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Question: What vowel does everybody have in the words HANG, ANGLE, PINK, BAG, BEG, BIG, VAGUE, and CRAIG? and do you normally raise lax front vowels before /g/ and /N/ (voiced velars)? How far do you raise them? Do you raise them enough to merge with another phoneme? HANG = /ɛ/, sometimes /æ/ when ...

Raphael wrote: ↑Thu Jan 09, 2025 2:18 pm

Starbeam wrote: ↑Thu Jan 09, 2025 2:07 pm Update: got the accomodations! It's informal and not with any kind of record, but whatever works

Hm - congratulations?

I mean, accommodations are accommodations. Honestly, it prevents a lot of paperwork that wouldn't matter

Update: got the accomodations! It's informal and not with any kind of record, but whatever works

Thanks Raphael

They got back to me, says we're going to elaborate in person. I hope I get what I want, because I need less stress in my life. I need this so badly. I am scared of them using this to bring up times I've screwed up so they can discipline me, or even nothing getting across.

Sent an ask to my job asking for some accommodations for my disabilities (autism, anxiety). Just not having too many days in a row (I work part-time, about 32 hours), and being away from the louder positions. I really hope I get them, it would really make my life a lot better. My supervisor is a chi...

Frankly, I find it perverse to own original mastercopies unless you are the author or a trusted archivist or loved one. Everything else in Raphael's rant is right

I'm not going to read Benjamin's essay or use its German title, but I feel like i'd agree with it if i did

We all use incomplete data, but there's being limited and not even trying. Demographic stuff I understand for marketers and political pollsters, but I'm less supportive it coming along for scientific research. What about medical research? Should new drugs be tested in experiments involving large sh...

okay sure, it'd be better to perform a census of the whole population, but you have any idea how expensive those are? nah, for most purposes picking people as randomly as you can is the way to go. I get you can't survey everyone, but there's a difference between "less than 1%" and "t...

and it is true! if you want to change this, i'd suggest joining an online panel. netquest is one of the big ones, but there's a bunch. most surveys are done in this way, at least where i live. which yeah, has its problems. i don't know if this one would have been done through a panel, though. but l...

It always feels like me and everyone I know have never have been asked to do these kinds of surveys

You block me, yet you respond to me, and you then expect me to not respond to you after you have responded to me -- how is that fair? If you are going to block me, please also ignore me too when you see me quoted and like. In this case, I understand where you're coming from. For metasocial dialog l...

I was not previously aware of being blocked (and had read his post as saying that he was blocking me right then and there, not that he already had me blocked), and was bothered by what seemed to be an incongruously-extreme reaction to an otherwise-civil discussion, particularly the threat to bring ...

What did I do to you (even if you don't read this directly, you might see it in other people's quotes)? I'm quoting this because it wasn't obvious to me on a cursory rereading. Starbeam, I don't mean to pressure you by quoting, but I thought you should be aware Travis doesn't know what he's done to...

Library's original meaning was a book storage unit, like a case or a chest*. When these deposits became larger, it got the meaning we have in English. The bookshop meaning is from the 1500s, relatively recent, and spread from French to a bunch of other Romance languages. That might sound odd, but ke...

the tendency of some posters to write in very long, complex sentences that can be a pain to tease apart. Have I been found out so soon? (In other words, sorry, this is me) I doubt it was you Travis was thinking about :) As for Starbeam's point... There is something to it, I think. There's register ...

I haaaaate educational or journalistic texts being written in ornamental language. Especially verbatim repeats of others' ornate language, as I'm against official phrases by default. But moreso, I wish people knew education is for the student; not expressing yourself like you're writing a poem. You ...

Does [ɛ] count? French -eille- is pronounced [ɛj], and produces minimal pairs like réveil [rɛvɛj] and rêvait [rɛvɛ]. (At least, that's how I was taught: [e] in rêvé vs. [ɛ] in rêvait. Maybe that distinction hasn't been maintained.) According to Wiktionary, Italian ne/nei are [ne / nej]. Is Italian ...

I'm looking over the long mid mergers in English (pane-pain/ toe-tow), and wondering if any language has a stable contrast between /e:/ and /ej/ and/or /o:/ and /ow/. I am aware English had the contrast for centuries, but it seems like something that breaks off before other stuff does. I can't think...

There are a few Arabic words that underlyingly start with a vowel, such as ism 'name' and ibn 'son'. I always wondered if that was an orthographic convention, given the constraint is lost in descendant Arabic languages and both of those words have plurals beginning with a consonant. I could be so w...

*natsí “friend” I call this the most misfortunately chosen conlang word I've ever seen. hey, at least the stress is on the other syllable! nice catch lol ---- /m n ɲ ŋ/ m n ni ṅ/nh /p b t d tʃ dʒ k g q ɢ qʷ ɢʷ/ p b t d ti di k g q ġ/gh qu gu /f s ʃ x ɣ/ f s si h j /r l ʎ/ r l li /w j/ w y is a thre...