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My impression is that US-Americans call a specific type of cheese "American cheese", so... This is correct, and Americans oftentimes look down on American cheese - it isn't real cheese, and the only thing it is really good for is on burgers, and that is only because it is optimized to mel...

When pronouncing voiceless stop, I always try to aspirate it. However, when speaking quickly I tend to drop the aspiration, especially in unstressed syllable. How to correct that? If you are speaking about English pronunciation, normally in English only initial fortis plosives and fortis plosives a...

I did it, and:

How plausible is debaucalization of voiceless coda stops to [ʔ] only in post-vocalic position? So [pot] > [poʔ] but [post] > [post]. Many dialects of English, my own for instance, do exactly that. (Well, with the caveat that /t/ is usually debuccalized after a resonant, too.) In careful speech in m...

Here are some links that popped up when I googled "celebrate", other than links related to some song and word definitions: Celebrate - Bariatric Vitamins and Nutritional Supplements Celebrate Recovery Homepage "Celebrate Recovery is a Christ-centered, 12 step recovery program for anyo...

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Probably a big part of why hex won out over octal is that modern computers use eight-bit bytes, which can be neatly represented in hex, whereas systems that used octal commonly had words divisible in size by three bits (e.g. the PDP-10), which octal is more suited for representing.

Vijay wrote: ↑Mon Aug 12, 2019 7:53 pm The Indian government has shut down all Internet and phone services in Kashmir (kind of old news but I didn't see anyone mention it and just found out this morning ).

Authoritarian bastards.

I tend to have my doubts about nationalism, and in other times would have doubted how an independent Scotland run by the SNP would be better than a United Kingdom governed by Labour, but in these times it seems like Scotland is best off separate from England - and Northern Ireland is best off part o...

Zoroastrianism The tradition that absolutely forbid homosexuality and miscegenation, claiming that the original sin was Ahriman having anal sex with himself to spawn the race of devils (classical) from which black people are descended (medieval)? By that logic you can remark upon anyone's Catholici...

So you expect the utter collapse of the British economy will drive the Tories to even greater victory and crush Labour for doubting just how great Brexit really is (even if it is how great an implosion of Britain it is)?

Yet another example of how Brexit will just be great for the UK... and now with the threats of no-deal they seem to be set on not just merely shooting themselves in the foot but rather blowing off the whole leg.

Why doesn't the guy just become a Tory?

Hahahaha, so apparently Americans pronounce laughter with /æ/... :lol: ...sorry for the most pointless post ever, but I only just found out and I find it absolutely hilarious. Wiktionary claims Americans pronounce laugh with an /æ/ too, but I just don't believe that, at least as a verb...? It can't...

I wonder---could it make any sense to have dental t̪ and n̪ alongside alveolar d and s ? (I want sj to end up just as s , maybe s → ʃ → s ; and I want dj to do something like dj → d͡ʒ → ʒ → r ; but for tj and nj I just want c and ɲ . I figure this divergence may be easier to justify if palatalisati...

On the other hand, three contrasting allophones of / ŋ/ Allophones are by definition not contrasting? I think Pabappa means distinct . E.g. vowel length and, except for one case in an interjective, vowel nasalization are not phonemic in my English, but there exists audible distinctions for them (be...

Compared to that, isn't it a bit weird that the Normans themselves had ended up speaking French after, I think, about a century or so (or less?) of living in France? The difference is that the (now French-speaking) Normans in England, Scotland, and Ireland were the ruling class and had close ties w...

However, it should be noted that Latinate loans into English far postdate Roman rule (at which time Britain wasn't even Germanic-speaking) to the point that it is almost irrelevant.

In general it seems like things can be palatalized, velarized, uvularized, or pharyngealized, but not more than one of the four. And it seems that if one attempts to combine palatalization and velarization in the same phone, palatalization wins.

velarization is sort of fake What exactly do you mean by this? I don't know of anything that would be lost aside from the narrowest articulatory detail if the difference between velarization, uvularization, and pharyngealization were removed But what if the narrowest articulatory detail between &qu...