and I saw no reason to indicate stress, but here it is anyway: /ˈkro.ti.ə/ [ˈkɹo.ti.ʌ] and /kroˈe.ʃə/ [kʰɹoˈ(w)...

Croatia as [kɹo.ti.ʌ]. Apparently it's actually [kɹo.e.ʃʌ].

In every English variety I have heard of, Illinois ends in a diphthong - [ɔɪ̯] - and I have never heard of it contrasting with a *[oɪ̯], or being pronounced with two vowels in hiatus. I am not sure what you mean, but I pronounce it as [ɪ.ɫɪ.noj]--never [ɪ.ɫɪ.nɔɪ], [ɪ.ɫɪ.noɪ], or [ɪ.ɫɪ.nɔj]. That is...

Something that the one about "Illinois" makes me think of is that there are all these people with [ɔ]-- Illin [ɔ] is --but I have [o]-- Illin [o] is . In every English variety I have heard of, Illinois ends in a diphthong - [ɔɪ̯] - and I have never heard of it contrasting with a *[oɪ̯], o...

Something that the one about "Illinois" makes me think of is that there are all these people with [ɔ]--Illin[ɔ]is--but I have [o]--Illin[o]is.

Yesterday I saw a documentary about Simon & Garfunkel on TV, and it featured a mishearing: The arranger of the song (Like a) Bridge over Troubled Water had misheard that as Like a Pitcher of Water and wrote that title on his score. I see "bridge over" sounding like "pitcher"...