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Does anyone know a good source to learn how pitch accent (not tone) works? A lot of the sources i've found go off on a ton of tangents and are difficult to read for it, or seem rather unreliable. Thanks in advance to anyone with options This is an excellent paper explaining why ‘pitch accent’ is an...

Does anyone know a good source to learn how pitch accent (not tone) works? A lot of the sources i've found go off on a ton of tangents and are difficult to read for it, or seem rather unreliable. Thanks in advance to anyone with options

rẹkx
[^ɢʁɛkʲiʃ]
‘conspicuous consumption’

prosthetic initial plosive

naus
[ˈnaus]
‘endonym’

loss of word-final shwa

I want to work on my internet conversational writing and i need some advice. I'm trying to be more concise, more professional, and less awkward. In particular, i notice i write conjunctions all the time. I was taught not to start sentences with conjunctions when i was young, and even tho i know it's...

I think a common mistake intellectuals fall into is overestimating how much humans agree with their ideas. There are significant numbers of Chinese who preferred living under Maoism than to have been lifted out of poverty. Despite how ridiculous this sounds to people who accept mainstream narrative...

alice wrote: ↑Wed Mar 18, 2026 3:53 pm

rotting bones wrote: ↑Tue Mar 17, 2026 6:23 pm I for one think a President that responds with pornographic doodles when asked for policy objectives would be an improvement over Trump.

I for one think pornographic doodles would be an improvement over Trump.

I am ready to be elected president

> ku ERROR! THIS IS A PATSAK PLANET, YOU ARE A CHATLIAN > sudo ku _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ | 1 _ _ | _ _ _ | _ _ _ | | _ _ _ | _ 3 _ | _ _ _ | | _ _ _ | _ _ _ | 6 _ _ | _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ | _ _ _ | _ _ 8 | _ _ _ | | _ 2 _ | _ _ _ | _ _ _ | | _ _ _ | _ _ _ | _ 4 _ | _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _...

I don't think I could speak with a CAUGHT-COT distinction if I tried. It'd be too hard to quickly remember which word belongs to which category, coming from my CAUGHT-COT merged dialect. The only time I ever was caught (heh) off-guard is when the distinction occurred before l and r. For me, all vow...

No, not everyone has the accent, but it's a lot more common than you think. I'm a transplant and I'm so used to hearing it at my job that it's started rubbing off into my speech. So, does *not* having the NCVS (as a White person) clearly mark one as an outsider? I honestly can't tell you. But the r...

Not even on TV or in movies? Those aren't real life. But I do hear it often because I don't hang out with a lot of Chicago locals. Well, he didn't say "real life", he said "not really", which imho includes the media. JAL "Not really" in that sentence means "infreq...

I have a question about the Northern Cities Vowels Shift, especially for the people that live in these areas: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/Northern_Cities_Vowel_Shift.svg/500px-Northern_Cities_Vowel_Shift.svg.png How common is the accent? I assume there's many transplan...

hihe [ˈçixɘ] ‘austerity; (chiefly historical) moniker for a specific state government model' lowering and centralization of unstressed vowels, also they learned how to write again I should note that things like semantic shifts and spelling reforms are the equivalent of flavor text; feel free to mak...

lyùrèg
[ʎyˈɣḛk]
‘moniker for a specific state government model; (colloquial) authoritarian or demanding policies'

semantic shift

fǎudzeedz
[fɛ̀ù̯ˈdzʷéts]
‘moniker for a specific head of state; authoritarian policies; (pejorative, archaic) Big Brother-esque authority’

Word-final devoicing

Every Anglo "Louis" except Louisville pronounces the 's', including Louis Armstrong. I'm aware that's not common for him, but apparently that's how he personally said his name.

"the holocaust" in english feels to me like it mostly means jews exterminated as part of the final solution. the nazis killed a lot more people than just jews, and i'm not sure the distinction matters ethically very much, so if it were me I'd go with "killed by the fascists". th...

"the holocaust" in english feels to me like it mostly means jews exterminated as part of the final solution. the nazis killed a lot more people than just jews, and i'm not sure the distinction matters ethically very much, so if it were me I'd go with "killed by the fascists". th...

Nope, not just you. I practically have to get a magnifying glass to see the markings

Is bunched r just a pharyngealized /ɰ/? Or is there more to it than that?

I say "happy holidays" to not assume somebody celebrates Christmas, but i honestly consider it more of a labor/ winter break thing than some religious holiday. I also don't think the other holidays this season besides Kwanzaa are too festive anyway. Hanukka is actually one of the least imp...