Zompist Bboard Again

is AfD so thoroughly infiltrated that they decided to stop prosecuting it, or is that just NDP? I can't imagine very many people would want to vote for a fed honeypot

/p pʼ b t tʼ d ts tsʼ dz tɬ tɬʼ (d)ɮ k kʼ g qʼ ʔ/ <p pʼ b t tʼ d ts tsʼ dz tl tlʼ dl k kʼ g qʼ '> /ɸ β s z ɬ l x ɣ χ ʁ/ <f w s z lh l kh gh q r> /m n ŋ/ <m n ñ> Codas: /p k χ ʔ m n ŋ/ <p k q c m n ñ> /ˋ ˋp ˋk ˋχ ˋm ˋn ˋŋ/ <j b g r jm jn jñ> (I think low tone + glottal stop isn't possible) /ɪ̆ ʏ̆ ə̆ ...

"Bureaucracy" and "bureaucrat" tend to have negative connotations. Bureaucrats are rule-bound automata who make you fill out forms in triplicate. Not quite the right connotation. It's accurate for the average person's interaction with a DMV clerk, but the country isn't ruled by ...

And the people who are behind the likes of Fox News, the New York Post, and like aren't conformist bullshitters? Who cares about them? Nobody in power listens to them. (Except some elected officials, but who cares about them? Unelected officials can just wait them out.) You're obviously forgetting ...

Fertility rates within developed countries are inversely correlated with population density and every developed country reproduces at below replacement rates. More intensive urbanization is the last thing anyone needs. If anything, suburbs are too dense. There's a lot of post hoc propter hoc going ...

Raholeun wrote: ↑Sun Oct 10, 2021 8:59 am Dixon writes in Basic Linguistic Theory Vol. 2 (p. 191):

All languages have a distinction of number in either free or bound pronouns (or both).

I find this statement hard to believe. Are there any counterexamples that you can think of?

Piraha?

To me the best approach would be to focus not on degrowth but rather on more intensive urbanization Fertility rates within developed countries are inversely correlated with population density and every developed country reproduces at below replacement rates. More intensive urbanization is the last ...

The point that most elites and officials are conformist bullshitters so we don't trust them And the people who are behind the likes of Fox News, the New York Post, and like aren't conformist bullshitters? Who cares about them? Nobody in power listens to them. (Except some elected officials, but who...

/tsʼɪɛχzɯə/ Tsʼiqzoú Onsets: /p pʼ b t tʼ d ts tsʼ dz tɬ tɬʼ (d)ɮ k kʼ g qʼ ʔ/ <p pʼ b t tʼ d ts tsʼ dz tl tlʼ dl k kʼ g qʼ c> /ɸ β s z ɬ l x ɣ χ ʁ/ <f v s z lh l kh gh q r> /m n ŋ/ <m n ñ> Codas: /p k χ ʔ m n ŋ/ ⟨p k q c m n ŋ⟩ /ˋ ˋp ˋk ˋχ ˋm ˋn ˋŋ/ ⟨h b g r hm hn hŋ⟩ (I think low tone + glottal st...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FAz1FjSWYAEfCBT?format=jpg&name=medium There are advocates of “National Divorce” along red-blue/urban-rural lines The problem with that would be that it would allow the Republicans to lord over the red areas, when the real goal ought to be to exclude them from power ...

/tsʼɪɛχzɯə/ <C'ierdua> /p pʼ b t tʼ d ts tsʼ dz tɬ tɬʼ (d)ɮ k kʼ g qʼ ʔ/ <p p' b t t' d ts ts' dz tl tl' dl k k' g q' q> /ɸ β s z ɬ l x ɣ χ ʁ/ <f w s z c l x h v r> /m n ŋ/ <m n ñ> /ɪ̆ ʏ̆ ə̆ ɛ̆ œ̆/ <i u a e o> /i y ɯə~ɯ u/ <ii ü ï uu> /ɪɛ ʏœ uɔ/ <ie ue uo> /e ø o/ <ee ö oo> /ɛɪ œʏ ɔu/ <ei eu ou> /eɛ...

bradrn wrote: ↑Tue Oct 05, 2021 2:29 am There seem to be a bunch of phonemes in that text which aren’t in the inventory: at least /ə œ v w/, and possibly some others too which I’ve missed.

fixed, but those are /ə̆ œ̆ β/ and the first half of /wa/

cursed relay lang /tsʼɪɛχzɯə/ /p pʼ b t tʼ d ts tsʼ dz tɬ tɬʼ (d)ɮ k kʼ g qʼ ʔ/ /ɸ β s z ɬ l x ɣ χ ʁ/ /m n ŋ/ /ɪ̆ ʏ̆ ə̆ ɛ̆ œ̆/ /i y ɯə~ɯ u/ /ɪɛ ʏœ uɔ/ /e ø o/ /ɛɪ œʏ ɔu/ /eɛ øɶ ʌ ɔ/ /æ a/ /wʌ wæ wa/ /ɪu oɪ/ Syllable structure: CV(p k χ ʔ m n ŋ) Tones: complicated, but underlying marked low tone whic...

/p t s k/ <p t s k> /b d ɟ ɡ/ <b đ j g> /v ð j/ <v d y> /i e o a/ <i e o a> Nasalization is written as one of: - <m n ñ ŋ> - <a> - ogonek on the first vowel [fː ɬː~t͡ɬː çː] <ff dd cc> (similarly for nasal equivalents) [ʋ̃ ð̞̃ j̃] <b d y> /M H/ <e é> /ɡósīðē béᴺ éX̄tājóðīR̄ᴺ | béᴺ ɡósīðē-dáᴺ píX́tāX̄...

Man in Space wrote: ↑Mon Sep 27, 2021 9:03 pm I would like to look into musical scales based on P5 equivalence. My brief googling and scanning Wikipedia on my phone is leaving me confused. Anybody know a layperson-friendly discussion of these?

one possible search term is quintave

Moose-tache wrote: ↑Mon Sep 27, 2021 6:18 pm absurd sound changes like /t’/ > /d/

isn't ejective > implosive attested somewhere in Mayan? (but probably pʼ > ɓ and/or qʼ > ʛ without a comprehensive shift)

some kind of stress shift followed by i u > ɪ ʊ in (word-final?) closed syllables, then ɪ ʊ > e a (for ʊ > a, maybe ʊ > ɔ > a or ʊ > ʊə > oa > a)

persimmon season!

now all i need is an elephant's digestive tract to pass the seeds through so they'll germinate

The closest thing I can think of to this is Vietic. In Austro-Asiatic, strong final stress caused initial syllables to weaken in various languages, and in Vietnamese they are gone almost without a trace (they may have some influence on tone, Initials, not tone - the presence of an Old Vietnamese pr...

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