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I have never tried it, but it's a really good idea. I'll have to try and see at some point if ChatGPT can handle it.

But a better way is to employ an epithet: Fraasin "koiran pään" pää on "pää" phrase-GEN dog-GEN head head COP head The text here doesn’t seem to match the gloss — I would have thought it should be "koiran pää" , not "koiran pään" . Oops, I messed that up. I'v...

In Finnish that would be: Koiran pään pää on pää dog-GEN head-GEN head COP head (I don't even know how to use the quotation marks in this one.) But a better way is to employ an epithet: Fraasin "koiran pää" pää on "pää" phrase-GEN dog-GEN head head COP head In both sentences, in ...

It can nonetheless be contrived: - Researchers report increased misogyny in the post-election period - Researchers chose to wait until after the election to report on misogyny - The researchers’ report, for whatever reason, has been somehow stunning the rising tide of misogyny following the electio...

From a video title. It's not really confusing, but for some reason I read it with an apostrophe after "Researchers".

YouTube wrote:Researchers report stunning surge of misogyny after the election

How do you feel about where your nation placed, what do you think accounts for its standing and how would you improve the results either for your country or the others? I'm surprised that Sweden placed so high in both literacy and numeracy. Lately there's been a lot of talk about young people's lac...

i believe the flags are in order based on the iso country codes which is as close to a language-neutral orser as you can reasonably get Ah, that makes sense! Though I wish they were sorted alphabetically according to the short form country names in the language your keyboard was currently set on. I...

There are four different American mail boxes. I don't quite understand the difference between them. Here are the four: 📬📫📪📭 In America, the flag (the red thing on the side, which is made of metal, not cloth) on the mailbox is raised by the owner to signify to the mail carrier that there is outgoing...

Torco wrote: ↑Wed Oct 16, 2024 6:19 pm arufabetto jun tabun

Hmm, that's something I hadn't considered. However, it still doesn't add up.

For me (Sweden/Finland) the archetypal butterfly is either something we call a lemon butterfly, which is completely a pale yellow color, or the nettle buttefly. Some other things I noticed looking at my phone now: The snowman (on my Android) is made of two balls, which is Japanese style. Here snowme...

When the conlang is more important than its backstory. :mrgreen: Tangaeauan is the easternmost Polynesian language, spoken by around 1,000 people on the recently-discovered island of Tangaeau off the west coast of Ecuador. This island was previously unknown to science since in the 1970s an amateur E...

Swedish has something like this, at least in the formal written language. The normal word for and is och , but the word samt is also available as a sort of ”higher level” conjunction. It’s not really that och is only used for ”units” (or natural as opposed to accidental combinations) though—it has ...

In my mind I keep using terms like 'inclusive and' and 'exclusive and' , but they're probably not very good descriptors. Sometimes and can combine two (or more) things but they remain one 'unit' and other times be used to link two 'units'; in writing we could use the word 'and' for the latter and a...

I live in a (small) city where the streets are named logically, by which I mean they follow the following two principles: (1) Streets *always* run north-south, and avenues *always* run west-east. (2) Most streets and avenues are named with numbers (3rd street) (as opposed to, uh, names (elm street)...

I want to ask one more question about sound change. It's plausible for uvulars to reject palatalization, right? So the following makes sense?
χ χʲ χᶣ χʷ → χ χ χʷ χʷ
ʁ ʁʲ ʁᶣ ʁʷ → ʁ ʁ ʁʷ ʁʷ

About Marshallese, I was under the impression that it's the semivowels that condition the vowels. But looking at the Wikipedia page, it looks like you can analyze it either way. :?: What semivowels? /j ɰ w/. See the following quote. Superficially, 12 Marshallese vowel allophones appear in minimal p...

Thanks for the replies bradrn and WeepingElf! About Marshallese, I was under the impression that it's the semivowels that condition the vowels. But looking at the Wikipedia page, it looks like you can analyze it either way.

I'm creating a conlang where vowels dump features on adjacent consonants, and then have lots of mergers (most of them turning into ə). For example: {ɪ ʏ ʊ} → {ʲə ᶣə ʷə}. But I have a few questions about this. 1) If there is no preceding consonant (word-initially, or if the vowel is preceded by anoth...

I've resumed this project again, at least for a little bit. I've added a note to my document to think about moras in addition to syllables, per bradrn's suggestion. About Nort's suggestion: I'm not going to deal with phonotactics properly, I only added that bit about syllables and word length. Right...

Color would obviously have no importance in art. But I think striking patterns could be important. And like arabesques, geometric shapes and abstracts.