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Is it plausible that a language might have nominative and accusative collapse into a direct case, but then have a not-always-obligatory demonstrative or topic marker that preserves the distinction? Yes that sounds very plausible. There's a few languages in New Guinea which have an explicit direct c...

Is it plausible that a language might have nominative and accusative collapse into a direct case, but then have a not-always-obligatory demonstrative or topic marker that preserves the distinction? Yes that sounds very plausible. There's a few languages in New Guinea which have an explicit direct c...

While I appreciate the humour, might I gently suggest that this may not be such a helpful reply for malloc? I don't know if there is such a thing as a helpful reply for malloc. I was serious about the main point though. If you're really worried about getting speeding tickets, you have to stop yours...

Considering all the outrageous crimes that other people routinely commit with impunity, it feels genuinely strange to realize that one speeding ticket will probably destroy my life. Malloc, this is the second time this year you've been done for speeding (last time if I recall correctly you were goi...

That said, I don't think we can excuse Tolkien for having so few female characters, or for being so cavalier about the swarthy=dubious trope. Yes, and amplifying your point, the non-White people portrayed negatively are not just the "swarthy" people: the hobbits "were disturbed to se...

There's nothing wrong with saying "you've picked up the ball every time we try to play football with you. Next time just don't play." It doesn't have to be a condemnation of him as a person, nor does it require some standard of malicious intent on his part. It's just a recognition that he...

Man in Space wrote: ↑Tue Nov 11, 2025 4:53 pm

Darren wrote: ↑Tue Nov 11, 2025 4:08 pmI've still never seen him do anything malicious.

Pages 8 and 9 of the 2020 Relay thread are visible to all.

Yeah I still think that's just him being an asshole

It's obvious he's not malicious or intentionally trolling, he's just weird, which, let's face it, all of us are. He is not “just weird”. He actively refuses correction, criticism, and collaboration. Read the public records. Yeah I know you loathe him, and I know first hand what it's like trying to ...

Yes, I let him participate, because I'm not an arsehole and he's been mostly okay in (translation) relays before. It's obvious he's not malicious or intentionally trolling, he's just weird, which, let's face it, all of us are. Next relay I run I won't let him in, or if I am extroardinarily magnanimo...

Thanks Brad, that works. The website's back on line too.

Travis B. wrote: ↑Mon Nov 10, 2025 3:28 pm /ˌpɛnsəlˈveɪnjə/ [ˌpʰɜ̃ntsɯːˈvẽ̞ːnjə(ː)], /ˌkæləˈfɔrnjə/ [ˌkʰɛːɤ̯əˈfɔ̃ːʁ̃ˤnjə(ː)]

Really, I've never heard anyone pronounce either of these words as ending in anything other than /njə/.

I've only heard Americans pronounce it this way.

Travis B. wrote: ↑Mon Nov 10, 2025 2:31 pm

Nortaneous wrote: ↑Mon Nov 10, 2025 1:26 pm

Darren wrote: ↑Mon Nov 10, 2025 5:33 am

gaol and anemia are both bisyllabic for me. ciabatta works though.

missed anemia, fixed. ideally there'd be a non-schwa value that works without silly affectations or proper-noun recent loans (Chiang?)

Pennsylvania and California.

[ˌpʰensəɫˈvɐɪ̯nəjə], [kʰæɫəˈfʊːnəjə]

Nortaneous wrote: ↑Sun Nov 09, 2025 4:24 pm ⟨ao⟩: dao /aw/ (+ gaol?)
⟨ia⟩: anemia /iə/

gaol and anemia are both bisyllabic for me. ciabatta works though.

<ui> has a good number of realisations in English PRICE as in <guide> KIT as in <guilt> GOOSE as in <juice> probably /j/ + GOOSE in <suit> for some people j + GOOSE + KIT as in <intuition> j + GOOSE + schwa as in <intuit> GOOSE + schwa as in <ruin> GOOSE + happY as in <tui> (j) + GOOSE + PRICE as in...

Also the website's down for me too; I've just got an old tab open which is still running. It half-loaded for me a few hours ago but it was in the wrong font so I reloaded it and then got nothing.

bradrn wrote: ↑Sat Nov 08, 2025 2:36 pm Running it right-to-left should do it: try -rtl C r → \.

That has no effect;

categories
C = p t k r
V = i u a
end

-rtl C r → \

gives you aptra > *aprta still.

Is there a way of making rules recursive (can take output as another input)? I've got the rule C r → \ which turns e.g. apriku → arpiku , but I'd like it to do fasmra → farsma as well, not * fasrma . I can just double the rule but feels like there might be a more efficient way of doing it. Inversely...

I've been using the 1.1.0 web alpha for a few days. It works well, probably faster than 1.0.0. I don't use live mode though.

This one actually makes sense. As I recall, in the dictionary a pasi was defined as a unit of time such that 6 pasi = 10 minutes; ‘pace’ is an Anglicisation (albeit a confusing one). I see. But then, also, that English translation does not actually correspond to the Manchakaa text I received — he a...

I'll compare foxcatdog's translation (in a loose sense) with the original text, since I also have the Pičíyyeihčipmatlapn text glossed and the lexicon handy. I didn't include any homonyms and kept definitions quite specific. In terms of straight grammar, fcd missed a lot of the argument indexing (al...