Zompist Bboard Again

Lērisama wrote: ↑Fri Nov 15, 2024 10:02 amI thought you meant LOT in the second syllable, and got very confused.

Wel, LOT would be /ɒ/ in BrE, so no confusion possible


JAL

Actually, in Dutch this is termed a belboom . Apart from the fact that I've never heard this term (maybe it's Belgian Dutch?), it's also different from a telefoonketen , as with the latter each person calls one other person, not two (although I can see variations where people call two, and I've als...

I follow BrE here, so I have /ɔ/.


JAL

WeepingElf wrote: ↑Wed Nov 13, 2024 3:03 pmIn German, we call(ed) it a Telefonkette, and I guess the English term is telephone chain.

Would be my guess as well (Dutch: telefoonketen).


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Mi luk olda yunu!
I see all of you!


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It's still two sounds Obviously. And whether it's actual allophony in words like "think" is debatable, as /ŋ/ is a phoneme. In Slavic languages it obviously is, appearing only before /k/ or /g/, so much so that many speakers of Slavic language can't manage to pronounce /ŋ/ without a plosi...

/ˈɑː.ni/ "1sg,NOM/ sounds mellifluous but /ˈɑː.mɑ/ "2sg.NOM" and /ˈɑː.sɑ/ "3sg.NOM" sound absolutely strenuous to say. Apart from "ani" being Hebrew, I have no qualms with "ama" or "asa". You may find them unpleasant, but you cannot be serious ...

Lērisama wrote: ↑Wed Oct 30, 2024 12:58 pmAlso you missed the ellipses, if you were trying to parody them

Fis op! :)
Fixed! :)


JAL

Lērisama wrote: ↑Wed Oct 30, 2024 12:38 pmAnd that means…

⌫❱₀⽔⾾⥖⊀ↅ⪠⑰♻⊲
(meaning is past understanding the brain enlightened feels...)


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Travis B. wrote: ↑Mon Oct 28, 2024 12:17 pmI am so worried about the election on November 5th.

Olda minu a wori :(
We're all worried :(.


JAL

Longga tahning Obit Ya cata 7, oba olde lif nof taym jam mi op...
Still translating The Hobbit chapter 7, but life often gets in the way...


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"maintenance" "broccoli" "grocery" "camera" I have medial schwa elision in all of those. I probably elide it in "maintenance" (with a nasal release of the "t"), definitely in "camera", definitely not in "broccoli", and ...

How do you pronounce "cabinet"? I pronounce it with two syllables "cab net". Interesting. I could vision such an extreme reduction of unstressed vowels, but I wouldn't expect it in "cabinet". If I were to reduce the second vowel that much, I think it would still be thr...

I think the only US accents I can recognize are AAVE and white Southern drawls. Everything else sounds just like GA to me. This. Key clues to telling apart NAE varieties other than Southern or AAVE ones is (...) But that needs a specialist's ear. Many British accents can be told apart by the way th...

I know Scouse from Lister (Red Dwarf), and Yorkshire from Sean Bean (Sharpe!), and I could* tell a lot of British accents apart, without being able to name them :). I doubt whether I could tell South Scottish from North English though, or general Estuary English from inner London speech. I have much...

My non-native pronunciation has "sorrow" and "borrow" rhyming (using LOT, probably?), but "tomorrow" has more like... STRUT?


JAL

with a fair view from Pali,

I suppose you mean "few"?


JAL

I have alluded to this before here, but does anyone else here find that they have to deliberately not speak like they do at home to be consistently understood by non-native speakers of one's native language? Note that a key factor seems to be how natural their informal English is ─ if they speak in...

Imralu wrote: ↑Mon Aug 26, 2024 5:20 amHe didn't help the others.

Dem mana a Di Loh u miswiyas.
The ways of The Lord are mysterious*

*Sajiwans are predominantly Christian, so this could be a Sajiwan person saying this.


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bradrn wrote: ↑Wed Aug 14, 2024 7:55 pmDon’t leave us hanging! What’s so great about the Finnish participles?

Good question. They seem like run-of-the-mill participles with some specific meaning that isn't universally applicable to other languages.


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