Zompist Bboard Again

If you like pretty fractals, I've just created three videos of zooms in the Mandelbrot set. I made a Youtube channel for them. This took incredibly long to render, I had to use cloud computing (which wasn't free)... Hope you enjoy them! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCw_uOA80TZDvhJOg_uRcHwQ I lov...

DOCTOR WHO TOOK SABBATICAL TO LEAD TERROR GROUP IN SYRIA

https://twitter.com/andykindcomedy/stat ... 1190005761

More humorous than confusing (and it only works in all-caps)

Raphael wrote: ↑Sun Nov 15, 2020 3:19 am The problem there seems to be that the British electoral system is fundamentally biased towards the Tories.

How so? That's actually the first time I've heard that claim.

I've been meaning to get back to this! 'Capital gamma' isn't in the frequency list for some reason, even though it's quite common, so let's add it (the first character in the entire codex). One possibility is <in> and <an>--except <an> shouldn't appear often enough to be in the top ten. <The> and <t...

When briefly learning Thai, which has length distinction, I realised that I was hearing short /e/ as [ɪ] in closed syllables. For example เผ็ด /pʰet̚/ spicy to my ear sounded very like English pit . That's a bit odd, as I tend to recognise the long /eː/ by its being higher than the short /e/, match...

Who here has unusual associations of foreign phonemes with one's native ones? Case in point, I associate StG /ɪ/ and /ʊ/ with my /i/ and /u/ because my native /ɪ/ and /ʊ/ are lower and more central than the StG realizations of StG /ɪ/ and /ʊ/, being [ɘ] and [ɵ~ʉ̞] respectively. When briefly learnin...

Travis B. wrote: ↑Tue Nov 03, 2020 1:54 pm Mind you, many of the languages that have prenasalized stops only allow open syllables.

I thought that was the case, but I'm interested to see if coda + prenasalised stop does occur anywhere

Can anyone point me to examples of how prenasalised stops behave in consonant clusters? For example, I'm thinking of how I might realise cross-syllable clusters such as: /am.ⁿde/ /ek.ᵐbo/ /is.ⁿda/ I don't know how plausible such sequences are, but if they occur, I'm interested to see what kind of su...

Pedant wrote: ↑Fri Oct 30, 2020 3:19 pm Brag ma bret!
Curse-IMP 1s-PROX kilt-PL
Curse me kilts!

Nona magwe yehumeu yoelde...
I want to know more about this...

Richard W wrote: ↑Mon Oct 26, 2020 1:16 pm (It appears we have bin Laden to thank for better keyboards! I'm not sure I believe it.)

Source/explanation??

Showu rGyalrong Consonants /p t ts tʂ tʃ c k q/ <p t ts tṣ tš c k q> /pʰ tʰ tsʰ tʂʰ tʃʰ cʰ kʰ qʰ/ <ph th tsh tṣh tšh ch kh qh> /ⁿpʰ ⁿtʰ ⁿtsʰ ⁿtʂʰ ⁿtʃʰ ⁿcʰ ⁿkʰ ⁿqʰ/ <ṅp ṅt ṅts ṅtṣ ṅtš ṅc ṅk ṅq> /b d (dʐ) dʒ ɟ ɡ/ <b d (dẓ) dž ǰ g> /ⁿb ⁿd ⁿdz ⁿdʐ ⁿdʒ ⁿɟ ⁿg ⁿɢ/ <ṅb ṅd ṅdz ṅdẓ ṅdž ṅǰ ṅg ṅǧ> /m n ɲ ŋ/ <m...

bradrn wrote: ↑Wed Oct 14, 2020 11:21 pm Premier’s lover fixed pub meeting ministers refused

I can't parse that at all, what does it mean?

Mi de yah ina kworantin, kos mi osban kac korona bayras. Oba nes wik mi af wok nes taym, olbit ota yah. I'm at home in quaranteen, because my wife has caught corona virus. But next week I'll have to work again, though from home. Nona humhag rugmo. Gen wainwe anha? Non-a humhag rug-mo | Gen wain-we ...

How would you transcribe labialised palatals? I'm not sure whether to use ʷ or ᶣ, e.g.:

nasal	ɲᶣ	ɲʷ
voiceless plosive	cᶣ	cʷ
voiced plosive	ɟᶣ	ɟʷ
prenasalised plosive	ⁿɟᶣ	ⁿɟʷ
voiceless fricative	çᶣ	çʷ
approximant	ɥ	ɥ

Waina egmemun yoer heimed houde!

Wain-a

STA-1s

eg-memun

un-work

yoer

VIA

heimed

week

hou-de!

ABL-PROX

I'm now off work for a week!

Do you actually have [æ] for TRAP, or are you just using a conservative/RP-based transcription to avoid confusing those who are used to it? Ugh, that was sloppy! That's what I get for posting before 10am. No, I have [a] for TRAP. Better transcriptions would be [jandʉsoːɹəs hɔŋhɪjɛnsɪs] and [ɹəˈpaɹə...

dɮ the phoneme wrote: ↑Thu Oct 15, 2020 1:32 pm Yandusaurus Hongheensis

I'd nativise this as [yændusɔːɹəs hɒŋhɪjɛnsɪs], but before knowing it was Chinese in origin I would have said [yændusɔːɹəs hɒŋgɪjɛnsɪs].

Linguoboy wrote: ↑Thu Oct 15, 2020 11:58 am reparative

[ɹəˈpæɹətɪv]

Travis B. wrote: ↑Tue Oct 13, 2020 8:35 am width
breadth

[wɪʔθ]
[bɹɛʔθ]

jal wrote: ↑Tue Oct 13, 2020 9:02 am

quinterbeck wrote: ↑Tue Oct 13, 2020 8:58 amI consistently say /wɒn/, but it reduces to wè

IPA? And if it's consistently not [wɒn], how do you now the "wè" is not the reduction of /wʌn/?

Hold your horses! That was an accidental submission due to a failed attempt to input schwa using the android keyboard.

I consistently say /wɒn/, but it reduces to [wən] in contexts like 'one of the'. I'm from the UK Midlands.