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One important note, though, is that historical French monarchs named "Louis" are typically pronounced /ˈluːiː/ in loose emulation of the French pronunciation, not /ˈluːɪs/ as is the typical English-language pronunciation of "Louis". But even this is relatively modern. Dickens in...

I've never heard "ah, oh" before, but this "vocative ah" seems like a pretty normal and common filler sound to me. If it can be said to have a function, I think it's just to soften the act of addressing someone directly, as like a hedge or something.

That entry cites as its source the Collins English Dictionary, whose entry for whilst looks like this: https://images2.imgbox.com/8a/ed/tKdZxWjq_o.png So the issue is that the original links to five different senses of while , but whatever method dictionary.com uses to scrape its sources neglected ...

I'm having myself a festive early morning December Holiday Eve (read: prepping vedgies, inebriated but not in such a way that would dangerously impair my motor skills) and it was in the process of explaining to a friend the sort of unpleasant rush of CO₂ that enters my nose when I drink directly fro...

I've noticed that, from listening to my Mandarin-speaking coworkers, I perceive both Mandarin /s/ and /ʂ/ as akin to my native English /s/ and both Mandarin /ts/ and /tʂ/ as akin to my native English /z/ ( not /ts/) for some reason. I also perceive Mandarin /ɕ/ as akin to my native English /ʃ/ and ...

From the What do you call... thread in the Languages forum here: I learned about this method from cooking Youtube, I have my issues with Big Tech myself, but I'm not sure I'd go that far... (Please don't be offended, salem. I'm just teasing a bit.) Oh yes, delicious Youtube stews and braises 🙂‍↕️. ...

What do you call the process of briefly covering or showering freshly boiled noodles or eggs with cold water? It's called " abschrecken " in German. This is called "shocking", and is I think also done with blanched vegetables. Thank you! I notice that the English-language Wikipe...

Raphael wrote: ↑Fri Dec 12, 2025 10:13 am What do you call the process of briefly covering or showering freshly boiled noodles or eggs with cold water? It's called "abschrecken" in German.

This is called "shocking", and is I think also done with blanched vegetables.

"y'all" is also AAVE. And as such, some people would claim (I've seen this online) that the use of white people outside the South might be seen as cultural appropriation (since outside the South, only black people would use it). JAL There is a certain sort of racist who hides their discom...

It's always been "green bell pepper", "red bell pepper" and so on to me, ever since I accompanied my parents on grocery trips as a kid. And back then my family hardly ever cooked with any other peppers, so it had no disambiguating function. We did use chili powder of course, but...

bradrn wrote: ↑Thu Jan 23, 2025 10:55 pm I don’t know what ‘chili con carne’ is.

Tex-Mex stew traditionally of just beef, chilis, and tomatoes; within Texas itself there is fierce debate over whether including kidney beans is appropriate, while up north there's usually also macaroni involved.

Are your guys' English dialects like mine where 'green pepper' exclusively refers to a green bell pepper, while the term 'bell pepper' is practically never used unless one is being a pedant and wants to make clear that, yes, the green pepper is a bell pepper (even though there is no ambiguity, beca...

Well, this isn't actually a non-Latin script, so mea culpa if this is the wrong thread for it, but I thought this Latin-script Vietnamese forced into blocks to look vaguely like Han script was pretty neat: https://preview.redd.it/what-script-and-language-is-this-v0-9tlb38pxcszd1.jpeg?auto=webp&s...

a conlang is not a communication system, for me it's more an experiment in philosophy of language... But is what you're doing a conlang at all? Or is it just you typing random character sequences? I don't think xxx is just keysmashing. If you look at his postings in the conlang fluency thread, thou...

Man in Space wrote: ↑Thu Jul 04, 2024 9:04 pm

salem wrote: ↑Thu Jul 04, 2024 7:43 pm "I will be run" sounds a bit strange if it's a person saying it

“At this rate, I will be run out of business in a matter of weeks!”
“He said I will be run out of town if word gets out.”
“I will be run ragged by the end of this.”

Actually very true, you got me there.

granted its not productive *i will be runned is incorrect That's because runned is incorrect, of course? "I will be run" sounds a bit strange if it's a person saying it, but "the program will be run" is perfectly fine. "I will be walked" and "I am walked" are...

foxcatdog wrote: ↑Thu Jul 04, 2024 6:39 pm

"I will be walked" and "I am walked" are correct English, and mean the same as "I will be taken for a walk" and "I am taken for a walk".

Does anyone know anything about the variant /æt/ of that ? I have it and I have heard my daughter use it. And it clearly is not a variant of it to me; it feels like an allomorph of that rather than an independent word. I’m not quite sure what you mean by this question… surely /ðæt/ is the standard ...

I know, that's because I'm working with quite the clunky Wikipedia clone. Here's the finished (more or less, it's still a very basic overview of the language) page: https://iiwiki.us/wiki/Lemobrogian_language By "the words of the gloss don't actually seem to line up with the Lemobrogian",...

You could instead model the word off of German Jahrhundert 'century' and its cognates, including rare English yearhundred, and call your ten-day weeks daytens (probably pronounced more like Dayton(, Ohio) than like uncompounded day ten). Otherwise I'd also endorse tennight.