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Ich habe heute auch gelernt, dass Google Chrome "Hundebaby" als "dog baby" übersetzt.
I have also learned today, that Google Chrome translates "Hundebaby" as "dog baby".

Welpin existiert, hört sich doch sehr klinisch an, da Welpe zur Fachsprache von Hundezüchtern gehört. Umgangsprachlich sagt man "Hündchen" oder "Hundebaby". Ich finde das Wort "Hundebaby" komisch. Wir würden "dog baby" niemals auf Englisch sagen. I find the w...

Imralu wrote: ↑Tue Nov 20, 2018 5:37 pm

Linguoboy wrote: ↑Mon Nov 19, 2018 11:25 amFasch niämols.

He pai ki ahau tēnā reo ā-iwi.
I like that dialect.

Ich glaube, dass das ein gewisses Alemannisch ist.
I believe that is some sort of Alemannic.

On one hand I am happy that I got math routines (think ln, exp, sqrt, sin, cos, tan, asin, acos, atan, sinh, cosh, tanh, asinh, acosh, atanh) written in Forth working. On the other hand I am not happy that, compared to the math.* routines in Python which I assume are using C library routines which I...

['ɒ:ɰɐɫ] for both. Is that the same vowel as in orange , moral , Florida etc.? (All of those usually have LOT in BrE.) For me aural has NORTH, [ɔː] with relatively weak lip rounding, and oral has FORCE, [oə] with rather stronger lip rounding. I don't know how dhok speaks them, but I should note tha...

I can make a distinction between the two, with aural as [ˈɒːʁʷʊ(ː)] and oral as [ˈɔːʁʷʊ(ː)], but this is artificial and not natural in the variety here.

bbbosborne wrote: ↑Sun Nov 18, 2018 12:14 am aural
oral

These are homophones as [ˈɔːʁʷʊ(ː)] for me.

conlang: [ ˈkʰãː(n)ˌʟ̞ẽ(ː)ŋ]~[ˈkʰãː(n)ˌɰẽ(ː)ŋ]
Dewey: [ˈtʲʉ̯uːwi(ː)]

Ich bin nicht sehr zuversichtlich bezüglich auf Deutsch schreiben, aber ich fühle, dass ich das Deutsch hier verstehen kann.
I am not very confident at writing in German, but I feel I can understand the German here.

Ich sollte mein Deutsch mehr üben.
I should practice my German more.

Welche Sprache ist das?
What language is that?

jal wrote: ↑Thu Nov 15, 2018 2:47 pm Dutch has phonemic length only in loans (e.g. <beige> [bE:Z@]), otherwise it's tense/lax and lengthening before r (for some vowels).

How did Dutch end up with a phonemic long vowel in beige when, from what it seems, French never had one in that word in the first place?

starting to (when pronounced like a single word)

I wonder how common trisyllabic realizations of schedule are; it is normally trisyllabic here, reflecting /ˈskɛdʒuəl/, but I have no clue how the trisyllabic pronunciation came to be (especially since /u/ normally does not undergo breaking before coda /l/ here). I am almost thinking that this could ...

I've heard a number of pronunciations for <oe> in German-derived names here in the States: /ɚ/ (Goethe, Goebbels), /ei/ (Boehner), /ɛ/ (a friend whose surname is Boecke, which she pronounces homophonous with Becky ), and a spelling pronunciation of /ou/. I would guess that the vowel in Boecke is di...

schedule: [ˈskɜːtɕuːwʊ(ː)]

Offhand I can't think of any unconditioned mergers of historically long vowels with the corresponding short vowel phonemes. Uh, wasn't THOUGHT historically long? The THOUGHT set is a bit of a mixed bag anyway. I guess "historically" wasn't the best word choice. Perhaps "etymologicall...

Kind of relevant rant: it's annoying that not all research is publicly available for free like it IMHO should be, but that could well cause a collapse of societal order since few people would be motivated to do any kind of research if they couldn't sell their findings, leading to stalling of progre...

Related question: is there a variety of English that merges THOUGHT with GOAT? Many non-native speakers do, but I've never heard of such merger in a native accent. With all the weird mergers that happen in English, this is almost surprising. Offhand I can't think of any unconditioned mergers of his...

I should note that it is traditional to pronounce StG final /ə/ in names as /i/ here (but word-internal StG /ə/ stays as /ə/).