Zompist Bboard Again

The matter with GA is that most NAE varieties have features in common with it, but most varieties have differences as well. Probably the closest NAE variety to GA is Western American English, whose primary differences are the cot-caught merger and fronting of /uː/. That said, though, some subvarieti...

Pronouncing final /i/ as [e] is primarily a singing thing in NAE, not something in normal everyday speech.

It took me a moment to realize where the fourth and fifth unreduced vowel qualities were; to write [i], [u], and [b] I have to put an empty [b][/b] in them.

(To me this is preferable over disabling BBCode as it won't break any quoting or intended formatting.)

Ék néin mâeng ẽe niu hà màe.
1S feel bad DAT INV 2S EGO
I feel bad for you.

Ék yí díu brùn thâen hí ẽe niláa ũ líu khù.
1S NEG PST.IPFV find way REL DAT ACT-do POSS.3S DIST.S CLASS
I have not found a way to do that yet.

Alà ga ẽe b'âu sudanyẽu goo khúum hí ẽe niu ék sí.
problem PROX.S DAT also INST-RECIP-talk far move REL DAT INV 1S DIR
My cell phone also has this problem.

I haven't done work on Carinnaha in quite some time, and rather most of my recent work has been on Proto-rəgyam, Early Middle Laqar, and Old Zlang.

masako wrote: ↑Fri Jul 27, 2018 11:46 am itla nye ke moyahim nya na'etlam yauek
This is why I don't use diacritics.

Ék glá mikáae dà biud'ot hou mikáae wanĩ màe.
1S like symbol small CMP-good than symbol pitch EGO.
I like diacritics better than tone letters.

Ék cha kakàet lae lòun sláe thâen mikáae sèon màe i líu gêe kré biumâiu chãi ga niung sí.
1S PST.PFV CAUS-off COMP place choose way symbol POSS.3P EGO and DIST.S CLASS seem CMP-well at_time PROX.S CLASS DIR
I turned off sites choosing their own fonts and it looks better now.

Líu gêe khai ẽe akâ khai.
DIST.S CLASS different DAT AGT-think different
It is different on different computers.

La'itóoun kré biumâiu chãi lae ék kabiukhéo phũ ga kae sí.
RESULT-write seem CMP-well when COMP 1S CAUS-CMP-large some PROX.S CLASS DIR
The text seems better when I enlarge it some.

Mikáae numá dà d'óm b'âu sí.
symbol extra small too also DIR
Also, the diacritics are too small.

bbbosborne wrote: ↑Wed Jul 25, 2018 12:47 am cafau'uku khomon? onyusaken ma iŋtanu
diacritic-PL which / be-3p-NOBJ VIS beautiful
Which diacritics? They look fine to me.

Hâaem cháit i hâaem nùun kré wáei râ hâaem kriin sí.
line squiggly and line flat seem often like line flat DIR
Tildes and circumflexes often look like macrons.

Thâen mikáae hí jéo niu lòun ga khôu cãiu mikáae dà nák sí.
The font used by this site on here displays diacritics poorly.

Ék ĩ mòo yân thĩng mòo kâ.
I should conlang more.

I agree with Linguoboy - in my dialect the predicative use of big-ass is more marked than the attributive use of the same, even though it is not ungrammatical either.

Der Unterscheid zwischen "toten" und "ausgestorbenen" Sprachen für mich ist dass "tote" Sprachen hörte nie auf, gesprochen zu werden, im Gegensatz zu "ausgestorbenen" Sprachen. The difference between "dead" and "extinct" languages for me i...

As I have mentioned previously, my idiolect has marked palatalization of /t/ in quite a few words where GA lacks it, and I notice that at least my mother has this as well. (I can confirm she pronounces sister as [ˈsɘɕtɕʁ̩(ː)].) But one word in particular that sticks out which I notice myself having...

As I have mentioned previously, my idiolect has marked palatalization of /t/ in quite a few words where GA lacks it, and I notice that at least my mother has this as well. (I can confirm she pronounces sister as [ˈsɘɕtɕʁ̩(ː)].) But one word in particular that sticks out which I notice myself having ...

Then there are things such as the merger of than and then as /ðɛn/ in much of NAE and how here Illinois is pronounced with a /ɛ/ as do some people pronounce milk, like you and my mother, and vanilla.