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I guess you'd need a word with a history similar to "tsar" to get a /ts/ sequence within a morpheme. But that word never had /t/ in proto-Slavic so it's out. (It was č.) It may be that no such words exist....if they did I'd think the spelling would've survived and thus the words would be w...

I've heard the true Boston accent, but its declining and often misidentified as something else. I grew up thinking of it as uneducated ..... e.g. ".....lahg ahn ta hahtbaht daht cahm!" ... But I'm not sure if other people thought that. If so, it could explain the decline among children. Bu...

I think nasals could devoice allophonically and thus permit the shift. Would this really be a necessary precondition? Since nasals are voiced, they can (phonetically) show tone distinctions themselves, so on second thought it might not matter whether the tone-conditionaing elements directly abut th...

I've heard Japanese described as having no obscene words. Like, there's /kuso/ "shit", but it's the same morpheme used in the word for dung beetle and that word doesn't require a euphemism. I'm not sure about a culture without blasphemy .... Even in a culture with no obscene words, you can...

From video game playthroughs I know that some Canadians (e.g. brisulph) have a TRAP vowel in "Mario" and "lava", so maybe taco too. I would read Choco with /o/, as I have when I've seen it in the past. Hyperforeignism maybe but tacos are Spanish so id be tempted to read Choco as ...

My dreams are totally different now .... but theyre not really like the unpleasant dreams I had in 2015 and was expecting to have again. I just wanted to post one fragment of a dream I had last night .... I wasreading an Archie comic book, i think a fullsize 11x8 magazine. Near the end was a story w...

More tonogenesis related questions: in another language I'm planing on having glottalized, voiceless, and voiced obstruent codas turn into high, mid, and low tones respectivelty, with the coda consonants then merging as voiceless. Is this realistic? Would this be able to apply through other consona...

Anyone using portmanteau as a productive word process? Not much at https://www.reddit.com/r/conlangs/comments/93jwfq/portmanteaus/ ... I think one of masako's langs had portmanteau or something similar, but I'dont remember the details. Late Andanese latiki "play" from lati "play"...

I find it strange that they had portable stoves in Biblical times, but that's probably just me. And that a stock market existed in 1600s England. Toilets & baths with hot water go back to c. 2000BC in Crete, but had to be built around preexisting hot springs, so there weren't too many of them .....

That is odd, now that I think of it. I think its to represent the HORSE-HOARSE distinction, e.g. e.g. /hɔs/~/hɔrs/ for horse, but /hos/~/hors/ for hoarse. in America, they merged, but apparently before /r/ they merged to a different vowel than they did elsewhere. Thus, even though IPA normally doesn...

Suppopo nubbabo šabam: reply-POSS-1P write-TR-1P below-LOC: My reply is below: I couldnt really make much sense of this, and I suspect its largely because I never read the Hobbit and I can only recognize obvious words like blaksmis . This is definitely very well done and my not being able to read i...

a small temperate island Very small. I dont think Ive actually ever seen a map of such a small area. Very nicely done. Sometimes it's best to focus on details. edit: I guess IM supposed to post something of my own? i guess i will post http://www.frathwiki.com/Political_parties_of_Teppala , but this...

I saw three kids fishing by the river today. They didnt get anything. pa manka ua pana ka Not even cold or rained on? Norpel šišapapias sappavi. Pappapovel. rain-3P.past leave-3P-GEN after-3P-see-1P.past. predict-3P-knowingly-3P.past. It rained after they left. They saw it coming. -----------------...

Theyll be vulnerable to hypothermia at temperatures slightly milder than those that would affect humans, yes .... but 6°F is really not a lot. And having thought about it as I wrote, I don't think they'd be more heat-hardy either, because they can't temporarily raise their temperature to adjust to h...

ive edited this post several times as i often do so some of looks a bit jumbled, sorry ... Humans feel cold to elves; elves feel fevered to humans. This one is for sure. Elves probably have a greater heat tolerance, poorer cold tolerance. Sure, but not by much ... the temperature gap isnt really muc...

Interesting, thanks. I dont have as much to say as with the earlier posts, but i read it and enjoyed it. Im just curious, since you've described two different things as flying whales now, are they related? One was an animal and the other is a boat ... so is the boat named after the animal? People wh...

Af som pway, mi me kway mi don tahn di fehs cata a Obit ya . Yu me fayn im don de ya (PDF). Mi ste yunu me ay ay im an tel mi wen yu ebl go cende atol, bles yu! With a certain pride, I can announce that I've finished translating the first chapter of The Hobbit . You can find it here (PDF). I hope y...

Good to see you .... I remember you but I dont remember any of your work. I hope you decide to stay.

Sure, but we can do better than Tangut. We could hardly do worse.... it's notoriously bad. I like all the scripts about equally...they're similar enough that I could see all five being in use for different artistic purposes. Though I'd wonder .... what do people do when they just have ordinary pens,...

Vijay wrote: ↑Mon May 27, 2019 5:09 pm
*Dzanééz ashkii yiztał.
mule boy yi-kicked
'The mule kicked the boy.'

do you know, offhand, would this be understood as "The boy kicked the mule"? Just with unusual word order?