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Note that father is better than palm , because there are people like me who have /pɔːlm/ ([pʰɒ(ː)o̯m] for me) for palm (yes, a spelling pronunciation). I second Travis on palm —I have /l/ in that word too, and it messes a bit with the preceding vowel. For the same reason you might want to use walk ...

The "c g" as [tʃ ŋ], while hypothetically comprehensible, are going to be fighting conditioned readings for most languages using the Roman alphabet (not merely English, but also French and Hanyu Pinyin Yeah, I know, but I don't want to use superfluous letters as in <ch>, <ng>. I've heard ...

And here I'm like, what is the difference between [ʊ] and [o] even? Is it not just an individual linguist's preference? If we mean mid-high [o], that is, and we do. Huh! I can't hear the difference between [ U] and [ u], but [o] is totally different to me. Let me ask this way then, if you have a co...

Is there anyone who can shed some light on the -ong final of Mandarin? Written sources tend to say that it's [ʊŋ], and when I took a course in Mandarin, our teacher said to pronounce it [ʊŋ], not [oŋ]. But I've seen claims here on ZBB that people actually do say [oŋ], and I think I too have heard th...

This is an intro text I wrote for the dictionary of my IAL. It's target audience is native English speakers who know nothing about linguistics. (I have only taken into consideration GA and RP, because otherwise this kind of thing becomes impossible to do.) I was wondering if you could take a look at...

A text I'm writing that's going to be included in the dictionary for my IAL. So it needs to be written for people with no linguistic awareness. (Not that it's actually going to be read by anyone, but it needs to look legit.)

The only thing I thought is a little odd is b > w in Germanic.

Wiktionary says it's /ˈfɝi/. But phonetically it would be something different? I would not necessarily trust dictionaries; after all I've seen supposedly reliable dictionaries give cot-caught-merged "American" pronunciations despite the fact that a majority of Americans are cot-caught unm...

Today I did very little work, but it was important work. I decided that I will merge the lexemes "it" and "that" after all. Probably. I also expanded the dictionary definition of on (that).

Oh, I see. I don't think you've written anything about how you assimilate words into this phonology?

I'm glad you clarified because that wasn't my takeaway at all. I thought you were looking for cases where an orthographic medial <r> was silent in RP or-- alternatively --for cases where orthographic medial <r> was pronounced as some mysterious (rhotic?) phone in GA. I did mean that too, though. Se...

KathTheDragon wrote: ↑Sun Feb 21, 2021 4:37 am But the /r/ in "furry" is pronounced in BrEng!

Ah, I meant, if there are no words that fit the requirements, then I will have to settle for something that doesn't fill all the criteria (the RP criteria).

I haven't done classification at all, but those are some good suggestions.

dɮ the phoneme wrote: ↑Sat Feb 20, 2021 9:57 pm The extenton suffix -lta is now -rka, and in order to maintain unambiguous parsing that syllable does not occur elsewhere in the language.

I think the L was a good idea.

Travis B. wrote: ↑Sat Feb 20, 2021 11:21 am The dog is running to a place far from where it started and which is close to the speaker.

Mhm. Would you ever say "kani rina kuta kama"?

Travis B. wrote: ↑Sat Feb 20, 2021 11:21 am A tentative name is rinkwa awkasi, which should be transparent.

Lingua... all case?

Can someone give an example of a (common) English word with an intervocalic R, that's pronounced [˞˞ ] in GA or [∅] in RP, please? Have mercy on an old man use your words. That just looks like a really tiny ㄴ to me. I meant a word that has intervocalic rhotactization in GA, but which is unpronounce...

Can someone give an example of a (common) English word with an intervocalic R, that's pronounced [˞˞ ] in GA or [∅] in RP, please?

I'd never heard of semla before - they look delicious! I got one on my new internship on Tuesday. I had applied for another job, located in Ireland. It combined two things I was interested in, it had good pay, and I was the only candidate. But I didn't get the job. :cry: I was looking forward to go...

Kani rina owa kama. dog run SUBJ.FAR NEAR "The dog is running over here." I'm trying to understand these words. Should this be interpreted like it's running at a place that's far from itself, or that it's running far away from itself? Btw, have you come up with a name for the conlang yet?

In Sweden we eat semla on Fat Tuesday. I haven't been able to find any decent one. :( At the bakery one cost as much as two at the supermarket, and even that is expensive I think. The different varieties they had at that supermarket all had palm oil in them, and another supermarket I went to didn't ...