Zompist Bboard Again

Dammit - Hagedorn has a narrow lead over Neubauer for WI Supreme Court...

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I have two unstressed vowels corresponding to stressed /oʊ/, namely [ə] and [ɵ] - their distribution seems to depend on position, environment, register, and just how unstressed they are. Your (Sal's) [o] may be the same vowel as my [ɵ], aside from its exact realization.

I myself have the (non-standard) pronunciations [ˌzʲʉ̯uːˈwaːɤ̯əːtʃi(ː)] and [ˌzʲʉ̯uˈpʰɰẽ(ŋ)k̚tɘ̃(ː)(n)], corresponding to /ˌzuːˈɒlədʒi/ and /ˌzuːˈpleɪŋktən/. I asked my parents what they have, and they have the non-standard /ˌzuːˈɒlədʒi/ but the standard /ˌzoʊəˈpleɪŋktən/.

From listening to people on the radio in things such as non-local commercials and syndicated programs, I get the impression that dialects other than that here are less different from that here than the transcriptions that people give of how they speak would indicate. I certainly hear final devoicing...

I never realized there were contests on TVs in which seals could be contestants.

The Brexiteers sure seem set on leading their nation to utter ruin...

The Tiggers make me think of Winnie the Pooh - I am not sure if this is intentional or not.

So if May's deal passes, she will resign, and will presumably therefore have nothing more to do with her own deal. But if May's deal doesn't pass, she will not resign, and will thus be stuck with something that isn't her own deal. ... Sounds about par for the course. I think the idea is that May ha...

I am just waiting for Britain to go on full Mad Max after a no-deal Brexit, all thanks to the hardline Brexiteers who don't realize they're destroying rather than freeing their country.

Just because a morpheme was free historically does not mean it is not a bound morpheme synchronically; I really do not see how these two things are not incompatible with one another.

I have /kɒmˈparəbəl/ with a TRAP vowel in the second syllable, but am familiar with /ˈkɒmprəbəl/ as well. I've never noticed it actually being pronounced "compare-able" /kɒmˈpɛːrəbəl/ in BrE. It isn't usually, but I do hear it where the sense is clearly 'capable of being compared'. Eg: &q...

For some reason, for the actual adjective I am inclined to go with /ˈkɒmp(ə)rəbəl/, but for the Java interface I am inclined to go with /kəmˈpɛrəbəl/.

I have never been able to decide between the two pronunciations of comparable; both /ˈkɒmpərəbəl/ and /kəmˈpɛrəbəl/ seem valid to me.

As for "egg", I found eye-dialect spellings like "aig" baffling for years because how else would you say this? [ɛg] sounded totally New Yawk to me, I didn't think it belonged to GA. Leg and egg don't rhyme with smeg IMD. It's also a completed sound change for me - p/ej/nguin, G/...

He's done the thing that Japanese emperors used to do, where they'd retire to become Buddhist monks, but in fact hold more power than their successor minus the responsibilities.

I just remembered that Corbyn supports Maduro. I retract my statement about him being better than May in my opinion. They're now tied for awful in my mind. That does add to my sense of him having a certain level of political naïveté, in the way that it is supporting anyone opposed to the Imperialis...

One thing is I do find it interesting to discount the Jewish people who do support Corbyn, as if only those who oppose him matter, as of course Jews who support Corbyn are simply in the category of "some of my friends are Jews" and thus should be dismissed, as if their opinions did not mat...

That kind of logic is part of why people become Communists, because capitalism is (obviously) bad, and thus anyone opposed to capitalism is (obviously) good - even if they were responsible for far worse oppression than the capitalists in reality. (Of course that kind of logic is part of why people b...