Zompist Bboard Again

It just occurred to me that /ˈkadusejəs/ is probably not the correct way to pronounce caduceus in English... Turns out it's /kəˈdjuːʃəs/ or /kəˈdjuːsiəs/. With my British accent, that's [kəˈdʒuːʃəs] which to me feels like a mouthful of potatoes!

(EDIT: correct spelling is caduceus, doh)

Gryphonic wrote: ↑Sun Jan 31, 2021 8:53 pm That is far more understandable than being offered squirrel cookies by a Mead Moose, as is the custom in another part of the internet I frequent.

That is... delightful! Welcome!

updated some stuff in ruritanian today and redid the anthrologi.ca pages for it, including uploading a dictionary! next up is uploading the dictionary (-ies?) of names and the geographical dictionary, as well as finally getting around to writing up the syntax rules http://anthologi.ca/?id=264164 Di...

What do you guys have for the following? How do you pronounce these in you most informal, reduced speech? Specifically, I am looking to see if any of you have certain pronunciations found here, but I don't want to influence your answers. In myreduced speech these vary a lot by context, but here's s...

Anyone here have any thoughts on this whole GameStop stock business? I'm finding the whole thing quite entertaining I encountered some perspectives from finance professionals that I haven't seen elsewhere here: https://twitter.com/aaronhuertas/status/1355153781063905281 I'm rather annoyed at the pr...

Has anyone else been under the impression that what is written in Rōmaji as ⟨ei⟩, e.g. in sensei, corresponded to /ei/ rather than to /eː/? I've encountered [ei] as a singing pronunciation in japanese music. For example in the first verse of Rolling Star by Yui basutei sounds like [basɯ̥tej] and th...

My /r/ is kinda weird - it is a uvular approximant, except if it follows a coronal where then it is a coarticulated retroflex-uvular approximant, and if it is word-initial it is also labialized - except if it is syllabic, where then it is always just a uvular approximant without labialization, even...

I've never been properly a fan of star trek, but it is fun to dip in and out of. My parents got hooked on Voyager when I was a teenager and watched the entire series through. I enjoyed watching the episodes with them. My favourite Trek fact is that the writers of Voyager were split into two camps - ...

In my team at work (data analysts) we use "scoping" to describe the stage of a project between client interest and creating a specification. It has the sense you give, also leaning into "to establish the scope of a project". We mainly say things like "that project's in scopi...

incatena.org is back up and running again! (In readonly mode, since we’ve long since moved here, but it will at least let us access our old posts.) Cheers Brad! I'm quite enjoying poking around the old board as there was a lot on there I never read. I joined about 8 months before it moved, and in t...

Curiously, these English speakers online aren't doing that for "dumb" and "idiot", which they happily use all the time, even though these insults also have ableist origins. You say that, but I have seen leftist disability advocates claiming that words like 'dumb', 'lame', 'insan...

Perhaps this ought to be properly called the, "Mild feelings about language and their dissection" thread. Well here's something that's not that. A friend of mine asked me to recommend intro resources for him to get a good grounding in linguistics. Now most of my linguistic knowledge has b...

na but seriously, spreadsheets are cool: they most resemble the blank page in that you can put text (and tables, which are a very useful part of a grammar) wherever you want. you don't have to worry about WYSIWSM conventions: That being said, I don't suppose this method is for everyone -hell, maybe...

JavaScript is worse than Python in this regard. Python at least has strong typing, and more recent versions of it support optional typing, whereas JavaScript has weak typing on top of dynamic typing. All kind of weirdness results from things like how JavaScript treats all of the following as "...

I really like it so far. What's the permitted range of allophony? Syllables have the structure C({w j})V({n w j}). Note that /j/ is not permitted in a coda after /i/ and /w/ is not permitted in a coda after /u/. I'm surprised you allow /wy yw/. Technically the rules also allow /ww yy/ as onsets. Not...

I won't ever download tiktok, but I too am in love with the shanty trend.

Ares Land wrote: ↑Sat Jan 16, 2021 2:51 pm SOON MAY THE WELLERMAN COME

TO BRING US SUGAR AND TEA AND RUM

Some really stupid fun! Do you miss the feel of old-fashioned Pulp SF? If so, zompist's gen can get some 40's style SF words! 'en se ray lul pro bar dram 'en rum days twan sma skon sma ro skurr nel twan terr ra rurr plin ren tall smeer 'eo nurr smewn ca res si deen din kreor ste jan 'e' morh nann p...

I hope this thread is allright to post this in. I'm trying to find the right lyrics to Courtney Love - Mono. Different sources write it slightly differently, but many say something like this: Oh god I'd give you anything to hear you say that I was right and you were wrong Oh god before I leave this...

Ayy, congratulations!!

Laa ad genne naum ergendane ehwai deanau!
May 2021 be a better year!