Zompist Bboard Again

Travis B. wrote: ↑Mon Mar 24, 2025 7:39 pmthe typical German almost-/iː/

I'm not sure that's really typical. I've heard a lot of German speakers that have /ɛː/, not even /eː/. See e.g. this clip (YouTube).


JAL

Travis B. wrote: ↑Wed Mar 19, 2025 7:03 pmSports teams aren't named that in America.

Yu in kan "in" wan tim?
You can't be "in" a team?


JAL

hwhatting wrote: ↑Wed Mar 19, 2025 1:24 pmFor one moment I thought a cyclone had been named "Imralu"

Ye, oriken Imralu "was in".
Yes, cyclone Imralu "was in".
(depending on whether you take this as a sports term or something else, I'd have to translate it differently so I left it as-is)


JAL

Travis B. wrote: ↑Wed Mar 19, 2025 2:27 pm"Could this be any easier?"

That works with any comparative I'd say?


JAL

An English creole with rounded front vowels outside of loans from French? Ye. /wi/ ina Karibyan Inggles kweol-dem a mos tok [ɥi], an ina Sajiwan, dis tahn [ɥi] -> [yj] -> [yː]. Sem bo /we/ -> [ø]. Yes. /wi/ in Caribbean English Creoles is pronounced [ɥi], and in Sajiwan, this became [ɥi] -> [yj] ->...

De ya it a nays spwing weda. Kol, oba olip son.
/de jɐ it ɐ nɐjs spy:ŋ ø:dɐ kol obɐ 'olip sɔ̃:/
Here it's nice spring weather. Cold, but lots of son.


JAL

Darren wrote: ↑Mon Mar 10, 2025 6:21 amLike most things in English it is a schwa

And where's your stress if I may ask? Travis has it penultimate, but that obscures the "anti".


JAL

bradrn wrote: ↑Mon Mar 10, 2025 5:48 amHasn’t this been discussed before?

If so I'm not aware or have forgotten, otherwise I wouldn't ask :D.


JAL

How do you pronounce "antifa"? I realized I have no idea of its English realization, as "fa" is short for "fascist", but the "fa" of "fascist" can't typically end a word (in Dutch we have no such problem, as we have /fa/, for the first syllable of fa...

Travis B. wrote: ↑Tue Mar 04, 2025 2:02 pmIt's that day of the year again, where Americans (as opposed to Poles) eat pączki. So how do you butcher the pronunciation of this word?

I have never heard of it, but given the spelling I'd say it's something like /pɔɲt͡ɕkɨ/.


JAL

can doesn't play well with the perfect-- except in negative sentences. *The culprits can have coordinated with the CEO. The culprits can't have coordinated with the CEO. "Can" seems to have an exclusively present tense reading, which conflicts with the perfect. "Could" does fine...

Thanks all, good to see I'm not crazy :). Now I have to come up with a translation that makes sense :).


JAL

I encountered this sentence in The Hobbit (as I'm translating it into my conlang Sajiwan), and though I get what it means, I have a hard time analyzing it. "Beorn did not show it more than he could help, but really he had begun to get very interested." What it obviously means is that Beorn...

bradrn wrote: ↑Mon Feb 17, 2025 7:58 pmIs everyone here German‽

Nein, aber viele Leute üben Deutsch hier :).
Non, mais beaucoup des gens pratiquent l'allemand ici.
No, but many people practice German here :).



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Auf Englisch nennt man das "moveable type" (oder "movable type"), auf Deutsch "beweglichen Metalllettern" oder "Mobilletterndruck". In English, it's called "moveable type" (or "movable type"), in German "beweglichen Metalllettern"...

Raphael wrote: ↑Sun Feb 16, 2025 11:35 amOh, das "find" war ein Tippfehler.

"Typ"?


JAL

Le Français c'est très dificile...
French is quite difficult...

Polski też jest bardzo trudny...
Polish is also quite difficult...

Deutsch ist ein bischer leichter...
German is a bit easier...


JAL

See, it's usages of 'cultural appropriation' in the sense that you referred to here that I particularly disagree with, i.e. things that essentially boil down to 'cultural borrowing by members of the dominant race/ethnicity/culture/etc. is bad' without requiring any good explanation as to why a part...

I had planned to stay out of this discussion, but I want to state that I mostly agree with this. I originally also planned to stay out of it, but I myself can't walk free here either, as I've created a con-creole, which intentionally borrows heavily from existing CECs, which are of course famously ...

Note that one of the key parts of the definition of "cultural appropriation" is that the culture doing the appropriation has current or historical dominance over the culture that's being appropriated. Also, the fact that you can point to subtypes of this behaviour doesn't mean the umbrella...