Zompist Bboard Again

Reyák'ə Šad šəyó gẽsądəča sélela əc máhla əc jəslá əc zośéri əc máhrilo zekó go. [ɾeˈjakʼə ˈʂad ʂəˈjo ˈgɛ̃sãdətʂʰa ˈselala ətsʰ ˈmahla ətsʰ dzəsˈla ətsʰ zoˈɕeɾi ətsʰ ˈmahɾilo zeˈkʰo go] yesterday=LOC Shedd fish build-NOM.PAT-DEF.SM=ALL parents-POSS.1S and daughter-POSS.1S and sister-POSS.1S and son...

My /oʊ ʊ/ are likewise very centralized, but my /uː ɒ/ are back. Huh, interesting, that's pretty much the opposite of what's typical in the UK, where if any of the rounded vowels is going to be fronted, it'll be the GOOSE vowel, though the FOOT vowel is central round Manchester. Isn't /oʊ/ traditio...

/oʊ uː/ and especially /ʊ/ are not fully backed (/ʊ/ in particular seems to be quite centralized). This seems to be the case for most people here. My /oʊ ʊ/ are likewise very centralized, but my /uː ɒ/ are back. In the dialect here /oʊ/ is typically less centralized than /uː/, which undergoes allop...

When I was out at the Shedd Aquarium with my sister and much of our immediate family this weekend, I specifically recall hearing my sister pronounce to as a very clear [tɕʰʉ̯uː], with very strong affrication and palatalization.

My /l/ is weakly pharyngealized at most and rather tends more towards being plain velar, vocalized or not; I perceive it as more back than normal, but more in that /oʊl ʊl uːl/ are fully backed whereas /oʊ uː/ and especially /ʊ/ are not fully backed (/ʊ/ in particular seems to be quite centralized)....

Kéžə šícə mòdə šu mettówə go.
[ˈkʰeʐə ˈʂitsʰə ˈmɔdə ʂu metˈtʰowə go]
new-SM talk-GER place-DEF.SM NEG mind-A:1S-P:3SM EGO
I don't mind the new board.

Jo concordo. Sempre est bon ad agiterle de vez en quand. /ʐəkõkoːdə sẽpʁ əht bõ aw əɖ͡ʐitəːlə də ves ẽ kwãw/ [ʐə.kõ.koː.də.sẽp.ʁəht.bõ.na.wə.ɖ͡ʐi.təːl.də.ve.zẽ.kwãw] 1.NOM.SG agree-1.PRES.IND.SG be.3.PRES.IND.SG always good to shake.INF-3.OBL.SG from.time.to.time I agree. It's always good to change...

In Early Middle Laqar, which is a highly fusional language which can have rather long words, stress is placed on one of the three last syllables of a given word and is mobile. This is derived from stress in Proto-Laqar, which is agglutinative, which was on the left-most heaviest syllable of the last...

Ləzeccit šu nerèwo go.
fail-GER-PM NEG miss.IPFV-A:1S-P:3PM EGO
I do not miss the errors.

Crab rangoon can be either for me; it is a count noun when speaking of individual units of crab rangoon ("Could you give me a couple crab rangoons?"), and as you see right here when I speak of crab rangoon in a collective fashion it is a mass nouns.

And it's been on the BBC for a while and it keeps catching me: Top tips for making your family swim awesome. I don't get it. Maybe it's just a British thing. Here, one of the great shibboleths of class in language is traditionally distinguishing adverbs from adjectives: using adjectives adverbially...

Oh, an alternative way of looking at changes like ter > tcher... sulcalisation! Rhotic vowels are typically sulcalised - indeed, /3/ is typically sulcalised even in non-rhotic dialects. And what effect does sulcalisation often have on neighbouring consonants? Affrication! I should note that in addi...

Zíkę yúšilə laqárča q'ahtəwóxô lô sa.
some-PF sentence-PF Laqar-ALL carry.IPFV-PST-A:1S-P:3PF should DED
I should translate some sentences into Laqar.

I distinctly remember that from a young age I pronounced mister as [ˈmɘɕtɕʁ̩(ː)] before I switched to the pronunciation [ˈmɘsʲːʁ̩(ː)], which is more common here.

I on the other hand found it easy to learn to pronounce [x] and still tend to hear initial [ts] and [s] as the same sound. However, learning to pronounce German /x/ (which really should be called /ç/) was trickier because I had to learn how to pronounce the allophone [ç] in isolation (because my nat...

I used to hear German initial /ts/ as [s], distinguished from German initial /z/ by voicing alone.

Lahẽləla laź žiśǫnútęk'əl laź məlęnútęča sótorô ze.
language-PF-POSS.1S very split-IPFV-PART.ACT-NOM=ABL very join-IPFV-PART.ACT-NOM=ALL vary.IPFV-3PF DIR
My languages vary from very isolating to very synthetic.

Actually, the conbination of English, Hebrew, and Romance speakers should specify a single stop series of /p t k/ because English-speakers often hear initial, stressed onset, and final [p t k] as /b d g/ due to English /p t k/ being aspirated initially and at the start of stressed onsets and preglot...

English speakers should rule out /ts/ and /x/ as phonemes.

/m n ɲ ŋ/ m n ń ŋ /p t k/ p t k /ts/ c /ᵐb~mᵇ ⁿd~nᵈ ᶮdʒ~ɲᵈᶾ ᵑɡ~ŋᶢ/ b d j g /f s ʃ x h/ f s ś x h /w ɾ l j/ w r l y /i iː ɪ~e eː ɛ ɛː æ æː ɑ ɑː ɔ ɔː o~ʊ oː u uː/ i ii é éé e ee ä ää a aa o oo ó óó u uu /nᵈemæːnᵈem bɛlɛ, jiːwoːɾokɑjnenᵈ ʃɛndɑsŋitijɛːxɔluːtuwɛːtijɛːnɛjimætɑmᵇæːti/ démäädém bele, yiiwóó...