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Wiktionary has a category called rhyming phrases. This might be a fit: https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:English_rhyming_phrases Perhaps my favorite Dutch one is helaas, pindakaas "alas, peanutbutter", meaning something like "too bad", often used a bit sardonically. Again...

Actually, in Dutch this is termed a belboom . Apart from the fact that I've never heard this term (maybe it's Belgian Dutch?), it's also different from a telefoonketen , as with the latter each person calls one other person, not two (although I can see variations where people call two, and I've als...

bradrn wrote: ↑Thu Nov 07, 2024 5:43 am
(Also… ‘foot’? Is that a typo?)

It was a typo.

Well, I think there is some overlap here. Not healers, but a very large and succesful brand of organic food in Germany follows Anthroposophical pricipals that include burying a cows horn at full moon, which was revealed to their founder in a dream. I find it hard to see how to not think of this as m...

Well, there is also people curing all kinds of sicknesses by pressing on your bones. German 'healers' usually have fancy names like Chiropraktik or Antroposophie or the like but I think they are mostly the same as healers in other places. There used to be a large overlap with environmentalists but t...

Karch wrote: ↑Sat Nov 02, 2024 9:23 pm Auye then. (But it really looks like Ekari, just with <s>.)

There are actually dialects of Mee (as the speakers call it) with /s/ (usually derived from /t/ before , IIRC).

It really looks like Ekagi.

WeepingElf wrote: ↑Thu Oct 31, 2024 5:28 pm Most people here in Germany say ['hælowi:n], but apparently, they are just wrong

Well, most German people I know say ['hɛlovi:n], because they have trouble with [æ] and [w].

This looks like a promising step. Maybe we will get something like the World Phonotactics Database back: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/ ... 0094_s_002

Something I have observed in my Freundeskreis is that they tend to pronounce French words that have a -ṼN in there as -Vŋ. The vowel is not nasalized, but rather laxed a bit. For example: Cousin 'cousin' [ku'zɛŋ] Beton 'concrete' [be'tɔŋ] Séance 'séance' [sej'ɐŋs] Trance 'trance' [tʁɐŋs] (the music...

Sorry to derail the thread further but do you have a recording?

I'm still not dure that I ever heard a real velar lateral in any English dialect (in contrast to velarized coronal laterals). They are acoustically so drastically different from the velar lateral that I heard in Mee (aka Ekagi/Ekari).

The other is visibility. Thousands of languages are just barely documented. Many historical languages only exist as wordlists, which means even basic features like argument order are unknown. If you want to know (say) how the middle voice works, Ancient Greek is particularly important because of th...

I had a similar thing years ago when my bike was stolen. I did not have a picture if it (it was used and in a pretty bad state). I got the money for a new model of the same brand, which was much more than I had paid for my bike when it was new. I bought a small used moped from the money.

There might be a register difference that could result in a different pronunciation. The noun would have schwa deletion (and possibly consonant coalescence into a velar nasal), e.g. [va:(:)N), whereas the verb would be immune to either the second or both processes [va:g(@)n]. But I don't know how re...

"There is literally never a logical reason to study Ancient Greek because if any nifty features from Ancient Greek were of value they would have made it into Modern Greek." Well, there is the idea of language diachrony as evolution which optimizes fitness to some environment or for the pu...

Terry the gc?

zompist wrote: ↑Mon Sep 30, 2024 3:31 pm Compare [...] #5 with some of the Y's.

Right, Perry makes more sense than Perrx.

Maybe boring Latin (in some weird graffiti font):

Perrx T [9] egc

Sounds like a tag to me.

There probably is a linguist called An(n)a de W. somewhere.