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How common is the diphthongization of /æ/ to something like [æe] or [æə] in English?

I guess Java is a better place to look for people with homonymic birth order names. OTOH, naming practices are very diverse nowadays. Still, some people in Javs have homonymic names and some people use the Sanskrit (eka, dwi, tri...) birth order names.

Many places in Indonesia also use birth order names, either in the local/regional language (e.g. Balinese) or in Sanskrit (i.e. eka, dwi, tri, catur, panca). In Java, there are some places with a strong mononymic tradition, i.e. people have only a single name. I wonder if there is a place in Indones...

Not too much diachronic, but Meeussen's Rule in Bantu and Lyman's Law in Japanese.
EDIT: And of course, Whorf's Law.

Geman sometimes keeps prefixes intact in abbreviations, e.g. BVerfG for Bundesverfassungsgericht instead of BVG or BVerwG for Bundesverwaltungsgericht instead of BVG.

The most recent typological work on this I know of is a paper by Krämer & Zec. They mostly focus on nasals but they seem to have a sizeable database for more general information in the supplementary materials.Here is a link: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/phonology/article/nasal-consona...

Better late than never and sorry for derailing the thread any further but I thought I'd clarify what I meant. I think the concrete construction was sonething like: Next up, it's John and Mary (who are) looking for the best bread in the UK. My problem was not really the cleft itself. As HW pointed ou...

I don't know about Welsh but the English construction "It's X, who is/are ..." on television confused me when I was in the UK because I couldn't identify topic and focus and couldn't think of a corresponding construction in German.

You could just drop the agent, e.g. 'ERGVERB him'.

Maybe Verlan is a good example. I guess it started out as a language game but I feel like a significant portion of French slang and colloquial language vocabulary is derived from it.

Good question. I'm not sure about the answer. For me, it used to be a while after Jan 1st, not because of any specific events, but simply because, if you've spent a year getting used to the idea that the current year is, say, 2002, getting used to it suddenly being 2003 can take a while. I think, i...

Great minds think alike, I guess

An idea for a conlang numeral system (higher numbers) based on East Asian languages and traditional European year counting. hundred=100 ten hundred=1,000 myriad= 10,000 ten myriads= 100,000 hundred myriads= 1,000,000 ten hundred myriads= 10,000,000 myriad myriad=byriad= 100,000,000 ten byriad=1,000,...

Do you remember where you saw it? No worries if not, tho i'm curious if it was a formal source or informal hobby thing like this. I think it was in Paul Kiparsky's chapter in the book titled "Phonological Typology" edited by Larry Hyman and Frans Plank. I am actually impressed you remembe...

The term was not introduced as a substitute. It was in use in Hamburg long ago IINM and it's just a term of endearment meaning 'fat one'. Of course it could be that it gaining wider use is connected to hip hop slang or something similar.

Quasi-phoneme is a term that I've seen used. Do you remember where you saw it? No worries if not, tho i'm curious if it was a formal source or informal hobby thing like this. I think it was in Paul Kiparsky's chapter in the book titled "Phonological Typology" edited by Larry Hyman and Fra...

Quasi-phoneme is a term that I've seen used.

At least in German the standard analysis of these cases in most frameworks of theoretical phonology seems to be that these consonants are ambisyllabic, i.e. they belong to both syllables. I find this baffling; it sounds much easuer to give up on the fictional closed syllable restriction on lax vowels.

Nice
Looks a bit like Grassfields Bantu associative constructions, except more reasonable.

Is this law actually enforced for small, personal blogs? Just wanted to mention some info that I got from various news. It seems that in Germany these laws are not actually enforced for small blogs by any kind of law enforcement, but there are some lawyers who somehow made a bussiness model out of ...