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I remember seeing this mentioned someone in a book, where a fronted GOAT /ɵ/ was distinct dissimilated rhotic FORCE /o/ e.g. corporation /kopəˈreʃən/ vs. cooperation /kɵapəˈreʃən/. One thing to note here is that it is common in NAE or the first vowel in cooperation to undergo reduction with breakin...

I remember seeing this mentioned someone in a book, where a fronted GOAT /ɵ/ was distinct dissimilated rhotic FORCE /o/ e.g. corporation /kopəˈreʃən/ vs. cooperation /kɵapəˈreʃən/.

I think I agree with xxx (although I'm not 100% sure if I know what he's saying). Sound changes tend to cause mergers and splits that influence phoneme frequency considerably, so I don't think every language would fit a specific kind of distribution. Especially if you only have a small phoneme inven...

Still, I'd note that you can put up with nine days per year of just about any kind of weather. If you've got both heating and air-conditioning, yes. If you've only got the former, a nine-day hot spell in summer can get pretty unpleasant. You do recall that humans have lived in hot places for a quar...

bradrn wrote: ↑Fri Jan 10, 2025 10:22 pm A day over 40 every week? It must be because the desert is so close… even in western Sydney I think it’s not that hot.

Adelaide is certainly hot. Also I'm relying on memories from when I was like 3-10 so do not take my word for it.

When I was growing up it seemed like there was a day over 40 every week during summer, but that was probably a particularly hot period – we haven't had any very hot days the past few years; probably topping out with the odd 41 or 42. Summer 2023/24 was a particularly mild one; it astonishingly raine...

As lb says, you can just dress for it. This is my contention as to -20 being better than +35. As it gets colder, you can just put on more clothes. But as it gets warmer, you can't just keep taking off clothes. Around 30 it's comfortable to walk around naked, but you run the risk of getting arrested...

Le français partage plus de sa vocabulaire que l'allemand avec l'anglais — plus qu'un tiers de la lexique est partagée entre les deux langues, et il y a beaucoup de constructions en français qui sont assez similaire a l'anglais. Aussi la plupart du monde anglophone sont plus familiers avec la frança...

The coldest I've ever experienced was -20°, and let me tell you that's a lot more comfortable to walk around in than +48° (118°F), or even 35° really. Than +48°, quite possibly. But 35°? I find that hard to believe. With the caveat that there was no wind and it was very dry. Seriously, I've felt co...

The coldest I've ever experienced was -20°, and let me tell you that's a lot more comfortable to walk around in than +48° (118°F), or even 35° really.

There's a nice shift from Occitan:

(starting with /i u e o ɛ ɔ a/)
u o → y ɔ
e → œ (!!)
(leaving /i u ɛ œ ɔ a/)

And another one from New Zealand English

ɪ ɛ æ ʌ → ə ɪ ɛ ɐ

Looks like my car got pretty badly damaged from driving through so much snow. The driveshaft got bent and will cost thousands of dollars to replace. Considering the car itself is hardly worth that much, I am honestly not sure how to proceed. Get another quote - a driveshaft replacement should be mo...

I noticed yesterday that the first syllable of water seems to have a unique vowel. In quality it seems the same as NORTH/FORCE/THOUGHT, but it’s short rather than long. Does anyone else have this? Are there any other words where this vowel occurs? Are you sure this isn't plain old vowel length allo...

Raphael wrote: ↑Sun Jan 05, 2025 4:31 pm Why does my printer claim to still have 20 percent black toner, when black writing printed by it is already getting faint?

That's interesting. Usually it's the other way round; they refuse to print, claiming they're out of ink, when in fact there's still half the toner in there.

I tried to find this through search engines, but couldn't, so perhaps someone here recognizes this: I vaguely remember a parody version of The Major General's Song where a part of the lyrics was My learning is extensive but consists of mindless trivia Designed to boost my ego, which is larger than ...

äreo wrote: ↑Wed Jan 01, 2025 2:40 pm I'm not sure how this happened but my father and his mother both have /aɪ/ in hoist.

/ɔɪ/ → /aɪ/ is a very old and largely obsolete shift that used to characterise southern dialects, now restricted to only a few lexicalised items like "rile".

This may be a stupid question, but what program/app/website are people (bradrn, Darren, Travis) using to create their chart? I'm using Libre Office Calc, and it seems unable to create an XY scatter chart with a label on each point. (I assume that Excel is similarly unable to do this.) I was using L...

Here's Ketsuban's vowels fairly roughly charted: https://i.ibb.co/ykJR7jr/ketsuban-vowels.png It looks like you've got a NORTH/THOUGHT/FORCE/CURE merger (at least in most words) and a STRUT/schwa merger. I'd say you've got: KIT /e/ FOOT /ɵ/ DRESS /ɛ/ STRUT~schwa /ɜ/ LOT~CLOTH /ɒ̈/ TRAP /a̟/ happY /ɪ...

Sejreti Nęvà /sexretʰʲ nẽwaː/ /m mʲ n nʲ ɲ ŋ ŋʷ/ m m n n ń ñ ñ /b bʲ d dʲ dʒ ɡ ɡʷ/ b b d d ʒ g g /pʰ pʰʲ tʰ tʰʲ tʃʰ kʰ kʰʷ/ p p t t c k k /f s ɕ ʑ ʂ x xʷ h/ f s ś z š j j h /w j ɾ l ʎ/ v y r l /a e i o u ʲ ʷ/ a e i~ie o u~ue i u final or pre-consonantal /i u/ are <ie ue> and if you have final /ie u...